September 2008 Entries

  • Episode 02 - Atif Aziz on Consulting in Switzerland and IronPython

    In this episode of Hacker Wireside Chat, I, Josh Holmes, catch up with Atif Aziz in Zurich. Atif is a consultant with Skybow and is actually using Iron Python in production code with his clients. His approach is very practical - use it where it fits and where it's not going to hinder the rest of his team. Important URLs: Atif Aziz - http://www.raboof.com Skybow - http://www.skybow.ch Iron Python - http://blogs.msdn.com/ironpython Josh Holmes - http://www.joshholmes.com Listen to Episode 02 -...

  • Episode 01 - Patrick Farley talking about Ruby Internals

    In this first episode of Hacker Wireside Chat (and actually the first chat put up on Wireside Chat at all), Josh Holmes sat down with Patrick Farley and talked about a talk that he does called Ruby Internals. We covered a lot of different things from how Eval works in Ruby to what the new implementations, such as IronRuby and JRuby mean to Ruby developers around the world. Pat's approach to Ruby is that the right way to approach internals is not to ask "What's a Metaclass". Instead, ask what does Ruby want to give me as a programmer that...

  • Welcome to Hacker Wireside Chat

    Hacker Wireside Chat is a podcast/blog for lots of different things in the software development arena. This is a lot of things that your host, Josh Holmes, thinks is cool like alternative languages, agile practices and lots more. Looking foward to learning a ton myself as I interview foremost experts on their topics about their passions.