We chat with Rob Ashton, freelance developer, speaker and recent discoverer of how to learn things properly, live on stage during Øredev 2014. Topics include learning, the plateaus of learning and how to actually do things right to keep evolving and learning. The problems of frameworks wanting to make X easy. Perhaps we should learn about programming in general instead of learning the next big framework in the hope that it will solve our problems without us needing to understand them?

This recording exists as good as it is thanks to Stephen Chin of nighthacking.com for providing and masterfully wrangling all the necessary technology.

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Links

• Rob Ahston
• Rob’s keynote from At the frontend
• Haskell
• Clojure
• Rob’s good use of the guitar
• Strumming
• Deliberate learning
• Refactoring to to functional - talk at Øredev by Hadi Hariri
• Datagrid
• Winforms
• ATS
• Erlang
• Prolog
• Recursion
• Fold
• Haskell generator functions
• Polymorphism
• gen_server
• MUD
• You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike
• Latency
• Macros in MUDs
• Wizards in MUDs
• Angular
• Angular 2.0 talk
• Haskell is lazy
• Web forms
• npm - the Node package manager
• React
• Om
• Clojurescript
• REPL
• Flux - Facebook’s architechture style used by them with React
• Ember
• Bash
• AWK
• SED
• Purescript
• Cloud Haskell
• Docker

Titles

• I haven’t got an elevator pitch for myself at the moment
• I’ve become a real person living in the real world
• It has changed the way I approach learning
• I just build software every single day
• Tangible and listenable
• A transformative moment
• Fingerpicking and scales
• Competent throwing things together
• I wouldn’t say my day job betters me
• Why am I learning this crappy pointer stuff
• Deliberate learning
• Easy by virtue of travelling the hard way
• My day job is mostly Erlang with a hint of C
• Erlang is acutally incredibly boring
• Lisp with horrible syntax
• Things that mutate in the background
• The world becomes a happy place
• I’ve started writing a MUD in Haskell
• And then you die in the next scene
• A problem that noone has anymore
• It’s good for you imagination
• Factory providers and god knows what else
• Hate’s a very strong word
• The framework ain’t gonna help you
• Shortcutting problems
• I don’t do prescriptive
• Preferable to gouge my eyes out with a spoon
• That “wonderful” is sarcastic
• It was an abomination
• If there is such a thing as good C
• Transcoding and cloud nonsense
• That’s because you skipped the learning step
• Copying and pasting things off of the internet
• Shuffling piles of binary around the place

We chat with James Mickens, researcher and most likely funniest man at Microsoft, live on stage during Øredev 2014. Topics include C development, the purity of incrementation, death by specifications, scandinavian death metal and its font choices and also British football, distributed systems and the problems you encounter dealing with them. The downsides of being stuck alone in a set of universes is that Stack overflow can’t help you. And how should we fix the Javascript and web browser technology world?

Comments on the internet? No.

This recording exists as good as it is thanks to Stephen Chin of nighthacking.com for providing and masterfully wrangling all the necessary technology.

Comments, thoughts or suggestions? Discuss this episode at Techworld!

Links

• Freedom fries
• Microsoft research
• Distributed systems
• James’ talk at Øredev 2014
• Handling the zombie apocalypse - James’ article “The night watch”
• James’ talk at Monitorama 2014
• Satya Nadella - CEO of Microsoft
• Nuclear proliferation
• Segfault
• Logical shift
• Logical AND
• Malmö
• Logical OR
• W3C - World wide web consortium
• Web components
• Web components templates
• Gorgoroth
• Fibonacci
• Factorial
• Fizz buzz
• Sepultura
• King diamond
• British steel
• Notepad
• Web workers
• Crom - James’ system for speculative Javascript execution
• Speculative execution
• Total recall
• Firebug
• Galactus
• Odin
• The Shellshock bug
• Turtles all the way down
• Jquery
• Angular
• XHR
• MDN - Mozilla developer network, great source of Javascript and browser API documentation
• Git
• The grandfather paradox
• Polyfill
• asm.js
• NoSQL
• Mongodb
• Bare metal
• Just in time compiler
• Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• let-satement
• Zeus
• Quirksmode.org
• Yo
• Leviticus
• Registry
• ASCII art
• About:config
• Max TCP connections
• Shockwave
• Singularity
• DVR - Digital video recorder
• Futures
• Bendgate
• Captain America’s shield
• Georgia
• Tomfoolery
• 4chan
• Huge sloths

Titles

• This is just Hollywood stuff
• We’ll edit this out with CGI
• What happens on the set
• #freedom #america
• What prevents me from being a happy person in life
• It cheapens the art
• Homelessness is bad too
• At least you have hope
• Do you like iteration?
• I only increment variables
• Only go forward
• Black Gandalf
• Not just fair or balanced
• Otto von Hyphen
• We laugh to stop from crying
• Darkness is delightful
• The great thing about scandinavian death metal
• What would Beelzebub do?
• That TV is in the cloud now
• Like jazz musicians
• Like trying to write Inception 2
• The left hand of satan
• Multiple speculative universes
• What universe am I in?
• A low-rent Stephen Hawking
• Firebug had no notion of my separate universes
• The Odin object
• In the regular development world
• Chicanery all the way down
• Function calls are not our strong point
• Not nothing will happen
• XHR:s over passenger pidgeon
• LOL I took a hard dependency on it
• It’s very difficult to make a joke in this space
• We don’t even issue writes
• devnulldb
• But we have hoverboards
• Tread carefully on the polyfills
• Close the tab and reboot the machine
• This is such a character builder
• Mumblefoo.js
• Fast Javascript, and cancer
• No-lock cancer
• Asynchronous cancer
• That kitten on a tradmill is not going to watch itself
• Another special type of disaster
• Folk wisdom on the web
• 127i content
• Emu futures
• If I had a website, I’d run it like Singapore
• Every computer should come with an old person
• This whole alternate semantic reality

Fredrik snackar med Filip Ekberg om .NET och får sina vyer kraftfulld vidgade kring utveckling på och med Microsofts plattformar. Vad har hänt på sistone, var ska man börja och vem ska man följa på Twitter för att skaffa sig lite koll? Är du medveten om exakt hur öppen mycket av källkoden i kärnan av .NET faktiskt är? Eller om att du kan kompilera appar för Windows, Windows phone, OS X, iOS och Android från en enda kodbas? Inklusive användargränssnitt?

Vi snackar också lite om vad andra kan ta efter i hur Microsoft stödjer sina utvecklare, bakåtkompatibilitet och hur ens tålamod inte verkar öka med tiden.

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Länkar

• Filip Ekberg
• Donald Rumsfeld-skalan
• The poetry of Donald Rumsfeld - avsnitt 53 av appleutvecklarprogrammet Edge cases
• Filips bok - C# smorgasboard
• MVP - Most valuable professional - utmärkelse Microsoft ger till framstående personer i utvecklargemenskapen
• Microsofts omorganisation
• One Microsoft
• Visual studio numera gratis för fem användare
• Visual studio community
• ASP.net kan köras på Linux och OS X
• Den öppna delen av .net-plattformen
• Intellisense - Visual studios kodkompletteringssystem
• Omnisharp - verktyg för .NET-utveckling i Sublime, Vim, Emacs, Atom med flera
• Bash
• Kompilatoromskrivningen av C# och VB.net
• Managed code
• Roslyn - .NET-kompilatorplattformen
• Utvecklingen av C#
• Funktionella aspekter av C#
• Microsoft på Github
• Codeplex
• Steve Ballmer
• Developers, developers, developers
• Folk som diskuterar problemen med Apples appbutiker och otydligariktlinjer
• Genomsnittliga tider mellan uppladdning och godkännande i Apples appbutiker
• Xamarin
• Azure mobile services
• AD - Active directory, katalogtjänst från Microsoft
• Node.js
• Web API
• Visual studio express
• C# 6
• Visual studio 2015
• Nullpointer exception/null reference exception
• ??-operatorn hanterar null i anropskedjor
• Nyheter i C# 5
• Windows XP har fortfarande lite stöd
• Visual basic 6
• ASP.NET-teamets standups på Youtube
• ASP.NET 5
• .NET core
• Parallel LINQ
• Nuget - pakethanteringssystem för Microsofts utvecklingsmiljö
• Gentoo - linuxdistribution
• Microsofts videos online och utbildningsmaterial
• MSDN - Microsoft developer network, Microsofts startplats för utvecklarinformation
• Pluralsight
• ASP.NET - sajten med utbildningsmaterial
• Project Euler
• VB.NET
• Portable class library - möjliggör återanvändning av kod mellan projekt för olika .NET-plattformar
• Mono
• Win32-API:et
• Xamarins studio - IDE för Mac
• Storyboards kan användas för att beskriva gränssnitt på Apples plattformar
• Nib-filer - kan också användas för att beskriva gränssnitt på Apples plattformar
• XAML - Extensible application markup language, XML-likt språk från Microsoft för att beskriva gränssnitt
• Scott Hanselman - blogg och Twitter
• Hanselminutes - Scott Hanselmans podcast
• Scott Guthrie - blogg och Twitter
• @fekberg - Filip på Twitter

Titlar

• Det är rätt mycket kod
• Det är rätt mycket legacykod
• Ibland vill man bara slänga ihop ett bash-script
• En helt ny värld
• En skalbar backend
• När gamla buggar faktiskt slängs bort eller slutar stödjas
• De gör allt på Github
• I den riktiga världen
• Det används väl bara i den riktiga världen
• En riktigt bra runtime för alla plattformar

We chat with Stefan Karpinski, creator of the Julia programming language, live on stage during Øredev 2014. Topics include defiding to build a new language, the interesting unsolved problems of numerical computing, concurrency solutions, developing with and on LLVM, handling deprecation nicely, things (possibly) in the future for Julia and why Swift is exciting for Julia and other languages.

This recording exists as good as it is thanks to Stephen Chin of nighthacking.com for providing and masterfully wrangling all the necessary technology.

There is a minute and a half of worse audio quality just after the nine minute mark, where microphone problems forced us to fill in with audio from our backup microphone.

Comments, thoughts or suggestions? Discuss this episode at Techworld!

Links

• Stefan Karpinski
• Julia programming language
• Scientific computing
• Viral Shah
• Jeff Bezanson
• MATLAB
• R programming language
• Python
• C extension
• Goldilocks
• Goldilocks principle
• Dylan
• Garbage collection
• Unboxed data
• Complex number
• Julia Webstack
• Numerical computing
• Concurrency
• Distributed computing
• Threading
• Julia on Github
• Transactional memory
• Goroutine
• Coroutine
• Channel
• I/O
• LLVM
• IFDEF
• JIT - just-in-time (compilation, in this case)
• Shared library
• libclang - C Interface to Clang
• Template instantiation
• Quake2.jl
• Go
• Hacker school
• Matrix multiplication
• Vectorization
• Generational incremental garbage collection
• SNOBOL
• SPITBOL
• Icon
• Perl 4
• C99 standard
• Immutable composite types
• Multiple dispatch
• Monkey patch
• radd-trick in Python
• Common Lisp
• CLOS - Common Lisp object system
• Polymorphism
• Self
• BLAS - Basic linear algebra subroutines
• Fast fourier transform
• Gofix
• Tracing
• Static compilation
• MIT - Massachusetts institute of technology
• Courses taught using Julia
• Function pointer
• Scipy
• Steven Johnson
• FFTW
• Pycall package for Julia
• Call stack
• GDB
• LLDB
• ABI - application binary interface
• Clang
• Rust programming language
• Swift
• Chris Lattner - creator of LLVM and Swift
• WebKit FTL JIT - compiles Javascript using LLVM
• Shadow stack
• ‎Dynamic stack frame deoptimization
• MATLAB matrix concatenation syntax

Titles

• Some of the interesting tradeoffs
• Bridge that gap between high-level and low-level
• A huge pointer graph of some kind
• It’s good to have a focus, initially
• The point where we’re pushing things
• The classic tradition of a ton of IFDEFs
• This brings us back to garbage collection
• Specializing for numerical work
• Where numbers don’t have to be special anymore
• (The question is:) How useful is that generalization?
• You don’t necessarily know what code you’re going to need in advance
• Trading off memory for performance
• Really doing the deprecation process
• A situation where normally you’d JIT something
• You might end up in a slow case
• You can always just fall back on an interpreter
• A partially compiled interpreter
• Nobody needs to know that it was written in Julia
• A really capable C library
• As easy as walking a linked pointer list
• I’m really glad someone else implemented it