I had a good conversation with Joe Fiorini about balancing his daily work in .NET with a passion and enthusiasm for Ruby on Rails.  Have a listen.
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I had a fun time recording this ‘open spaces’ meeting at Codemash last week.  This was led by Joe Brinkman from the DotNetNuke project, and joining us was Kevin Devine from the Euclid Public Library, Sara Ford from Codeplex @ Microsoft, Steven Harman from the Subtext project and - shoot - I do not have [...]

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Brian Goetz is keynoting at codemash on the topic of concurrency.  I’ve intuitively known that concurrency and threading is hard.  I come from mostly a PHP world, and butted heads with some Java devs a few years ago because I built something in PHP that they were building in Java.  “But PHP doesn’t have threads!” [...]

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I had a chance to have a fun discussion with Dave Kroondyk, Adam Lumsden and Elizabeth Naramore about web development, ecommerce, project management, content management systems, shark dissection, PHP, Mozilla’s Weave project, general MIchigan awesomeness and some other topics. I was a bit closer to the mike than I should have been, but worse [...]

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I was having an interesting conversation with Joe Brinkman from the DotNetNuke project this evening, and he got to talking about the ’social networking’ focus in the next DNN release.  I had a small brainwave and suggested something to him, but the implications might be larger than I originally considered.
He mentioned that they’d be looking [...]

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I’m not going to write a whole lot about this, but Neal Ford’s main takeaway point was that the future of programming is dynamically typed languages running on virtual machines - things like JRuby running on the JVM or IronPython on .NET.  I’m putting those examples in his mouth, so to speak - he didn’t [...]

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again this year.  Leaving this afternoon.  It’s about a 9 hour drive, and I think I miscalculated a bit this year.  I was comparing flying to driving.  I’d initially estimated fuel cost at around $100.  I think it’s going to be more like $190 or so.  Flying would have been $240, but then there’s a [...]

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The codemash organizers have graciously donated a free pass to the upcoming Codemash conference to be given away to one lucky webdevradio.com listener.  To enter in to the drawing, listen to the codemash episode interview podcast on webdevradio with Jim Holmes, follow the instructions, and hope your name is drawn.
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I put up an interview with Joe Brinkman of the DotNetNuke project over at http://www.webdevradio.com. Grahame helped me clean up the audio (well, did some detective work really). About 15 seconds in to the interview (after I’d already done a sanity sound check) a distinct hum came in to the audio, and was [...]

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I’m posting a quick wrap up of the codemash conference I attended last week. This is mostly because I’ll forget things if I don’t, but also to let anyone reading know what they missed and they should look to attend next year.
The pros:
There was an enormous amount of talent in that one main ballroom. [...]

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