notes on podcasts

feb 11 - good herding code podcast on IOC, Git vs. mercurial, clojure's relationship to lisp

• "we're going to talk about how wrong Uncle Bob is in order to spark off 50 other podcasts"
• "you can use anything badly and end up with something hard to manage"
• "in order to get the benefit out of IOC you have to turn your app over to it and let the magic happen"
• what is a technology that converts javascript into javascript classes
  rhino, intended to be used in server-side applications, wiki
• "I always use the number of mocks I have to set up as an indicator of code smell"
• a good mocking library for .NET 3.5
  moq, more info
• "that's lisp, magic inside the parentheses, that's it, that's the whole language"
• "clojure is a lisp-like language that removes teh necessity of magic inside the parentheses"
• what enhances concurrency for online transaction processing (OLTP) applications
  sql server snapshot isolation, more info
• "clojure is lisp with multithreaded programming"
• "clojure is lisp that works well in java environments"
• "I saw lisp as scripting language in audacity and gimp"
• "'we cannot install that functional language on the server' doesn't fly anymore because .NET and Java are everywhere"
• "saas is fueling the current language explosion"
• event-driven network programming framework written in Python
  Twisted, wiki
• where to host mercurial
  bitbucket, more info
• "I only have so much mental energy to learn different distributed version control systems"
• "if you are a control freak, git is not for you"
• "I might expense an ipad but I would never buy one"
• "I've scaled way back on blogs, I get most of my information from twitter links now"