#17 The Problem with Gradle; Java 11; SemVer Isn't
Bruce and James have struggled with Gradle for years and Bruce this week blogged about some of his gripes: The Problem with Gradle. This prompted a lengthy response from Cédric Champeau. James has mos...
7 Tammi 20211h 8min
#16 Kotlin for Scala Devs. Reflection is the Devil. Meta-Programming.
James, as a Scala "True Believer," talks about his experiences with Kotlin and how they compare to Scala. Then he switches gears to rant about runtime reflection which leads to a deeper conversation a...
19 Joulu 20201h 7min
#15 Atomic Kotlin Done! Cloud Events. TestContainers / Serverless Cassandra. Scala ZIO CLI.
Bruce shares exciting news about completing the Atomic Kotlin book. The rest is a mishmash of topics related to newsworthy announcements including Spring Boot Cloud Event support, Serverless + TestCon...
14 Joulu 20201h 6min
#14 Poly-Polymorphism
Most developers have been exposed to inheritance based polymorphism but there are other ways to deal with overlapping functionality. In this episode we talk about ad-hoc polymorphism, parametric polym...
4 Joulu 20201h 1min
#12 The Rise of Python & (Unrelated) Making Illegal States Unrepresentable
Python usage surpasses Java to second place on the Tiobe Index (behind C). Is developer productivity the primary driver? We then switch gears to talk about the concept of "Making Illegal States Unrepr...
6 Marras 202035min
#11 Small talk about Smalltalk
Our friend Joey Gibson joins us to talk about Smalltalk, the well known grandfather of Object Oriented Programming. James is assigned some homework to get a Smalltalk web app running on Google Cloud ...
30 Loka 20201h 6min
#10 Gazing Into the Programming Crystal Ball and Can Organizations Adopt Inner Source?
We start off discussing what the future of programming might be... Can developers stop thinking about resource limitations? Can we make the "right path" easy? Then we dive into Inner Source and the ...
20 Loka 20201h 6min
#9 Buildpacks, Containers, Kubernetes, Happy Path Programming, Rust, and gRPC
We start off talking about Cloud Native Buildpacks and Containers which of-course leads to James trying to explain Kubernetes. Then we dive into what "Happy Path Programming" means and how, while the...
16 Loka 20201h 7min
