Chariot Developer News

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. The post DevNews #76 – HAML-esque JS templates, a monitor for $400, what’s the world coming to? appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

This week we talk about Joel's experiences with AngularJS, infinite scrolling, MOOCs, five things to watch for when coding in MongoDB, and more. The post DevNews #75 – Go Go Angular to BSON Land to pick up MongoDB appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

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 The post DevNews #74 – Our 2013 recap, 2014 guesses and much more appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

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. The post DevNews #73 – Grunt JS Tutorial, Ubuntu for Android, UI vs Command Line, and more… appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

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. The post Developer News #72 – The Winter Break Edition with Historical Videos, new Google Sheets appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

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. The post DevNews #71 – Roblox, one hour of code, Google’s robot army and more appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

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. The post DevNews #70 – Droids and flying robots taking over the world and Scala.JS appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

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. The post DevNews #69 – Google Machine Learning Becomes Sentient – or does it just love shredders? appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

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! The post DevNews #68 – Clouds and Androids abound, reactive ones! appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

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 The post DevNews #67 – Monoliths begone, lock free APIs, Bunnies and RabbitMQ, and computer viruses by air appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

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 The post DevNews #66 – RESTful tutorials, CAPCHAs and Machine Learning, a million to win a hackathon and more… appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

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 The post DevNews #65 – Apple’s patent for touching glass with fingers is upheld? appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

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 post DevNews #64 – We’re older and losing our hair… appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

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 The post DevNews #63 – Robots that gallop, IDEs written in HTML, a browser swarm, what’s next? appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

This episode is light on iOS, heavy on Java and Javascript, and covers some large-scale processing and machine learning articles to boot. The post DevNews #62 – The JVM wins, the JVM wins, the JVM wins! appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

Lots of iOS and Javascript news this week. We talk about jQuery 1.11/2.1 beta, a hands-on with iOS 7, privacy settings to pay attention to in iOS 7, and more... The post DevNews #61 – It’s an iOS and Javascript world in here… appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

This week - it's Not about Furby, but about the new Apple iPhones. Your hosts, Ken Rimple, Sujan Kapadia and Joel Confino talk about whether they'd go out and buy one, whether they still display the same appeal, and what's under the surface that could be a potential game changer. The post DevNews #60 – Somebody buy Joel a Furby appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

YEAH! Integrating yeoman-style projects into a larger maven build – Addy Osmani comes up with the goods. Making Maven Grunt We buried the lead – NSA can get to everything Joel brings up the counter-point, an article by ARS. Vertx 2.0 Q&A on InfoQ w/Tim Fox – As per last week’s episode, Vert.X is an ... Read More The post DevNews #59 – Bugs made of paper and graphine transistors – does the NSA know? appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

The Developer News is sponsored by Chariot Solutions Education Services. Get trained in Scala, Spring, Grails, Maven, Nexus, and more. Links, please! Note – I accidentally named Don Coleman our “Director of Development” when in fact, his official title is “Director of Consulting”… Duly noted. Ken Rimple A nice, involved, deep tutorial on building a ... Read More The post DevNews #58 – The London Eye – of Sauron appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

We know Keynote for Android will never happen, but keep listening until you hear about Ken’s encounter with a keyboarded, and moused, Android tablet in a remote assignment somewhere in Amish country… Quick sponsor note – registrations are now available for the 2013 Chariot Data IO event. It’s only $80 for an all-day conference focusing ... Read More The post DevNews #57 – Wherein we decide that PCs are dead, Java VMs still scream, and we want Keynote for Android appeared first on Chariot Solutions.