Peter Ledbrook is an engineer at VMWare and an evangalist for Groovy and Grails. Discussion The Grails Podcast Groovy Grails JVM Static typing Dynamic typing Optional static types in Groovy closures Ruby Rails Java Spock Jar files EnvyCasts Video on Java Jar's Dependency management Java resources for Grails Spring Spring Beans Apache Camel Spring Integration…

Chris Mattmann is a Software Engineer at NASA's JPL. He's the VP of OODT in the Apache Software Foundation and an adjunct professor at USC. OODT is a framework for managing data from multiple sources and adding them to other data sources for different purposes (like a database and a search engine.) It manages hundreds…

Today I am joined by Karl Wright, Nokia engineer, ManifoldCF developer and author of ManifoldCF in action. We discuss ManifoldCF, an Apache Incubator project, its beginnings, its purpose and its inner workings.

AppDynamics is a company that provides a monitoring solution for .NET and Java platforms. I spoke with the VP of Engineering and one of the developers of the AppDynamics platform to dig into how they instrument your Java or .NET code and some of the tricks for following transactions from beginning to end. There were…

Jim Jagielski is the president of the Apache Software Foundation and works for Red Hat. He's a founding member of the Foundation and has been a developer on the HTTP server for over a decade. We had an inspiring conversation about the Apache Software Foundation, the origins of the HTTP server, how the Foundation manages…

Jonathan Ellis is the Project Chair of Cassandra and co-founder of DataStax,  a company that specializes in helping companies set up BigData stacks with Cassandra, Hadoop, and other open source software. His company just released DataStax Enterprise. We had a great discussion about the origins of Cassandra, what it's good at, how it stacks up…

Lucene is a terrific tool for powering searches. Solr adds a layer of functionality on top of it that makes things even more easy to use. In this interview, Grant and I discuss the ins and outs of using Lucene to power searches on your websites.

I got an email from Michael Seely asking about being a freelancer. I emailed him back and asked him if he'd like to interview me for my podcast and ask me whatever questions he had. He agreed. This is the podcast that resulted.

I haven't done a podcast in about 3 weeks. I'm changing some things around and wanted to let you know what they were. For this podcast, I plan on foregoing my occasional rants on programming and do interviews every week. If you know someone who I should have on the podcast, then let me know….

Coulda Filet Test::Unit Thoughts on what make good acceptance tests: Don’t write brittle tests Communication between the coder and customer Not being low level Keep them at the same level of abstraction Thoughts on Cucumber: Jorge likes Cucumber’s Given-When-Then Cucumber’s plain english definitions are extra overhead when your customer isn’t going to read your english…

Marty is the organizer of the Boulder Ruby Users’ Group and Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference. He’s been programming Ruby since 2005. Charley has been programming Ruby for about 6 or 7 years and doing IT for about 15 years. He got involved with Watir, which led him to Ruby. The Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference is…

Igor started developing in Nginx in 2002. He started building it because he needed something that would effectively proxy connections in an event driven manner. The other webservers at the time could only handle static content and didn’t scale well. Initially, Nginx was used to proxy Apache webserver. Igor was never really fond of fastcgi….