In which we hear Coté's grand theory of work-is-entertainment.

We talk with Zane about barcampATX and Noah: the Culling.

Teyo Tyree and Dan Bode update us on what's going on with puppet and Puppet labs.

Kim tells us her morning routine with her iPhone - doing Interner chores.

To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here:

On the way to pick up a pizza, we record an episode. Catch the drive-thru beer-barn!

Among other things, we discuss:

• Niilo, the new kid in town.
• Time management for makers vs. managers, craftsmen vs. factories.
• EMail, GMail, and business privacy concerns.

To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here:

While driving for tacos one day, Kim noticed a Captain Benny's is now in town. She tells us her memories of Captain Benny's from her Houston childhood, and he dad's memories of how Captain Benny's started. We also review the food we got at Mi Madre's while recording this episode.

Kim and I talk about new features in the iPhone 3.0 software.

To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here:

• Stop Eating Boring Tuna.
• The Bench Seat of Doom - one fart could kill us all: helping Charles & Silva move.
• Beverly Hills Cop II - jogging in oil fields.
• Arley's Cheese Whiz Police covers - where are they now? - are they in Mesa Quotes? (No...?)
• Finish Pride - there was always...sauna.
• Charles' JavaScript talk at the Ann Arbor Java User's Group.
• "Play With" - JavaScript/JSON
• Using GitHub on the (slow) netbook?
• JavaScript & JSON makes me wonder, "is Object Orientation flawed?"
• Wittgenstein means "Language is a language is a Leaky Abstraction."
• Try the R2 podcast, it's fantastic.

To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here:

In this two episodes in one episodes, Charles and I embed an episode of RIA Weekly into an episode of DrunkAndRetired.com. It's like a taco in a hamburger wrapped in a slice of pizza.

Here's a brief summary:

• Detroit's motto is actually "Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus", which means "We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes" in English.
• Check out The Bladerunner game FAQ I wrote long ago.
• Charles gives his love to DonkeyTron 5000.
• Since both of us have heard the NPR coverage of Detroit this week, I (re-)ask Charles, "what's up with Detroit?"
• This gets us into a discussion of the villains plans to tear down the old city and build a new one in movies like Darkman, Robocop, and Bruce Sterling's recent book The Caryatids, which I give a brief overview of.
• Don't forget Charles' upcoming talk at the Ann Arbor JUG! Charles will try to address Pete F.'s desire for a recording.
• Charles discusses his concept for "TwitterDick.com," that is, seeing how much social media ego you have.
• This leads us to propose the DrunkAndRetired.com Listener Market Research Omnibus Survey. Want to participate, just tell us!
• For a detailed summary for the RIA Weekly episode, see the RIA Weekly #49 show-notes.

To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here:

While in Seoul, I Charles and I finally had the chance to record a new episode. We talk about my trip over to Korea, house hunting in Austin, and the Apple Time Capsule.

To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here:

While running a quick errand, we talk about all sorts of things:

• Football-shaped iPhones
• The Many accents on the Garmin GPS nuvi.
• King Ranch Casserole - see the essay/receipe here.
• Charles' sandwich inventions: The Pork-chop Garnish and The Double Egg Bonus. (See more of Charles' pictures over in twitpic.)
• It's true, those kids won't get off my lawn.
• Kim looses her iPhone.
• Charles on Groovy/Grails.
• Ruby and JavaScript in IntelleJ.
• ...and more!

To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here:

In this episode, Kim and I talk about figuring out our housing situation: the nice, city neighborhood vs. the luxurious suburbs. We also go over Kim's time in Houston where she spent lots of time waiting around in hospitals which causes is to wonder out-loud if there's some kind of doctor shortage.

To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here:

After a weekend in Austin, we talk with our niece Amber about such hot topics as "Mall Cop" and her Nintendo DS.

Also, don't forget to subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes (or whatever you like) to have all of the Austin's Very Own episodes automatically downloaded for your viewing and listening pleasure! Click right here and select the way you want to subscribe.

To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here:

While driving around to find some frozen yogurt in Austin, we talk about...frozen yogurt, videos online, and some other exciting topics like desserts. Towards the end, things get gassy as we talk about my problem keeping enough fuel in my car.

To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here:

• Netflix On-Demand, or more "traditional" video On-Demand delivered to XBox.
• "Have you tried it hot?"
• Art by polls - painting and music.
• Charles gets his hard-drive "fixed."
• Going back to paper and pen for notes - maybe Netbooks can save us.
• What's up with these clogged toilets?

To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here:

Enjoy!

To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here:

This week, Charles and I catch up with this second episode. Our lateness is your benefit, dear listeners.

To that end, here's a select list of some of the things we discuss:

• Charles was deadly ill.
• The half-hipster carabiner key-chain arrangement.
• The Pomegranate phone.
• Valentine's Day Gifts - the ladies have it tough here (mine were awesome!).
• Country Clubs seem like they'd be nice, if expensive.
• Charles on designer/developer workflow - applying changes ain't that hard if the developer defines the deliverables.
• Sprites in HTML.
• Maybe the designer/developer workflow will never be de-coupled, really.
• Charles' upcoming talk at the Detroit Java User's Group: it'll be February 18, 2009 6:30PM to 8:30PM at ePrize headquarters in Pleasant Ridge.

Enjoy!

To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here:

While he was in town last week, Charles and I went over to Zane's studio again to record. I must confess, I don't remember what we talked about.

Enjoy!

To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here:

Several weeks ago, I was lucky enough to drop in on my old friend Zane for a Scotch tasting. We had about 5-6 different types of scotch, and took the 2+ hours of this special episode to review each.

Zane has a pretty nice setup for recording and we've recorded this week's episode in there as well.

Also, in addition to the write-up about Zane's recording setup, check out the rest of his wiki for all sorts of fun content.

In this episode, Charles and I go over several key agenda items for the new president. Namely:

• Is Charles a morning person?
• The cult of morning people
• Silva's Dance performance with People Dancing Movement Guild
• All about Evernote. The public Coté Stash
• The so called "wet sauna,"or fake sauna
• Dealing with Snow: Getting around, long-underwear (sheep's wool), driving
• What Charles has been working on - Library Sciences thing called "Summon" Serials Solution
• The Jon Udell regional web-ization efforts
• Browser-cross platform hatin'
• A little bit on Lotusphere 2009
• The Agile Executive
• Texas Social Media Awards - go leave a comment on Coté's nomination!
• Charles' JavaScript talk at the Detroit Java User's Group
• JavaScript on the server-side, that article

Also: why don't you just subscribe to the podcast feed to have all episodes automagically downloaded?!

In this audio only episode of Austin's Very Own, Kim and I discuss our Christmas gift buying theories: how we go about it, what we look for, etc.

Download the episode directly or listen above.

See if you can't leave me an inch from where the zipper (burps) ends, round, under my, back to my bunghole, so I can let it out there if I need to.

In this well documented episode, Charles and I talk about:

• Do you flush the toilet when someone is talking on the cellphone in the bathroom?
• We discuss Charles "professional" uses of video conferencing.
• How bit torrenting works, like, if you want to watch Heross.
• XBox Live and Charles ordered and Android G1 dev phone.
• Google Native.
• KirinDave's post on ruby.
• I solicits advice for what type of content you, the dear reader, would like to see more of.
• Why not be like LBJ and call people every morning? (No exactly like this, though.)

 

Download the episode directly or listen above.

On the way to pick up the dogs, Kim and I recorded a little update on our Thanksgiving, which we'd just come back from. We also go over an update on the adoption process we've been going though, which is pretty near the end. Exciting!

In an attempt to get back to weekly recording, I submit to you, dear listeners, this week's episode!

In this 90+ minute episode, Charles and I cover Thanksgiving, health-care for the indie-type, and then get into scheming how I can get one of Charles' spare XBox's so we can shoot zombies together in Left 4 Dead.

Legendary!

In this episode, Charles and I talk about this week's, US presidential debates.

Also, in response to last week's 64 bit talk, Roger V. sent this in:

A 64-bit OS can access more memory because it's using 64-bit address pointers. In C, C++, and assembly language, one deals directly with address pointers.

Whereas in Java, C#, or the myriad of various scripting languages, one is shielded from raw pointers and one doesn't make direct calls to the OS from these mangaged languages - unless done through a special mapping or adapting mechanism.

So in Java one passes references to objects around and has no idea how big the reference is. Unlike address pointers in C, a Java reference is not directly manipulated. Now from Java, if you want to interact with the native OS, where address pointer types do matter, you have to use the JNI and write that code in C. Java interacts via JNI conventions with the C code, and the C code can interact with any native OS APIs. The C code can then deal with any 32-bit vs 64-bit conversion issues (perhaps by even dropping into some inline assembly language if necessary).

When you pass an address (like a pointer to a string buffer) to an OS API, the language signature for calling the API will make the type of address pointer (32-bit or 64-bit) very, very explicit indeed. You have to pass it the kind of address pointer that the API expects.

So 32-bit code running on a 64-bit OS has to make any system call interactions via some sort of thunk layer. Hence when I run 64-bit Firefox on 64-bit Ubuntu and attempt to use the Adobe Flash player (which to this day is still only available in 32-bit versions no matter what OS), I have to use a special adapter plugin that provides for this thunking. (Same goes for any C/C++ shared libraries - the 32-bit app will have to have 32-bit versions of its shared libraries.)

Now with Apple's latest version of the Mac OS X, the thunking is essentially the other direction. Apple is still using an essentially 32-bit OS, but wants to provide the ability to run 64-bit software applications (Photoshop) that can address beyond 4 GB of memory. So they have a special 64-bit compatible thunking layer for such 64-bit programs that adapts OS calls down to the actual 32-bit native OS API calls. If there is a comprehensive 64-bit thunking layer for all OS APIs, then 64-bit software, including their shared libraries, can be ported to run.

If you young whipper snappers had been around programming in C or assembly back in the days of the 8088/8086/80286 and then dealt with the transition from 16-bit code (MS-DOS, Win3.0) to 32-bit architecture (Win32), this 32-bit to 64-bit thing would all be old hat. Also, if you recall, Win95 was a 32-bit API programming model that thunked down to an underlying 16-bit MS-DOS underpinning.

Hopefully 64-bit will last us longer than 32-bit has - before we have to deal with the 64-bit to 128-bit transition.

--RogerV

This week - episode here, man! - Charles and I have John Willis on as a guest (you may know him from one of my other podcasts, The IT Management Podcast). John explains the business owner side of all this financial stuff that we ranted about last week. Also, as we mention several times, this last week's This American Life episode explains it all very clearly.

We also spend a long time on Charles ranting about the lack of full 64 bit support in Java's Firefox plugin, esp. on the Mac. And then we do the usual noodling around on anything in particular, like how Charles and I met, "5,000 boots a day," ShopUS (seen above), and my neighbor-lady hanging out on her front-porch in her skivvies.

And, actually, it turns out they're not IBM clocks in the Detroit airport.

You guys have it real easy. I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here. Because, the fact is, whether you deserve it or not: you go to one of the best schools in the country.

Rushmore. You lucked out.

Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich, and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs. And take them down.

Just remember: they can buy anything. But they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget that. Thank you.

--Mr. Blume, Rushmore

In this episode, I welcome Charles back State-side by bombarding him with questions about what the hell is happening with this financial stuff. I think we get to 2 or 3 good theories, but as Charles says, it's off course all ass Talk. We're not SmartAndFinancial.com, afterall.

We then sort out when Charles and Silva are going to finally move to Austin (March, 09, it seems), and then I get off on a tear on how Texas needs to best California.

Overall, I'd say this is a damn fine episode.

In this episode, while I'm State-side, Charles is still in Finland. Thus, we start out talking about the wood-burning sauna he's been using. We then jump into a discussion of Chrome, and then I float the theory that there's major cracks in the dominance of web-only UIs - what with RIAs and the iPhone.

We wrap up with a special production from Charles.

"Oh JavaScript! We totally talk about JavaScript every night!"

...

"I like...uh...I've quite enjoyed the drinking."

In this second episode from our Excellent Finnish Adventure, we're sporadically joined by Kim and Silva (pictured above ). We start out in the sauna.

We talk about wood burning vs. electric saunas, talk about the dance performance we'd seen, Blink, and then launch into what the wives think about the programming life.

We talk about a bunch of other stuff too, like how to escape a moose if needed.

In this episode, Charles and I sit on a Finish porch and talk about our trip in Finland so far.

Hey-o, hey-o! Episode 133 is up. This week Charles and I discuss in 15+ minute detail the process of (him) getting to Finland. I loves it!

Me having recently acquired an iPhone 3G, we talk about iPhonery for sometime and then jump into a discussion of Charles using the JavaFX Preview SDK. This drives us unto the swampy waters of discussing usability and UI work in open source and speculating out the different scenarios for what's going on there.

In this episode, I try to get Charles to help me get more shit done (GMTD?). Gotta run to go see Gonzo, no time for long write-up, brohan!

In this episode:

• We start out talking about Charles' "cleansing" efforts, which sound terrible if you like food, but he's down for it.
• I then tell Charles about how I like FriendFeed a lot now-a-days. As I say in the podcast, you guys should join and link up with me so I can get more content to read.
• Charles then talks about how dealing with ruby and Java deployments is annoying and we wonder out-loud about how easy it is to deal with PHP installs - which is probably debatable given crap you've had the deal yourself.I then detail how a little jaunt to iUseThis.com stuck me a desktop optimization rut, esp. after I found AppFresh.
• Finally, we learn that Charles is selling one of his iMacs and - shocker! - probably going to get a ThinkPad.

Thanks to John Arley Burns for sending over the Starcontrol sounds.

This week we phoned in our recording as I was at Velocity 08, smack in the middle of a crazy week of cloud conferences - Tour de Force.com, Velocity, Cloud Camp, and then Structure.

We spend most of our time talking about Charles using Flex (without FlexBuilder) and then get into coverage of the the cloud-headed I'd been doing up to that point.

In our first video episode, we talk about the morning's work, see the place I almost bought my first car, and discuss other exciting items on the way to Domy books.

I went with Kim to get a pedicure and a manicure today. Having never gotten one, it seemed like the perfect chance for Content Creation. For your enjoyment, then: episode 005 of Kim and I's podcast!

Also, why don't you go ahead and subscribe to the podcast feed so you can just get new episodes downloaded into iTunes or whatever crazy gimcrack you're using.

In this episode, we start out talking about Puppet (whose patron company, Reductive Labs is a RedMonk client). I then re-cap the Our Bodies exhibit Kim and saw, we move onto a short discussion of using Rational Tools from Charles' consulting days (I'll be at RSDC next week). We wrap up with Charles' growing distaste for Ajax, but his lack of anything else to use.

This week - download here - Charles and I start by talking about coding by contract. Then we move to the use of a persistent session with SMS systems like BrightKite (check out my BrightKite profile here) and how that might be, you know, something cool. Finally, we talk about what's up with Windows and if Microsoft could pull an OS X with it, that is, start from scratch, more of less.

After a Christmas break hiatus, we're back with a quick episode on jQuery and then tales of Charles getting his debit card account hacked. Visit http://www.drunkandretired.com/ for more!