Chariot Developer News

You miss a week, you get, well, more articles. See what the DevNews team has come up with this week - we talk about the unveiling of the BitCoin Founder (maybe?), Mt. Gox a bit, software patents (and Ken brings up his old trope - Unlocking the Sky IS a good book!), the new Vagrant and Vagrant remote client, how Cell Phone Unlocking WOULD have been great if the lobbyists could have stopped tweaking it, and more.

We talk about the new Java 8 functional programming mode, forget to hit record, talk about the peering issues with Netflix vs everyone, and more... Now with louder, distorted audio!

We talk about Javascript's object-based nature and the Augment library, SMS with Twilio, CMS with Statamic, a great JS podcast episode, more.

Joel and Ken talk about 3D printing advances, some Go tutorials, a great Promises tutorial, Chromecast's new streaming API, and more. Stay tuned toward the end for some hilarious product reviews when we discuss FlappyBird.

We talk about Don's new book, Motorola Mobility's sale to Lenovo, the Julia programming language, Erlang's new features including hashes, Chrome WebApps in PhoneGap, and more.

>Wherein we start by discussing Michael Winslow, playing with reverb, and Eric mentions a DEC Rainbow. Topics include improvements to Node in 0.12, a Ruby/Rails children's book kickstarter, leaving Scrum for Kanban, and more...

We have a great set of resources for you today, ranging from HAML-like templates in Javascript, to a great Go tutorial website, to some heavy-duty Scala Akka Finite State Machine discusisons, iOS Workflows, a $15 Arduino with GPS, and much more. Hosts - Ken Rimple, Joel Confino, Eric Snyder and Sujan Kapadia.

This week we talk about Joel's experiences with AngularJS, infinite scrolling, MOOCs, five things to watch for when coding in MongoDB, and more.

Ken and Joel give their "predictions" and "recap" of 2014, which is purely their version, but somebody's got to do it. Also, we talk tools for testing in NodeJS, namely Mocha and Chai, some linux and regex visualization websites, a < $300 ChromeBook announced by Toshiba at CES, writing and posting HTML content on GitHub using gh_pages, and more.

Ken and Joel wrap up the year with a bit of conversation about smart watches, whether you're a user of tools or conversationalist with your code, and a number of other little ditties.

This week we give you some light viewing for the week - a Letterman interview circa 1983 or so with the famous Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, and a really interesting demonstration by recently passed Douglas Englebart (search him above to find other DevNews articles on him) dubbed the Mother of all Demos (1968). Super cool stuff. Also, we discuss a nice little SQL tutorial website for PostgreSQL, the "Smartest Person in the Room complex", our new Data I/O screencasts, and a few blog entries from Chariot's developers.

This week, we talk about some kid related topics, including Roblox and "An hour of code", an initiative for getting students to learn how to program. We cover Big-O notation and come back slightly better off, but with some more in-depth suggestions for you. We also talk about an article on regular expressions, how TestingBog ditched AWS, Joyant is now supporting Node.js, the bad stigma of being called a techie, and bitcoins.

Lots of tech news available today, none of it (well aside from DNA crunching) needs an advanced degree! We have news on Typesafe's Jamie Allen's keynote at JAXEnter 2013 in London, two robot stories, a tale about lost bitcoins, DNA Analysis in Javascript, and Githubs expanding contexts for diffs. Also, Joel brings us a review of his first impressions with Ember.js and micro-services are exploding - what does that mean for the enterprise CTO / CIO who bets on that strategy? Find out by listening... It's all here in the DevNews.

In this episode, Joel warns us that the machines have started to learn on their own - and that maybe they can tell shredders apart from trashcans... Also, a great TechCrunch article on how you can now build dynamic grids of compute servers using Mesos and have them automatically bootstrapped and configured by Docker. We talk about CoreOS, which is a small linux distro for beginning machine configurations, the Genymotion android VM that everyone was talking about at AnDevCon2013, and more.

With a week of the gang has a lot to talk about, from reactive programming in Javascript with Bacon.js, to the failure of a startup (so long, and best of luck to the EverPix team, we loved your service) to the brain drain in academia due to data science, to some nitty gritty Javascript, a new reactive project in Spring, we got it all. Don't forget to post us on the LifeHacker favorite podcasts page!

Links "Five tips for big software projects":http://blog.chariotsolutions.com/2013/10/5-tips-for-big-software-projects.html “Dismanteling the monoliths”:https://engineering.groupon.com/2013/misc/i-tier-dismantling-the-monoliths/ – rails apps converting to Nodejs at Groupon I’m taking a stab at lock-free this week – First, my reading took me to Mechanical Sympathy (which we’ve discussed before) and now that there is a JSR for some new constructions – (StampedLock) this site has ... Read More

We talk about Newton – a pure Javascript Physics engine AI Startup says it has defeated captchas Got a great mobile app idea? You can win $1M in the SalesForce hackathon Elixir – a “groovy” for Erlang? We talk about JBoss Forge

Links A great presentation by Joe Sondow on the Netflix Asgard Project– a Grails application server that deploys to AWS. Highlights include: Obama for America used it to keep its sites rolling and alive Used to be Netflix Application Console It is only one of the open source projects on Netflix’s GitHub page. Reasons not ... Read More

Well, Ken is, anyway… A number of interesting topics this week. Topic List Newly OSS’d project Precog: advanced analyics for NoSql Angularjs vs Knockout – a great multi-page post comparing a number of features. Beyond map/reduce – it’s not just about that Google whitepaper. 10 reasons to use AngularJS Cloud provider Nirvanix shuts down An ... Read More

The links Sponsored by Haydle – ask, answer and rate answers to your company’s questions, Data I/O 2013 a conference featuring a variety of technologies and techniques for dealing with large-scale and sophisticated data, and Chariot Education Services, providing training in Java, Spring, Maven/Nexus, Groovy/Grails, Hibernate, Map/Reduce and more. Codio: A Web IDE (Javascript / HTML, CSS, etc.) ... Read More