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Yehuda Katz Discusses SproutCore
In this interview, Yehuda Katz, a recent arrival to Strobe Inc., discusses the SproutCore open-source JavaScript framework. Katz, of Ruby on Rails fame, joined the SproutCore effort in September. Katz talks about SproutCore 1.5, which is expected early in 2011 and will be the key mobile release of the SproutCore technology.
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Inside SpringSource with Rod Johnson
In this interview conducted at the SpringOne 2GX conference, Rod Johnson talks about the new advancements SpringSource is bringing to the enterprise Java space, including new cloud options. Johnson discusses open-source Java in general, including the flap over the direction of OpenJDK and Apache Harmony. And he delves into the new Code2Cloud effort from SpringSource and Tasktop, and much more.
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Dan Ingalls on the History of Smalltalk and the Lively Kernel
Dan Ingalls explains the ideas that went into Smalltalk, how it was developed at Xerox PARC, the ideas that went into Squeak, and his latest project the browser-based Lively Kernel.
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Joe Walker on Bespin
Joe Walker explains the browser-based source editor Bespin: the architecture and implementation, the collaboration features, new ideas for command lines, Canvas vs DOM, speed, extensibility, and much more.
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Aaron Quint on the State of Javascript
Aaron Quint talks about his projects Sammy, a Javascript port of Sinatra, and Jim, a Javascript packaging tool, as well as the state of Javascript, jQuery, Node.js, CommonJS, and much more.
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Adam Blum on Future of Smartphones, Rhodes 2.0
Adam Blum discusses the future of smartphones: sensors, languages, and programming paradigms. Also: what's new in Rhodes 2.0, the cross platform smartphone Ruby app framework.
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Dylan Schiemann on Mobile Web application Development with HTML 5 and JavaScript
Dylan Schiemann talks about the challenges that Mobile Web Application developers face and how technologies like HTML 5 and JavaScript assist them. He also points out common pitfalls and ways to get around them.
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Christophe Coenraets Discusses Flex, AIR, Catalyst and LCDS
Christophe Coenraets discusses Adobe Catalyst, the developer-designer interaction, Flex 4.0, AIR 2.0, Livecycle Data Services (LCDS) 3.0, the Flex 4 component model, model-driven development, and Flex/Flash Builder 4.0.
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Ilya Grigorik on Tokyo Cabinet, MySQL and Ruby HTTP Performance
Ilya Grigorik discusses his company's PostRank algorithm for tracking reader engagement with content. Also: his experience scaling MySQL, Tokyo Cabinet, Ruby HTTP libs, Solr, Amazon EC2 and more.
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Brian LeRoux and Robert Ellis on PhoneGap and Mobile Development
Brian LeRoux and Robert Ellis explain PhoneGap and how it bridges smartphone platforms with HTML5 and Javascript, while still allowing access to device features like the accelerometer.
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Adam Blum on Rhodes and Mobile Ruby
Adam Blum discusses Rhodes, the framework for Ruby on smartphones, as well as the concepts of the RhoSync sync client and the hosted development and build service RhoHub.
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Ric Smith on the Present and the Future of HTML 5
Ric Smith is an advocate of HTML 5, considering that browser vendors will incorporate more and more features of the emerging standard, driving its adoption. Ric details some of the features already implemented, Web Sockets, server events, focusing on the difference between plug-in solutions and HTML 5 ones.