DevNews #68 – Clouds and Androids abound, reactive ones!

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Artificial intelligence is evolving at an unprecedented pace—what does that mean for the future of technology, venture capital, business, and even our understanding of ourselves? Award-winning journalist and writer Anil Ananthaswamy joins us for our latest episode to discuss his latest book Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI . Anil helps us explore the journey and many breakthroughs that have propelled machine learning from simple perceptrons to the sophisticated algorithms shaping today’s AI revolution, powering GPT and other models. The discussion aims to demystify some of the underlying mathematical concepts that power modern machine learning, to help everyone grasp this technology impacting our lives–even if your last math class was in high school. Anil walks us through the power of scaling laws, the shift from training to inference optimization, and the debate among AI’s pioneers about the road to AGI—should we be concerned, or are we still missing key pieces of the puzzle? The conversation also delves into AI’s philosophical implications—could understanding how machines learn help us better understand ourselves? And what challenges remain before AI systems can truly operate with agency? If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform. Sign up for our newsletter at techsurgepodcast.com for exclusive insights and updates on upcoming TechSurge Live Summits. Links: Read Why Machines Learn, Anil’s latest book on the math behind AI https://www.amazon.com/Why-Machines-Learn-Elegant-Behind/dp/0593185749 Learn more about Anil Ananthaswamy’s work and writing https://anilananthaswamy.com/ Watch Anil Ananthaswamy’s TED Talk on AI and intelligence https://www.ted.com/speakers/anil_ananthaswamy Discover the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship that shaped Anil’s AI research https://ksj.mit.edu/ Understand the Perceptron, the foundation of neural networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron Read about the Perceptron Convergence Theorem and its significance https://www.nature.com/articles/323533a0…

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Startups fail. Say goodbye to Everpix
Functional Reactive Programming with Bacon.js – this article refers to the Bacon.JS project. Also, if you're a Java expert check out RxJava
The skills of academia are attractive to business in data science – hence the newest brain drain
Charioteer Rich Freedman @greybeardedgeek tip for dealing with designers and PS layers for icons, etc.. – see his github project that builds upon an iOS Photoshop JS
Rich scored another one – Bootstrap without all of the technical debt using SCSS
Bootstrap 3: 50% faster Thanks to @treehouse
Amazon Kinesis: Process streams of data in real time
Amazon RDS: Postgres in the cloud!
AndevCon2013 show recap – Ken (will update with blog post recap once I have one)
KitKat features listed – nice enhancements for power management, SMS message subscriptions, low power, more
Every Android developer wants a HP 21 inch slate desktop
Inception in the browser: PeerServer: A Server in a Browser with WebRTC – The API is here
Build a Spreadsheet in 20 minutes with Angular.js
Build a spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of Javascript
Dart 1.0 released
Spring releases a reactive framework as part of Spring.io
“This Just In" – Do Code Reviews. A report from the latest Philly.rb meeting

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Show Notes

Semi-regular disclaimer – the opinions posted by our podcast hosts do not reflect official positions of Chariot Solutions and should not be intended as such. Enjoy your podcast!

Startups fail. Say goodbye to Everpix
Functional Reactive Programming with Bacon.js – this article refers to the Bacon.JS project. Also, if you're a Java expert check out RxJava
The skills of academia are attractive to business in data science – hence the newest brain drain
Charioteer Rich Freedman @greybeardedgeek tip for dealing with designers and PS layers for icons, etc.. – see his github project that builds upon an iOS Photoshop JS
Rich scored another one – Bootstrap without all of the technical debt using SCSS
Bootstrap 3: 50% faster Thanks to @treehouse
Amazon Kinesis: Process streams of data in real time
Amazon RDS: Postgres in the cloud!
AndevCon2013 show recap – Ken (will update with blog post recap once I have one)
KitKat features listed – nice enhancements for power management, SMS message subscriptions, low power, more
Every Android developer wants a HP 21 inch slate desktop
Inception in the browser: PeerServer: A Server in a Browser with WebRTC – The API is here
Build a Spreadsheet in 20 minutes with Angular.js
Build a spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of Javascript
Dart 1.0 released
Spring releases a reactive framework as part of Spring.io
“This Just In" – Do Code Reviews. A report from the latest Philly.rb meeting

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Show Notes Microsoft opens all of your chakras by open-sourcing the core of MS Edge Javascript renderer, Chakra. Tin foil hat portion of our show: Remote Code execution on Trend Micro. This is currently plugged, but still interesting. We also learn that when Jeff visits the dark corners of the internet… for recipes… he always does safely it on a VM. Pour out a 40 for all your dead web apps. IE 8, 9, 10 are now officially EOL , and sing with a choir invisible. Rejoice! Despite being slightly behind in the Android game , Google now uses OpenJDK on Android . We shout out a happy birthday to our single fan. Happy birthday, JC from AC… Advertisements: Registration is now open for ETE 2016 . Early bird tickets are available until they’re not… So save some money and register now! Also, stay tuned for ETE speaker TechCast podcasts – we’ll be speaking to folks like Ari Lerner , Steve Klabnik , Brent Vatne , and more. You can listen to them as they appear on our Chariot TechCast page. Content: New blog articles on Angular 2 from Ken Rimple, Java 8 topics from John Shepard, and more on the Chariot Blog. This DevNews was hosted by Ken Rimple ( @krimple ) and produced by Becca Refford ( @bexrefford ). We welcome all feedback, questions, comments, and content suggestions – just tweet us mentioning @techcast or emailing techcastfeedback@chariotsolutions.com . The post DevNews #103 – Hello Chakra, Sayonara IE appeared first on Chariot Solutions .…

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DevNews #102 – TACO, terrible testing, and party comets 24:22

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Today I’m joined by Chariot consultants Sujan Kapadia ( @SlurpeeOperator ) and Eric Snyder to recap what we deemed to be this week’s exciting tech news. Upcoming Events Chariot is sponsoring Clojure Conj , to be held on Nov 16-18 at the Sheraton Dock Street in Philadelphia. We are also co-sponsoring the HazelCast User Group Meetup on November 19th. Join us in our webinar, Tools for Building the Real-Time Organization , on December 8th. Show Notes JavaOne is happening in SF as we speak, and hopefully we’ll have a recap on the Chariot Blog from some of our colleagues who are in attendance. For now, podcasters thoughts are: Jigsaw looks overly complex, but Java 9 REPL sounds exciting. The ultimate spiky-haired boss build key: In light of the recent Volkswagen TDI Diesel cheating scandal, somebody put together this GitHub repo called Volkswagen for CI testing environments . It detects when your tests are being run on a CI server, and makes them pass. Jiawei Li explains his move from Coffeescript to TypeScript – for greater clarity of code. SPACE PARTY: Researchers find Comet Lovejoy spewing ethyl alcohol into space – as much as 500 bottles of wine per second at its peak activity. Cups up! “We’re about to leave a whole chunk of the internet in the past.” Sites move to SHA2 encryption , millions face HTTPS lock-out. A new addition to the open-source Hadoop ecosystem, KUDU , is announced. We figure out what, exactly, a Kudu is. SparkSummit is happening ( and all slides are already available in PDF format. Godspeed. ) Coolest talk to Sujan? Spark being used at NASA’s JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) for climate modeling. We all know Spark is popular right now, and for good reason – NASA’s use only validates it further. Hell’s thermostat seems to be broken – Microsoft releases TACO , the Tools for Apache Cordova. From the repo: “For developers new to Cordova, TACO makes it crazy-easy to setup your dev environment so you can begin coding immediately. The install-reqs utility downloads, installs and configures all the build tools you need for each mobile platform.” The post DevNews #102 – TACO, terrible testing, and party comets appeared first on Chariot Solutions .…

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DevNews #101 – Return of the tin foil hat brigade 25:29

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It’s the long-awaited return of DevNews! Today, Jeff Labonski and I talk all things tech in our first ever live-streaming YouTube show. Upcoming Events November 10th – Don Coleman’s Bluetooth Low Energy workshop. Walk away with your own Arduino hardware. Chariot is sponsoring Clojure Conj , to be held on Nov 16-18 at the Sheraton Dock Street in Philadelphia. Show Notes [Tin foil hat brigade] Malvertising is on the rise – injections of Nasty Stuff Indeed are coming across the major players (Google, Yahoo). Mainly possible via SSL, real time bidding, and a general reluctance to do anything with their main revenue model. Realtor.com and Forbes.com compromised recently. The malware suites (Neutrino and Angler) have approximately a 40% success rate, and are constantly upgraded to include 0-day exploits. Airbus crash was a configuration control blunder. Another example of change control actually murdering people. See also: Therac-25. Learning from failures, especially fatal errors, is worthwhile. (This is also why I don’t work on flight control systems & medical devices). From Reuters: “Investigations are at an early stage but the key scenario being examined is that the data — known as “torque calibration parameters” — was accidentally wiped on three engines as the engine software was being installed at Airbus facilities.” Thought provoking academia: Dr. Michael Scott did a neat writeup on the current state of Transactional Memory – now present in Intel Haswell and Power 8 chips, coming soon(ish) to a language construct near you. Provides software developers the ability to specify operations as atomic without specifying how. Think a RDBMS’s optimistic locking and concurrency engine, but in hardware near memory access and cache lines. Already present in some Haskell and C++ extensions. (ACM SIGACT June 2015 vol 46 No. 2) I’ve been requested by my only fan to mention “shiny and chrome” at least once. The post DevNews #101 – Return of the tin foil hat brigade appeared first on Chariot Solutions .…

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DevNews #100 – Strap on your tin foil hats, it’s our 100th show! 23:06

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Upcoming Philly Area Events June 20 – Old City, Philadelphia – Ken Rimple @ LibertyJS doing an AngularJS for beginners workshop in the AM June 18 – Agile Philly – Strafford, PA – Exploratory Testing for Mobile Devices June 24 – Agile Philly – Center City, Philadelphia – Agile Transitions June 18 – CocoaHeads – Center City, Philadelphia – Monthly Meeting June 20 – CocoaHeads – King of Prussia, PA – Side-Project Saturday (Suburb Edition) June 27 – Sponsored by Chariot – CocoaHeads – Center City, Philadelphia – Side Project Saturday (Downtown Edition) June 16 – Code For Philly – Old City, Philadelphia – Workshop #137 June 24 – Code For Philly – West Philadelphia – Workshop #138 June 30 – Code For Philly – Old City – Workshop #139 June 15 – GeoPhilly – Old City, Philadelphia – Local Artists Discuss Maps as Inspiration June 18 – Philly IoT Professionals – West Philadelphia – Internet of Things Showcase June 24 – Philly JUG (Java User Group) – Strafford, PA – WSO2 Identity Server and Contributing back to an Open Source Project June 17 – Sponsored by Chariot – Philly New Technology – Center City, Philadelphia – Sports & Tech, a Prelude June 16 – Philly PUG (Python User Group) – West Philadelphia – June Project Night June 15 – Philly PLUG (Linux User Group) – Malvern, PA – X2Go June 30 – Software As a Craft – Center City, Philadelphia – Monthly Meetup June 23 – Valley Forge Meetup – King of Prussia, PA – [Distributed Systems] Paxos – Continuing the Discussion News Lisp for internet of things? Maaaybe Uh oh, more SSL vulnerabiliities Typesafe name changing, open source style Wah wah wah, Java EE -vs- Spring, Fiz Buz your way to walking trees at night and crossing the towers of Hanoi, batman Facebook open-sourced Infer , their static analysis tool for Android/iOS. Nice. Thought-Provoking Error of the Week Oracle Client 12c for Windows 64 bit silently fails to execute if your free hard drive space exceeds 2TB. Error text: “The number of files bootstrapped for the jre is 0”. The only solution is to shrink the drive or download more movies. No link found. Journal article of the Week Finding Correlations in Subquadratic Time, G. Valiant @ Stanford. Tin Foil Hat Department Duqu 2.0 is out – enjoy your new APT that owned MacAfee Everyone with any clearance or who has applied for one has their docs stolen. All of the 127-page “Form 186s” have been taken, probably by China Cryptowall is now attacking via resumes – don’t open a .SRC if you’re looking for engineers Correction from DevNews #99: Windows Server 2003 EOL shortly, not immediately. July 14th. The post DevNews #100 – Strap on your tin foil hats, it’s our 100th show! appeared first on Chariot Solutions .…

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DevNews #99 – Docker vulnerabilities, saying hello to Java 9 and farewell to Windows server 2003 21:29

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Today we welcome Jeff Labonski on the show to discuss this week’s developer news. User group announcements: Philly PostgreSQL Meetup on June 4th – Replication Slots: The Game Changer I will be Speaking at the Scotch Plains Java User Group (of the ACGNJ) – Tuesday June 9th, 7:30PM – about ES6 now Wednesday June 17 – Philly New Tech meetup Saturday June 20th LibertyJS Conference – Impact Hub Philadelphia Tuesday June 23 – Don Coleman will be running a Bluetooth Low Energy workshop along with Alasdair Allen and Sandeep Mistry at Solid. Details can be found here Show links And now let me introduce you to nodejs + iojs => the node foundation – The two will become one again Two months to go for Server 2003 EOL Here is the list of the top 5 new features in Java 9 Analyzing Docker – over 30% of images have vulnerabilities Let’s concede defeat – Mobile Web cannot compete with Native Can you write a LISP Interpreter in < 200 lines of code? NO? She can! A committee horror – Kubuntu projectx lead asked to step down The post DevNews #99 – Docker vulnerabilities, saying hello to Java 9 and farewell to Windows server 2003 appeared first on Chariot Solutions .…

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DevNews #98 – The scoop: Selerity scoops Twitter earnings, prankster scoops Fiorina’s domain name 25:04

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DevNews is nearing its 100th episode! We may or may not have something up our sleeves to celebrate our ripe old age… but until then, listen as Joel and I discuss: Oops, Carly Fiorina – someone registered your domain name before you did – criticism by domain name Angular 2.0 getting started guides now available for ES5, Dart, Typescript How Selerity scooped Twitter earnings Microsoft Visual Studio Code – lightweight code editor + debugging, supports windows, linux, mac Google Prediction API revisited The post DevNews #98 – The scoop: Selerity scoops Twitter earnings, prankster scoops Fiorina’s domain name appeared first on Chariot Solutions .…

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DevNews #97 – Day 1 of Philly ETE 2015 20:24

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Annnnnnd ETE begins! Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise is Chariot’s annual tech conference for developers, by developers. To kick off our coverage, I sat down with two of our consultants, Michael Pigg and Sujan Kapadia, to discuss our day, talk about talks, and geek out about all the cool new toys we can’t wait to play with. We discuss… Some of our favorite talks of the day Breaking Keyboard Cat, ECMAscript 6, and where JavaScript is heading TC39 – biological virus? Spaceship? Core.async , Ember 2.0, and why we can’t wait to play with Glimmer And of course, you can view the talk presentations and screencasts on our site. The post DevNews #97 – Day 1 of Philly ETE 2015 appeared first on Chariot Solutions .…

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DevNews #96 – ng-conf 2015 – day 1 recap – Angular 2, 1.4 and more 45:06

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Salt Lake City, Utah, is a beautiful place to have a conference. The organizers must realize that, as they planned ski trips and other events all around the show. That said, I’ve been locked up in my hotel room for the most part digesting what I’ve learned in Day 1. There is a live stream of the conference, and the YouTube videos are coming quickly, but I figured I’d devote two quick DevNews episodes to a first-person recap.I will be blogging for months based on the material I’ve picked up here. Here are a few highlights of the conference, day 1. Topics and linked videos Angular Keynote with Igor Minar and Brad Green The New Router with Brian Ford Angular 1.4 Update – State of 1 x – by Pawel Kozlowski & Lucas Galfaso Benchpress – see Fast from the Start – by Jeff Cross Prototyping with Angular? YES – Kelly Knight and Dirk Ginader AtScript -> TypeScript 1.5 features, retiring AtScript – TypeScript and ES6 – Dan Wahlin & Andrew Connell Angular 1.4 and 2.0 will integrate with new APIs that are cross compatible (new router being the initial one) If you want to laugh yourself to death (and you know enough Angular to do so) watch the Angular Wat talk. Links New site for Angular 2.0 – angular.io Angular New Router Main resource page – code at github.com/angular/router TypeScript main web site – AtScript will be built in to 1.5 of TypeScript All of ng-conf 2015 will be available as a YouTube playlist – in fact, right now! Other specific ng-conf day 1 videos Creating Container Components with Web Components and Angular – Kara Erickson & Rachael L. Moore ngTasty – Leonardo Zizzamia Community Building How To Make More Angular Devs Now – Judy Tuan Accessibility Design Made Easy – Julie Ralph Why Realtime Matters – James Tamplin ngModelOptions in 5 minutes – Kent C. Dodds How to Teach Angular to your Kids – Katya Eames Run Digest Cycle in Web Worker – Dr. Gleb Bahmutov, PhD Sasqwatch is Real – William Scott Moss Ionic and Angular Superpowers for Mobile App Development – Adam Bradley Angular Behind The Scenes – Rodric Haddad The post DevNews #96 – ng-conf 2015 – day 1 recap – Angular 2, 1.4 and more appeared first on Chariot Solutions .…

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DevNews #95 – We talk about new AWS services, Angular JS 2.0 surfaces, and the Apple Car is a thing? 21:21

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In this episode, Ken and Joel talk about Waitr and Protractor, two Jasmine WebDriver APIs, Angular 2.0 surfaces, we talk about Apple’s self-driving car, and discuss a bunch of new Amazon AWS features including Cloud Trail for Route53 and health checks. Stay to the end for our silly Apple Car jokes. Watir – smoke testing your app with Ruby and WebDriver Oh yeah, Joel? Well, we Angular people have Protactor – heh heh heh… Angular 2.0 – first video of the “alpha of 2.x” – Brad Green AWS updates – Key Management Service , CloudTrail for Route53 Apple’s building an electric car The post DevNews #95 – We talk about new AWS services, Angular JS 2.0 surfaces, and the Apple Car is a thing? appeared first on Chariot Solutions .…

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DevNews #94 – The triumphant return (again) – Windows all over the place, Chrome 41 beta, Raspberry Pi and more 36:23

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We’re sponsored by Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise – our 10th year! We’ve got an amazing set of speakers and topics, as usual, and so more than worth the early bird of $410 per seat for this fantastic two-day conference! Chromium 41 Beta available – New features rolling out from ECMAScript 6 Microsoft Windows 10 event announcements – we didn’t talk about Cortana… Also a nice podcast – Surface Geeks – giant TVs, augmented reality, windows everywhere, oh my! We also mention the excellent Windows Weekly podcast on the Windows 10 announcement . Raspberry Pi 2 – they’re even allowing you to develop on Windows 10 for free! A quick note on the NE Scala Symposium – we talk a bit about Apache Spark – a Scala-based Big Data API and the new Scala Puzzlers book. Angular updates – 1.3 -> 1.4, and 2.0 is starting to bear fruit – also Apply Async and Eval Async – nice article on how evalAsync is a nice update that can go back to blocking sync calls after a timeout where needed. The post DevNews #94 – The triumphant return (again) – Windows all over the place, Chrome 41 beta, Raspberry Pi and more appeared first on Chariot Solutions .…

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DevNews #93 – Angular 2.0 news, Ember reaches 1.8.0, and Minecraft to learn programming? 26:38

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Gource — open source visualization tool, example Haydle visualization Ember 1.8.0 — the move to HTMLBars React.js: How does it fit in with everything else? GitHub Enterprise on AWS At AWS ReInvent this week – AWS Lambda – cloud computing functionally – oh and there’s support for Docker via containers Rob Eisenberg leaves Angular team Khan Acadamy adds a new Algorithm course with help from Dartmouth Long-term support for Angular 1.x – lead by Angular contributor Peter Bacon Darwin – great news indeed! Learn Java with Minecraft The post DevNews #93 – Angular 2.0 news, Ember reaches 1.8.0, and Minecraft to learn programming? appeared first on Chariot Solutions .…

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DevNews #91 – What we know about Angular 2.0 (so far) 36:41

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If you’ve been working with Angular a lot recently, you may have received word about a set of potentially breaking changes in the next major version, 2.0. In this podcast, Ken Rimple, Don Coleman and Joel Confino discuss Angular 2.0, the reason for these changes, and some of the potential impact. We also have an in-depth article on our blog that helps put the release into perspective and links to a lot of other source material. Enjoy. The post DevNews #91 – What we know about Angular 2.0 (so far) appeared first on Chariot Solutions .…

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Finally, we might be seeing the end of stupid software patents The potential downside of the internet of things? As if on cue, ShellShock is a bash vulnerability. A big one Here’s some fun for discussion – Why you should not implement layered architecture – ducking before the clots of dirt fly… We had to get ourselves into the trough of disillusionment, didn’t we, ThoughtWorks? Who is Watching the Watchmen? Severe Vunerabilites Found in Several Online Password Managers Apple patents new intrusion detection concept – when the usage patterns aren’t ones they recognize And we thought you were our savior – Microsoft purchases Minecraft for 2 Billion (evil finger to cheek) dollars The post DevNews #90 – The semi-triumphant return with ShellShock, Layers or No, AngularJS rethinks, more appeared first on Chariot Solutions .…

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