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  • Rod Johnson About Spring Framework 3.0 & Others

    In this interview made by Srini Penchikala, with the participation of Ryan Slobojan, Rod Johnson answered many questions about Spring Framework 3.0 and other applications developed under SpringSource’s umbrella - Tool Suite, Integration, Web Flow, Batch – talking about their current status and existing plans for the future.

    Rod Johnson About Spring Framework 3.0 & Others
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    28:31
  • Jay Phillips on Adhearsion and VoIP

    In this interview recorded at RubyFringe, Jay Phillips talks about VoIP, Asterisk and how his framework Adhearsion makes it easy to write voice applications.

    Jay Phillips on Adhearsion and VoIP
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    17:42
  • Yehuda Katz explains Merb

    In this interview from RubyFringe, Yehuda Katz talks about Merb, its design principles, and how it differs from Rails. Yehuda also mentions Yard, an RDoc replacement.

    Yehuda Katz explains Merb
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    15:44
  • Damien Katz Relaxing on CouchDB

    In this interview, Damien Katz talks about CouchDB, a distributed, fault tolerant, document oriented database developed by Apache Incubator. CouchDB is written in Erlang, and the database is accessed through an HTTP/JSON API. The database view engine is run on JavaScript, but other languages have been used like Ruby and Python.

    Damien Katz Relaxing on CouchDB
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    19:38
  • Dan Farino On MySpace’s Architecture

    In this interview taken by InfoQ’s Ryan Slobojan, Dan Farino, Chief Systems Architect at MySpace, talks about the system architecture and the challenges faced when building a very large online community. Because MySpace is built almost entirely on the .NET Framework, Dan explains how a .NET product scales on hundreds of servers.

    Dan Farino On MySpace’s Architecture
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    27:55
  • Joe Armstrong About Erlang

    In this interview filmed during QCon London 2008, Joe Armstrong, designer of Erlang, speaks on various aspects of the Erlang language, presenting its roots, how it compares with other languages and why it has become popular these days due to its native ability to scale on multi core systems.

    Joe Armstrong About Erlang
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    32:06
  • John Lam on IronRuby, Microsoft and Open Source

    In this interview from RubyFringe, John Lam talks about his work on IronRuby and how Microsoft is approaching Open Source software development.

    John Lam on IronRuby, Microsoft and Open Source
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    29:14
  • Ted Neward on Present and Past Languages

    In this interview filmed during QCon London 2008, Ted Neward, author of "Effective Enterprise Java", talks about languages, statical, dynamical, objectual or functional. He dives into Java, C#, C++, Haskell, Scala, VB, and Lisp, to name some of them, comparing the benefits and disadvantages of using one or another.

    Ted Neward on Present and Past Languages
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    47:21
  • Tom Preston-Werner on Powerset, GitHub, Ruby and Erlang

    In this interview filmed at RubyFringe 2008, Tom Preston-Werner talks about how both Powerset and GitHub use Ruby and Erlang, as well as tools like Fuzed, god, and more.

    Tom Preston-Werner on Powerset, GitHub, Ruby and Erlang
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    23:11
  • David Laribee on Alt.NET and its Mission

    Greg Young interviews Dave Laribee who is the founder and current lead administrator of ALT.NET, a conference where varied and fringe ideas on programming languages and practices are encouraged.

    David Laribee on Alt.NET and its Mission
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    09:45
  • Alexandru Popescu Discusses the InfoQ.com Site Architecture

    In this interview from QCon London 2008, InfoQ Chief Architect Alexandru Popescu discusses the architecture of InfoQ, integrating WebWork and DWR, Hibernate and JCR, Hibernate scalability, MySQL replication, the new InfoQ video streaming system, the video encoding process, site search, and future plans for InfoQ.

    Alexandru Popescu Discusses the InfoQ.com Site Architecture
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    24:33
  • Reginald Braithwaite on Rewrite

    In this interview filmed at RubyFringe, Reginald Braithwaite talks about his past experiences with languages, programming, and software development, and what attracted him to Ruby. He also talks about Rewrite, a collection of features which add "sexp-rewriting meta-programming to Ruby".

    Reginald Braithwaite on Rewrite
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    22:36
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