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Episode 9 – Remote Development Governance

Want to outsource a project but don't know how to go about it? Scared about quality? This podcast as well as The Tenets of Remote Development Governance will help. In this podcast Craig, Jeff, Jason...

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Episode 10 – REST vs. SOAP, Closures in JDK7, etc…

In this podcast Craig, Jeff, Jason and Justin and Guillermo take on a range of topics from REST vs. SOAP web services, Closures in Java7 and the Defender Methods proposal, which option is the best for...

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Episode 11 – All about Open Core Licensing

Finally! We took a bit of a break seeing as how there was a holiday in the US and Canada. But Craig, Guillermo, Justin and Jason are back in Episode 11 discussing a bit of a hot button topic: Open...

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Episode 12 – Google’s Nexus One Android Phone

Well, we've talked quite a lot about the differences between Android and iPhone but oddly enough none of us have actually owned an Android phone! This week, Jeff takes us through his experience with...

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Episode 13 – Maven 3: Interview with PMC Chair Brian Fox

With the Maven 3 betas being out and packing a tonne of cool features we decided that we needed to sit down and talk with someone in the know. Enter Brian Fox, PMC Chair Apache Maven and VP of...

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Episode 14 – Apache Camel

In this episode Craig, Jeff, Justin, Guillermo and Jason explore Apache Camel which is a Java based Enterprise Integration Patterns implementation (EIP) stack. EIP establishes a set of patterns which...

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Episode 15 – The Personalities of IT (and how to deal with them)

In this episode Craig, Jeff, Justin, Guillermo and Jason explore their experiences with the Personalities of IT. We all know, our profession has some really odd-birds, everything from know-it alls,...

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Episode 16 – Scala and Akka an Interview with Jonas Boner

In this episode Justin and Craig have the privilege of speaking with Jonas Bonér about Scala and Akka. Jonas is a highly intelligent guy who's worked at Terracotta, BEA and was a founder of...

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Interview with James Gosling

Edit: The transcript can be found here Picture a Sunday Evening, you've just arrived from where ever you hail from to San Francisco. You got up at some ungodly hour to catch your flight, only to learn...

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The Future of Java Rides on Guys Like These: Interview with Oracle’s Justin...

Edit: The transcript can be found here Once again we present another special Basement Coders podcast Live from Oracle's JavaOne conference in San Francisco. We sit down with Oracle's Justin Kestelyn...

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Episode 19 – JRebel Jevgeni Kabanov “Bares All” for the Basement Coders

Jevgeni, Justin, Jeff, Craig(bottom) You know when you meet someone and you automatically "click"? Well, that's how the Basement Coders felt when they met the Zero Turn Around (ZTA) folks at the...

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Episode 20 – JavaOne 2010 Recap

  P.S. Checkout Basement Coder JavaGeek's personal blog for more JavaOne recap information.   Welcome to our "JavaOne 2010" Recap episode! We had a great time at JavaOne! The best part was that since...

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Episode 21 – Interview with Cedric Beust

Cédric Beust is probably best known for his creation of the TestNG Java testing framework. It arose at a time when JUnit (the defacto standard for Java testing) was becoming stagnant. Testing...

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Episode 22 – Free Java

Jeff sporting his "Java - Just Free It" digs Do you know what the Free Java movement is? It's not exactly cut-and-dry. Essentially it's a movement which wants more community rather than autocratic...

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Episode 23 – Interview with Shay Banon of Elastic Search

Going into our interview with Shay Banon we didn't know much about Elastic Search.  I know I for one hadn't realized it was a completely Open Source project, I think the .com in the web address threw...

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Episode 24 – Move over Java, Introducing The Fantom Language with Brian and...

Our very own Basement Coder Justin Lee arranged for an interview with the creators of the Fantom language: Andy and Brian Frank. It's no coincidence the Frank's share the same last name, they are...

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Episode 25 – Interview with Shaun Walker of DotNetNuke

While at Dev Connections 2010 I had the privilege to interview Shaun Walker the creator and founder of DotNetNuke (or DNN for short), a .NET based Content Management System (CMS). Content Management...

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Episode 26 – Modern Day Mainframes: Interview with Craig Mullins

Ever since we did Episode 7 -Why are Mainframes Still Around? we were left with the realization that really all the podcast involved was a bunch of non-mainframe programmers making speculations about...

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Episode 27 – Hudson, Oracle, Raible and AstyCrapper

There is a bit of a kerfuffle going on between the Hudson Continuous Integration project and our friends at Oracle over a change in licensing and the trademarking of the name: HudsonCI. It has gotten...

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AstyCrapper strikes again!

Today I got a call from a telemarketer that wanted to sell me business consulting.  Of course, I just had to say "Oh yeah, hold on... let me transfer you to the person who handles that." Little did...

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Episode 28 – Pass By Magic, Mac App Store & Apache leaving the JCP

Well first off a big Happy New Years from all of the Basement Coders! We were on hiatus during the month of December but are back full force with brand new episode. This episode focuses mostly on a...

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Astycrapper craps on another one!

I checked my asterisk spool directory and a little gem popped up. A telemarketer from CPC (Crescent Credit Card Processing) wants my business real bad. He called from 314-627-5503. Looks like he was...

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Qwest gets crapped on!

I canceled Qwest for my business due to the nickel and diming along with high rates. So I moved to VOIP. Not even a month off Qwest and they send a telemarketer to try to get me back. They need to talk...

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Episode 29 – Contractor vs Employee

Got the skills to pay the bills? Every employee has wondered what it'd be like to be a contractor at some point. Maybe even dreamed of being one. Now reverse the roles and you don't find many...

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Epidsode 30 – Productivity Systems

Let's face it, in this business there are two types of people: Those that deliver and those who don't. What you may not know is that the differentiating factor could be as simple as whether or not a...

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Episode 31 – Jenkins, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk and UBB

If you remember back in Episode 27 we discussed the then unfolding news that Oracle had trademarked the name "Hudson". Well, now the Hudson folks have up and left, renaming a fork of the Continuous...

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Episode 32 – Benefit of Dynamic Typing, PS3 Jailbreak, Verizon iPhone

I caught a thread on the Scala-User mailing list recently where a person asked what the "Benefit of dynamic typing" was. Might be a bit of a one sided debate on a Scala list considering Scala is...

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Episode 33 – Java is a Dead End from Stockholm’s Jfokus Conference

Mike Gualtieri, an Analyst, wrote an article for Forrester (i.e. the people your boss listens to instead of you) about how Java has outlived it's usefulness as a business language. Troll much? It's no...

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Episode 34 – Interview with DuckDuckGo’s Gabriel Weinberg

Gabriel Weinberg is someone I've wanted to interview ever since I first heard of the DuckDuckGo search engine. I've always been intrigued by search technology and was pretty impressed by the fact that...

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We’re still alive!

Just a quick update to let you know we are still alive and will be recording once again very soon.

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Episode 35 – We’re Back, Ceylon, Rails + CoffeeScript and TSSJS 2011 recap

We're Back! Wow, it's been a while! We're back though and apologize for the long delay between casts. I had to edit this cast really quick, so if I missed anything (like links for the show notes) let...

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Episode 36 – Software Engineer vs Gardener and are .NET programmers really...

In today's episode, Jason, Justin, Guillermo and Craig discuss: We announce our 500th Twitter follower! The TIOBE index came out with a new edition, Java, C++ top the charts Expensify CEO remarks on...

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Episode 37 – So you Broke the Build

Everyone has probably done it, you've broken the build. Now you might feel the need to apologize. Should you? Or is it an excusable act, assuming you only do it once in a blue moon? We'll share some...

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Episode 38 – Prairie Dev Conf, TDD, BDD & Kanban

On today's episode Craig along with special guests Marc Jeanson and Sean Kowaski share their experience at the Prairie Developers Conference. Topics include: Test Driven Development Behaviour Driven...

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Episode 39 – Google+, Github for Mac (and Zed)

They did an awesome job on UX Google+ Well Google+ is upon us, and at the time of our taping we were just getting our invites. We've had a chance to test drive it a bit since then and it does look...

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Episode 40 – Our thoughts on Mac OSX Lion

On today's episode we share our thoughts on the new Mac OSX Lion. Arstechnica did a brilliant 19 page review the minute Lion was released, and being the fan boys we are a majority of the Basement...

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Episode 41 – Interview with Igor Minar of AngularJS

.nohover a:hover {text-decoration:none;} < angular /> This is our first podcast to introduce video! There were some bumps and I learned a lot (all explained in the first 3 minutes of the video)...

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Episode 42 – Steve Jobs Resigns, Linux turns 20, HP TouchPad

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Episode 43 – Interview with Prashant Deva of Chronon Systems

Prashant Deva is not some hipster "brogrammer". No, he's about as hard-core geek, John Carmack-level coder. He's the fellow that brought us ANTLR Studio, to give you some bearing on his skills. While...

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Episode 44 – David Pollak: Scala’s not for the Proletariat, HP TouchPad is...

In today's episode we cover a wide range of topics from David Pollak's (creator of Lift) view that "Scala is only for a certain class of developer", the HP TouchPad gets a second chance(?) and RSS may...

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Strange Loop 2011 Day 1

September 18th-20th 2011 In this Episode Basement Coders Craig and Jason along with Marc Jeanson, Amir Barylko and Sebastián Galkin recap their Day 1 conference experiences at Alex Miller's Strange...

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Delivering on Promises, Moving Java Forward: Henrik Stahl at JavaOne 2011

As you may remember last year at JavaOne, we had the privilege to interview Oracle's Product and Strategy lead for the Java Platform, Henrik Stahl. The entire theme of JavaOne this year was "Moving...

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Episode 47 – Fork You Growl! Interview with Perry Metzger

For those who may not know, the developer of Growl, that great little notifier app for OSX decided they should be paid for their work. There is one slight problem however. Growl is Open Source...

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Episode 48 – Better Late than Never – JavaOne 2011 Recap

Well I think our livers have finally recovered from JavaOne 2011. Out of the Basement Coders gang Craig, Jeff and Justin all presented there talks, which you can find here: Justin Lee: The not Java...

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Episode 49 – Paperless Offices & Java is not the new COBOL

In this episode, Jeff walks us through how he setup his business to be almost completely paperless. He talks about the software, hardware and workflow he uses to accomplish this. Here are a list of...

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Episode 50 – Interview with Josh Long of VMWare – SpringSource

The Spring Framework is the defacto Swiss Army Knife framework for Java. If you know Java, but don't know Spring, you don't *really* know Java. One of the top reasons to use Spring is, although vendor...

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Episode 51 – Just the cast Mam

It's been a while! In this episode (recorded all the way back in February 2012) we have a good old fashion organic Basement Coders podcast. Heath Kesler, Jason Whaley, Guillermo Castro and me Craig...

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Episode 52 – JRebel, LiveRebel and OSGi with Jevgeni Kabanov

Jevgeni is a good friend of the Basement Coders, I know one of the reasons I look forward to JavaOne is because I know him and his ZeroTurnaround team will be there. They always have the most rocking...

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Episode 53 – Interview with Erkki Lindpere – Scala Sink or Swim

As mentioned in our previous cast with Jevgeni Kabanov, a fellow by the name of Erkki Lindpere from ZeroTurnaround wrote a three-part series of blog posts titled "Scala Sink or Swim". Basically a set...

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Episode 54 – Interview with Jeff Atwood

Hi! It's been a while. Well to make up for it, we have a great interview with Jeff Atwood! Jeff's contribution to the internet has left quite the footprint. Not only is he the prolific blogger behind...

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