We never really said goodbye last time. How rude! Well, here comes Season 2 of Code Mongrel back to make up for it all. Thanks to the poking, prodding and goading of our persistent listeners we’re kicking off 2010 right now! A sincere thanks for all the tips, feedback, help and support from you all through Season 1 and we hope you find something to enjoy again in Code Mongrel this year.
We’re very excited to bring you this interview with Jos Poortvliet; one of the driving forces behind the marketing of KDE. We caught up with him at FOSDEM earlier this month where he generously gave us a large slice of his time. This episode comes in around the 20 minute mark; so crank up your headphones and speakers and find out what’s going on in super slick KDE platform.
As with last year, if you’ve any feedback please send it on via our twitter account (codemongrel) or post a comment below! We’d love to hear your opinion.
Season 2 Episode 1 is available at the following links (high quality formats recommended)
Running time 20:05.
You can subscribe to the Code Mongrel podcast using this RSS link or iTunes.
Music by Josh Woodward (Sticky Bee), see joshwoodward.com
Show Notes
- FOSDEM 2010 Videos – Both streamed and downloadable videos of many of the talks at FOSDEM are available here
- KDE.org – The home of the KDE project online
- KDE Techbase – The number one resource for people looking for information on the KDE project and ways to contribute
Code Mongrel Podcast by Code Mongrel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
Episode 6 is go! What? No episode 5? Well, we’ve gone a bit Pulp Fiction this week and given short shrift to doing things in a sequential order. The truth is we were cooking episode 5 last week and then DrupalCamp Belfast came along and was just so fantastic we had to rush an episode dedicated to it out the door!
So what is Drupal? It’s an Open Source content management platform with a strong community focus. We’re lucky enough to have an interview with Drupal Core developer Stella Power about getting into Drupal development along with a summary of some the goings on at the conf. The event took place at NICVA’s HQ and a massive thanks to them and all the organisers who ensured it was a cracking event!
And if you’ve any feedback please send it on via our twitter account (codemongrel) or post a comment below! We’d love to hear your opinion.
Episode 6 is available at the following links (high quality formats recommended)
Running time 11:09.
You can subscribe to the Code Mongrel podcast using this RSS link or iTunes.
Some credits
- Music by Josh Woodward (Sticky Bee), see joshwoodward.com
- Sound Editing Software (Audacity) by the wonderful Audacity development team, available at audacity.sourceforge.net
- Ireland’s awesome Open Source community – just too cool!
Show Notes
- Drupal Project – an Open Source content management platform with a strong community focus
- NICVA – the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action, the umbrella body for voluntary and community organisations in Northern Ireland
- Drupal 7 Usability Tests – Examples of Usability Tests on Vimeo that the Drupal is using to improve quality. Easily find Drupal 7 Usability Tests by searching for the ‘d7ux’ tag on Vimeo
- Drupal Documentation Team – The good folks dedicated to keeping Drupal’s documentation clear and concise
- DrupalCamp Belfast – Watch this space for the next event – let’s hope it’s soon!
- Irish Drupal Group – The number one place to catch folks from the ever-expanding Drupal community in Ireland and Northern Ireland
Code Mongrel Podcast by Code Mongrel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
Episode 4 is out the door! This week we caught up with Jaime Hemmett and Justin Kelly in the Longstone bar in Dublin to find out what’s going to be happening at Ireland’s premier Open Source Software unconferenece – OSS Barcamp! Unfortunately we picked footie night to record the episode so you may hear some Celtic and Arsenal chanting from the plasma tv’s dotted around the pub – it all adds to the atmosphere!
A sincere apology to anyone who is finding that the podcast feed is downloading all four formats (high/low oggs/mp3s) at once. We promised we would fix this before releasing another episode but haven’t gotten the time yet. Never trust a software developer to give a realistic time estimate 
We will try to do this before the next episode. (Promise!).
And please let us know if you’ve any other other feedback via our twitter account (codemongrel) or post a comment below! We’d love to find out what you like or dislike (shock horror!) about the show.
Episode 4 is available at the following links (high quality formats recommended)
Running time 16:06.
You can subscribe to the Code Mongrel podcast using this RSS link or iTunes.
Some credits
- Music by Josh Woodward (Sticky Bee), see joshwoodward.com
- Sound Editing Software (Audacity) by the wonderful Audacity development team, available at audacity.sourceforge.net
- The wonderful Open Source community based in Dublin – you rock!
Show Notes
Code Mongrel Podcast by Code Mongrel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
Code Mongrel Episode 3 is here! This week’s look at Open Source technologies and software development takes us to the Ruby Ireland meetup where we catch up with Morten Bagai and find out what Heroku’s clould platform for Ruby development/deployment is all about.
Note: The Apple approval has come through so we should be listed on iTunes as we speak. Only had to hand over an arm an a leg for the privilege. They take more details than a trainspotter!
Available at the following links (high quality formats recommended)
Running time 13:29.
You can subscribe to the Code Mongrel podcast using this RSS link or iTunes.
A big thanks this week to the Seagrass restaurant on South Richmond Street in Dublin! They provided the venue for the meetup and laid on some tasty tapas and friendly hospitality for event.
Show Notes
Code Mongrel Podcast by Code Mongrel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
Welcome to the second episode of Code Mongrel – a podcast covering Open Source technologies and software development. This week’s show takes a look the REST architecture for delivering web services and is available at the following links (high quality formats recommended)
Running time 05:47.
You can subscribe to the Code Mongrel podcast using this RSS link or iTunes.
Big thanks to Tony Whitmore and the folks at the Ubuntu UK Podcast for the fabulous podcast encoding script Podcoder, which takes the pain out of generating all the different podcast file formats. And thanks to Herbert Boland for making some great sound samples available which we’ve used in the podcast on The Freesound Project.
Show Notes
Code Mongrel Podcast by Code Mongrel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
Welcome to the first episode of Code Mongrel – a podcast covering Open Source technologies and software development. Please use the following mp3 or ogg (3:43) links to listen – whichever depending on how much you love freedom…
You can subscribe to the Code Mongrel podcast using this RSS link or iTunes.
A special thanks to Josh Woodward for kindly providing the Code Mongrel theme tune. The song is Sticky Bee and if you want to hear more of Josh’s great work, check out his collection at joshwoodward.com. It rocks!
Show Notes
Code Mongrel Podcast by Code Mongrel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.