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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 […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Episode 21: OLF recap and there will be rants! Intro Events - 1DevDayDetroit Nov 4/5th OhioLinuxfest Recap: Thanks for stopping by the booth everyone! Sourceforge Interview Elizabeth Naramore, Community Developer Manager Links of the week A Gnome OS? Would you use it? Ubuntu with a rolling monthy release, what might work/what will fail Mark Shuttleworth […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hashing the passwords 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)

Lococast.net Episode 17 - Extreme Blabbermouth Edition http://www.flickr.com/photos/uncut/17446765/ Photo by tj scenes 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)

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

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

IronPython in Action 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.

Pyramid: Not built by aliens 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

Greyhound (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryustar/2841582599/) 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

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38591159@N06/3545874617/ 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

Lococast on Location: PyCon 2011 Day 1 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