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Burger Beat: Jo's - DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast #159

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:09:00 -0700

Office Space, Beeps, Pens, and Costly IP - Episode 158

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:12:00 -0700

Sugar on Cereal - Episode #157

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:07:00 -0700

What won't Meatloaf do?- SXSW 2009 Edition

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Picking up a Pizza - DrunkAndRetired.com #156

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:22:00 -0700

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On the way to pick up a pizza, we record an episode. Catch the drive-thru beer-barn!

Episode #155 - Kids and Time Management

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:41:00 -0700

Among other things, we discuss:

Niilo, the new kid in town.
Time management for makers vs. managers, craftsmen vs. factories.
EMail, GMail, and business privacy concerns.

Episode #154 - Porchtastic

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:21:00 -0700

Episode 153 - Belayed Thailand, Browser PTSD

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:23:00 -0700

DrunkAndRetired.com #152 - Stop Eating Boring Tuna

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:55:00 -0700

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Stop Eating Boring Tuna.
The Bench Seat of Doom - one fart could kill us all: helping Charles & Silva move.
Beverly Hills Cop II - jogging in oil fields.
Arley's Cheese Whiz Police covers - where are they now? - are they in Mesa Quotes? (No...?)
Finish Pride - there was always...sauna.
Charles' JavaScript talk at the Ann Arbor Java User's Group.
"Play With" - JavaScript/JSON
Using GitHub on the (slow) netbook?
JavaScript & JSON makes me wonder, "is Object Orientation flawed?"
Wittgenstein means "Language is a language is a Leaky Abstraction."
Try the R2 podcast, it's fantastic.

DrunkAndRetired.com #151 - "BAM! What's in your UNDERPANTS?!?!"

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:27:00 -0700

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In this two episodes in one episodes, Charles and I embed an episode of RIA Weekly into an episode of DrunkAndRetired.com. It's like a taco in a hamburger wrapped in a slice of pizza.

Here's a brief summary:

Detroit's motto is actually "Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus", which means "We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes" in English.
Check out The Bladerunner game FAQ I wrote long ago.
Charles gives his love to DonkeyTron 5000.
Since both of us have heard the NPR coverage of Detroit this week, I (re-)ask Charles, "what's up with Detroit?"
This gets us into a discussion of the villains plans to tear down the old city and build a new one in movies like Darkman, Robocop, and Bruce Sterling's recent book The Caryatids, which I give a brief overview of.
Don't forget Charles' upcoming talk at the Ann Arbor JUG! Charles will try to address Pete F.'s desire for a recording.
Charles discusses his concept for "TwitterDick.com," that is, seeing how much social media ego you have.
This leads us to propose the DrunkAndRetired.com Listener Market Research Omnibus Survey. Want to participate, just tell us!
For a detailed summary for the RIA Weekly episode, see the RIA Weekly #49 show-notes.

DrunkAndRetired.com #150 - From Seoul

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:40:00 -0700

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While in Seoul, I Charles and I finally had the chance to record a new episode. We talk about my trip over to Korea, house hunting in Austin, and the Apple Time Capsule.

Lightening SXSW 2009 Reviews

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While in the Gingerman, Kim, Charles, Silva, and Cote' give their review of SXSW so far.

DrunkAndRetired.com #149 - You'll never guess what I'm calling from!

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:39:00 -0800

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While running a quick errand, we talk about all sorts of things:

Football-shaped iPhones
The Many accents on the Garmin GPS nuvi.
King Ranch Casserole - see the essay/receipe here.
Charles' sandwich inventions: The Pork-chop Garnish and The Double Egg Bonus. (See more of Charles' pictures over in twitpic.)
It's true, those kids won't get off my lawn.
Kim looses her iPhone.
Charles on Groovy/Grails.
Ruby and JavaScript in IntelleJ.
...and more!

Episode 148 - "Have you tried it hot?"

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:06:00 -0800

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Netflix On-Demand, or more "traditional" video On-Demand delivered to XBox.
"Have you tried it hot?"
Art by polls - painting and music.
Charles gets his hard-drive "fixed."
Going back to paper and pen for notes - maybe Netbooks can save us.
What's up with these clogged toilets?

Episode 147 - Using Technology for Evil

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:21:00 -0800

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Enjoy!

Episode 146 - All these goats are retarded

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:22:00 -0800

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This week, Charles and I catch up with this second episode. Our lateness is your benefit, dear listeners.

To that end, here's a select list of some of the things we discuss:

Charles was deadly ill.
The half-hipster carabiner key-chain arrangement.
The Pomegranate phone.
Valentine's Day Gifts - the ladies have it tough here (mine were awesome!).
Country Clubs seem like they'd be nice, if expensive.
Charles on designer/developer workflow - applying changes ain't that hard if the developer defines the deliverables.
Sprites in HTML.
Maybe the designer/developer workflow will never be de-coupled, really.
Charles' upcoming talk at the Detroit Java User's Group: it'll be February 18, 2009 6:30PM to 8:30PM at ePrize headquarters in Pleasant Ridge.

Enjoy!

Episode 145 - Return to Zane Studios

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:32:00 -0800

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While he was in town last week, Charles and I went over to Zane's studio again to record. I must confess, I don't remember what we talked about.

Enjoy!

DrunkAndRetired.com Special 01 - Put Java in a package repository

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Charles gives advice on what Sun should do for better Java distribution in the Linux world: make his life easier by hosting an official package repository.

DrunkAndRetired.com Special: Scotch Tasting

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:24:00 -0800

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Several weeks ago, I was lucky enough to drop in on my old friend Zane for a Scotch tasting. We had about 5-6 different types of scotch, and took the 2+ hours of this special episode to review each.

Zane has a pretty nice setup for recording and we've recorded this week's episode in there as well.

Also, in addition to the write-up about Zane's recording setup, check out the rest of his wiki for all sorts of fun content.

DrunkAndRetired.com # 144 - Ripple

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:16:00 -0800

In this episode, Charles and I go over several key agenda items for the new president. Namely:

Is Charles a morning person?
The cult of morning people
Silva's Dance performance with People Dancing Movement Guild
All about Evernote. The public CotÃ Stash
The so called "wet sauna,"or fake sauna
Dealing with Snow: Getting around, long-underwear (sheep's wool), driving
What Charles has been working on - Library Sciences thing called "Summon" Serials Solution
The Jon Udell regional web-ization efforts
Browser-cross platform hatin'
A little bit on Lotusphere 2009
The Agile Executive
Texas Social Media Awards - go leave a comment on CotÃ's nomination!
Charles' JavaScript talk at the Detroit Java User's Group
JavaScript on the server-side, that article

Also: why don't you just subscribe to the podcast feed to have all episodes automagically downloaded?!

Episode #143 - d20âs Cause Blindness

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:10:00 -0800

Episode 142 - The Barbed Wire on the Nuts

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:15:00 -0800

[Fancy Player]

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See if you can't leave me an inch from where the zipper (burps) ends, round, under my, back to my bunghole, so I can let it out there if I need to.

In this well documented episode, Charles and I talk about:

Do you flush the toilet when someone is talking on the cellphone in the bathroom?
We discuss Charles "professional" uses of video conferencing.
How bit torrenting works, like, if you want to watch Heross.
XBox Live and Charles ordered and Android G1 dev phone.
Google Native.
KirinDave's post on ruby.
I solicits advice for what type of content you, the dear reader, would like to see more of.
Why not be like LBJ and call people every morning? (No exactly like this, though.)

Episode 141 - Health care is killing me, on the bright side, I'm getting and XBox

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:38:00 -0800

In an attempt to get back to weekly recording, I submit to you, dear listeners, this week's episode!

In this 90+ minute episode, Charles and I cover Thanksgiving, health-care for the indie-type, and then get into scheming how I can get one of Charles' spare XBox's so we can shoot zombies together in Left 4 Dead.

Legendary!

DrunkAndRetired.com #140 - It's that time of month

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:01:00 -0800

Episode 139 - US Debates

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:31:00 -0700

In this episode, Charles and I talk about this week's, US presidential debates.

Also, in response to last week's 64 bit talk, Roger V. sent this in:

A 64-bit OS can access more memory because it's using 64-bit address pointers. In C, C++, and assembly language, one deals directly with address pointers.

Whereas in Java, C#, or the myriad of various scripting languages, one is shielded from raw pointers and one doesn't make direct calls to the OS from these mangaged languages - unless done through a special mapping or adapting mechanism.

So in Java one passes references to objects around and has no idea how big the reference is. Unlike address pointers in C, a Java reference is not directly manipulated. Now from Java, if you want to interact with the native OS, where address pointer types do matter, you have to use the JNI and write that code in C. Java interacts via JNI conventions with the C code, and the C code can interact with any native OS APIs. The C code can then deal with any 32-bit vs 64-bit conversion issues (perhaps by even dropping into some inline assembly language if necessary).

When you pass an address (like a pointer to a string buffer) to an OS API, the language signature for calling the API will make the type of address pointer (32-bit or 64-bit) very, very explicit indeed. You have to pass it the kind of address pointer that the API expects.

So 32-bit code running on a 64-bit OS has to make any system call interactions via some sort of thunk layer. Hence when I run 64-bit Firefox on 64-bit Ubuntu and attempt to use the Adobe Flash player (which to this day is still only available in 32-bit versions no matter what OS), I have to use a special adapter plugin that provides for this thunking. (Same goes for any C/C++ shared libraries - the 32-bit app will have to have 32-bit versions of its shared libraries.)

Now with Apple's latest version of the Mac OS X, the thunking is essentially the other direction. Apple is still using an essentially 32-bit OS, but wants to provide the ability to run 64-bit software applications (Photoshop) that can address beyond 4 GB of memory. So they have a special 64-bit compatible thunking layer for such 64-bit programs that adapts OS calls down to the actual 32-bit native OS API calls. If there is a comprehensive 64-bit thunking layer for all OS APIs, then 64-bit software, including their shared libraries, can be ported to run.

If you young whipper snappers had been around programming in C or assembly back in the days of the 8088/8086/80286 and then dealt with the transition from 16-bit code (MS-DOS, Win3.0) to 32-bit architecture (Win32), this 32-bit to 64-bit thing would all be old hat. Also, if you recall, Win95 was a 32-bit API programming model that thunked down to an underlying 16-bit MS-DOS underpinning.

Hopefully 64-bit will last us longer than 32-bit has - before we have to deal with the 64-bit to 128-bit transition.

--RogerV

Episode 138 - Re: WTF on this Financial Thing, 64bit Java

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:07:00 -0700

This week - episode here, man! - Charles and I have John Willis on as a guest (you may know him from one of my other podcasts, The IT Management Podcast). John explains the business owner side of all this financial stuff that we ranted about last week. Also, as we mention several times, this last week's This American Life episode explains it all very clearly.

We also spend a long time on Charles ranting about the lack of full 64 bit support in Java's Firefox plugin, esp. on the Mac. And then we do the usual noodling around on anything in particular, like how Charles and I met, "5,000 boots a day," ShopUS (seen above), and my neighbor-lady hanging out on her front-porch in her skivvies.

And, actually, it turns out they're not IBM clocks in the Detroit airport.

Episode 137 - "Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs. And take them down."

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:24:00 -0700

You guys have it real easy. I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here. Because, the fact is, whether you deserve it or not: you go to one of the best schools in the country.

Rushmore. You lucked out.

Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich, and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs. And take them down.

Just remember: they can buy anything. But they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget that. Thank you.

--Mr. Blume, Rushmore

In this episode, I welcome Charles back State-side by bombarding him with questions about what the hell is happening with this financial stuff. I think we get to 2 or 3 good theories, but as Charles says, it's off course all ass Talk. We're not SmartAndFinancial.com, afterall.

We then sort out when Charles and Silva are going to finally move to Austin (March, 09, it seems), and then I get off on a tear on how Texas needs to best California.

Overall, I'd say this is a damn fine episode.

Episode 136 - Cracks in the Web UI Powerbase

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:53:00 -0700

In this episode, while I'm State-side, Charles is still in Finland. Thus, we start out talking about the wood-burning sauna he's been using. We then jump into a discussion of Chrome, and then I float the theory that there's major cracks in the dominance of web-only UIs - what with RIAs and the iPhone.

We wrap up with a special production from Charles.

Episode #135 - Drinking in the Korppoo Sauna

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:30:00 -0700

"Oh JavaScript! We totally talk about JavaScript every night!"

...

"I like...uh...I've quite enjoyed the drinking."

In this second episode from our Excellent Finnish Adventure, we're sporadically joined by Kim and Silva (pictured above ). We start out in the sauna.

We talk about wood burning vs. electric saunas, talk about the dance performance we'd seen, Blink, and then launch into what the wives think about the programming life.

We talk about a bunch of other stuff too, like how to escape a moose if needed.

DrunkAndRetired.com #134 - Finland Front Porch

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:34:00 -0700

In this episode, Charles and I sit on a Finish porch and talk about our trip in Finland so far.

DrunkAndRetired.com #133 - Off to Finland, Locked up in iPhone Land, JavaFX, UIs in Open Source

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:53:00 -0700

Hey-o, hey-o! Episode 133 is up. This week Charles and I discuss in 15+ minute detail the process of (him) getting to Finland. I loves it!

Me having recently acquired an iPhone 3G, we talk about iPhonery for sometime and then jump into a discussion of Charles using the JavaFX Preview SDK. This drives us unto the swampy waters of discussing usability and UI work in open source and speculating out the different scenarios for what's going on there.

DrunkAndRetired.com #132 - Hellboy, Wanted, Going to User Groups, and Flex

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:27:00 -0700

Episode 131 - Procrastination

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:33:00 -0700

In this episode, I try to get Charles to help me get more shit done (GMTD?). Gotta run to go see Gonzo, no time for long write-up, brohan!

Episode 130 - Pooping Your Way to Cleanliness

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:26:00 -0700

In this episode:

We start out talking about Charles' "cleansing" efforts, which sound terrible if you like food, but he's down for it.
I then tell Charles about how I like FriendFeed a lot now-a-days. As I say in the podcast, you guys should join and link up with me so I can get more content to read.
Charles then talks about how dealing with ruby and Java deployments is annoying and we wonder out-loud about how easy it is to deal with PHP installs - which is probably debatable given crap you've had the deal yourself. I then detail how a little jaunt to iUseThis.com stuck me a desktop optimization rut, esp. after I found AppFresh.
Finally, we learn that Charles is selling one of his iMacs and - shocker! - probably going to get a ThinkPad.

Thanks to John Arley Burns for sending over the Starcontrol sounds.

Episode 129 - Cloud Conferences, Flex, Flex Builder

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:52:00 -0700

This week we phoned in our recording as I was at Velocity 08, smack in the middle of a crazy week of cloud conferences - Tour de Force.com, Velocity, Cloud Camp, and then Structure.

We spend most of our time talking about Charles using Flex (without FlexBuilder) and then get into coverage of the the cloud-headed I'd been doing up to that point.

Episode 128 - Smell Yo Code

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:57:00 -0700

Episode 127 - Puppet, Skinless Bodies, Rational Tools, Getting Sick of Ajax

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:23:00 -0700

In this episode, we start out talking about Puppet (whose patron company, Reductive Labs is a RedMonk client). I then re-cap the Our Bodies exhibit Kim and saw, we move onto a short discussion of using Rational Tools from Charles' consulting days (I'll be at RSDC next week). We wrap up with Charles' growing distaste for Ajax, but his lack of anything else to use.

Episode 126 - Coding by Contract, Sessionful SMS, Fixing Windows

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:50:00 -0700

This week - download here - Charles and I start by talking about coding by contract. Then we move to the use of a persistent session with SMS systems like BrightKite (check out my BrightKite profile here) and how that might be, you know, something cool. Finally, we talk about what's up with Windows and if Microsoft could pull an OS X with it, that is, start from scratch, more of less.

Episode 125 - Return the Back Porch

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:04:00 -0700

Episode 124 - JavaOne 2008

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:28:00 -0700

Episode 123 - I finally git it

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:54:00 -0700

Episode 100 - Gravitas Achieved! Track Sticks, GPL, Open Source, and perltoot

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At long last we achieve gravitas with episode 100. To celebrate, Cote' returns to the back porch where the podcast just over two years ago, while Charles joins in finally having a drink during recording.

We talk about what open source in a SaaS world, single-entity vs. multi-entity open source production, and then the horrors of learning object orientations by way of the perltoot page.

Episode 101 - Cold Coffee, Transformers, Haskell, Toaster Ovens, or, Wang

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In this episode, Cote' and Charles talk about an expansive range of topics, mostly non-technical. Charles tells us about going to Minneapolis and getting some cold something cut coffee, then onto an extended conversation about Transformers and the toys, Charles tell us about his newbie study of Haskell, and then we discuss the question "does having a toaster oven make you white trash?"

Episode 102 - I forgot the title

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Right, so, this episode is really late in getting published. Apologies for that. I was on vacation in Marfa, then had family in town. Excuses are useless though, so enjoy the episode!

Episode 104 - Mighty Mouse, Java 7.0 Wishlist

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In this episode Cote' and Charles talk about the Apple Mighty Mouse, crudded up key-boards, and then get into a Java 7.0 wishlist.

Episode 112 - In Cote's Living Room - Movies Mostly

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There's not much tech-talk in this one: Virginia Slims, Dark City, Dark Man, and The Evil Real-Estate Baron arch-type; traveling; and more.

Episode 103 - Ruby & Java IDE Chat

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In this episode, Cote' and Charles spend much time talking about IDEs like Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ, and TextMate (for ruby). Also:

Old Austin Radio - Froggy and Key 103.5
Play-off Beards.
The "Should" Anti-pattern.
Transformers and the Hip-hop/Sci-fi error in movies.
Amazon S3 vs. libsyn.
Shiner Kolsch.
Haskell and side-effects.
Unix programming w/pipes and The End Times.

Enjoy!

Waiting for an iPhone

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KirinDave was clever enough to think to video-in the above as he was waiting in line. At the moment, he's about an hour away from getting it. We try to start a rumour about armored cars (false!), talk about Smoothies, see the line in Daly City, and the talk about KirinDave?s work, PowerSet, going out of stealth mode last night.

Episode 111 - Back on the Back Porch, XBox Mods, XBox Spam, Fins and Thanksgiving, and Grills

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In this episode, Charles and I convene on the back porch in a rare face-to-face. We chat of XBox spam, XBox spam, Thanksgiving, and my new grill. There's some programming talk in there too.