Episode 25: The Return of Chris McDonough, bootstrapping pip, projects and playgrounds, and the death of Open Source consulting

The problem with having an awesome guest like Chris McDonough on the podcast is you have a really hard time topping that. So what better way to kick off the cobwebs of the podcast than to invite Chris back. Well, add to that three provocative topics (one of which was penned my Chris himself) and you have as good an excuse as any to bring back Lococast from the podcast brink.  We also took the opportunity to record it as a Google Hangout so if you want to see our unvarnished smiling faces you can. If you'd rather let your imagination run wild (and your psyche unharmed) you also have the option of listening to our regularly generated audio file.

Shownotes:

• https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-September/128723.html
• http://alexgaynor.net/2013/sep/08/your-project-doesnt-mean-your-playground/
• http://www.plope.com/is_open_source_consulting_dead

Music:

• (00:00) Remain in trance (Evening Ritual) by Aylwin from Split album (BY-NC-SA)
• (14:52) All Alone With Me (instrumental) by Cancer Killing Gemini from It Only Hurts When We Breathe (Instrumental) (BY-NC-SA)
• (22:55) Damage is Done by Neurotech from The Decipher Volumes (BY-SA)
• (41:21) Lord of the Algorithms by Dr. Zilog from Vulgar Fractions (BY-NC-SA)

Episode 24: Chris McDonough, Python, and the part time developer returns

• Intro
• Events
  • Penguicon recap
• Chris McDonough interview
  • Pylons Project
  • Pyramid Web Framework
  • Agendaless
• Part Time developer comes back
  • http://501manifesto.org/
  • http://hmans.io/2012/04/23/the-501-developer-manifesto/
  • Somewhat related: work practice http://blaag.haard.se/You-deserve-practice/
• New toys
  • Craig: Samsung Galaxy S II / Ting.com
  • Rick: ColorHug finally used
  • Chris: Ubuntu Precise installation
• Books
  • Craig: - Introducing HTML5 Game Development
• Music
  • (00:00) Crystals by Professor Kliq from Curriculum Vitae (BY-SA)
  • (09:34) Milkfish - Just Once My Day Blows Yours Away by Analog Industries from unsuspected sounds, vol. 1 (BY-NC-ND)
  • (35:33) Part Timer by Windcheater from Windcheater (BY-NC-SA)
  • (52:33) Sugar and Sweets by Carnaval from Tennis Football Basketball (test)
  • (1:10:22) Revolt (instrumental) by Louis Lingg and the Bombs from Punk Instrumentals (BY-NC-SA)
  • (1:21:13) Midnight Blues by Marcel Ziul from The MZTRIO First Takes EP (BY-NC-SA)

Episode 23: Where did all this JavaScript come from?

• Intro
• Events
  • Penguicon
    • Rick Talking 27th
    • Craig talking April 28th
    • Ubuntu Michigan Loco Release Party
    • Bookie Mini-sprint
  • PyCon summary
    • bpython ftw
• Front end developer toolset checklist
  • http://rmurphey.com/blog/2012/04/12/a-baseline-for-front-end-developers/
• Other recent handy tools
  • grover YUI test runner
  • phantomjs Used for running
  • Heroku PaaS for your apps
• The great semicolon debate!
  • https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/3057
  • https://github.com/styleguide/javascript
• Toy review time
  • Synology DS212J
  • Kenisis Keyboard
  • Logitech Squeezebox Radio
• Books
  • Rick
    • Introduction to Tornado
    • Managing Projects with Gnu Make
    • tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development
  • Craig
    • tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development
    • Little Book on CoffeeScript
• Music
  • (00:00) Tugboat Road by allMeadow and Rob Costlow from Reunion (BY-NC-SA)
  • (07:52) Around by Ours vince from Around (BY-NC-SA)
  • (12:56) Triptych by The Rapture from 10 Raptures (BY-NC-SA)
  • (43:36) DJungle (Living Soul Redux) by Burning Babylon from Beat Beat Beat (BY-NC-SA)
  • (58:55) Devil's Playground (SNTK2 Version) by [Sin.thetic Squad] from Synthematika Two (2010) (BY-NC-ND)
  • (1:10:20) Agents Of Betrayal by LOST WORLD ORDER from Parasites (BY-NC-ND)

Episode 22: Welcome to 2012, times are a changing.

Disclaimer Yes, I had my mic backwards for the whole show. I apologize for the quality of my voice in here.

• Intro
• Detroit Dev Day Notes
• Code Reviews and the importance of viewing the diff
• New Toys
  • New ereaders: Kindle DX and Nook Tablet
  • Standing desk Geekdesk
• Books
  • Rick: not much, fun fiction ftw!
  • Craig:
    • Coders at work
    • Clean Code
    • Responsive Web Design
• Music
  • Liquorstore by The Easton Ellises from EP One
  • Average White Man by Jive Ass Sleepers from Gettin Down to Business
  • \$ by Cloudkicker from ]]][[[
  • Калевала by Калевала from Кукушкины дети
  • Deteriorate to Gain by The Apocryphal Order from The Apocryphal Order

Lococast Ohio Linuxfest 2011 Inteview: Michael Fischer

We have one last interview in the can from Ohio Linuxfest, and it's appropriate that we release this canned interview, since it's with Michael "Call me Fish" Fischer (get it? Canned? Fish? OK, I'll stop now). Fish presented a talk at Ohio Linuxfest entitled: "Managing a Computer Lab in a High School Environment". After the talk, Rick and Fish sat down to talk a bit about computers and education, and why Fish brought some of his students to Ohio Linuxfest.

Special thanks to Michael "Call me Fish" Fischer for taking the time to talk with us at Lococast.net.

Music:

• Razza by eluzian from Anima Inquieta
• Harvey Wallbanger by Alan Marchand from Blues for all Occasions

Lococast Ohio Linuxfest 2011 Inteview: Aaron Toponce

"Sherman, set the way-back machine for two months ago, when the fall colors weren't sitting upon our lawn. September should be good, right around the time when Ohio Linuxfest was occurring. Yep, that should be good. Now, be a good boy and open the doors and watch the way-back machine while I listen to these interviews."

So, insert the standard disclaimer about not getting these up in time because [life got busy | things came up | cat ate my hard drive] and accept our humble apologies for not getting these interviews up sooner.

The next interview from our adventures at Ohio Linuxfest features Aaron Toponce. Aaron sat down to talk with Rick about Aaron's presentation at Ohio Linuxfest about Password Theory and Breaking Encrypted Filesystems. Suffice to say, you might not want to leave your machine unattended near any maids anytime soon.

Special thanks to Aaron Toponce for sitting down and talking with us at Ohio Linuxfest.

Music

• Fever by Marcel Ziul from The MZTRIO Live Studio Sessions
  
• Way Down Blue by The Dino Haak Collective from Switzerland Your Light Is On
  

• Intro
• Events - [1DevDayDetroit Nov 4/5th](# "1DevDayDetroit")
• OhioLinuxfest Recap: Thanks for stopping by the booth everyone!
• [Sourceforge](http://sourceforge.net) Interview
- [Elizabeth Naramore](http://www.naramore.net/blog/), Community Developer Manager
• Links of the week - [A Gnome OS? Would you use it?](http://bobthegnome.blogspot.com/2011/09/gnome-os.html) - [Ubuntu with a rolling monthy release, what might work/what will fail](http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/09/ubuntu-technical-board-member-proposes-monthly-ubuntu-release-cycle.ars) - [Mark Shuttleworth on Cloud APIs are like HTTP, don't screw it up.](http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/765) - [Application design, Launchpad thinks smaller services](https://dev.launchpad.net/ArchitectureGuide/Services)
• Rick's Mini Rant: Your anti pattern is called a tool - [Original Article: ORM is an anti-patter](http://seldo.com/weblog/2011/08/11/orm_is_an_antipattern) - [SqlAlchemy](http://sqlalchemy.org)
• Books - Rick: [Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036S4CNE/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=mitechie-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B0036S4CNE) - Craig: [Mouse Guard](http://mouseguard.net) by David Petersen
• Music - [Горсти талого снега by Калевала from Кукушкины дети](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/94940) - [Human Core by HiHate from Against All](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/97774) - [Natural 20s by Dual Core from Next Level](http://dualcoremusic.com/nerdcore/) - [Eighties Dance Music by The West Exit from Unearthed](http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/westexit-unearthed/) - [Imported by Irate Architect from Visitors](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/80765) - [The Four Seasons: Concerto in E Major, Op. 8/1, RV 269 - 'Spring': III. Allegro by Lara St. John from Vivaldi - The Four Seasons](http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/lara-fourseasons/) - [Never Happy by Drop Alive from Drop Alive](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/6357)

Lococast.net Episode 20 - Power is good...

• Intro
• Events
  • Ohio Linuxfest - we'll be there, see us at the Michigan Loco booth
• Interview with Mike Pirnat
  • Howoldismykid.com
• Links/Tools of the week(s)
  • Sass - for firebug
  • Live Reload
  • Retaliation
• Webdev and caching discussion
• Books
  • Rick Gost in the wires
  • Craig What would google do
  • Craig's Kobo saga
• Music
  • Just had to let you know by Lorenzo's Music from Just had to let you know
  • Give me Hell by Drop Alive from Drop Alive
  • Paid in Full (Instrumental) by Breaker from The More I Want, The More I Get (instrumental)
  • Abbey Rhodes by Drop Trio from Big Dipper
  • Liquid Jazz by General Fuzz from Messy's Place
  • Таусень-Рада by Калевала from Ведьма

Ohio Linuxfest here we come!

We're all signed up and ready to go. Lococast will be doing on location recording at Ohio Linuxfest again this year. Only this time, we're officially a sponsor and getting a nice shiny table in the main area to setup at. So we'll be working on getting some great clips of some of the great speakers and attendees of the conference.

The official conference is September 9-11. Friday has an array of events you can get involved with. The main thrust of the conference is on Saturday followed by a diversity workshop and LPI exames on Sunday. We'll be down there from some time Friday through Saturday and heading back Sunday.

Why should I go?

Did I mention this little open source conference holds over one thousand people?! Yep, it's a gathering alright. Did I mention there are four tracks and an Open Source Solutions stage? We like to call that, the content. Did I also mention that we're going to be there? You should just go.

But it's too late to go...

Nonsense, I actually just got my hotel room this very day. There's still time to get a reservation, and get your butt to Columbus.

Rick, it's got to be expensive to go then, surely!

Hogwash, if you register now, there's no cost to attend. However, if you're super awesome (and all Lococast listeners are of course) there's a supporter package for \$65. You get fed and a t-shirt as part of that bundle. How could you go wrong?

I'm still not convinced Rick...

Then go check out the show we did last year. Oh that's right, we sat down with the president of System 76. How awesome is that!

Lococast.net Episode 19 - So, we went to PyOhio and all I got was this t-shirt

• Intro
• Events
  • Ohio Linuxfest: Sept 9,10,11
  • 1DevDayDetroit
  • Pycon Speaker Submission Open
• New Libraries/Dev Tools
  • ScratchPad in Firefox 6.0
  • Edit in Github with Ace
  • Requests: HTTP for Humans
• PyOhio Recap
  • Videos of talks
  • Rick's Recap
  • Craig's Recap
  • Bookie Sprint Report

Music

• Intro 1, Intro 2
• The Angst Zeit by Neurotech from Antagonist
• Blues for Bobba by Dark Harvest from Dark Harvest
• California Doll by doublethink from Seeing Red

Lococast.net Episode 18 - Passwords, hashes, and Google+ oh my!

• Intro
• Events
  • PyOhio: July 30,31
  • Ohio Linuxfest: Sept 9,10,11
  • Ubuntu Global Jam: Sept 2,3,4
• Securing user's passwords in applications
  • Instapaper - FBI had their servers
  • bcrypt
  • scrypt ticket
  • GPUs Discussion
• Bookie status report
  • Hosted Bookie
  • Weekly Status Reports
  • Twitter: BookieBmarks
• Google+
• Books
  • Craig: The Python Standard Library
  • Rick: Start Small, Stay Small, Hands on Node.js, iWoz

**Music**
- [Around the Oak by Drakum from Around the Oak](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/90152) - [Sweet Mary by Moray Eel from Priest Hunter](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/91599) - [Bye Baby by Patrulha66 from Revolution](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/40514) - [Deteriorate to Gain by The Apocryphal Order from The Apocryphal Order](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/88893) - [Bruises (Do It Wrong) by Unwoman from Unremembered](http://unwoman.bandcamp.com)

• Intro
  • Skype bought by Microsoft?

• Events

  • Penguicon Recap
  • PyOhio (call for talks now on! Sponsorship available!)
  • Loco Takes over MUG - looking for short talk ideas

• Feedback, send it people feedback@lococast.net

• Natty is out and people are responding, loads of stories:
• Craig and his newfound unity love
• Ubuntu studio moving to XFCE vs Unity: link
• Is quality an issue? How can we help? Alpha vs Beta testing link
• Ubuntu power users project:
  • http://www.mikesplanet.net/2011/05/ubuntu-power-users-getting-the-most-from-ubuntu/
  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerUsers
• Rick kicks Ubuntu to the curb/server (How's Arch?)
• UDS happened
• Documentation cleanup , too much old bad info, delete 5 wiki pages link
• Amazon Lending, Kindle books outselling paper books on amazon? thoughts?
• Bookie! (http://bmark.us)
• Miscellany
  • Confirmed: Microsoft Says It Will Open Source VB 6 link
• Books
  • Craig
    • Challenges for Game Designers
  • Rick:
    • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
    • Node: Up and Running: Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript
    • Snow Crash. (audio book)
    • The Wisdom of Crowds (audio book)

Music in this Episode

• Mercurial Girl by Five Star Fall from Automatic Ordinary
• Thannheimer by The Dino Haak Collective from Filmscore
• Infralove by Diablo Swing Orchestra from The Butcher's Ballroom
• Oh, god. by Cloudkicker from Beacons
• Uh Oh

Lococast Episode 16: Interview with Greg Grossmeier on Locos, Copyright, and Open Data

Craig and Rick take a trip out to Ann Arbor Michigan to chat with the Michigan Loco leader Greg Grossmeier. We chat about how starting up a loco has been.

We also get into his current work for the University of Michigan. Lots of information about their http://open.umich.edu program.

Next we chat about his internship and work at Creative Commons along with some great info on Open Data.

Finally, we wrap up with some talk of govenance, and what he meant in his blog post about the Banshee/Canonical kerfuffle

Other Links

• http://www.sherlockian.net/acd/copyright.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft#Copyright
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead#Copyright_status

Music: Ac33d by Micronaut from Transformer

• Intro
• Events
  • Global Jam, we're doing one, 10 jams so far
  • Penguicon

• Interview with Jason Smith

  Jason is a developer for the Developer Experience (DX) team with
  Canonical and works on the Unity desktop shell. In particualar the
  launcher. We ask him how it's going, what the plans are for Natty, and what
  we should be looking forward to in Natty+1.

  Links Jason mentions in the interview

  • Unity milestones
  • Cool new scrollbars in Unity

• Books

  • Craig: Nadda
  • Rick: Pro Python
• Music
  • Rearm Machines by Sequence The Silence from Bipolar Llama
  • Watch the Burn by Sekshun 8 from Black Winged Butterfly
  • Condemned by Wendigo from Audio Leash
  • Completely mysticism by Dr Kuch from Analog Disease

• How close are things to planned functionality for Natty?
• What kind of testing is going on behind the scenes?
• What types of users is Canonical targeting as the average Unity user?

Let us know what you'd like us to ask. Submit your question here in the comments or email the question to feedback@lococast.net.

Thanks for your help!

Pycon 2011 Sprints Interview: Michael Foord, Canonical, OS Split Personality, and Mocking

In our last in the series of interview from PyCon 2011, Lococast sits down with Michael Foord and talk about some of the cool things he's working on at Canonical, how the new version of his Python mocking library Mock is doing, and a little bit about what's going on with IronPython in a post-Microsoft sanctioned project era.

Music

• A Thousand Nails by Aathma from The Call of Shivà
• The End Of The Snake by Aathma from The Call of Shivà

Pycon 2011 Sprints Interview: Mark Ramm from Sourceforge and Allura, the new forge

Lococast got a chance to sit down and ask Mark Ramm about the new open source project forge, Allura. They managed to get it out to the public right before PyCon and were working hard on it during the sprints at PyCon 2011. Find out what makes it unique and what they're up to.

Pycon 2011 Sprints Interview: Chris McDonough from Pyramid Web Framework

Lococast sits down with Chris McDonough from Pyramid Web Framework at the Pycon 2011 sprints. We talk about what's brought around Pyramid 1.0, how the reception has been to the great work, and where Pyramid is looking to go from here.

Get a t-shirt from the online store.

Music:

• Snake bite by Gleb Bones from The fine art of wasting timeSnake bite by Gleb Bones from The fine art of wasting time
• G Trap by Cyber Snake from Dolls & Lovers

PyCon 2011: Mike Pirnat Interviews John DeRosa - Busing USA

Rick joins Mike Pirnat from the From Python Import Podcast to interview John DeRosa as he discusses his adventure tweeting his bus ride from Seattle to PyCon 2011 in Atlanta. What makes a crazy man do such a thing? What could possibly go wrong? Find out!

Music in this episode:

• New Cycle Day (bonus track) by Sequence The Silence from Bipolar Llama
• Three Blocks by Sekshun 8 from Black Winged Butterfly
• Music request sample

Lococast and From Python Import Podcast PyCon 2011 Wrap Up

Lococast joins forces with the great guys of From Python Import
Podcast to go over all the hotness of PyCon 2011. Best talks, best open
spaces, and just a bunch of tired brain melted Python devs.

Intro Sound

I'm down in Atl, GA for PyCon 2011. This is my report from Day 1 of events. Take a listen to see what's going on and we'll try to get some better notes up in the future. Big props to Craig for helping me get the audio out the next day.

Keep an eye out for reviews of day 2 & 3.

If you're down at PyCon, stop by during our open space time at 10am on Sunday where I'll be getting together with the guys of From Python Import Podcast and we'll be looking for some mini-interviews. Let the world know what they're missing by not attending PyCon.

• Intro
• Outro

Lococast.net Episode 14 - Sitting at the same table

• Intro
• Events
  • Ubuntu
    Cloud Days
  • USD
    Sponsorship
  • Penguicon
• Freedombox and Humans are the router
• The Banshee saga goes on and on 
  • http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/611
  • http://blog.grossmeier.net/2011/02/24/the-kerfuffle
  • http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/02/24/banshee-in-natty-to-ship-multiple-stores-and-contribute-to-gnome-foundation/
• Books
  • Craig: Pro Python
• Music
  • me one more time by REVENGE from FEST OF REVENGE
  • Robbotica System by Cibernetica from The Ultimate Bio Commando
  • Fallout by Severed Fifth from Nightmares By Design
  • Putrid Pigs by BRUTAL MURDER from Intracranial Total Insanity
  • By yourself by Redmind from Step back from the edge
  • Discipline by Nine Inch Nails from The Slip

With all this focus on making desktop linux something for the mass market, is there a chance that we end up removing the great things that drew us to the platform as users/developers? Is it possible to have a product that wins with the mass market as well as the people that there building and developing things? Listen/watch the rant and let me know what you think. Do we need something different for Ubuntu users? What would an "Ubuntu Developer Edition" look like in your mind?

Lococast.net Episode 13 - WARNING: News overload...generating core dump

• Intro
• Events
  • Global Jam Prep
• Ubuntu Happenings
  • Ubuntu 11.04 Drops Release Candidate / News / Online / Home - Ubuntu User
  • No GPLv3 Software on Windows Phone 7 / XBox app store?
  • Banshee by default brings headaches for Canonical
    • http://gburt.blogspot.com/2011/02/banshee-supporting-gnome-on-ubuntu.html
    • http://doctormo.org/2011/02/16/canonical-platform-control-bites/
• Nokia/MS Partnership
  • http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/nokia-confirms-microsoft-partnership-new-leadership-team
  • http://bethesignal.org/blog/2011/02/11/elopocalypse-nokia-chooses-microsoft/
  • http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/11/in-memoriam-microsofts-previous-strategic-mobile-partners/
  • Meego - "desktop QT is not our R&D priority right now http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/18/buckets-of-cold-water/ (KDE in danger?)
• Freedombox
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper
  • http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/ - kickstarter donate
  • http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/721744279/push-the-freedombox-foundation-from-0-to-60-in-30
• UberTwitter
  • http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-war-ubermedia-2011-2
  • The Internet Is Not An Airport
• Books
  • Craig: Getting Started with Arduino by Massimo Banzi
• Music:
  • Un by Monkey Trial from Un
  • Interlude by Monster Cyborg from Astral Projection
  • Sidewalk by Etherfysh from Box of Fysh
  • State Trooper by The Dino Haak Collective from Switzerland Your Light Is On

Rick's Rants Episode #5: If you love it, put a ring on it

I keep seeing people that don't get that you can mix money and FLOSS. In fact, if you appreciate the work that these great people creating amazing tools and programs at all, \$\$ will of course get involved. Time to rant on these people that don't get it and a personal challenge from me to you. Put \$5 up for grabs every month, come on, I double dog dare ya!

Lococast.net Episode 12 - cloudy with a chance of feedback

• Intro
• Events
  • One month to PyCon! Sign up for sprints
  • Linux Workshop NY State Loco - Feb 19th
  • Ubucon pre - SCaLE 9x Cali Loco - Feb 25th Southern Cali Linux Expo
  • Feb 17th, 10.04.2 due out
  • Heads up, feature freeze coming Feb 24th
• Ubuntu Happenings
  • Unity updates - Jorge's posts
  • http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/2927038461/unity-bitesize-bug-report-for-25-january
  • http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/3198857225/random-small-bling
  • http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/3202209062/progress-meters-quicklists-and-number-count-for-the
  • Canonical Joins Openstack (6mo release cycle)
  • Dell/Ubuntu cloud offering
  • Diaspora/Facebook and the openness of social networking
• Books
  • Craig: Eclipse Phase
  • Rick Pyramid Docs. Yay new web frameworks
• Extro
• Music
  • Icarus Crash - Mister Leija from Mi Defecto Anonimo
  • Stealth Core by Catherine Corelli from Killed Alive
  • End of Summer by BertycoX from Robot in Love
  • Ekaitzaren ondoren... by Kudai from Arima Eroslea
  • In My Hell by Hangman from THE GALLOWS

Rick's Rants Episode #4: Curse of the part time developer

You know the guy, the one that's never able to head over to the local LUG meeting. Never shows interest in that cool new example of that awesome bit of code you saw at the last meetup. You've found the "Part time developer" in the group. It's time to call them out. Rant on!

Lococast.net Episode 11 - 'cause you can't build Ubuntu without some Python

• Intro
• Events
  • Codemash report
  • Get ready for Pycon
  • Loco events
    • NY State Loco - Feb 19th User Group of Rochester monthly meeting
    • Cali Loco - Feb 25th Southern Cali Linux Expo
• Interview: Barry Warsaw
  • Wiki info
  • http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/
  • http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pkgme/0.1
  • https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr-pqm
  • https://edge.launchpad.net/tarmac
  • http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3149/
  • http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3147/
  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributedDevelopment
• Ubuntu Happenings
  • Natty - alpha 2 coming next week! Feb. 3rd
  • Shuttleworth - QT apps in ubuntu
  • Pre-release of multitouch Ubuntu 11.04
  • Software Center reviews!
• Books
  • Craig: Learning Python 4th Edition
  • Rick: Practical Ruby for System Administration
  • Python Cookbook Recipes
• Music
  • 4.1 Chevy! by Catherine Corelli from Overcome Start
  • Entre Cornisas by Icarus Crash from Mi Defecto Anonimo
  • The Same Mistakes by Adam Fielding from Lightfields
  • Time to go by Gleb Bones from The fine art of wasting time

Lococast Interview with Jim Barber

Recently we received a note from a listener, Jim Barber. He sent us one of the most interesting stories of his usage of Ubuntu. Rather than read the note on the air, we decided to do an interview with Jim. Unfortunately, Rick was "on assignment", so Craig and Jim sat and talked. Hear about Jim's computer experiences from the past, and how he uses Ubuntu in one of the most unique settings we've come across. (Let's just say I won't be bitching about bandwidth anymore at the coffee shop).

If you've got an interesting story about Ubuntu that you'd like to share, or have any questions or comments about the show, send them our way at lococast.net.

Show Music:

• Scanalyzer - Zwichenspeil Zwei from On the One and The Zero
• Sekshun 8 - Still Smokin from Black Winged Butterfly

Lococast.net Episode 10 - Break time over, back to work!

• Intro
• Events
  • Codemash (and come check out Rick's Talk Friday)
  • Pycon
  • Penguicon
  • PyOhio
• Ubuntu Happenings
  • Jono Post - community time
  • Jorge Unity Bug Report
  • Ahmed Kamal - Cloud Community
• Books
  • Craig
    • Java Web Services Up and Running
    • HTML5 Up and Running
  • Rick
    • Non Designers Design Book 3rd ed
    • In the Beginning Was the Command Line
    • Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks that Work
    • Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Iteraction Design
    • The Evolution of Useful Things
    • Universal Principles of Design: Revised and Updated
• Show Music
  • Savior by XXX-Car Ride from The Wait is Over
  • Ponete Las Pilas by Scott Hallgren from Tango - Jazz (live in Studio C)
  • Harresia by Kudai from Arima Eroslea
  • Like A Moth To Flame by Iron Thrones from The Wretched Sun

Lococast.net Episode 9 - Scriptlessly chatting natty

• Events
  • Thanksgiving and Christmas. Come back after the New Year.
  • Codemash 2011 Jan
  • Pycon 2011 March
• 100 paper cuts
• novell bought...do we care?
• Loco teams for natty cycle
  • http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.com/2010/11/loco-teams-in-natty-cycle.html
  • https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntutheproject-n-loco-council
  • http://loco.ubuntu.com/
• Books:
  • Craig
    • Learning Javascript by Shelley Powers
    • Miles Errant http://www.webscription.net/p-278-miles-errant.aspx
  • Rick
    • Pulling Strings with Puppet:
    • JavaScript Patterns
• Music
  • Tears and Blood by Memories Lab from Stronger Than Hate
  • Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy by Daniel Bautista from Classics And Soundtracks
  • Machines Of War by Severed Fifth from Nightmares By Design
  • Utopia by Bertycox from The Signal
  • Victims by Chronique from A Gate To All Secrets

Lococast.net Episode 8 - Sleepytime Show

• Intro - We're Back!
• Amber: http://akgraner.com/?p=763
  • http://granerfamily.chipin.com/the-graner-family
• Events:
  • Codemash Jan 12-14th Sandusky OH
    • Rick's Talk at CodeMash
  • You've got some events to pub let us know feedback@lococast.net
• UDS
  • Unity
    • Current state, what is it? We all probably know by now
    • Default...parts that are missing
    • Overall goals, touch, etc
    • Conflict with Gnome, still a 'gnome-toolkit' desktop?
  • Other UDS highlights
    • New ad they had? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYTJPaM82nQ
    • Tons of youtube video
    • Banshee - amazon mp3 vs U1 music store?
  • http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DevWorkstation
    • Developer push with things like software center, paid apps, donation for apps, trying to get more apps into center
• Jim Barber
  • Got some feedback in from a guy sailing his boat Esmeralda and uses the podcast to help pass the time from port to port. Running Ubuntu and learning python after doing some pascal stuff back in the day.
  • Want to see about an interview, back from his last voyage this Dec. Try to get a skype interview going
• Books
  • Rick:
    • Everyday Scripting with Ruby: for Teams, Testers, and You
    • Art of Community - Jono Bacon
    • Pulling Strings with Puppet
  • Craig:
    • [Cryoburn - [Lois McMaster Bujold]{style="color: #444444;"}]{style="font-size: small;"}
      • [[http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/24-CryoburnCD/]{style="color: #444444;"}]{style="font-size: small;"}
    • [[JavaScript: The Good Parts - Douglas Crockford]{style="font-size: small;"}]{style="color: #222222;"}
• [Nook Color - the non (E-) e-reader]{style="color: #222222; font-size: small;"}

Music:

• Kudai - Kudai 2.0
• Binarpilot - KDR Assault
• Reno Project - Hot Street
• Countdown - El Diablo
• REVENGE - eat me one more time
  

Vim provides some great tools for performing text operations on highlighted or selected blocks of text. Check out this video for a demonstration on how to use visual mode along with the column visual mode to really speed up how you do things in Vim.

Links and plugins

• http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=1195
• http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=670
• http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/vim-advanced-tutorial-videos/#globals-commands-functions

• My Vim Config on Github

Let us know what you think by providing feedback in the video source or
emailing us at feedback@lococast.net

Lococast.net Episode 7 - Here comes the Meerkat

• Intro
• Maverick Meerkat
  • New features coming
• Ubuntu One Streaming Music Service
• Get your parties on: Maverick Release Parties
• Announcing new Loco Day Event
• Books
  • Craig: Getting Things Done
  • Rick: Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time
• Music
  • Bidea aukeratu by Kudai from Hutsa
  • Deixa voar by Suinga from Minina
  • Sin Eater by Chris Randall from The Devil His Due
  • Canto XIII by Eva Can't from L'Enigma delle Ombre
  • Ethernidub by Doblezero from Sound Anti-System

A recent post from Roberto about "Why we are here" got me thinking...do people use OSS because it's free, or do they really just use the best tool for the job. How many people feel the need to preach/convert other users out there? I've paid for commercial software I thought was better, even software for Linux. I don't take the freedom angle too deeply, but I do appreciate any software tool that can make my life easier/better, and hey, if it's open/free then all the better. I'm using the stuff I do because I firmly believe it's the best stuff out there.

Let us know, why are you here? Did you come for the free and stick around for the freedom? Or is it just giving what you're handed, what you can get for no cost?

• Intro
• Feedback: feedback@lococast.net
• Ohio Linuxfest recap
• Closed Source Web Apps vs Freedom and Open Web Apps
  • Stormy's Talk
  • Mako's Article

• Interviews

  • Paul Taglamente & Jacob Peddicord from Ubuntu Ohio Loco
  • Carl Richell - President System 76

• Books

  • Craig - Python 3 Object Oriented Programming
  • Rick - Art of Community, YUI Learning the Library, Solr Enterprise
    Search Server

• Extro

• Music:
  • Reach by Wendigo from Audio Leash
  • Smile (Make Your Body Move) by Binärpilot from Robot Wars
  • Power of the Power of the Power (of the Great Sword) by NanowaR from Other Bands Play, Nanowar Gay!
  • Pablito's Way by Paolo Pavan from Looking for a Way Out
  • Work At Night by Professor Kliq from Movements EP

We go over what a buffer is in Vim, how it differs from a window, and how we
can use windows with buffers to work on our files much faster than we can with
tabs.

Commands we talk about

• :buffers
• :buffer 2
• :buffer 3
• :b 2
• :buffers
• :sb 4
• :bnext :bn
• :bprevious :bp
• :ball

Links and plugins

• More Buffer Docs
• Minibufexpl

• LustyJuggler

• My Vim Config on Github

Let us know what you think by providing feedback in the video source or
emailing us at feedback@lococast.net

Also available on YouTube

Oh, while we have it, here's her book information from the podcast
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Question: Who are you, and what do you do?

Amber Graner: I'm an active Ubuntu community member and organizer who encourages everyone around her to participate, support, and learn about Ubuntu and Open Source. With a smile and a sense of humor, Amber reminds people that there is a place for everyone in the Ubuntu community – regardless of technical skill level (or lack thereof). She is constantly looking for people, places, and events within the Ubuntu community that help inspire Ubuntu users to participate actively within the Ubuntu community.

Question: How did you get into Ubuntu?

Amber Graner: Funny how this happened. My husband gave me an intrepid CD and a t-shirt that said “Linux for Human Beings” and I laughed and said yeah right. Here is my very 1st Blog post about how I got involved. http://akgraner.com/?p=70

Question: What are you up to in the Ubuntu world now?

Amber Graner: Currently I am the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Editor in Chief and current leader of the Ubuntu News Team as well as the North Carolina LoCo Team. I also help organize various UbuCons and help organize the various Ubuntu Weeks (Open Week, App Week, App Dev Week). I also freelance for Ubuntu User Magazine by doing the interviews each week, and I have a blog on Ubuntu User Online - You in Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Amber-Graner-You-in-Ubuntu

Question: How's your LoCo, how are you guys/gals active and types of recent activities?

Amber Graner: We have some great NC LoCo Team members in the Winston-Salem area who have started and kept up an Ubuntu Hour https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour at one of their local coffee shops. I drove there and joined in the fun for once for one of the “hours” but it's 2.5 hour drive for me to get there so it's not always possible but I think it's awesome they are doing this. Still other talented team members in the Western North Carolina in the Asheville area have helped get the WNGLUG going again. I try to go as often as I can but it's about an hour from me as well. Even more motivated team members in the Triangle Area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) are great about hosting release parties, and participating in TriLUG activities. That's a little over 4 hours away from me so I haven't been there in about a year. We have people (not including me who) participate many areas of the Ubuntu Community - Ubuntu News Team, Ubuntu User Days, Ubuntu Studio, as well as helping with various LinuxFests. While we aren't as active as other LoCo Teams we are getting there and I think the team rocks!

Question: What have you found are the positives since the Locos forming (why you like your LoCo)

Amber Graner: The NC LoCo Team was formed in 2007 so I wasn't involved in it then. I only got involved in 2009. However, in the time that I have been involved I have seen more people getting involved across the state and our LoCo was approved earlier this year. I personally haven't meet the mailing list only or forums only folks on the team that I know of but I have meet many of the team members who frequent the NC LoCo team IRC channel (#ubuntu-us-nc) and I have to say I think we have an awesome team there (but I am a little bias). It's a great group and I can't wait to see what the next release cycle brings.

Question: How do you deal with people across large state? What are some of the LoCo challenges?

Amber Graner: I think for me it's just trying to connect personally with people across the state. To put a voice and or face with an IRC nick or email address. It's also making sure people anywhere in the state know they are empowered to do their own thing and making sure team members know where to find resources to support their efforts. WIkis are flat and often don't answer all of someones questions. Having a person they can call, email, or ping in IRC to ask for clarification, direction, or just a sanity check goes a long way.

I think one of the biggest challenges we face at the moment is explaining why Canonical does't just write a blank check to the LoCo and supply endless amounts of CDs. Explaining that we are marketing, supporting and advocating on behalf of Ubuntu not Canonical is tricky sometimes. Often I hear “Why doesn't Canonical (insert whatever thing someone thinks Canonical should be doing)?” Like who is going to pay postage to ship Cd's to LoCo members once they reach the contact, or I want to give out 500 CDs at the mall why won't they just give them to us? Why don't they give us money for X event we are marketing them. So that is one Challenge.

The other is making sure people understand a meritocracy and while some bureaucracy is needed if it gets too heavy or cumbersome it limits participation and often becomes exclusive rather than inclusive so finding that balance is important. It's not a balance you find once then forget about it, it's often adjusted daily.

Question: What are some of Tips or Tricks for LoCos?

Amber Graner: Remember to always have fun! Working on something especially when everyone is volunteering their time, talent and treasures - should be fun for those in all areas of participation. There should be something people get from their efforts. Some “motivational paycheck” that is gained. It could be in the form of learning something new other times it can be a heartfelt thank you from someone they admire. It could be the opportunity to go somewhere or do something they have always wanted to do like speak at an event or represent the LoCo team at an event. Try to match people up with something they would like to do or something that they have the skills to do or pair them with a mentor who is willing to teach them something they want to learn. Remember every user is someones guru - regardless of skill level everyone can teach someone something.

How do you do that? Learn who your members get to know them. This is what things like Ubuntu Hours, release parties, or just conversation in email, IRC or phone call can do. Be Social! Let them know why you are asking them though not that you are just being noisy and creepy but that you are trying to help them (if they want it) to find an area of the LoCo Team and greater Ubuntu Community they might enjoy. Some questions that help with this could be - What do they currently do for work? What do they do for their hobbies? What is it about Ubuntu that they like? What is an area they would like to know more about. What's an area they would like to see improve? Are they new to FOSS and Ubuntu or just Ubuntu? etc. However, make sure members and those interested in volunteering know that just lurking on a mailing list or in an IRC channel is cool as well and that just being an Ubuntu end user is perfectly fine and that every user doesn't need to become a super contributor or developer for the Ubuntu Project.

Question: Are their future plans or advice for other LoCos looking to be more active?

• Ubuntu Global Jam is around the corner and there is still time to plan
  to get together and discuss Ubuntu. Or plan a virtual meeting in your IRC
  Channel if your team can't physically get together.
• Ohio LinuxFest (http://ohiolinux.org/) if you are in or near Columbus Ohio on September 10-12, 2010 then stop by the UbuCon on Friday, September 10, 2010 and Ubuntu Booth on Saturday, September 12, 2010. The more the merrier!
• Ubuntu App Dev Week (Formally Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week) is
  coming up as well September 20-24th - Got an itch you want to scratch then
  this is the week to learn how to write that application you’ve always
  wanted. -
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuAppDeveloperWeek?action=show&redirect=UbuntuOpportunisticDeveloperWeek
• Ubuntu 10.10.10 Maverick Meerkat - Release Parties - time to plan now
• Ubuntu Open Week will be the week of October 11, 2010.
• Ubuntu Developer Summit is scheduled for the last week of October 2010,
  even if you can't attend in person but want to see or hear what is going to
  be occurring in the -N cycle so you can see what members of the team might
  be interested in helping with there is always remote participation. -
  http://uds.ubuntu.com/
• Regular and Sustained Movement: Also making sure people who come to your
  team see you are doing things that there is movement. Regular meetings,
  active mailing list with worthwhile and informative information, and make
  sure there are several people who can and are comfortable with answering
  LoCo questions and know where to find some FAQ links. This way there is a
  wiki or someone people can go to to ask the question “what can I do?” and be
  given something within a couple hours or a day of asking for example. The
  NC team is currently working on getting this type of wiki together.

Question: What is your history with OLF, how long have you been going, observations of change over time? What you like about it, what are you looking forward to?

Amber Graner: Ohio LinuxFest 2009 was my 1st time attending this event. I helped a little at the LinuxPro Booth, got a chance to be on my very 1st podcast as well. I also got a chance to talk to more people and get to know them a little better as new friends in the FOSS and Ubuntu communities had begun to form. I can't speak to changes but I can tell you I like the atmosphere and the event. The speakers the Ohio Linux Fest people pick seem to be able to speak to all levels of FOSS users and developers -- from the curious, to the new and novice as well as those seasoned developers who are looking their next project. The speakers, vendors, and other participants create a very inclusive and inviting event. I really enjoy attending and would encourage anyone to go especially if they are new to FOSS.

Question: What an Ubucon, give us the low down, why should we be getting down there a day early?

Amber Graner: In a nutshell this UbuCon is a one day Ubuntu Conference. This is an opportunity to spend the day in 45 minute sessions from 10am to 5pm learning more about Ubuntu and how you can participate and contribute to the project. This also gives you the opportunity to talk to some of the Ubuntu Community without the distraction of all the other awesome events that will be happening on Saturday. You can find the UbuCon schedule here http://ohiolinux.org/ubucon

Question: Anything you want to plug while we've got you answering questions for us?

Amber Graner: Yes! Myself and a friend of mine, Jeremy Foshee, have started a new podcast "Failure to Communicate". We just want to remember to laugh. In this podcast we are Southern and Irreverent and occasionally we throw in pinches and dashes of Ubuntu here and there. However, it is not meant to be an Ubuntu podcast, but the fact is I can't have a conversation with anyone without working FOSS or Ubuntu into it. We are working on a site for it, but for now it can be found on my personal blog akgraner.com. If you want to hear Episode 1 and all the mistakes we made in it got to: http://akgraner.com/?p=704

Amber Graner: Thanks guys for inviting me to do the interview both on the cast and here in the show notes. I can't wait to share your cast with other people in the community!

Lococast.net Episode 5 - Everyone to Ohio

• Intro
• Intro Guest Co-Host Amber Graner
• Interview with Amber Graner (See written : transcipt-ish version here)
  • http://akgraner.com/?p=668
  • http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Amber-Graner-You-in-Ubuntu
  • Background
  • Loco Conversation
  • Ohio Linux Intro http://ohiolinux.org
• Other Events
  • Global Bug Jam - This weekend, check out http://loco.ubuntu.com/ -
    see when your loco is getting together
  • Code Mash - accepting talks - Jan 12-14th
• Ubuntu StackExchange Follow Up
• Books
  • Craig: Web Design for Developers by Brian P. Hogan
    
  • Amber: The New Community Rules: Marketing on The Social Web
  • Rick: Pro Python
• Extro - Thanks Amber!!
• Music
  • Thornwill - Midnight Hunger
  • Diablo String Orchestra - Zodiac Virtues
  • Countdown - 121007
  • M.A.S.A.C.R.E - Conciencia Magra
  • Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I:7
  • Astras - The Incredible Light

Welcome to Lococast.net, screencasts. Today we make the sales pitch to go ahead and customize your vim configuration. The potential payoffs in productivity are huge for any developer. We'll run through some sample items that can make a big difference right off the bat and explain the various ways you can expect to customize things in vim.

Make sure to open this fullscreen or into a larger format so you can see it clearly. Video is recorded in 720p.

Let us know what you think or send us an email at feedback@lococast.net.

My Vim Config: http://github.com/mitechie/pyvim

Lococast.net Episode 4 - Freedom in a Box?

• Intro
• Feedback
• PyOhio Summary:Good talks, open spaces, see blog.
  • Rick's Summary: http://blog.mitechie.com
  • http://pyohio.org
  • http://python.mirocommunity.org/category/pyohio-2010
• Follow up, ubuntu stack exchange now live. And of course the people that want it more than Ubuntu: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Aug-05.html
• Freedom Box
  • http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/210-FreedomBox.html
  • http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
  • http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2010/feb/10/highlights-eben-moglens-freedom-cloud-talk/
  • http://natalian.org/archives/2010/08/06/Debian_powered_Web_applications/
• Golden Age of OSS: http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/08/09/the-golden-age-of-open-source/
• Events
  • Codemash call for talks opens today Jan 12-14th - http://codemash.org
  • OLF coming Sept 10-12th - http://ohiolinux.org
• Book Picks
  • Rick: Nothing currently, fun reading. Do have Beautiful Data and Art of Communityon the kindle
  • Craig: Linchpin by Seth Godin
• Coming Up: Lococast Screencasts starting with Vim #1: Splits
• Extro
• Music
  • Hangman - The Gallows: Intro
  • Micronaut - Slinky: Northern Style Kung Fu
  • Music Inside - Outside Forces: Drive Thru
  • Five Star Fall - Automatic Ordinary: What Planet Are We On
  • Havok - World Shroud: Season of the Locust
  • Diablo Swing Orchestra - Butcher's Ballroom: Velvet Embracer

Welcome to a new series for Lococast.net, screencasts. We love our tools and want to share our experiences with them. Not the beginner help stuff, but the what makes my tool super cool stuff.

In that train of thought we bring you the first screencast. This is a video on getting started with vim splits. Why are they better than tabs, how can they be used, and how can they be used to be more efficient than you were when you started?

Make sure you select to view this in 720p and in full screen if you want it to look clearer. It should be much clearer once using the higher resolution settings from YouTube.

Let us know what you think or send us an email at feedback@lococast.net.

Episode notes file: http://github.com/mitechie/Lococast-Notes/blob/master/vim_001/vim_001.splits.rst

My Vim Config: http://github.com/mitechie/pyvim

Is it just me or has the progress made in making Linux easier for the non-techies/Linux users actually made it harder to make Linux do what it was best at, molding into the great tool that fits you better than the other OSes out there? I rant on my issues getting Ubuntu to do what I want on my new Laptop and ponder if Ubuntu's outgrown me or I've outgrown it.

Lococast.net Episode 3 - E-Read This

• Intro
• Feedback: Thanks
• Rick's Rants: First episode feedback, potential guest ranters?
• Events - quick re-reminder
  • PyOhio July 31st - Aug 1st (pyohio.org)
  • OLF September 10-12, 2010 - (ohiolinux.org)
• Main Topic - E-book readers and rise of the machines
  • Intro to e-books
  • E-Ink vs LCD
  • Devices we own
    • Rick - Kindle 2
      • Likes
      • Dislikes
    • Craig - Sony PRS-505
      • Likes
      • Dislikes
  • Other devices
    • Nook
    • Kindle DX
    • iPhone, iPod, Android...ugh
  • Reading material, where to get it
    • Amazon
    • O'reilly Direct
    • Apress
    • Google Books
    • Project Gutenburg
    • Baen Books
    • Steve Jackson Games
• Books
  • Rick - Freedom, sequel to Daemon
  • Craig - Accelerando- Charles Stross
• Extro
• Music
  • Atomic Opera: Rain Parade
  • Micronaut: Vulgar
  • Electric Frankenstein: Fast and Furious
  • Eternal Jazz Project: Cliffhanger
  • Chris Randall: Two Trains Coming

This is our first episode of Rick's Rants. Basically I have a reputation as willing to take on things that annoy me to no end. I tried to start these off in a short, < 10min, test episode with something that's not pure rant. So consider this another beta release. Provide feedback at feedback@lococast.net or in the comments below. Make sure to let me know if you've heard me rant at MUG or CoffeeHouseCoders and think it'd make a good one for the shotcast.

In the future I might try to bring in some guests to cover the other point or to help me cover the rant material. Let me know if you might be interested in doing a test co-host rant.

And with that I give you

Rick\'s Rants Episode #1: Help Me! Netiquitte

• Intro
• Thanks for the feedback
• Shout Out - Leo Loving the ZSH, awesome
• Events
  • PyOhio July 31st - Aug 1st
  • Ohio Linuxfest Sept 10-12th
• App stores on desktop OS's
  • Shot of Jaq discuss software center
• Canonical Joins the Open Invention Network
• Books
  • Rick
    • Pro Python
    • Daemon
  • Craig
    • Your Brain at Work
• Feedback: feedback@lococast.net
• Extro

Music for this Episode (available at Magnatune)

• The Dino Haak Collective: Life Bit Me
• Crimsonfaced: Video
• Jive Ass Sleepers: Naughty But Nice
• Big Bad Sun: The Spirit
• Music Inside: Stinky Dog

We delve into our first episode of the podcast. Some intro, some brief discussion, and the promise to return and try again.

Lococast.net Episode 1

Show Notes:

• Intro
• Purpose of the show
• Rick's Intro
• Craig's Intro
• What to expect
• Ubuntu news
• StackOverflow for Ubuntu yay/nay?
• Vote at:  http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7716/ubuntu
• What you're reading
  • Rick - Coders at Work
  • Craig - CouchDB: The Definitive Guide: Time to Relax (Animal Guide)
• Feedback - site/comments (email coming)

Music for the show by Drop Trio, available at magnatune.com

• l.u.g.
• Invisible Pants
• Abbey Rhodes

So Lococast.net is our attempt to bring a taste of our infamous CoffeeHouseCoders conversations to everyone else. We think it's fun stuff and we're pretty sure there's a chunk of you guys/gals that will find it interesting too.

And when Rick just needs to get something off his chest, look out for Rick's Rants podcast.

Rick's favorite editor by far is Vim. His mastery of Vim is a borderline martial art. Join Rick for his Vim Screencastas he shows you how to make the most of Vim, with tips, tricks, and katas that will have you slicing and dicing your text files with ease.