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FLOSS Weekly 200: Autotest

Wed, 02/01/2012 - 14:56

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Dan Lynch

We talk about Autotest, the testing framework used by the Linux kernel itself, and more.

Guest: Meneghel Rodrigues and Cleber Rosa

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Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Running time: 1:04:58

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FLOSS Weekly 199: Remind

Wed, 01/25/2012 - 18:48

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb

We talk to David Skoll about Remind, old school command line stuff that lets you get messages about what's coming up, and more.

Guests: David Skoll

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Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Running time: 52:26

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FLOSS Weekly 198: FreeNAS

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 15:58

Hosts: Dan Lynch and Simon Phipps

We talk with James Nixon from the FreeNAS project which lets you have a disk storage system on your network at home.

Guest: James T. Nixon III

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Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Running time: 1:03:55

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FLOSS Weekly 197: Overtone

Wed, 01/11/2012 - 14:52

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Dan Lynch

We talk about the Overtone package which lets you create music and sounds just by writing in programs.

Guest: Sam Aaron

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Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Running time: 1:02:28

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FLOSS Weekly 196: Village Telco

Wed, 01/04/2012 - 15:31

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb

We talk about the Village Telco project which is bringing low cost data and VoIP to developing countries.

Guests: Steve Song and Terry Gillett

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Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Running time: 1:01:12

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FLOSS Weekly 195: ZeroMQ

Wed, 12/21/2011 - 19:03

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb

We're at the Brick Twithouse in Petaluma with Pieter Hintjens where we talk about ZeroMQ, which makes socketing and messaging easier.

Guest: Pieter Hintjens

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Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Running time: 1:02:07

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FLOSS Weekly 194: MySQL And MariaDB

Wed, 12/14/2011 - 15:57

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Simon Phipps

We talk to the creator of MySQL And MariaDB.

Guest: Michael Widenius

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Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com.

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Running time: 1:07:12

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FLOSS Weekly 193: Pinax

Wed, 11/30/2011 - 15:26

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb

We talk about Pinax, a web framework that gives you building blocks for your websites.

Guest: James Tauber

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Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com.

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Running time: 1:04:30

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FLOSS Weekly 192: Open Rights Group

Wed, 11/23/2011 - 19:22

Hosts: Dan Lynch and Simon Phipps

We talk about the Open Rights Group, it exists to preserve and promote your rights in the digital age.

Guest: Jim Killock

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Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com.

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Running time: 1:07:20

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FLOSS Weekly 191: Salt

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 16:05

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Simon Phipps

We talk about Salt, the remote execution engine that allows you to run the same command on multiple machines.

Guest: Thomas S. Hatch

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Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com.

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Running time: 1:10:10

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FLOSS Weekly 190: IUP

Wed, 11/09/2011 - 15:38

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Simon Phipps

We talk about a portable U.I. that allows your program to work on various operating systems without changing the code.

Guest: Antonio Scuri

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Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com.

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Running time: 56:55

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FLOSS Weekly 189: PerlCritic

Wed, 11/02/2011 - 14:30

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb

We talk about to Jeffrey Thalhammer about his project, PerlCritic, which looks at Perl Code and gives suggestions about how to make it better.

Guest: Jeffrey Thalhammer

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Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Running time: 59:34

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FLOSS Weekly 188: web2py

Wed, 10/26/2011 - 14:21

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Dan Lynch

We talk about web2py, a Python based web framework that has some really interesting and unique features.

Guest: Massimo Di Pierro

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Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Running time: 1:04:16

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FLOSS Weekly 187: Vaadin

Wed, 10/19/2011 - 15:37

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb

We talk about the Vaadin, a Java based, web application framework that allows you to make rich desktop applications.

Guest: Joonas Lehtinen

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Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Running time: 1:13:50

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