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Episode 122: Interview Janos Sztipanovits

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:04:06 -0600

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This is a discussion with Janos Sztipanovits about Cyber Physical Systems and how DSLs are used to approach some of the challenges in that domain. Specifically, in the second part we talk about formalizing DSL semantics.

Episode 121: OR Mappers with Michael Plöd

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:20:02 -0600

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Michael Plöd

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In this episode, Michael Plöd is interviewed about Object-Relational Mapping technology. He talks about the common concepts, compares the range of different tools that go by this name, and goes into the design and architectural consequences of using an OR mapper.

Episode 120: OCL with Anneke Kleppe

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:39:29 -0600

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In this episode we're talking to Anneke Kleppe about model-driven software development and language engineering. We start with her involvement in the creation of the Object Constraint Language (OCL) and discuss the intial expactations, actual experiences, and the place of OCL in the current day. From here, Anneke talks us through her take on the formative years of UML and MDA. From here, we expand to the realm of Domain-Specific Languages and Anneke discusses their place in software engineering in general and why we should expect DSLs in significant numbers to become a common sight.

Episode 119: DSLs in Practice with JP Tolvanen

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:35:25 -0600

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JP Tolvanen

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In this episode, Markus talks with Juha-Pekka Tolvanen about using DSLs and code generation in practice. The main part of the episode is the discussion about a number of case studies that show how DSLs and code generation are used in practice.

Omega Tau,
Markus' new podcast mentioned in the beginning of the show

Episode 118: Eelco Visser on Parsers

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:27:21 -0600

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Eelco Visser

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Code Generation 2008

In this episode we're talking to Eelco Visser about parsing text. We start at the basics - what is parsing? - covering classic tools such as Yacc and classic parsing approaches such as LALR before examining how more recent approaches such as scannerless parsing can make parsing easier and enable previously impractical use cases.

Episode 117: Bran Selic on UML

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:48:32 -0600

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Bran Selic

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Code Generation 2008

In this episode we're talking to Bran Selic of Malina Software about modelling in general and UML2 in particular. Bran covers the basics of modelling, the history of UML, and what's new in UML2.

Episode 116: The Semantic Web with Jim Hendler

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:47:58 -0600

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In this episode we're talking to James A. Hendler about the semantic web. We start with a definition of the semantic web and by discussing the main ingredients. We then look at (more or less) related topics such as prolog, artificial intelligence, wisdom of the crowds, and tagging. In the next section we discuss the core semantic web technologies: RDF, OWL, inference engines, SPARQL, and GRDDL. We conclude our discussion by looking at the status of the semantic web today and a couple of example applications.

Episode 115: Architecture Analysis

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:41:25 -0500

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Bernhard Merkle

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During Evolution of a software system, it becomes more and more difficult to understand the originally planned software architecture. Often an architectural degeneration happens because of various reasons during the development phases. In this session we will be looking how to avoid such architectural decay and degeneration and how continuous monitoring can improve the situation (and avoid architectural violations). In addition we will look at "refactoring in the large" and how refactoring can be simulated. A new family of "lint like tools for software architectures" is currently emerging in the marketplace I will show some examples and how they scale and support you in real world projects.

Episode 114: Christof Ebert on Requirements Engineering

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:28:32 -0500

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Christof Ebert

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In this episode we talk to Christof Ebert about requirements engineering. As the name "engineering" suggests, we need to be systematic when working and managing requirements. Christof will structure RE into several activities, namely elicitation (identifying the relevant requirements), specification (clearly describing requirements), analysis (synthesizing a solution), verification and validation (achieving good requirements quality), comittment (allocating requirements to a project, product release or iteration), and management (keeping track of the implementation status of requirements). In this episode we discuss these activities and highlight lots of practical guidance.

Episode 113: Building Platforms with Jeff McAffer

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:53:29 -0500

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Jeff McAffer

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In this episode we talk with Jeff McAffer about building platforms. We start with a brief discussion about what a platform is in contrast to a framework or an application. Drawing from his experiences working on the Eclipse platform for years, Jeff talks with us about how to develop platforms, why developing a platform is different from developing an application, what makes a good platform great, and why API design becomes so extremely important for platforms. He provides us with some insights on how the development process and the client collaboration for platform development could look like and what has and has not worked in the past.

Episode 112: Roles in Software Engineering II

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:05:25 -0500

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This is the second part of the two part topic on roles in software engineering. Michael and Markus discuss role definitions in a corporate environment. For several typical roles we give hints on the expected skills, knowledge, and mindset. In this episode we discuss the roles technical lead, technologist, requirements engineer, product manager, and project manager.

Episode 111: About Us 2008

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:16:39 -0500

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In this episode we discuss the status of SE Radio today and introduce the team members. Among other things, Markus discusses stats, sound quality, partners, transcripts, and the cooperation with Hillside Europe. Also, the team members introduce themselves with a one to two minute clip.

Episode 110: Roles in Software Engineering I

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:51:58 -0500

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This is the first part of a two part topic on roles in software engineering. Michael and Markus discuss role definitions in an corporate environment. For several typical roles we give hints on the expected skills, knowledge, and mindset. In this episode we discuss the roles junior developer, senior developer, and software architect.

Episode 109: eBay's Architecture Principles with Randy Shoup

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:57:11 -0500

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Randy Shoup

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QCon 2007

In this episode we discuss with Randy Shoup, Distinguished Architect at eBay, about architectural pinciples and patterns used for building the highly scalable eBay infrastructure. The discussion is structured into four main ideas: partition everything, use asynchrony everywhere, automate everything, and design the system keeping in mind that everything fails at some point in a large distributed system.

Episode 108: Simon Peyton Jones on Functional Programming and Haskell

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:47:22 -0500

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Simon Peyton Jones

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QCon 2007

We start our discussion with a brief look at what Haskell is and how a pure functional language is different from non-pure languages. We then look at the basic building blocks and the philosophy of the language, discussing concepts such as the lambda calculus, closures, currying, immutability, lazy evaluation, memoization, and the role of data types in functional languages. A significant part of the discussion is then spent on the management of side effects in a pure language - in other words, the importance of monads. We conclude the episode with a look at Haskell's importance and community today.

Episode 107: Andrew Watson on the OMG

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:46:25 -0500

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Andrew Watson

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OOP 2008

This episode is a discussion with Andrew Watson, Technical Director of the Object Management Group.
The episode is structured into five parts. We start with the history of the OMG and its early work. Then we look at the set of standards it has been (or is currently) working on. Next is a discussion of the standardization process used by the OMG, including the much-debated topic of compliance testing. We then look at OMG's relationship to other standards bodies (W3C, OASIS). Finally Andrew and I briefly discuss our common passion, gliding :-)

Episode 106: Introduction to AOP

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:07:58 -0500

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Christa Schwanninger,
Iris Groher

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This episode is a systematic introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming (in contrast to the interview with Gregor Kiczales). We discuss the fundamentals of AOP, define many of the relevant terms and also look at how and where AOP is used in practice, as well as at some current research trends.

Episode 105: Retrospectives with Linda Rising

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:57:29 -0500

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Linda Rising

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QCon London, 2008

In this episode we're talking to Linda Rising about retrospectives. We start by defining what a retrospective is and discuss some of the logistics of making it work for software projects. We then look at the different phases of a retrospective. The main part then is a discussion about some of the practices or games that are used to facilitate the retrospective. We conclude the retrospective discussion with destroying some of the prejudices against it and the relationship to process improvement and CMM.
At the end of the interview we talk a little about Linda's current interest: how does the brain work?

Episode 104: Plugin Architectures

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:30:56 -0500

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In this episode we talk with Klaus Marquardt about building systems out of plugins. After briefly introducing the concept of a plugin in contrast to modules and related software engineering concepts, we discuss different views on plugins and different ways of working with plugins for developing software. We are looking at plugins for embedded systems as well as large business systems, at how plugins change the working mode and team organization, and discuss the possibilities of why and when to use plugins for implementing software systems.

Episode 103: 10 years of Agile Experiences

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:04:47 -0500

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Jens Coldewey

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In this episode we're talking to Jens Coldewey about his experiences in 10 years of introducing agile techniques to project teams. We discuss real-world examples and the lessons learned and strategies derived from them.

Episode 102: Relational Databases

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:15:07 -0500

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In this espisode we take a closer look at relational database systems and the concepts behind them. We start by discussing the relational paradigm, its concepts and ramifications, and go on to architectural aspects.

Episode 101: Andreas Zeller on Debugging

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:18:24 -0500

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Andreas Zeller

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JAOO 2007

In this episode we're talking to Andreas Zeller. about debugging. We started the discussion with an explanation of what debugging and how it works in principle. We then briefly discussed the relationship between
debugging and testing. Next was the importance of the scientific method for debugging. We then looked as debugging as a search problem, leading to a discussion about delta debugging, the main topic of this discussion. We concluded the discussion by looking at the practical usability of delta debugging and the relationship to other means of automatically finding problems in software.

Episode 100: Software in Space

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:24:42 -0500

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Hans-Joachim Popp, CIO, DLR

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OOP 2008

In this episode we're talking to Hans-Joachim Popp, CIO at DLR about software in space. We start out by reviewing some well-known accidents of unmanned space flight that were caused by software faults and use this as a motivation to discuss how to avoid these in the future. We discuss culture, process, techniques and tools that DLR uses to create high-quality software for use in unmanned space systems.

Episode 99: Transactions

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:09:36 -0500

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This episode takes a close look at transactions from different angles, starting with their fundamental properties of Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability but also investigating advanced topics like distributed or business transactions.

Episode 98: Stefan Tilkov on REST

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:55:49 -0500

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Stefan Tilkov

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OOP 2008

In this episode we discuss REST (Representational State Transfer) with Stefan Tilkov. We started out by discussing the 5 steps to REST: IDs, links, Standard Methods, multiple representations and stateless communication. We then looked at how to use HTTP for REST, and discussed about how to use it for Web Services. We then we discussed whether and how to use REST for enterprise applications, and not just for apps on the internet. We concluded the discussion with a couple of recommendations.

Episode 97: Interview Anders Hejlsberg

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:41:56 -0500

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Anders Hejlsberg

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In this episode we have the pleasure of talking to Anders Hejlsberg, Chief Language Strategist at Microsoft. We started by discussing his more distant past, namely, his involvement with Turbo Pascal and Borland's Delphi. We then looked at the influences Delphi had on C# and how C# evolved from Delphi. In the next section we discussed a couple of general language design issues, among them components and checked vs. unchecked exceptions. Next, we discussed interesting issues about languages of the future, static vs. dynamic typing, functional programming, meta programming as well as the importance of good support for concurrency. We concluded the discussion by looking at the interplay between languages and IDEs.

Episode 96: Interview Krzysztof Czarnecki

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:14:02 -0500

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Krzysztof Czarnecki

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JAOO 2007

This episode is the long-awaited (and much requested) interview with Krzysztof Czarnecki, the author, together with Ulrich Eisenecker, of the book Generative Programming.

In the interview we discussed the state of generative programming today and related it to model-driven development and DSLs. We then talked a little bit about product lines in general. We then discussed his current field of research, which currently focusses on framework-specific modeling languages and non-trivial roundtrip engineering.

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

Episode 122: Interview Janos Sztipanovits

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Episode 121: OR Mappers with Michael Plöd

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Episode 120: OCL with Anneke Kleppe

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Episode 119: DSLs in Practice with JP Tolvanen

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Episode 118: Eelco Visser on Parsers

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Episode 117: Bran Selic on UML

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Episode 116: The Semantic Web with Jim Hendler

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Episode 115: Architecture Analysis

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Episode 114: Christof Ebert on Requirements Engineering

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Episode 113: Building Platforms with Jeff McAffer

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Episode 112: Roles in Software Engineering II

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Episode 111: About Us 2008

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Episode 110: Roles in Software Engineering I

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Episode 109: eBay's Architecture Principles with Randy Shoup

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Episode 108: Simon Peyton Jones on Functional Programming and Haskell

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Episode 107: Andrew Watson on the OMG

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Episode 106: Introduction to AOP

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Episode 105: Retrospectives with Linda Rising

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Episode 104: Plugin Architectures

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Episode 103: 10 years of Agile Experiences

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Episode 102: Relational Databases

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Episode 101: Andreas Zeller on Debugging

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Episode 100: Software in Space

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Episode 99: Transactions

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Episode 98: Stefan Tilkov on REST

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Episode 97: Interview Anders Hejlsberg

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Episode 96: Interview Krzysztof Czarnecki

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