Podcasts and Media - Chariot TechCast
last updated Thu Sep 9 00:00 CDT 2010

Chariot Solutions is uniquely qualified to bring you the latest news from the Open Source and application development arena. Our consultants are active participants in the open source community, and are involved in developing cutting edge open source solutions every day. We also educate our clients and others about these emerging technologies through our frequent conferences and mentoring programs. The Tech Cast series brings you our perspective on the tools themselves, as well as interviews with industry leaders.

Episode 45 - SpringSource's Ben Alex on Roo, a Java-based agile framework

posted: November 19, 2009

Ben Alex carved out some time to talk to me about the SpringSource Roo project, a very interesting and different take on Convention over Configuration Frameworks. All of the major prior frameworks seem to use dynamic and meta-programming tricks to get work done. Ben's team focused on taking advantage of...
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Episode 44: Manik Surtani on JBoss Infinispan Distributed Data Grid and Cache

posted: November 17, 2009

Today's guest is Manik Surtani, from the JBoss Infinispan project. Infinispan is a data grid project that grew out of JBoss Cache, and is able to dynamically ramp up and down cache nodes at will. Manik discusses the various features of the engine, including querying, monitoring, scalability, and more. Visit...
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Episode 43d: SpringOne / 2GX - Dmitry Sklyut and Brent Baxter

posted: October 26, 2009

A recap of the events of the last two days of SpringOne, with Brent Baxter and Dmitry Sklyut. Show notes will be available soon. Chariot Solutions is a SpringSource partner....
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Episode 43c: SpringOne / 2GX - Gordon Dickens show reflections

posted: October 22, 2009

Gordon Dickens is a consultant and trainer with Chariot Solutions. We caught just before the wrap-up on Thursday to see Gordon's impressions (ask him to do Charlie Chaplain)… Gordon discusses Spring 3.0 & Java 6, JPA 2 support, Spring Integration, Spring Roo, Grails, and more. Chariot Solutions is a SpringSource...
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