There are lots of great podcasts about technology out there, but they're generally done by folks that aren't deep down in the trenches dealing with technology first-hand. Rick Harding and Craig Maloney both understand technology, and boy do they have some opinions about it. Join them for the Lococast podcast as they debate, dissect, and dismantle the current tech issues of the day, all with a local Ubuntu flair. They may not agree on all of the issues, but they definitely have opinions.
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Episode 25: The Return of Chris McDonough, bootstrapping pip, projects and playgrounds, and the death of Open Source consulting
Watch us record the podcast, warts and all 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…
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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-dese…
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/savetheclocktower/113966179/ 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-fron…
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/fraserspeirs/3394900315/ 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…
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New Computer Lab (photo credit: Terry McCombs http://www.flickr.com/photos/22809952@N03/6293508103/) 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…
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Password speaking server, guarded by lasers and spiders (photo credit: Nadya Peek) http://www.flickr.com/photos/nadya/30237988/ 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 Linu…
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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 i…
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Power Outage http://www.flickr.com/photos/edellepi/4153467555/ 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 …
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See the crowd and fear! (PyOhio) 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 R…
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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 Tw…
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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 [email protected] Natty is out and peopl…
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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://ope…
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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 Natt…
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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 littl…
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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'…
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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…
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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 pos…
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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…
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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 …
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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-store…
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Rick's Rants Episode #6: Something for the builders 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 deve…
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"Bus Error: Core Dumped" (image by Joe Crawford released under a [CC-BY Attribution Generic 2.0 license) 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 stor…
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Money money money 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 chal…
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/hikingartist/5019940179/ 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 Ha…
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Go to a conference http://www.flickr.com/photos/wilcoxzone/4368662977 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…
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/frenchy/185844843/ 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.…
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/edellepi/4153467555/ 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 s…
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Back to work 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 …
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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/ubuntuthe…
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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 [email protected] UDS Unity Current state, what is it? We all probably know by now Default...pa…
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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 M…
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Rick's Rants Episode #3: We're Here Because it Rocks 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 softw…
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Lococast.net Episode 6 - Ohio Linuxfest Recap/Interviews Intro Feedback: [email protected] 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 …
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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 we…
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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…
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Rick's Rants Episode #2: Newbie Stole My Linux 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 Lapt…
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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 Li…
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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 [email protected] or in the comments below. Make sure to let m…
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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…
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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 re…
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