• Dundermethods – Double Underscore methods in Python
• PyCharm – the Python IDE from JetBrains (for Ruby, check out their RubyMine IDE)
• Pickle – Serializating objects in Python
• Jython, Rubinius and the wonderful world of Mutli VMs
• Approach to patterns in dynamic languages – To Russ Olsen, author of the great Design Patterns in Ruby, a massive apology for forgetting your surname halfway through the podcast!

This week we’ve also got a great competition to bring you, courtesy of the PyCon Ireland organisers. We’ve been given a full weekend ticket, worth 60 Euro, to give away to one lucky winner. For more details, listen to the podcast and win your way to this weekend’s event!

We’d love to hear your opinion, especially if you’ve got some feedback on what you’d like to see in PyCon Ireland. You can leave feedback via the any of following

• Twitter account (codemongrel)
• Post a comment at the thread relating to this episode on the ossdev-ireland googlegroup
• Or simply add a comment to this blog post

Season 2 Episode 4 is available at the following links (high quality formats recommended)

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• High Quality MP3 (34 MB)
• Low Quality MP3 (8.4 MB)

Running time 36:22.

 

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We’d love to hear your opinion, especially if you’ve got some feedback on what you’d like to see in PyCon Ireland. You can leave feedback via the any of following

• Twitter account (codemongrel)
• Post a comment at the thread relating to this episode on the ossdev-ireland googlegroup
• Or simply add a comment to this blog post

Season 2 Episode 3 is available at the following links (high quality formats recommended)

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• Low Quality MP3 (6.8 MB)

Running time 29:44.

 

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Show Notes

• EveryBlock.com – A site that allows you to track and discuss what’s new in your neighborhood.
• Behind the scenes of EveryBlock.com – Adrian Holovaty, author of EveryBlock.com and co-author of the Django web framework, takes you under the hood of EveryBlock.com in a US PyCon 2009 Chicago Presentation
• Python.org – The official website of the Python language
• Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses – A blog post by Simon Willis, co-creator of the Django framework, on harnessing people power when shifting through large volumes of data
• Sunlight Foundation – A non-partisan, non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that focuses on the digitization of government data and the creation of tools and Web sites to make that data easily accessible for all citizens, in an effort to make government more transparent and accountable
• Thoughts on Microsoft History and OSS – An article by Udi Dahan exploring how Open Source has in many ways become a safer bet for managers in the .NET world in terms of longevity
• Wikipedia’s Open Source License article – An overview of what an Open Source license is, with links to more detailed comparisons and information on each one
• Open Source and Open Standards at Home – Positioning Ireland as an International Innovation Hub – A submission to the Irish Government’s Innovation Task Force identifying how Open Source can be used to drive innovation within Ireland

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Ivan is the author of IronRuby in Action, published by Manning, a comprehensive and hands on introduction to IronRuby – an implementation of Ruby which runs on top of .NET (including Mono). This allows you, for example, to easily develop Ruby plugins for Mono apps such as Banshee on Ubuntu, as well bringing the power of Ruby to a wide range of developers working with .NET on Windows. The timing of this podcast couldn’t be better as the official IronRuby 1.0 release is just out!

If this kind of thing tickles your fancy then you’re well encouraged to come along to the Irish Open Spaces Coding Day taking place at UCD Open Source Labs on April 24th!

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 2 is available at the following links (high quality formats recommended)

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• High Quality MP3 (13 MB)
• Low Quality MP3 (3.2 MB)

Running time 13:38.

 

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Show Notes

• Ruby for .NET gets stable with IronRuby 1.0 – News Article on the IronRuby 1.0 Release
• IronRuby drops – make some noise! – A call to .NET dev’s to consider IronRuby now that the 1.0 release is out!
• IronRuby Project – The home of the IronRuby project online
• IronRuby in Action (Manning) – by Ivan Porto Carrero
• Irish Open Spaces Coding Day – A Dublin Alt.NET event to get together, write code and have fun (April 24th 2010).
• FOSDEM 2010 Videos – Both streamed and downloadable videos of many of the talks at FOSDEM are available here

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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)

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• High Quality MP3 (19 MB)
• Low Quality MP3 (4.6 MB)

Running time 20:05.

 

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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

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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)

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• Low Quality MP3 (2.6 MB)

Running time 11:09.

 

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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

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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)

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Running time 16:06.

 

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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

• OSS Barcamp (Schedule) – Ireland’s favourite Open Source event

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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!

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Running time 13:29.

 

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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

• Heroku – The instant Ruby platform
• Ruby Mailer Tips – Darragh Curran’s source code for these coming soon…
• weuseopensource.com – A place for Open Source companies to get listed and find out about each other
• Building weuseopensource.com using Sinatra and Datamapper (slides)
• The Lisbon Tweety- What does the twittering nation think on Lison II?

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Running time 05:47.

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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

• Microsoft submits source code for kernel
• Stephen Hemminger – on why Microsoft released 20000 of driver code under the GPL
• Sam Ramji, Senior Director of Platform Strategy, responds to questions over why Microsoft released the GPL
• Engine Yard launches robust Ruby cloud-based deployment platform service
• Wikipedia’s REST (Representational State Transfer) article
• Your Web Service Might Not Be RESTful If…
• REST – Worst Practices
• Get your API right
• BBC Glow Javascript Library
• Geeknic Dublin – Farmleigh Park, Augest 02 @ 1pm
• Just what is a Festivus?

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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

• Google Chrome – press release
• Microsoft Community Promise
• Matt Asay on Microsoft’s Community Promise
• Mono outpaces Java in Linux desktop development
• Ruby use jumps 40 pc in North America
• State of the Ruby Debugger
• OSS Barcamp
• Heroku Ruby Cloud Platform

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