The Basement Coders

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.

• dzone.com - The Outsourcing Low Cost Lie
• Comet (programming) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• grizzly:
• dzone.com - Notepad++ Leaves SourceForge
• Chromium Blog: WebSocket Protocol Updated

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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About the Author

Craig Tataryn started his career as a Visual Basic programmer, but don't hold that against him! The system he helped create was a cutting edge, n-tiered revenue collection system whose transactions per second metric was off the charts! Around the year 2000 he discovered Struts and never looked back. A professional Java developer for close to a decade, Craig has worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from Recruiting, Purchase order, Revenue collection and Mortgage systems. More recently Craig has written web services for children's educational toys and has honed his skills on Wicket, Facebook and iPhone application development. "I love to learn and more importantly I love to teach. Hoarding knowledge is one of the most petty and selfish things you can do, especially as a contractor. This is why I always make it a point to document and share my knowledge with my client's employees"

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