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  • Adam Wiggins on Heroku

    Heroku's Adam Wiggins talks about how Heroku, Add-Ons, Ruby, and how Heroku manages to work around Ruby's inefficiencies using Erlang and other languages.

    Adam Wiggins on Heroku
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    16:00
  • Chris Richardson discusses Cloud Foundry and Cloud Computing

    Chris Richardson discusses the evolving cloud computing landscape, cloud computing tools, differences between local machines and cloud-based virtual machines, Cloud Foundry offerings, deploying a Java application to Cloud Foundry, Cloud Foundry vs other cloud offerings, future Cloud Foundry developments, and the future of enterprise Java development.

    Chris Richardson discusses Cloud Foundry and Cloud Computing
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    11:17
  • David Pollak On Lift Framework and Scala

    David Pollak talks about using Scala to write the Lift web development framework and his desire to write a productive framework that allows the developer to write concise code on top of a very strongly typed language.

    David Pollak On Lift Framework and Scala
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    41:14
  • 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
  • Neal Ford On Programming Languages and Platforms

    Neal Ford talks about the tendency of having multiple languages running on one of the two major platforms existing today: Java and .NET. He also presents the advantages offered by Ruby compared to static languages like Java or C#.

    Neal Ford On Programming Languages and Platforms
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    31:39
  • Avi Bryant on DabbleDB, Smalltalk and Persistence

    In this interview, Avi Bryant talks about the Smalltalk web framework Seaside, DabbleDB, using Smalltalk images for persistence instead of an RDBMs, GemStone and more.

    Avi Bryant on DabbleDB, Smalltalk and Persistence
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    41:56
  • Avi Bryant on MagLev and GemStone

    In this interview, Avi Bryant talks about working on GemStone's MagLev, a Ruby implementation built on the GemStone S64 VM. Avi explains the reasons for MagLev, the merits of GemStone's persistence and distribution features, and the future with multiple Ruby implementations.

    Avi Bryant on MagLev and GemStone
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    14:09
  • Wilson Bilkovich Discusses Rubinius

    Wilson Bilkovich is one of the core developers of the Rubinius project - a Ruby implementation written in Ruby. Wilson is also one of the members of the Ruby Hit Squad, developers of the deployment automation tool Vlad the Deployer. In this interview with InfoQ, Wilson discusses the implementation of Rubinius, and its current status with Werner Schuster.

    Wilson Bilkovich Discusses Rubinius
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    42:37
  • Charles Nutter discusses JRuby

    JRuby project lead Charles Nutter discusses how he got involved with JRuby, Sun's involvement with JRuby, how JRuby fits into enterprise-level web applications, the possibility of a friendly fork of the OpenJDK source code, reasons for switching to JRuby, the future of JRuby, Spring and JRuby, and the Ruby community as a whole.

    Charles Nutter discusses JRuby
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    12:45
  • Evan Phoenix on Rubinius

    Evan Phoenix discusses Rubinius, a modern Ruby VM loosely based on the Smalltalk-80 architecture. The goal is to build a fast, efficient VM with the latest research in dynamic language implementations

    Evan Phoenix on Rubinius
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    42:49
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