Topic: Software Development
For many years, Greg Wilson has taught a course called Software Carpentry: to scientists, to university students, and to working programmers. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, he discusses the digital and mental tools in the software carpenter's kit, and he reflects on how the course might be taught differently in an era of agile development and ubiquitous connectivity.
In his densely informative presentation, Cullen Jennings, Cisco's Distinguished Engineer talks about Network Address Translations (NATs), how they work, what's going on and more importantly, why we should care. Jennings looks at if and when we're really going to run out of IP addresses, how ISPs are using this to avoid the network neutrality push, and the disturbing implications ISP 'Carrier Grade NATs' have for application developers and end users alike.
Doug Day is the author of an open source library for reading and writing iCalendar files. He has also created an online validator for the venerable -- but still underutilized -- calendar format. In this conversation, Doug Day and host Jon Udell discuss why and how the validator can help bootstrap a pub/sub calendar ecosystem.
Joel and Jeff sit down with the developers of LitmusApp and DocType to discuss ASCII vs. pixels, the power of Amazon EC2, and the unglamorous but critically important topic of backup.
Every year, the United States government spends a huge amount of money on its web projects. At somewhere on the order of tens of millions of dollars per project, the majority of this money goes to few select software vendors. It would be nice, though, if some of it were to come to the open source community. Clay Johnson of Sunlight Labs tells us what we can do as open source developers to grab a piece of the action.
Howard Eglowstein, a principal engineer with Climate Energy, LLC -- and former BYTE colleague of host Jon Udell -- has always worked at the intersection of hardware and software hacking. In this conversation he discusses freewatt, a micro-CHP (combined heat and power) system. He also reflects on the eclipse and renewal of interest in the hybrid skillset celebrated by the "maker" movement.
Joel and Jeff discuss how to (accidentally) destroy your software business, Google's new DNS and page speed rankings, and why the most productive employees aren't paid 10 times as much.
Clayton Miller discusses his project 10/GUI, in which he is attempting to develop a new paradigm for the graphical user interface.
David Kaneda discusses JQTouch, a jQuery plugin for mobile web development, optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch. He reviews the background of the project as well as why he chose this way to create the plugin. He also talks about his work with the WebKit browsing engine.
What's it like to be a woman in an open source project that's 99% men? What's it like to be a woman in a project that's 75% women? Kirrily Robert has worked on both kinds of projects. She talks about the differences and what one can learn from majority-female open source communities.
