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99 Practical Bottles of OOP (Changelog Interviews #225) Oct 28, 2016

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Sandi Metz joined the show to talk about her beginnings on a mainframe, her 30+ years of programming experience, the ins and outs of OOP, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR), as well as her latest book 99 Bottles of OOP which she co-authored with Katrina Owen. We also covered a few listener submitted questions at the end.

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Show Notes:

Sandi’s first book — Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR)
99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz
Katrina Owen co-authored 99 Bottles with Sandi
Check out Understanding Computation — From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs by Tom Stuart — use the code PCBW to save 40% on a print book, or 50% on an ebook from O’Reilly
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software from the GangOfFour — Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides

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Go work groups and hardware projects (Go Time #22) Oct 27, 2016

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Jaana B. Dogan joined the show to talk about hardware geekery, on-boarding people into Go, the state of the feedback loop with the Go team, and her initiative to create Go Work Groups.

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Code School – On Track With Go — Learn what makes Go a great fit for concurrent programs and how you can use it to leverage the power of modern computer architectures in this new course for those getting started with Go.

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Jaana Dogan – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Cory LaNou – Twitter

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Interesting Go Projects and News

Free Software Friday

Cory - Shout out to the organizers of all local Go meetups. Specifically the organizers of Chicago Ultimate Golang (Varun) and Minneapolis Ultimate Golang (Eric, Jack, Nick, and Calvin) — each of whom put those cities back on track.
Erik - Kubernetes Special Interest Groups
Carlisia - Gophers Slack @gopher bot

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.NET Core and Microsoft's Shift to Open Source (Changelog Interviews #224) Oct 21, 2016

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Bertrand Le Roy joined the show to talk about all things .NET Core, their recent 1.0 release, where it’s going, the open source around it, and Microsoft’s shift towards more open source.

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Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Special thanks to Brett Morrison for helping us put this show together by introducing us to Bertrand 👏

The Changelog #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET Team
The Changelog #76: .NET, NuGet, and Open Source with Phil Haack
Changelog Weekly Issue #123
.NET Core on GitHub
.NET Core contributors graph
.NET Core docs
Is Microsoft the biggest OSS contributor? by Francesc Campoy
Check out Bertrand’s podcast On .NET — YouTube / Channel 9
Satya Nadella the CEO of Microsoft
Orchard CMS - a free, open source, community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform.
Scott Guthrie - lives in Seattle and builds products for Microsoft
dot.net - this is the home of .NET. Powerful Open Source Cross Platform Development.
Rich Lander announced .NET Core 1.0 on June 27, 2016
Go here to get started with .NET Core
Adam finds out there are many facets to Visual Studio — Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code which is open source
Mono - Cross platform, open source .NET framework
The Week in .NET - Bertrand’s weekly email for the .NET community
NuGet - the package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET
.NET Command Line Interface - the command line (CLI) tools used for building .NET Core apps and libraries through your development flow (compiling, NuGet package management, running, testing, …)
GitHub Issue #210 - Roslyn and C# on The Changelog ping repo.
Getting started with C#
Getting started with F#

People to follow in the .NET community

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Building a startup on Go (Go Time #21) Oct 20, 2016

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Blake Mizerany joined the show to talk about coming to Go from Ruby, Go’s growth and adoption over the past 7 years, adopting external dependencies, building a startup on Go, and coding as CEO.

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Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Blake had to take off early from the show, so at around 20 minutes in Brian, Carlisia and Erik discuss the latest projects on their Go radar.

Introducing Changelog 2.0
Blake Mizerany at dotGo 2014 — Three fallacies of dependencies
Cory LaNou’s Running a Go Meetup project
go-conv - Conversions without using reflection across most built-in Go types through type assertion switches.
gorram - It’s like go run for any go function
SummitDB - In-memory NoSQL database with ACID transactions, Raft consensus, and Redis API
From Matt Holt - JSON-to-Go converts JSON to Go struct
From Matt Holt - curl-to-Go instantly converts curl commands to Go code
Write React Components in Go
go-qemu - Go packages to interact with QEMU using the QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP)
myLG - an open source software utility which combines the functions of the different network probes in one network diagnostic tool.
stability-badges - SVG badges for Go projects
netstat - Find out who is listening on a specific port
lsof - List of open files or open ports
strace - It’s diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux

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Open Source and Business (Request For Commits #8) Oct 18, 2016

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David Cramer (CEO of Sentry) and Isaac Schlueter (CEO of npm) joined the show to talk about building businesses in open source, why they decided to turn their side projects into full-time work, how they experimented with finding steady sources of revenue, raising venture capital, working with investors and with community, and different company approaches to developing open source projects.

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Isaac Schlueter – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Sentry is a developer tool for detecting application errors, and npm is the default package manager for Node.js. Both started as open source projects, which David and Isaac have built into businesses.

Sentry
npm

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Kubernetes, Containers, Go (Go Time #20) Oct 13, 2016

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Kelsey Hightower joined the show to talk about the work he’s doing at Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud, Kubernetes cluster federation, Containers, and of course Go.

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Code School – New course for those getting started with Go. On Track With Go — learn what makes Go a great fit for concurrent programs and how you can use it to leverage the power of modern computer architectures.

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Kelsey Hightower – Twitter, GitHub
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Kubernetes 1.4 — Making it easy to run on Kubernetes anywhere
Kubernetes Certificate Manager — Manage Let’s Encrypt certificates for a Kubernetes cluster
Get started with Kubernetes? Check out Kelsey’s Kubernetes The Hard Way tutorial
From Luna Duclos — kube-cert-http - An adapter that lets Go’s net/http package fetch certificates from Kubernetes
You should read this -> Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
Hello Universe from Kelsey Hightower. What if applications could deploy themselves?
Another awesome tutorial on Kubernetes from Kelsey Hightower — Kubernetes cluster federation tutorial
Go Walkthrough from Ben Johnson - A series of walkthroughs to help you understand the Go standard library.
Here’s an example of good k8s documentation
This works pretty well for bootstrapping a cluster too with all the dashboards, metrics, etc
Special Interest Groups (SIG) and Working Groups
CoreOS rkt — a container engine for Linux designed to be composable, secure, and built on standards
The Twelve-Factor App — a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps
The Datacenter as a Computer by Urs Hölzle - An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines, Second Edition

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Homebrew and package management (Changelog Interviews #223) Oct 07, 2016

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Mike McQuaid joined us to catch us up on the latest in Homebrew and the recent 1.0.0 release. We talked about no more /usr/local — Homebrew moves to /usr/local/Homebrew to keep /usr/local cleaner, auto-updates, the growth of the Homebrew community and how it has grown to almost 6000 unique contributors, and more.

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Programming Practices, Exercism, Open Source (Go Time #19) Oct 06, 2016

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Katrina Owen joined the show to explore ideas about open source, code review, learning to program, becoming a savvy programmer, mentoring, projects she’s working on, and also her very prominent and amazing code learning tool Exercism.

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Katrina Owen – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

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Discussion

Interesting Go Projects and News

Free Software Friday

Brian - Go programming language
Carlisia - Exercism and Write behavioral tests in your editor. Get live results in your browser.
Erik - Bosun: monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange
Katrina - Hoodie: Software for building applications for the web and iOS

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Ethereum and Cryptocurrency (Changelog Interviews #222) Sep 30, 2016

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Gavin Wood joined the show to talk about Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, The DAO, Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), what could you build with Ethereum, and the future of digital currency. Gavin Wood is Founder of Ethereum, creator of the Solidity contract language, and Founder of Ethcore — the company that created Parity, an open source Ethereum client.

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Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Fred Ehrsam’s article on Medium — Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency piqued Jerod’s interest for this call
Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.
Ethereum on GitHub
Parity is a fast, light, and robust Ethereum implementation.
Check out Parity on GitHub
The DAO — Decentral Autonomous Organization
Understanding The DAO Hack for Journalists
Learn how to buy Ethereum on Coinbase
Rent, sell or share anything - without middlemen with Slock.it

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How we got here (Changelog Interviews #221) Sep 23, 2016

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Cory is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of many books. We talked to Cory about open source, the open web, internet freedom, his involvement with the EFF, where he began his career, the details he’ll be covering in his keynote at OSCON, and his thoughts on open source today and where developers should be focusing their efforts.

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