Thu, 22 December 2011
Episode 13: Interview with Viktor Klang, part 1

#legendofklang gets the #spiewakeffect

Direct download: viktor-interview.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:00 PM
Thu, 8 December 2011
Episode 12: Open discussion on Scala optimisation and complexity
Direct download: scala-optimisation.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:50 PM
Fri, 2 December 2011
Episode 11: JVM discussion with Dick Wall, part 2, and some patent ranting

This is the episode in which we find out Daniel's secret love for Windows 7, how elegant a small library by dick wall can be, and that Yuvi thinks patents are awesome (at least, hardware patents have potential there).

Links:

Subcut: https://github.com/dickwall/subcut

Patent review website for OSS: http://peertopatent.org/

Increase in # of allowances lately: http://cleere-law.com/patent_allowances.aspx

New patent director: http://ipwatchdog.com/2009/04/15/announcement-nears-on-new-patent-office-director/id=2636/

Also, all views presented in this podcast are that of the members of the podcast.  No views or statements reflect in any way the views of the spouses of the members of the podcast.

Direct download: dickwall-part2.mp3
Category:discussion -- posted at: 1:56 AM
Mon, 26 September 2011
Episode 10: Discussion at StrangeLoop

New Idea:  Fill in all of Daniel's esoteric type theory references!!!

Send references and links to scala-types@googlegroups.com

Direct download: strangeloop-dicussion.mp3
Category:discussion -- posted at: 7:53 PM
Mon, 29 August 2011
Episode 9: JVM discussion with Dick Wall, part 1
  • JDK 7 (bugs INCLUDED!)
    • lucene
  • Oracle like $$$ and sells a database.  You may have heard of it.
  • Invoke Dynamic
  • John Rose is awesome
  • Who’s the Scala JCP ‘insider’?
  • Scala Debugger
  • .NET vs JVM
  • JSR 223
    • *is* used in industry
    • *not* good for cross-language support
  • Cross-Compiling cross-languages is *hard*
  • Josh lost his laptop
  • Bill Venners is fun. See corrected Episode #1 show notes.  We’re sorry for the hate mail, Bill!
  • Scala training with Bill Venners + Dick Wall
    • Send us your hatemail.  scalatypes@googlegroups.com
Direct download: jvm-podcast.mp3
Category:discussion -- posted at: 7:38 PM
Sat, 20 August 2011
Episode 8: Teaser: The Dick Wall Robot

A teaser for the upcoming episode.

Direct download: dickwall-teaser.mp3
Category:teaser -- posted at: 8:51 PM
Tue, 9 August 2011
Episode 7: Live at Scalathon 2011! Interview with Nikita Ivanov
Direct download: gridgain-interview-final.mp3
Category:interview -- posted at: 1:44 AM
Thu, 28 July 2011
Episode 6: Live at Scalathon 2011! Interview with Heather Miller
Episode 6 @ Scalathon: Interview with Heather Miller
  • Daniel proves that he thinks the Portuguese language is the Spanish language.
  • Heather Ph.D.’ng for parallel processing
    • Added Ropes and Parallel ropes to Scala collections
  • New Documentation Czar
    • Part-time
    • Licensing undetermined right now
    • Responsible for API and guide/overview-style docs
    • Working on a guide/overview style doc repository.
      • Meant to organize documentation internal documentation and documentation from the community in one central location.
      • Pull-Model, not wiki model.  Moderated
      • Meant to cover all topics of Scala
      • Interactive, commenting similar in style to DjangoBook
  • Yuvi *loves* MSDN documentation and Daniel likes pay-walls for reading articles.
  • Accepting contributions to Scaladoc API documentation.
  • Yuvi pushes our iTunes rating, Josh needs to learn how to bleep.
  • Josh shows his ignorance in pronouncing Iulian.
  • Scala is moving to github (Josh is responsible)
  • Fun blog postings
  • Scala lang issues
    • nodes
    • Bad Snow
    • google crawling
    • Drupal - Best of PHP CMS, but still PHP
  • Play mini-CMS?
  • Sphinx is rockin
    • Yuvi against mythology
Direct download: heather-interview.mp3
Category:interview -- posted at: 7:00 PM
Tue, 19 July 2011
Episode 5: Interview with James Iry

Direct download: james-full-podcast.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:12 PM
Sat, 25 June 2011
Episode 4: Scala Community Petition
  • Open forum to discuss some of these issues
  • The SBT move should be completed
    • Right now, Scala + stdlib is built with Ant
    • Nobody’s wild about Ant [PDF]
    • Is SBT up for the complexity of Scala’s build system?
    • Bootstrap a language, using a language, using a build system written in that language
      • Most phenomenal accomplishment in dogfooding you will ever see
      • SBT 0.9 should make the whole process much easier
    • To make Mark happy, ask him about pretty lights
    • The goal of the industry is to succeed, the goal of accademia is to fail
      • (because you learn more from your failures)
  • Documentation of the core libs needs to be treated seriously
    • There’s not enough API documentation, especially when coming from a Java background
    • Maybe simplify the scaladoc tool?
      • @usecase is supposed to hide the types you don’t need to know about
      • Editor’s note: ironically, the @usecase annotation isn’t documented.  At all.  To see how it’s used, read a bit of the source code for GenTraversableLike.
      • People don’t understand [usecase]j (yet)
    • Why do we need to know about GenTraversableOnce?
    • Use Vector for everything, it’s awesome
    • Most people who know Scala use List, Vector, Map, etc rather than Seq, etc
    • Scala code is concise, which makes it weird to write long and explanatory scaladoc
    • Types as documentation? (– Tony Morris)
  • GitHub move should be completed


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Direct download: community-petition-discussion.mp3
Category:discussion -- posted at: 10:29 PM

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