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

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 15 - Interview Jason Smith about Unity

• 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

We need your help. Craig and I have spoken our concerns about what Unity means to the future of Ubuntu. Thursday March 24th, we'll be interviewing Jason Smith of Canonical who works on the Unity team. We'd like to know what you'd ask him if you got a chance.

• 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

Lococast.net Episode 2 - Meet Me at the App Store

• 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