Technology Guest Videos

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus Guests: Bob Martin Recording venue: Skype This episode is a conversation with "Uncle Bob" Bob Martin about agile software development and software craftsmanship specifically. We talk about the history of the term, the reasons for coming up with it some of the practices and the relationship to other agile approaches. We conclude our discussion with an outlook on some of todays new and hyped programming languages. Links About Bob Martin Wikipedia: Software Craftsmanship Software Craftsmanship Manifesto Book: Software Craftsmanship by Pete McBreen Book: Clean Code by Bob Martin

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus Guests: Bob Martin Recording venue: Skype This episode is a conversation with "Uncle Bob" Bob Martin about agile software development and software craftsmanship specifically. We talk about the history of the term, the reasons for coming up with it some of the practices and the relationship to other agile approaches. We conclude our discussion with an outlook on some of todays new and hyped programming languages. Links About Bob Martin Wikipedia: Software Craftsmanship Software Craftsmanship Manifesto Book: Software Craftsmanship by Pete McBreen Book: Clean Code by Bob Martin

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Michael Guests: Chuck Connell Recording venue: Skype Michael discusses with his guest Chuck Connell the differences between software engineering and computer science. What makes software engineering so unpredictable, with so few formal results? And how can we advance the field of software engineering without these results? Links Article: Difference between Software Engineering and Computer Science Grady Booch s handbook of software architecture Steve McConnell s blog about software development NASA page about formal software methods Chuck Connell s other essays about software engineering

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Michael Guests: Chuck Connell Recording venue: Skype Michael discusses with his guest Chuck Connell the differences between software engineering and computer science. What makes software engineering so unpredictable, with so few formal results? And how can we advance the field of software engineering without these results? Links Article: Difference between Software Engineering and Computer Science Grady Booch s handbook of software architecture Steve McConnell s blog about software development NASA page about formal software methods Chuck Connell s other essays about software engineering

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Arno Guests: Dave Thomas Recording venue: Skype Dave explains why reading source code is at least as important a skill as writing source code. He shares approaches for how to get to grips with unknown and undocumented source code even if it is non-trivial in size. He finishes with advice for how to get started reading code. Links Book: Code Reading - the Open Source Perspective Article: Software Archaeology

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Arno Guests: Dave Thomas Recording venue: Skype Dave explains why reading source code is at least as important a skill as writing source code. He shares approaches for how to get to grips with unknown and undocumented source code even if it is non-trivial in size. He finishes with advice for how to get started reading code. Links Book: Code Reading - the Open Source Perspective Article: Software Archaeology

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus Guests: Eberhard Wolff Recording venue: In this episode we discuss the current state of the spring framework. We talk about core features (dependency injection, AOP) but also about the spring universe, i.e. some of the more specific frameworks such as Spring Batch. Links Eberhard Wolff s Blog Spring Framework Docs Spring Framework

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus Guests: Eberhard Wolff Recording venue: In this episode we discuss the current state of the spring framework. We talk about core features (dependency injection, AOP) but also about the spring universe, i.e. some of the more specific frameworks such as Spring Batch. Links Eberhard Wolff s Blog Spring Framework Docs Spring Framework

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Martin Guests: Doug Simon Recording venue: Skype In this episode we talk with Doug Simon from Sun Microsystems Laboratories about the Maxine Research VM, a so-called meta-circular virtual machine. Maxine is a JVM that is written itself in Java, but aims at taking JVM development to the next level while using highly integrated Java IDEs as development environments and running and debugging the VM itself directly from the Inspector, an IDE-like tool specialized for the Maxine VM. During the episode we talk about the basic ideas behind Maxine, what exactly "meta-circular" means and what makes it interesting and promising to build a Java VM in Java. We talk about the relationship to Sun's current production JVM (HotSpot) and about ideas and directions for the future of Maxine. Links Maxine Project Website Videos on Maxine at Channel Sun Overview of Maxine on InfoQ

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Martin Guests: Doug Simon Recording venue: Skype In this episode we talk with Doug Simon from Sun Microsystems Laboratories about the Maxine Research VM, a so-called meta-circular virtual machine. Maxine is a JVM that is written itself in Java, but aims at taking JVM development to the next level while using highly integrated Java IDEs as development environments and running and debugging the VM itself directly from the Inspector, an IDE-like tool specialized for the Maxine VM. During the episode we talk about the basic ideas behind Maxine, what exactly "meta-circular" means and what makes it interesting and promising to build a Java VM in Java. We talk about the relationship to Sun's current production JVM (HotSpot) and about ideas and directions for the future of Maxine. Links Maxine Project Website Videos on Maxine at Channel Sun Overview of Maxine on InfoQ

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus Guests: Jim des Rivieres Recording venue: JAOO 2008 This episode is a discussion with Jim Des Rivieres about APIs: How to design good APIs, the role of the documentation/specification in APIs, API evolution and other relevant topics. Links Wikipedia: API Book: The art of the metaobject protocol Eclipse API Central

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus Guests: Jim des Rivieres Recording venue: JAOO 2008 This episode is a discussion with Jim Des Rivieres about APIs: How to design good APIs, the role of the documentation/specification in APIs, API evolution and other relevant topics. Links Wikipedia: API Book: The art of the metaobject protocol

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus Guests: Kevlin Henney and Klaus Marquardt Recording venue: OOP 2009 This is another episode recorded at OOP 2009, thanks to SIGS Datacom and programme chair Frances Paulisch for making this possible. Here is the abstract from the conference program: Many software systems have fragile architectures that are based on brittle assumptions or rigid architectures that reduce options and make change difficult. On the one hand, an architecture needs to be fit for the present day, suitable for immediate use, and on the other it needs to accommodate the future, absorbing reasonable uncertainty. However, an approach that is overly focused on today's needs and nothing more can create an inflexible architecture. An approach that becomes obsessed with possible future changes creates an overly complex architecture that is unfit for both today's and tomorrow's needs. Both approaches encourage an early descent into legacy for a system. The considerations presented in this talk reflect an approach that is more about thinking in the continuous present tense than just the present or the future tense. This includes principles from lean thinking, practices common in agile processes and techniques for loosely coupled design. Links Wikipedia: Software Architecture Kevlin Henney s Homepage Klaus Marquardt s Homepage Book: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know Mind Map concerning Sustainable Architectures

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus Guests: Jim Purbrick Recording venue: JAOO 2008 In the first part of this episode we discuss a couple of basics about SecondLife (scaling, partitioning, etc). The second part specifically looks at how the dev team tackled a number of interesting problems in the context of executing their own LSL scripting language on top of Mono. Links Jim Purbrick s Blog SecondLife Linden Lab LSL Mono

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus Guests: Jim Purbrick Recording venue: JAOO 2008 In the first part of this episode we discuss a couple of basics about SecondLife (scaling, partitioning, etc). The second part specifically looks at how the dev team tackled a number of interesting problems in the context of executing their own LSL scripting language on top of Mono. Links Jim Purbrick s Blog SecondLife Linden Lab LSL Mono

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus Guests: Gilad Bracha Recording venue: DSL Devcon This episode is a conversation with Gilad Bracha about Newspeak, type systems in general and optional/pluggable types in particular. It was recorded during DSL Devcon in the gardens of the Microsoft campus, and thanks to Gilad's "speaking like a book" way of talking it is published completely unedited :-) Links Gilad s website Newspeak website Pluggable Types

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus Guests: Linda Rising Recording venue: OOP 2009 This episode is once again with Linda Rising, this time on the book she coauthored with Mary Lynn Manns on introducing ideas into organizations. The talk is another one of the SE Radio Live sessions recorded at OOP 2009 - thanks to SIGS Datacom and programme chair Frances Paulisch for making this possible. Links Linda s website Book: Fearless Change