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Peter Ledbrook is an engineer at VMWare and an evangalist for Groovy and Grails.

Discussion

• The Grails Podcast
• Groovy
• Grails
• JVM
• Static typing
• Dynamic typing
• Optional static types in Groovy
• closures
• Ruby
• Rails
• Java
• Spock
• Jar files
• EnvyCasts Video on Java Jar's
• Dependency management
• Java resources for Grails
• Spring
• Spring Beans
• Apache Camel
• Spring Integration
• Spring Security
• Servlets
• Breadth of libraries in a particular language
• Spring Social
• CloudFoundry
• Grails' Plugin Ecosystem
• Groovy web console
• Groovy books
• Groovy user guide
• Grails user guide
• Introductory screencasts on grails.org
• Groovyblogs.org

Peter also gave me these links via email for people to look at:

Groovy website:

http://groovy.codehaus.org/Documentation

Online Groovy console:

http://groovyconsole.appspot.com/

Groovy Blogs:

http://groovyblogs.org/

Grails user guide:

http://grails.org/doc/latest/

Free PDF book!

http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/grails-getting-started

Introductory screencasts:

http://grails.org/screencast/search/?tag=gswg

Chris Mattmann is a Software Engineer at NASA's JPL. He's the VP of OODT in the Apache Software Foundation and an adjunct professor at USC.

OODT is a framework for managing data from multiple sources and adding them to other data sources for different purposes (like a database and a search engine.) It manages hundreds of thousands of job in a day and terabytes or petabytes of data from various sources.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Apache OODT
• Nutch
• Hadoop
• Apache Software Foundation
• NASA
• NASA JPL
• ftp
• sftp
• Solr
• Lucene
• Hive
• File Catalog vs Search Engine
• Tika
• Goodle
• Project Management was the hard part
• Assume that failure happens and recover quickly
• Ganglia
• Torque
• PBS
• struts
• IDL
• CHLA (Childrens Hospital of LA)
• VPICU
• OODT Contact page (info on mailing lists, etc.)

Today I am joined by Karl Wright, Nokia engineer, ManifoldCF developer and author of ManifoldCF in action. We discuss ManifoldCF, an Apache Incubator project, its beginnings, its purpose and its inner workings.

AppDynamics is a company that provides a monitoring solution for .NET and Java platforms. I spoke with the VP of Engineering and one of the developers of the AppDynamics platform to dig into how they instrument your Java or .NET code and some of the tricks for following transactions from beginning to end.

There were a lot of neat tricks in this podcast episode

Jim Jagielski is the president of the Apache Software Foundation and works for Red Hat. He's a founding member of the Foundation and has been a developer on the HTTP server for over a decade.

We had an inspiring conversation about the Apache Software Foundation, the origins of the HTTP server, how the Foundation manages projects, and the incubator program. If you manage or contribute to Open Source software, then this is a discussion you'll want to hear.

Jonathan Ellis is the Project Chair of Cassandra and co-founder of DataStax,  a company that specializes in helping companies set up BigData stacks with Cassandra, Hadoop, and other open source software.

His company just released DataStax Enterprise.

We had a great discussion about the origins of Cassandra, what it's good at, how it stacks up against relational databases, and how a lot of its different parts work.

Lucene is a terrific tool for powering searches. Solr adds a layer of functionality on top of it that makes things even more easy to use.

In this interview, Grant and I discuss the ins and outs of using Lucene to power searches on your websites.

I got an email from Michael Seely asking about being a freelancer. I emailed him back and asked him if he'd like to interview me for my podcast and ask me whatever questions he had. He agreed. This is the podcast that resulted.