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Episode 1 is out!  In this episode we interview Rails developer Casey Dreier.  Casey is a lead Ruby on Rails developer and evangelist at SingleBrook Technology, Inc. in Ithaca, NY.

We discuss Ruby, Rails, Casey's recent Rails bug fixes, the James Webb Space Telescope, and our thoughts on fostering the Ithaca developer community.

We've upgraded to some new-fangled audio equipment, so look forward to improved audio quality (and maybe production skills to match in the future).

Please send feedback, suggestions, and angry screeds to podcast@incandescentsoftware.com.

- Aaron

Links:

• Ruby Rogues podcast
• Ruby blocks, procs, and lambdas
• James Webb Space Telescope funding in the air
• "Ithaca Web People" Google group.  If you are in Ithaca and you do (web) development, and you are a person, sign up and check out our meetups and hackfests!

Our new audio setup, thanks to Linux Outlaws for details on their production process 

• Behringer B1 condenser mic
• Behringer MIC100 mic pre-amp
• Behringer UCA202 audio interface
• MacBook built in microphone uber alles

And thanks to people giving us weird looks as we blithely tested our equipment. <3

Podcast info

• Theme song by Brad Sucks, Flouride (demo).
• RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/incandescentsoftware/IthacaTechPodcast

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This is something we've wanted to do for a while - start an Ithaca-based tech podcast.  Michal and I are always coming across exciting new projects and technologies and we'd like to create a venue for sharing those discoveries and discussions with others, and, conversely, learning from others in the area.

We are aiming for a local focus - we want to highlight local business, events, music, etc.  To that end we are looking for:

• web and other software developers in the area that want to talk about what they are working on
• local music we can showcase or use as bumpers
• topic and segment ideas, send them in!
• feedback and corrections

If you have suggestions for podcast topics or would like to get involved with the podcast, let us know at podcast@incandescentsoftware.com (or just email us directly :).

Note: in the spirit of DIY, we are learning as we go. :) This first episode is pretty rough since we wanted to get our first show out there ASAP, so please excuse the audio quality!

- Aaron

Episode 0 - "The Rough In" Thurs. 6/16/11 Show notes

Today Michal discusses JavaScript frameworks and Aaron explains the Fork/Join pattern.

JavaScript frameworks discussed:

• http://microjs.com/
• http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/
• http://angularjs.org/
• http://knockoutjs.com/
• http://www.sproutcore.com/
• http://awardwinningfjords.com/2011/05/09/javascript-microframeworks-and-the-future.html

Fork/Join links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork-join_queue
• http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/papers/fj.pdf
• http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/forkjoin.html
• http://www.coopsoft.com/ar/CalamityArticle.html

Local links

• http://www.topographymarketing.com/ (thanks for letting us use your space guys!)

Podcast info

• Theme song by Brad Sucks, Flouride (demo).
• RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/incandescentsoftware/IthacaTechPodcast