Herding Code 72: Questioning Uncle Bob, Clojure Magic, Mercurial Support at Codeplex, Thoughts About the iPad and Handerpants

Episode 72

This week on Herding Code, the gang discusses Uncle Bob's self-titled blatherings about DI, IoC and Mocking, Clojure and polyglot programming, managed javascript, and recent support for Mercurial at Codeplex. The show finishes up with another K Scott Lightning Round with questions about the iPad and non-technical blog recommendations.

• Uncle Bob recently published two articles which are a little down on DI, IoC and Mocking. Was he merely trying to get a rise out of the community or was he sending a subtle message about poor use of our tools?
• K Scott attended Craig Andera's Clojure Presentation at a recent DC Alt.NET meet up. This sparks a discussion about Clojure Magic - functional programming, transactional memory, concurrency and multi-threaded programming.
• The guys talk about the polyglot programmer, Scala running on the JVM and Java interop. Scott K shares his interest in getting a Clojure, Scala and F# guy in the same room and Kevin gives his thoughts about the language explosion.
• Scott K leads a conversation about managed javascript, node.js, and IronJS.
• The group offers their opinions on Codeplex support for Mercurial and address questions like "Why not Git?" and "Does this make Codeplex more appealing?"
• Lightning Round Question #1: Who's going to buy an iPad?
• Lightning Round Question #2: What non-technical blogs do you read?

Show Links:

• Dependency Injection Inversion
• Mocking Mocking and Testing Outcomes
• Moq
• Rhino Mocks
• Matthew Podwysocki
• DC Alt.Net Group
• Craig Andera's Clojure Presentation Materials
• Clojure Refs
• Clojure CLR
• Scott K's Clojure Gist 
• Audacity
• Chris's Dynamic Compressor
• Gimp
• IronJS
• node.JS
• Simon Willison
• Ruby EventMachine
• Twisted
• Codeplex
• Mercurial, bitbucket
• Git, GitHub
• Rails Commits comparison from SVN to GitHub
• Larry O'Brien - Tablet PC Programmer Responds to Apple iPad
• Michael Ruhlman
• Topless Robot
• Swiss Miss
• Indexed
• Nathan Bowers, UX Hero
• Jin Yang (jzy) 8164.org
• Strange Maps
• Ex Unum, Pluribus!
• FakeSteveJobs
• Art of Manliness
• Archie McPhee
• Monkey Goggles
• Handerpants
• Dave Barry

Show notes compiled by Ben Griswold. Thanks!

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Herding Code 72: Questioning Uncle Bob, Clojure Magic, Mercurial Support at Codeplex, Thoughts About the iPad and Handerpants