Hacker Wireside Chat

While I was in Dublin, Ireland I had the chance to sit down with a number of the members great dynamic language communities from around Dublin.

Martha Rotter organized the gathering.
Ana Nelson and I represented Ruby.
Sean O'Donnell and Vishal Vatsa represented Python. 
Ken Guest and Jaime Hemmett represented PHP.

It's was a tremendous amount of fun just to shoot the breeze and talk about the fun parts, the challenges and more that we all face in development. In this episode we break the ice, talk about the types of work that they are doing with the various languages, what type of frameworks that they are using and more.

There was a little bit of a problem with the audio as we were in a really echo prone room and had to pass the mics around.

Important Links:

Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Merb

Python
DJango
Turbo Gears
Pylons
Zope

PHP
Zend

Stack Overflow

Listen to Episode 03 Dynamic Languages Crew

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 - Atif Aziz on Consulting in Switzerland and IronPython

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 forces this into existence. To learn more - listen to the chat.

Host: Josh Holmes
Guest: Patrick Farley
Topic: Ruby Internals
Show time: 20 minutes

Important URLS:

Patrick Farley's blog
eRubyCon
Matz Ruby Interpreter (MRI)
JRuby
IronRuby
Rubinius

Listen to Episode 01 - Patrick Farley talking about Ruby Internals

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.