Episode 010: Javascript

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News

• Codecademy 200,000 users in 72 hours
  http://www.codecademy.com
  http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/codecademy-surges-to-200000-users-2-1-million-lessons-completed-in-72-hours/
• HP TouchPads $99 Linux/Android ports on the way
  http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Touchpad-discounted-gains-ports/?kc=rss
• Minecraft Creator Challenges Game Company to Quake 3 to Settle Name Dispute
  http://notch.tumblr.com/post/9038258448/hey-bethesda-lets-settle-this
• Onlive Codes free with new DeusEx being removed by GameStop
  http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/report-gamestop-opening-deus-ex-copies-removing-free-game-code.ars
  

Tool of the Biweek

• Jason: Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM)
  http://llvm.org/
• Patrick: Hamachi
  https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/download.aspx

JavaScript

History

• LiveScript -> JavaScript -> ECMAScript
• Crockford on Javascript (history and teaching)
  http://yuilibrary.com/theater/douglas-crockford/crockonjs-1/

Uses

• Client-Side in the browser
• HTML5
• DOM: Document Object Model
• Server (node.js)

Features

• Dynamically typed
• Lambda-Functions
• Browser Abstraction libraries
• jQuery
  http://jquery.com/
• MooTools
  http://mootools.net/
• Prototype
  http://www.prototypejs.org/
• Compilers to javascript exist
• GWT Java -> Javascript
  http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
• Emscripten: C++ -> LLVM -> Javascript
  https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki
• Pyjamas: Python -> Javascript
  http://pyjs.org/
• CoffeeScript
  http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
• Closure Tools:
  http://code.google.com/closure/

Strengths

• Easy to deploy (interpreter exists for every browser)
• Javascript Object Notation (JSON)
• AJAX (make HTML calls without refreshing the page).
• Designed to be asynchronous

Weaknesses

• Not standardized across browsers
• Basically running untrusted code from a website on your computer (hard to secure)
• Cannot access hardware (Microphone, webcam, etc.)

Episode 009: HTML and CSS

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News

• Humble Indie Bundle http://www.humblebundle.com/
• Linux Kernel 3.0 http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/07/linux-kernel-version-bumped-up-to-30-as-20th-birthday-approaches.ars
• End of Shuttle Program http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

Tool of the Biweek

• Jason: Freemind: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
• Patrick: Picasa: http://picasa.google.com/

Programming Language Discussion 

History of HTML & CSS

• What is a markup language
• What happens when you visit a website 
• What are Cookies (besides delicious)
• Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
• Inheritance (cascading)
• Site wide consistency
• HTML5: http://slides.html5rocks.com/
• XHTML, DHTML

Uses

• Web pages
• Mobile apps (http://www.phonegap.com/)
• Machine Generatable (PHP, Ruby on Rails, Python..)

Strengths

• Cross Platform
• Easy to deploy (Browsers on all machines)
• Hand writable

Weaknesses

• Non-interactive
• AJAX
• High overhead (each HTTP request is a TCP session)
• Browser incompatibilities
• Verbosity

Episode 008: Prolog

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News

Developer vs. Programmer vs. Computer Scientist
http://www.skorks.com/2010/03/the-difference-between-a-developer-a-programmer-and-a-computer-scientist/

Google+
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/06/inside-google-how-the-search-giant-plans-to-go-social.ars

Zynga IPO
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/576885/201106291857/Zynga-Headed-For-IPO-Ville-Most-Anticipated-Since-Google.htm

Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley_Semiconductor_Laboratory

Tool of the Biweek

• Jason: FreeNX: http://freenx.berlios.de/
• Patrick: Evernote http://www.evernote.com/

Programming Language Discussion 


History of Prolog

• First-Order Predicate Calculus (FOPC)
• OpenCYC

Interpreters:

• GProlog, SWI Prolog, JIProlog, PythoLogic

Uses

• Popular in Asia
• First erlang interpreter
• NASA “Clarissa Project” for International Space Station
• Ericcson: Telephone switches

Strengths

• Built in Inference engine (Selective Linear Definite resolution)

Weaknesses

• Slow
• Does not fit von neumann architecture (memory banks, single core cpu)
• Difficult to create procedural programs

Next show will be on Prolog, coming this weekend.

Hey all!

We planned on doing a show today but Patrick unfortunately came down with a bad flu and is out of commission. As soon as he is better and able to record the show, we will be covering Prolog, which is a truly unique language.

Stay tuned!!

Episode 007 and show notes

Episode 7 Objective-C

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News

Wii U http://e3.nintendo.com/hw/#/introduction

Duke Nukem Forever http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/06/duke-nukem-forever-review-barely-playable-unfunny-and-rampantly-offensive.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

How/Why we got into programming
Upon listener request, we talk about how we got started programming and why we will love it today.

Tool of the Biweek
Jason: JavE: http://www.jave.de/
Patrick: Ascii Flow Diagram http://www.asciiflow.com/

Programming Language Discussion 
History of Objective-C

Uses
iOS/ Mac OSX Cocoa

Strengths
-Dynamically & Statically typed
-Property Directives
-Object Oriented
-Smooth interface to C/C++

Weaknesses
-Low user base (especially outside of iOS/OSX dev)
-Verbose and complicated syntax (dot syntax)

Asynchronous Programming
Writing & Understanding Event-Driven Code

Podcast hits 25,000 downloads!

Today the podcast has hit 25,000 downloads, which is an awesome milestone! Thanks to everyone for listening and writing in with your feedback and suggestions.

We got an email from Weston asking us to cover Objective-C, which is a great idea because it is the #1 language for iOS development. Patrick is on vacation this week, so the show might slip to next week. We might be crazy and record the show from his hotel room. Help Patrick be a workaholic, and stay tuned!

Episode 006 and Show Notes

Episode 6 Assembly

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News

Netflix accounts for 30% of prime time traffic

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/05/17/entertainment-us-tec-techbit-internet-traffic_8469877.html

Amazon Selling more ebooks than hard copies

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/05/amazon-says-it-now-sells-more-kindle-ebooks-than-print-books.html

Apple should stand up and develop developers against patent trolls

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/apple-should-stand-up

Mark Zuckerberg wants kids younger than 13 to be able to use facebook

http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20110520/minor-controversy-zuckerberg-wants-young-kids-on-facebook/

Open Source Prepares students for Better Careers

http://mashable.com/2011/05/13/open-source-students/

Hype: html5 animation creator (similar to Flash CS5 Professional)

http://mashable.com/2011/05/20/hype/

Tool of the day

Jason: FileZilla http://filezilla-project.org/

Patrick: PuTTY http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Programming Language Discussion

History

Assembler -> Opcodes

CISC

RISC

Uses

Reverse Engineering

Precise Timing

Performance

Embedded

ISRs

Strengths

Absolute Control

Increased understanding of hardware

Weaknesses

Tediousness

No Portability

Episode 005 and Show Notes

Episode 5 C#
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News

Over The Air updates for iOS
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/05/apple-planning-easier-upgrades-for-ios-mac-os-x.ars

How Decompilers work:
http://archfinch.com/item/21ace/i-wonder-how-decompilers-work#topcomment

Broadband Caps: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/atts-broadband-data-caps-start-today.ars

Natty Narwhal (x forwarding without XDMCP):
http://releases.ubuntu.com/natty/


Tool of the day
Jason: PortableApps FreeMat http://portableapps.com/apps/education/freemat_portable
Patrick: VLC http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/vlc_portable

Programming Language Discussion
History
CLR (Virtual Machine)
CLI (Bytecode)
Open Source (Mono)
Web (dynamic html like php)

Uses
Websites (previous employment)

Strengths
Dynamic html support
Easy(er) GUI programming
Good integration with C/C++
Managed code

Weaknesses
No applet support like in java.
Mono is a generation behind and often unstable
Many libraries do not exist in Mono (GUI, etc.)


Wrap Up

Episode 004 and Show Notes

Episode 004 Download

News
Amazon EC2 Outage
http://www.informationweek.com/articles/229402054?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

Portal 2
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/04/portal-2-ars-shares-the-correct-way-to-do-science.ars

Wii 2?
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/34241/Wii_Successor_Rumors_Continue_May_Launch_Early_2012.php

Lego assembly line
http://singularityhub.com/2011/04/20/wow-model-factory-made-with-lego-robots-moves-48-items-per-minute-video/



Tool of the day
Jason: SketchUp w/ thing-o-matic http://sketchup.google.com/ and http://store.makerbot.com/makerbot-thing-o-matic.html
Patrick: TI MSP430 http://e2e.ti.com/group/msp430launchpad/w/default.aspx


Programming Language Discussion (Matlab/Octave)

Matlab http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/
Use
History
Vendor Lock-in
Open Source
Octave http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

Language details:
interpreted
VM latency
Toolboxes (standard library that costs $)
Optimized functions (jacket, FFTW, etc.)

Episode 003 and Show Notes

Episode 3 Erlang is now posted. Check it out on itunes or download it from:

Episode 3 Erlang

Show Notes

ISO Standardizes C++ 2011

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/223486/iso_finalizes_c_update.html

Google hires inventor of java to work on android

http://www.blackjackchamp.com/casino-news/10082-google-hires-the-inventor-of-java-language-for-android-development/

Google Code Jam begins May 6th http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/ladies-and-gentlemen-start-your-editors.html

Facebook open sources its servers

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/04/why-facebook-open-sourced-its-datacenters.ars

Tool of the day

Jason: Microsoft Dependency Walker http://www.dependencywalker.com/

Patrick: KeePass http://keepass.info/

Programming Language Discussion (Erlang)

Learning

Learn You some Erlang for Great Good http://learnyousomeerlang.com/

Projects Using Erlang

rabbitMQ

Wings 3d

CouchDB

Goldman Sachs

2600hz

Episode 002 and Show Notes

Check out our latest episode:
Episode 002 or find us on iTunes.

Show Notes:

ted talk mathemagics http://www.ted.com/talks/arthur_benjamin_does_mathemagic.html

Hillary Clinton Firefox http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z4UEr2ekOY

News

iOS 4.3 Nitro Javascript Engine Updates don’t work outside safari http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/confirmed-some-web-apps-not-seeing-ios-43-javascript-speedup.ars


Apple ][ Emulator http://virtualapple.org/


Tool of the day

PW - Fossil http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

JG - Unison File Synchronization http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/


Sparkle Share http://sparkleshare.org/


Learning

Learn Python the Hard Way http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

Pycon Videos on blip.tv http://pycon.blip.tv/

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We will be recording episode 2 tonight, stay tuned!

Episode 001 Show Notes

In our first episode we cover the news, some interesting software, and our opinions and thoughts on C. Check it out, and let us know what you think.

Episode 001


Show Notes:

• fail0verflow PS3 Hack (Warning, in light of recent news apparantly watching this video could get you in trouble or at least on someones list ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOBJLH8u9pk
• Bitcoin http://www.bitcoin.org/
• Bitcoin Java Client http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/
• Comix http://comix.sourceforge.net/
  
• Linus Torvalds C vs C++ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643/focus=57918

First Post

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