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, slackers to people with less than stellar personal hygiene. You might just pickup some tips on how to deal with these characters, or at least finish listening to the podcast with a sense of “at least I’m not alone”
Let us know your experiences with the “Personalities of IT”, by adding your comments to this post!
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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 can be chunked together (like lego blocks) to form a stable message workflow system. The basic premise is: a message comes in (or is retrieved), it’s transformed, and shipped out the door; at which point it might be transformed again, etc…
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DISCLAIMER: if you are sick of listening to our obsession about smart phones, you might want to skip ahead to around the 30 minute mark 
And finally I think I’ve figured out the best process for exporting the podcast such that everyone’s voices come through at the same level. Thanks to a tip from Alex (previous basementcoder) I changed my export process to include using Levelator. That, coupled with disabling Skype’s annoying “auto gain” seems to have done the trick. Please let us know if you experience any audio problems!
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Well, I have great news in that we now have a Show Sponsor! Crash Plan, which provides a multi-platform backup client (for free) with the option of using their off-site Crash Plan Central service is our new show sponsor!
We are very excited and thankful to Crash Plan for stepping up to the plate, all the Basement Coders are personal users of Crash Plan and just absolutely love the service.
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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 Engineering at Sonatype (the fellows who make Maven Repositories manageable via their Nexus product).
Brian gave us some excellent insider knowledge on Maven 3 (and Maven in general), what it means for all of us who will be upgrading from Maven 2.x and a detailed overview of the killer features packed into Maven 3 including Parallel Builds and the new Repository API. We thank Brian very much for his excellent answers!
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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 Core Licensing. Essentially, a type of licensing which has made a lot of people rich in Open Source *cough* MySql *cough*.
Find out what Open Core is all about and have a listen!
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licensing, open core, oss
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 running Apache HTTP with a J2EE container and how to financially bootstrap your Start Up company.
Ever curious what the Basement Coder’s fuel is? What allows us to do the podcast every week even when it’s taped directly following one of the coder’s weekly hockey games? Two words: Espresso and Beer.
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ajp, apache, closures, java, REST, SOAP, webservices
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 and Justin convey our recommendation on how to successfully partake in and manage remote development projects based on from our experience our collective involvement with outsourced projects. We’ve seen it all, we know the do’s and the don’ts, so have a listen!
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development, offshore, outsourcing, remote
This week we grill our very own expert Justin Lee about Web Sockets. We ask what they are, how they are being used and how they’ll change the web to come. Justin works on the Grizzly Web Sockets project, take a look, experiment with it and create something cool!
In this episode we’ve started a news segment. We grabbed two of the DZone Big Links of the day which caught our eye. The topics were “The Outsourcing Low Cost Lie” and how the popular free text editor Notepad++ is leaving Source Forge over its policies concerning countries on a US blacklist.
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Note: Came under a bit of fire from one listener for my position on Offshoring/Outsourcing. It should be known (if not clear in the podcast) that I’m targeting the companies that plant Junior devs masquerading as Senior ones. People in other parts of the world are just as smart and talented than ones in North America, but just as it is here there are a lot of bad or inexperienced ones too. You can keep those ones mkaythxwtfbbq. In the next podcast I’ll defend my position and hopefully you’ll see I’m not anti-world-developers. I’m sure the other Basement Coders will share their experience and points of view as well.
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outsourcing offshoring, websockets
In this episode we have a special guest, Jason Whaley who along with Jeff Genender have a plethora of SOA and Cloud Computing knowledge and insight. If you were in Las Vegas last March at TSSJS you’ve no doubt heard them speak.
The topic for the podcast is a question I’m sure you’ve asked several times yourself: “Why are mainframes still around?”. What makes them attractive, even today? Who maintains these systems in 10 years when the 50-somethings have retired? Is Cloud Computing the chainsaw-shotgun we’ve been waiting for or is SOA the “brains” that keep zombie mainframe code alive and well?
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Episode 6 marks the return of The Basement Coders Podcast! Craig Tataryn is back with all new co-hosts Jeff Genender, Guillermo Castro and Justin Lee. We hope you enjoy the podcast!
In this episode we dissect Apple’s position on Flash and what this means to us both as consumers and developers. As well, we ponder the reality that corporations have become the shepherds of mainstream Open Source Software. Why? Have a listen and find out!
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