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
  

Episode 21: OLF recap and there will be rants!

• 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

Lococast takes to the road!

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