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Michael D. Hall invites you to Software Craftsmanship McHenry County

Michael D. Hall invited you to join Software Craftsmanship McHenry County

Hi, I just wanted to bug you this one time to let you know that SCMC has moved from Eventbrite to Meetup. Meetup offers us the ability to host discussions about Software Craftsmanship in theNW Chicago Suburbs, discuss what we'd like to do for meetings and generally provide a central forum for devs in the NW 'burbs. Membership is free. Everyone is welcome to signup. If you'd just like to stay abreast of meetings and news then please join us as well. Thanks, Mike Hall co-founder Michael D. Hall

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Interview with Jeff Hardy

Tonight we're going to sit down to chat with Jeff Hardy, an IronPython MVP and apparently a daschund in a hotdog costume for all the pictures I could find of him on the interwebs. Oh, and he's not a wrestler.

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The Lost Episode

Back in August we sat down to chat with Rob Reynolds and Dru Sellers about the Nu project. At the time, I hadn't even edited the interview with Brian Hogan yet. So in a death spiral of external events and general procrastination sprinkled with a little bit of exhaustion for good measure, I haven't gotten around to editing the episode... yet. First I want to apologize to you, our listener for not being more prompt with the turn around on new content. I can make excuses but those don't make for good listening. And I want to apologize to Rob and Dru for taking the time to sit down with us and I didn't return the courtesy by getting the episode out in a timely manner. I'm going to sit down over the next couple days and get the episode together as a "Rough Cut" (really, all of our episodes probably would be described as "Rough Cuts" anyway) and at least get Rob and Dru's insights into the .NET F/OSS world and the great work they're doing with Nu into your ears.

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Episode 3: Interview with Brian Hogan

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Brian Hogan of Rails Mentors and author of Web Design for Developers and the upcoming HTML5 & CSS3 book, sits down with us to discuss Rails, Ruby community, mentoring, HTML5 and learning.

• Brian's home page http://www.bphogan.com/
• Rails Mentors http://www.railsmentors.org
• Rails Rumble http://www.railsrumble.com/
• HTML5 and CSS3 http://www.pragprog.com/titles/bhh5/html5-and-css3
• Web Design for Developers http://www.pragprog.com/titles/bhgwad/web-design-for-developers
• Tampa Ruby Brigade http://tampa.rubybrigade.org/
• Cloud Developer's Group http://clouddevelopersgroup.com/
• Derick Bailey / Los Techies http://www.lostechies.com/members/derick.bailey/default.aspx
• Bob Walsh http://www.47hats.com/

We had a little bit of technical difficulty in posting this podcast. I apologize that there was a miscommunication that the episode had been posted on Friday. We've worked with the posterous team, and they were very responsive. ^ Mike Hall

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Upcoming Episodes - "Mentoring, Rumbling, Bridging with Rails, Ruby, JavaScript & HTML" and "That 'nu' Thing'

This past week has been very busy for us. We recorded two episodes of The Iron Languages Podcast!

"Mentoring, Rumbling, Bridging with Rails, Ruby, JavaScript & HTML"

Brian Hogan (@bphogan) the author of "Web Design for Developers" and the upcoming "HTML5 & CSS3". He's also the creator of the Railsmentor.org site, a place where people who want to learn Rails and Ruby can find experienced developers to help guide them through their learning.

"That 'nu' Thing"

Dru Sellers and Rob Reynolds of the 'nu' project sit down and discuss their work on the 'nu' project, a new system for managing and installing F/OSS libraries for .NET. We also discuss the F/OSS software ecosystem on .NET.

So, stay tuned, we have a lot of great content to share and are working diligently to get them to you as quickly as possible. 

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Episode 2 - Chat with Shay "IronShay" Friedman

Will and Mike chat with Shay "IronShay" Friedman, an IronRuby MVP and the author of "IronRuby Unleashed".

Notes:

- There are 3 IronRuby MVP's: Ivan Porto Carrero,  Michael Letterle

Shay Friedman - http://ironshay.com
Michael Letterle - http://blog.prokrams.com
Ivan Porto Carrero - http://flanders.co.nz/

- Rake is a great tool for building .NET, particularly using Albacore

- Albacore
http://albacorebuild.net
Derick Bailey - http://derickbailey.lostechies.com/
The Nature of Lisp - http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
Transitioning from NAnt to Rake - http://codebetter.com/blogs/david_laribee/archive/2008/10/17/transitioning-from-nant-to-rake.aspx

- JRuby, Jetty, Apache
JRuby - http://jruby.org
Jetty - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetty_(web_server)
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/

- Jimmy Schmenti
http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/
Microsoft DLR program manager

- The importance of REPL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-eval-print_loop

- Dynamic C#
http://www.weirdlover.com/2010/05/26/c-dynamics-the-cool-new-thing-to-crap-on/

- Compiler as a Service
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2210734/what-is-the-state-of-the-c-compiler-as-a-service

- Tools
RubyMine - http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/

- Origin of the "Iron" prefix
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1194309/why-are-many-ports-of-languages-to-net-prefixed-with-iron
… and why is python named python and ruby named ruby?
http://geekswithblogs.net/brians/archive/2008/06/14/122861.aspx

- Silly names
cucumber - http://cukes.info
nokogiri
  http://nokogiri.org/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokogiri
hotgazpacho - http://hotgazpacho.org

- Origin of IronPython
Jim Hugunin - http://hugunin.net/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/hugunin/archive/2006/09/05/741605.aspx

- For Want of a Nail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Want_of_a_Nail_(proverb)

- PowerBuilder
http://www.lannigan.org/powersoft_powerbuilder_history.htm

- Objective-C History (kind of)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#History

- Perl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl

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Next Show: DLR, IronRuby and IronShay

We're going to be interviewing Shay Friedman, aka @ironshay. Shay is the author of IronRuby Unleashed an IronRuby MVP and blogs at http://IronShay.com/

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Minor Updates: iTunes and IronLanguages.net

Some minor housekeeping updates...

We have a new domain for our site...

http://ironlanguages.net

Although the relatively new, but deprecated url of http://ironlanguages.posterous.com will continue to work for the foreseeable future.

And we are now iTunes compatible! Please subscribe and rate our shows in the iTunes store (free, natch). Help us achieve our goal of being the only and at least second best .NET and dynamic language oriented podcast! iTunes Show Link

We have a new tagline "The revolution will not be compiled." which was a great tweet line by @JesseDearing who was gracious enough to not press charges when we completely swindle his slogan.

Lastly, we are completely surprised by the interest there's been in our little show. Within a very short period of time we've already had nearly a thousand views of our first episode. This is very exciting and also nerve-wracking. We are both doing the show in our scant spare time, and there will be rough edges in the site and our casts. We're trying to put together a regular schedule and keep up with the latest developments. Please pardon our dust if the site changes or the schedule is off.

You can send show ideas and tips via email to podcast@ironlanguages.net and follow the show on Twitter as @ironlanguages.

^ Mike

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Episode I: We Have Lift-off

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Will and I have finally gotten together and recorded our first episode of The Iron Languages Podcast.

In the first episode Will and I chat about the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and IronRuby in particular.

Some links related to topics we discussed:

• Iron Ruby: http://ironruby.net
• Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Language_Runtime
• Factory Girl: http://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl
• Sinatra: http://sinatrarb.com
• Iron Python: http://ironpython.net/
• Jython: http://www.jython.org
• Clojure CLR: http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-clr
• RailsMentor.org: http://railsmentor.org

Please let us know what you think, how we can improve and what you'd like to hear about. We hope you enjoy the 'cast!

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