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Watch us record the podcast, warts and all Episode 25: The Return of Chris McDonough, bootstrapping pip, projects and playgrounds, and the death of Open Source consulting The problem with having an awesome guest like Chris McDonough on the podcast is you have a really hard time topping that. So what better way to kick off the cobwebs of the podcast than to invite Chris back. Well, add to that three provocative topics (one of which was penned my Chris himself) and you have as good an excuse as any to bring back Lococast from the podcast brink.  We also took the opportunity to record it as a Google Hangout so if you want to see our unvarnished smiling faces you can. If you'd rather let your imagination run wild (and your psyche unharmed) you also have the option of listening to our regularly generated audio file. Shownotes: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-September/128723.html http://alexgaynor.net/2013/sep/08/your-project-doesnt-mean-your-playground/ http://www.plope.com/is_open_source_consulting_dead Music: (00:00) Remain in trance (Evening Ritual) by Aylwin from Split album (BY-NC-SA) (14:52) All Alone With Me (instrumental) by Cancer Killing Gemini from It Only Hurts When We Breathe (Instrumental) (BY-NC-SA) (22:55) Damage is Done by Neurotech from The Decipher Volumes (BY-SA) (41:21) Lord of the Algorithms by Dr. Zilog from Vulgar Fractions (BY-NC-SA)

Episode 25: The Return of Chris McDonough, bootstrapping pip, projects and playgrounds, and the death of Open Source consulting The problem with having an awesome guest like Chris McDonough on the podcast is you have a really hard time topping that. So what better way to kick off the cobwebs of the podcast than to […]

Episode 24: Chris McDonough, Python, and the part time developer returns Intro Events Penguicon recap Chris McDonough interview Pylons Project Pyramid Web Framework Agendaless Part Time developer comes back http://501manifesto.org/ http://hmans.io/2012/04/23/the-501-developer-manifesto/ Somewhat related: work practice http://blaag.haard.se/You-deserve-practice/ New toys Craig: Samsung Galaxy S II / Ting.com Rick: ColorHug finally used Chris: Ubuntu Precise installation Books Craig: - Introducing HTML5 Game Development Music (00:00) Crystals by Professor Kliq from Curriculum Vitae (BY-SA) (09:34) Milkfish - Just Once My Day Blows Yours Away by Analog Industries from unsuspected sounds, vol. 1 (BY-NC-ND) (35:33) Part Timer by Windcheater from Windcheater (BY-NC-SA) (52:33) Sugar and Sweets by Carnaval from Tennis Football Basketball (test) (1:10:22) Revolt (instrumental) by Louis Lingg and the Bombs from Punk Instrumentals (BY-NC-SA) (1:21:13) Midnight Blues by Marcel Ziul from The MZTRIO First Takes EP (BY-NC-SA)

Episode 24: Chris McDonough, Python, and the part time developer returns Intro Events Penguicon recap Chris McDonough interview Pylons Project Pyramid Web Framework Agendaless Part Time developer comes back http://501manifesto.org/ http://hmans.io/2012/04/23/the-501-developer-manifesto/ Somewhat related: work practice http://blaag.haard.se/You-deserve-practice/ New toys Craig: Samsung Galaxy S II / Ting.com Rick: ColorHug finally used Chris: Ubuntu Precise installation Books Craig: […]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/savetheclocktower/113966179/ Episode 23: Where did all this JavaScript come from? Intro Events Penguicon Rick Talking 27th Craig talking April 28th Ubuntu Michigan Loco Release Party Bookie Mini-sprint PyCon summary bpython ftw Front end developer toolset checklist http://rmurphey.com/blog/2012/04/12/a-baseline-for-front-end-developers/ Other recent handy tools grover YUI test runner phantomjs Used for running Heroku PaaS for your apps The great semicolon debate! https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/3057 https://github.com/styleguide/javascript Toy review time Synology DS212J Kenisis Keyboard Logitech Squeezebox Radio Books Rick Introduction to Tornado Managing Projects with Gnu Make tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development Craig tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development Little Book on CoffeeScript Music (00:00) Tugboat Road by allMeadow and Rob Costlow from Reunion (BY-NC-SA) (07:52) Around by Ours vince from Around (BY-NC-SA) (12:56) Triptych by The Rapture from 10 Raptures (BY-NC-SA) (43:36) DJungle (Living Soul Redux) by Burning Babylon from Beat Beat Beat (BY-NC-SA) (58:55) Devil's Playground (SNTK2 Version) by [Sin.thetic Squad] from Synthematika Two (2010) (BY-NC-ND) (1:10:20) Agents Of Betrayal by LOST WORLD ORDER from Parasites (BY-NC-ND)

Episode 23: Where did all this JavaScript come from? Intro Events Penguicon Rick Talking 27th Craig talking April 28th Ubuntu Michigan Loco Release Party Bookie Mini-sprint PyCon summary bpython ftw Front end developer toolset checklist http://rmurphey.com/blog/2012/04/12/a-baseline-for-front-end-developers/ Other recent handy tools grover YUI test runner phantomjs Used for running Heroku PaaS for your apps The great […]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fraserspeirs/3394900315/ Episode 22: Welcome to 2012, times are a changing. Disclaimer Yes, I had my mic backwards for the whole show. I apologize for the quality of my voice in here. Intro Detroit Dev Day Notes Code Reviews and the importance of viewing the diff New Toys New ereaders: Kindle DX and Nook Tablet Standing desk Geekdesk Books Rick: not much, fun fiction ftw! Craig: Coders at work Clean Code Responsive Web Design Music Liquorstore by The Easton Ellises from EP One Average White Man by Jive Ass Sleepers from Gettin Down to Business $ by Cloudkicker from ]]][[[ Калевала by Калевала from Кукушкины дети Deteriorate to Gain by The Apocryphal Order from The Apocryphal Order

Episode 22: Welcome to 2012, times are a changing. Disclaimer Yes, I had my mic backwards for the whole show. I apologize for the quality of my voice in here. Intro Detroit Dev Day Notes Code Reviews and the importance of viewing the diff New Toys New ereaders: Kindle DX and Nook Tablet Standing desk […]

New Computer Lab (photo credit: Terry McCombs http://www.flickr.com/photos/22809952@N03/6293508103/) Lococast Ohio Linuxfest 2011 Inteview: Michael Fischer We have one last interview in the can from Ohio Linuxfest, and it's appropriate that we release this canned interview, since it's with Michael "Call me Fish" Fischer (get it? Canned? Fish? OK, I'll stop now). Fish presented a talk at Ohio Linuxfest entitled: "Managing a Computer Lab in a High School Environment". After the talk, Rick and Fish sat down to talk a bit about computers and education, and why Fish brought some of his students to Ohio Linuxfest. Special thanks to Michael "Call me Fish" Fischer for taking the time to talk with us at Lococast.net. Music: Razza by eluzian from Anima Inquieta Harvey Wallbanger by Alan Marchand from Blues for all Occasions

Lococast Ohio Linuxfest 2011 Inteview: Michael Fischer We have one last interview in the can from Ohio Linuxfest, and it's appropriate that we release this canned interview, since it's with Michael "Call me Fish" Fischer (get it? Canned? Fish? OK, I'll stop now). Fish presented a talk at Ohio Linuxfest entitled: "Managing a Computer Lab […]

Password speaking server, guarded by lasers and spiders (photo credit: Nadya Peek) http://www.flickr.com/photos/nadya/30237988/ Lococast Ohio Linuxfest 2011 Inteview: Aaron Toponce "Sherman, set the way-back machine for two months ago, when the fall colors weren't sitting upon our lawn. September should be good, right around the time when Ohio Linuxfest was occurring. Yep, that should be good. Now, be a good boy and open the doors and watch the way-back machine while I listen to these interviews." So, insert the standard disclaimer about not getting these up in time because [life got busy | things came up | cat ate my hard drive] and accept our humble apologies for not getting these interviews up sooner. The next interview from our adventures at Ohio Linuxfest features Aaron Toponce. Aaron sat down to talk with Rick about Aaron's presentation at Ohio Linuxfest about Password Theory and Breaking Encrypted Filesystems. Suffice to say, you might not want to leave your machine unattended near any maids anytime soon. Special thanks to Aaron Toponce for sitting down and talking with us at Ohio Linuxfest. Music Fever by Marcel Ziul from The MZTRIO Live Studio Sessions Way Down Blue by The Dino Haak Collective from Switzerland Your Light Is On

Lococast Ohio Linuxfest 2011 Inteview: Aaron Toponce "Sherman, set the way-back machine for two months ago, when the fall colors weren't sitting upon our lawn. September should be good, right around the time when Ohio Linuxfest was occurring. Yep, that should be good. Now, be a good boy and open the doors and watch the […]

Episode 21: OLF recap and there will be rants! Intro Events - [1DevDayDetroit Nov 4/5th](# "1DevDayDetroit") OhioLinuxfest Recap: Thanks for stopping by the booth everyone! [Sourceforge](http://sourceforge.net) Interview - [Elizabeth Naramore](http://www.naramore.net/blog/), Community Developer Manager Links of the week - [A Gnome OS? Would you use it?](http://bobthegnome.blogspot.com/2011/09/gnome-os.html) - [Ubuntu with a rolling monthy release, what might work/what will fail](http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/09/ubuntu-technical-board-member-proposes-monthly-ubuntu-release-cycle.ars) - [Mark Shuttleworth on Cloud APIs are like HTTP, don't screw it up.](http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/765) - [Application design, Launchpad thinks smaller services](https://dev.launchpad.net/ArchitectureGuide/Services) Rick's Mini Rant: Your anti pattern is called a tool - [Original Article: ORM is an anti-patter](http://seldo.com/weblog/2011/08/11/orm_is_an_antipattern) - [SqlAlchemy](http://sqlalchemy.org) Books - Rick: [Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036S4CNE/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=mitechie-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B0036S4CNE) - Craig: [Mouse Guard](http://mouseguard.net) by David Petersen Music - [Горсти талого снега by Калевала from Кукушкины дети](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/94940) - [Human Core by HiHate from Against All](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/97774) - [Natural 20s by Dual Core from Next Level](http://dualcoremusic.com/nerdcore/) - [Eighties Dance Music by The West Exit from Unearthed](http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/westexit-unearthed/) - [Imported by Irate Architect from Visitors](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/80765) - [The Four Seasons: Concerto in E Major, Op. 8/1, RV 269 - 'Spring': III. Allegro by Lara St. John from Vivaldi - The Four Seasons](http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/lara-fourseasons/) - [Never Happy by Drop Alive from Drop Alive](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/6357)

Episode 21: OLF recap and there will be rants! Intro Events - 1DevDayDetroit Nov 4/5th OhioLinuxfest Recap: Thanks for stopping by the booth everyone! Sourceforge Interview Elizabeth Naramore, Community Developer Manager Links of the week A Gnome OS? Would you use it? Ubuntu with a rolling monthy release, what might work/what will fail Mark Shuttleworth […]

Power Outage http://www.flickr.com/photos/edellepi/4153467555/ Lococast.net Episode 20 - Power is good... Intro Events Ohio Linuxfest - we'll be there, see us at the Michigan Loco booth Interview with Mike Pirnat Howoldismykid.com Links/Tools of the week(s) Sass - for firebug Live Reload Retaliation Webdev and caching discussion Books Rick Gost in the wires Craig What would google do Craig's Kobo saga Music Just had to let you know by Lorenzo's Music from Just had to let you know Give me Hell by Drop Alive from Drop Alive Paid in Full (Instrumental) by Breaker from The More I Want, The More I Get (instrumental) Abbey Rhodes by Drop Trio from Big Dipper Liquid Jazz by General Fuzz from Messy's Place Таусень-Рада by Калевала from Ведьма

Lococast.net Episode 20 - Power is good... Intro Events Ohio Linuxfest - we'll be there, see us at the Michigan Loco booth Interview with Mike Pirnat Howoldismykid.com Links/Tools of the week(s) Sass - for firebug Live Reload Retaliation Webdev and caching discussion Books Rick Gost in the wires Craig What would google do Craig's Kobo […]

See the crowd and fear! (PyOhio) Lococast.net Episode 19 - So, we went to PyOhio and all I got was this t-shirt Intro Events Ohio Linuxfest: Sept 9,10,11 1DevDayDetroit Pycon Speaker Submission Open New Libraries/Dev Tools ScratchPad in Firefox 6.0 Edit in Github with Ace Requests: HTTP for Humans PyOhio Recap Videos of talks Rick's Recap Craig's Recap Bookie Sprint Report Music Intro 1, Intro 2 The Angst Zeit by Neurotech from Antagonist Blues for Bobba by Dark Harvest from Dark Harvest California Doll by doublethink from Seeing Red

Lococast.net Episode 19 - So, we went to PyOhio and all I got was this t-shirt Intro Events Ohio Linuxfest: Sept 9,10,11 1DevDayDetroit Pycon Speaker Submission Open New Libraries/Dev Tools ScratchPad in Firefox 6.0 Edit in Github with Ace Requests: HTTP for Humans PyOhio Recap Videos of talks Rick's Recap Craig's Recap Bookie Sprint Report […]

Hashing the passwords Lococast.net Episode 18 - Passwords, hashes, and Google+ oh my! Intro Events PyOhio: July 30,31 Ohio Linuxfest: Sept 9,10,11 Ubuntu Global Jam: Sept 2,3,4 Securing user's passwords in applications Instapaper - FBI had their servers bcrypt scrypt ticket GPUs Discussion Bookie status report Hosted Bookie Weekly Status Reports Twitter: BookieBmarks Google+ Books Craig: The Python Standard Library Rick: Start Small, Stay Small, Hands on Node.js, iWoz **Music** - [Around the Oak by Drakum from Around the Oak](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/90152) - [Sweet Mary by Moray Eel from Priest Hunter](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/91599) - [Bye Baby by Patrulha66 from Revolution](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/40514) - [Deteriorate to Gain by The Apocryphal Order from The Apocryphal Order](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/88893) - [Bruises (Do It Wrong) by Unwoman from Unremembered](http://unwoman.bandcamp.com)

Lococast.net Episode 17 - Extreme Blabbermouth Edition http://www.flickr.com/photos/uncut/17446765/ Photo by tj scenes Intro Skype bought by Microsoft? Events Penguicon Recap PyOhio (call for talks now on! Sponsorship available!) Loco Takes over MUG - looking for short talk ideas Feedback, send it people feedback@lococast.net Natty is out and people are responding, loads of stories: Craig and his newfound unity love Ubuntu studio moving to XFCE vs Unity: link Is quality an issue? How can we help? Alpha vs Beta testing link Ubuntu power users project: http://www.mikesplanet.net/2011/05/ubuntu-power-users-getting-the-most-from-ubuntu/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerUsers Rick kicks Ubuntu to the curb/server (How's Arch?) UDS happened Documentation cleanup , too much old bad info, delete 5 wiki pages link Amazon Lending, Kindle books outselling paper books on amazon? thoughts? Bookie! (http://bmark.us) Miscellany Confirmed: Microsoft Says It Will Open Source VB 6 link Books Craig Challenges for Game Designers Rick: In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives Node: Up and Running: Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript Snow Crash. (audio book) The Wisdom of Crowds (audio book) Music in this Episode Mercurial Girl by Five Star Fall from Automatic Ordinary Thannheimer by The Dino Haak Collective from Filmscore Infralove by Diablo Swing Orchestra from The Butcher's Ballroom Oh, god. by Cloudkicker from Beacons Uh Oh

Lococast Episode 16: Interview with Greg Grossmeier on Locos, Copyright, and Open Data Craig and Rick take a trip out to Ann Arbor Michigan to chat with the Michigan Loco leader Greg Grossmeier. We chat about how starting up a loco has been. We also get into his current work for the University of Michigan. Lots of information about their http://open.umich.edu program. Next we chat about his internship and work at Creative Commons along with some great info on Open Data. Finally, we wrap up with some talk of govenance, and what he meant in his blog post about the Banshee/Canonical kerfuffle Other Links http://www.sherlockian.net/acd/copyright.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft#Copyright http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead#Copyright_status Music: Ac33d by Micronaut from Transformer

Lococast.net Episode 15 - Interview Jason Smith about Unity Intro Events Global Jam, we're doing one, 10 jams so far Penguicon Interview with Jason Smith Jason is a developer for the Developer Experience (DX) team with Canonical and works on the Unity desktop shell. In particualar the launcher. We ask him how it's going, what the plans are for Natty, and what we should be looking forward to in Natty+1. Links Jason mentions in the interview Unity milestones Cool new scrollbars in Unity Books Craig: Nadda Rick: Pro Python Music Rearm Machines by Sequence The Silence from Bipolar Llama Watch the Burn by Sekshun 8 from Black Winged Butterfly Condemned by Wendigo from Audio Leash Completely mysticism by Dr Kuch from Analog Disease

IronPython in Action Pycon 2011 Sprints Interview: Michael Foord, Canonical, OS Split Personality, and Mocking In our last in the series of interview from PyCon 2011, Lococast sits down with Michael Foord and talk about some of the cool things he's working on at Canonical, how the new version of his Python mocking library Mock is doing, and a little bit about what's going on with IronPython in a post-Microsoft sanctioned project era. Music A Thousand Nails by Aathma from The Call of Shivà The End Of The Snake by Aathma from The Call of Shivà

Pycon 2011 Sprints Interview: Mark Ramm from Sourceforge and Allura, the new forge Lococast got a chance to sit down and ask Mark Ramm about the new open source project forge, Allura. They managed to get it out to the public right before PyCon and were working hard on it during the sprints at PyCon 2011. Find out what makes it unique and what they're up to.

Pyramid: Not built by aliens Pycon 2011 Sprints Interview: Chris McDonough from Pyramid Web Framework Lococast sits down with Chris McDonough from Pyramid Web Framework at the Pycon 2011 sprints. We talk about what's brought around Pyramid 1.0, how the reception has been to the great work, and where Pyramid is looking to go from here. Get a t-shirt from the online store. Music: Snake bite by Gleb Bones from The fine art of wasting timeSnake bite by Gleb Bones from The fine art of wasting time G Trap by Cyber Snake from Dolls & Lovers

Greyhound (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryustar/2841582599/) PyCon 2011: Mike Pirnat Interviews John DeRosa - Busing USA Rick joins Mike Pirnat from the From Python Import Podcast to interview John DeRosa as he discusses his adventure tweeting his bus ride from Seattle to PyCon 2011 in Atlanta. What makes a crazy man do such a thing? What could possibly go wrong? Find out! Music in this episode: New Cycle Day (bonus track) by Sequence The Silence from Bipolar Llama Three Blocks by Sekshun 8 from Black Winged Butterfly Music request sample

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38591159@N06/3545874617/ Lococast and From Python Import Podcast PyCon 2011 Wrap Up Lococast joins forces with the great guys of From Python Import Podcast to go over all the hotness of PyCon 2011. Best talks, best open spaces, and just a bunch of tired brain melted Python devs. Intro Sound

Lococast on Location: PyCon 2011 Day 1 I'm down in Atl, GA for PyCon 2011. This is my report from Day 1 of events. Take a listen to see what's going on and we'll try to get some better notes up in the future. Big props to Craig for helping me get the audio out the next day. Keep an eye out for reviews of day 2 & 3. If you're down at PyCon, stop by during our open space time at 10am on Sunday where I'll be getting together with the guys of From Python Import Podcast and we'll be looking for some mini-interviews. Let the world know what they're missing by not attending PyCon. Intro Outro

Lococast.net Episode 14 - Sitting at the same table Intro Events Ubuntu Cloud Days USD Sponsorship Penguicon Freedombox and Humans are the router The Banshee saga goes on and on  http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/611 http://blog.grossmeier.net/2011/02/24/the-kerfuffle http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/02/24/banshee-in-natty-to-ship-multiple-stores-and-contribute-to-gnome-foundation/ Books Craig: Pro Python Music me one more time by REVENGE from FEST OF REVENGE Robbotica System by Cibernetica from The Ultimate Bio Commando Fallout by Severed Fifth from Nightmares By Design Putrid Pigs by BRUTAL MURDER from Intracranial Total Insanity By yourself by Redmind from Step back from the edge Discipline by Nine Inch Nails from The Slip

Rick's Rants Episode #6: Something for the builders With all this focus on making desktop linux something for the mass market, is there a chance that we end up removing the great things that drew us to the platform as users/developers? Is it possible to have a product that wins with the mass market as well as the people that there building and developing things? Listen/watch the rant and let me know what you think. Do we need something different for Ubuntu users? What would an "Ubuntu Developer Edition" look like in your mind?

"Bus Error: Core Dumped" (image by Joe Crawford released under a [CC-BY Attribution Generic 2.0 license) Lococast.net Episode 13 - WARNING: News overload...generating core dump Intro Events Global Jam Prep Ubuntu Happenings Ubuntu 11.04 Drops Release Candidate / News / Online / Home - Ubuntu User No GPLv3 Software on Windows Phone 7 / XBox app store? Banshee by default brings headaches for Canonical http://gburt.blogspot.com/2011/02/banshee-supporting-gnome-on-ubuntu.html http://doctormo.org/2011/02/16/canonical-platform-control-bites/ Nokia/MS Partnership http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/nokia-confirms-microsoft-partnership-new-leadership-team http://bethesignal.org/blog/2011/02/11/elopocalypse-nokia-chooses-microsoft/ http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/11/in-memoriam-microsofts-previous-strategic-mobile-partners/ Meego - "desktop QT is not our R&D priority right now http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/18/buckets-of-cold-water/ (KDE in danger?) Freedombox http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/ - kickstarter donate http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/721744279/push-the-freedombox-foundation-from-0-to-60-in-30 UberTwitter http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-war-ubermedia-2011-2 The Internet Is Not An Airport Books Craig: Getting Started with Arduino by Massimo Banzi Music: Un by Monkey Trial from Un Interlude by Monster Cyborg from Astral Projection Sidewalk by Etherfysh from Box of Fysh State Trooper by The Dino Haak Collective from Switzerland Your Light Is On

Money money money Rick's Rants Episode #5: If you love it, put a ring on it I keep seeing people that don't get that you can mix money and FLOSS. In fact, if you appreciate the work that these great people creating amazing tools and programs at all, $$ will of course get involved. Time to rant on these people that don't get it and a personal challenge from me to you. Put $5 up for grabs every month, come on, I double dog dare ya!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hikingartist/5019940179/ Lococast.net Episode 12 - cloudy with a chance of feedback Intro Events One month to PyCon! Sign up for sprints Linux Workshop NY State Loco - Feb 19th Ubucon pre - SCaLE 9x Cali Loco - Feb 25th Southern Cali Linux Expo Feb 17th, 10.04.2 due out Heads up, feature freeze coming Feb 24th Ubuntu Happenings Unity updates - Jorge's posts http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/2927038461/unity-bitesize-bug-report-for-25-january http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/3198857225/random-small-bling http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/3202209062/progress-meters-quicklists-and-number-count-for-the Canonical Joins Openstack (6mo release cycle) Dell/Ubuntu cloud offering Diaspora/Facebook and the openness of social networking Books Craig: Eclipse Phase Rick Pyramid Docs. Yay new web frameworks Extro Music Icarus Crash - Mister Leija from Mi Defecto Anonimo Stealth Core by Catherine Corelli from Killed Alive End of Summer by BertycoX from Robot in Love Ekaitzaren ondoren... by Kudai from Arima Eroslea In My Hell by Hangman from THE GALLOWS

Go to a conference http://www.flickr.com/photos/wilcoxzone/4368662977 Rick's Rants Episode #4: Curse of the part time developer You know the guy, the one that's never able to head over to the local LUG meeting. Never shows interest in that cool new example of that awesome bit of code you saw at the last meetup. You've found the "Part time developer" in the group. It's time to call them out. Rant on!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/frenchy/185844843/ Lococast.net Episode 11 - 'cause you can't build Ubuntu without some Python Intro Events Codemash report Get ready for Pycon Loco events NY State Loco - Feb 19th User Group of Rochester monthly meeting Cali Loco - Feb 25th Southern Cali Linux Expo Interview: Barry Warsaw Wiki info http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pkgme/0.1 https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr-pqm https://edge.launchpad.net/tarmac http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3149/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3147/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributedDevelopment Ubuntu Happenings Natty - alpha 2 coming next week! Feb. 3rd Shuttleworth - QT apps in ubuntu Pre-release of multitouch Ubuntu 11.04 Software Center reviews! Books Craig: Learning Python 4th Edition Rick: Practical Ruby for System Administration Python Cookbook Recipes Music 4.1 Chevy! by Catherine Corelli from Overcome Start Entre Cornisas by Icarus Crash from Mi Defecto Anonimo The Same Mistakes by Adam Fielding from Lightfields Time to go by Gleb Bones from The fine art of wasting time

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edellepi/4153467555/ Lococast Interview with Jim Barber Recently we received a note from a listener, Jim Barber. He sent us one of the most interesting stories of his usage of Ubuntu. Rather than read the note on the air, we decided to do an interview with Jim. Unfortunately, Rick was "on assignment", so Craig and Jim sat and talked. Hear about Jim's computer experiences from the past, and how he uses Ubuntu in one of the most unique settings we've come across. (Let's just say I won't be bitching about bandwidth anymore at the coffee shop). If you've got an interesting story about Ubuntu that you'd like to share, or have any questions or comments about the show, send them our way at lococast.net. Show Music: Scanalyzer - Zwichenspeil Zwei from On the One and The Zero Sekshun 8 - Still Smokin from Black Winged Butterfly [](http://shop.positronrecords.com/products/product.php?pid=posi019&aff=posi)

Back to work Lococast.net Episode 10 - Break time over, back to work! Intro Events Codemash (and come check out Rick's Talk Friday) Pycon Penguicon PyOhio Ubuntu Happenings Jono Post - community time Jorge Unity Bug Report Ahmed Kamal - Cloud Community Books Craig Java Web Services Up and Running HTML5 Up and Running Rick Non Designers Design Book 3rd ed In the Beginning Was the Command Line Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks that Work Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Iteraction Design The Evolution of Useful Things Universal Principles of Design: Revised and Updated Show Music Savior by XXX-Car Ride from The Wait is Over Ponete Las Pilas by Scott Hallgren from Tango - Jazz (live in Studio C) Harresia by Kudai from Arima Eroslea Like A Moth To Flame by Iron Thrones from The Wretched Sun

Lococast.net Episode 9 - Scriptlessly chatting natty Events Thanksgiving and Christmas. Come back after the New Year. Codemash 2011 Jan Pycon 2011 March 100 paper cuts novell bought...do we care? Loco teams for natty cycle http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.com/2010/11/loco-teams-in-natty-cycle.html https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntutheproject-n-loco-council http://loco.ubuntu.com/ Books: Craig Learning Javascript by Shelley Powers Miles Errant http://www.webscription.net/p-278-miles-errant.aspx Rick Pulling Strings with Puppet: JavaScript Patterns Music Tears and Blood by Memories Lab from Stronger Than Hate Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy by Daniel Bautista from Classics And Soundtracks Machines Of War by Severed Fifth from Nightmares By Design Utopia by Bertycox from The Signal Victims by Chronique from A Gate To All Secrets

Lococast.net Episode 8 - Sleepytime Show Intro - We're Back! Amber: http://akgraner.com/?p=763 http://granerfamily.chipin.com/the-graner-family Events: Codemash Jan 12-14th Sandusky OH Rick's Talk at CodeMash You've got some events to pub let us know feedback@lococast.net UDS Unity Current state, what is it? We all probably know by now Default...parts that are missing Overall goals, touch, etc Conflict with Gnome, still a 'gnome-toolkit' desktop? Other UDS highlights New ad they had? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYTJPaM82nQ Tons of youtube video Banshee - amazon mp3 vs U1 music store? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DevWorkstation Developer push with things like software center, paid apps, donation for apps, trying to get more apps into center Jim Barber Got some feedback in from a guy sailing his boat Esmeralda and uses the podcast to help pass the time from port to port. Running Ubuntu and learning python after doing some pascal stuff back in the day. Want to see about an interview, back from his last voyage this Dec. Try to get a skype interview going Books Rick: Everyday Scripting with Ruby: for Teams, Testers, and You Art of Community - Jono Bacon Pulling Strings with Puppet Craig: [Cryoburn - [Lois McMaster Bujold]{style="color: #444444;"}]{style="font-size: small;"} [[http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/24-CryoburnCD/]{style="color: #444444;"}]{style="font-size: small;"} [[JavaScript: The Good Parts - Douglas Crockford]{style="font-size: small;"}]{style="color: #222222;"} [Nook Color - the non (E-) e-reader]{style="color: #222222; font-size: small;"} Music: Kudai - Kudai 2.0 Binarpilot - KDR Assault Reno Project - Hot Street Countdown - El Diablo REVENGE - eat me one more time

Lococast.net Episode 7 - Here comes the Meerkat Intro Maverick Meerkat New features coming Ubuntu One Streaming Music Service Get your parties on: Maverick Release Parties Announcing new Loco Day Event Books Craig: Getting Things Done Rick: Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time Music Bidea aukeratu by Kudai from Hutsa Deixa voar by Suinga from Minina Sin Eater by Chris Randall from The Devil His Due Canto XIII by Eva Can't from L'Enigma delle Ombre Ethernidub by Doblezero from Sound Anti-System

Rick's Rants Episode #3: We're Here Because it Rocks A recent post from Roberto about "Why we are here" got me thinking...do people use OSS because it's free, or do they really just use the best tool for the job. How many people feel the need to preach/convert other users out there? I've paid for commercial software I thought was better, even software for Linux. I don't take the freedom angle too deeply, but I do appreciate any software tool that can make my life easier/better, and hey, if it's open/free then all the better. I'm using the stuff I do because I firmly believe it's the best stuff out there. Let us know, why are you here? Did you come for the free and stick around for the freedom? Or is it just giving what you're handed, what you can get for no cost?

Lococast.net Episode 6 - Ohio Linuxfest Recap/Interviews Intro Feedback: feedback@lococast.net Ohio Linuxfest recap Closed Source Web Apps vs Freedom and Open Web Apps Stormy's Talk Mako's Article Interviews Paul Taglamente & Jacob Peddicord from Ubuntu Ohio Loco Carl Richell - President System 76 Books Craig - Python 3 Object Oriented Programming Rick - Art of Community, YUI Learning the Library, Solr Enterprise Search Server Extro Music: Reach by Wendigo from Audio Leash Smile (Make Your Body Move) by Binärpilot from Robot Wars Power of the Power of the Power (of the Great Sword) by NanowaR from Other Bands Play, Nanowar Gay! Pablito's Way by Paolo Pavan from Looking for a Way Out Work At Night by Professor Kliq from Movements EP

Lococast.net Episode 5 - Everyone to Ohio Intro Intro Guest Co-Host Amber Graner Interview with Amber Graner (See written : transcipt-ish version here) http://akgraner.com/?p=668 http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Amber-Graner-You-in-Ubuntu Background Loco Conversation Ohio Linux Intro http://ohiolinux.org Other Events Global Bug Jam - This weekend, check out http://loco.ubuntu.com/ - see when your loco is getting together Code Mash - accepting talks - Jan 12-14th Ubuntu StackExchange Follow Up Books Craig: Web Design for Developers by Brian P. Hogan Amber: The New Community Rules: Marketing on The Social Web Rick: Pro Python Extro - Thanks Amber!! Music Thornwill - Midnight Hunger Diablo String Orchestra - Zodiac Virtues Countdown - 121007 M.A.S.A.C.R.E - Conciencia Magra Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I:7 Astras - The Incredible Light

Lococast.net Episode 4 - Freedom in a Box? Intro Feedback PyOhio Summary:Good talks, open spaces, see blog. Rick's Summary: http://blog.mitechie.com http://pyohio.org http://python.mirocommunity.org/category/pyohio-2010 Follow up, ubuntu stack exchange now live. And of course the people that want it more than Ubuntu: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Aug-05.html Freedom Box http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/210-FreedomBox.html http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2010/feb/10/highlights-eben-moglens-freedom-cloud-talk/ http://natalian.org/archives/2010/08/06/Debian_powered_Web_applications/ Golden Age of OSS: http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/08/09/the-golden-age-of-open-source/ Events Codemash call for talks opens today Jan 12-14th - http://codemash.org OLF coming Sept 10-12th - http://ohiolinux.org Book Picks Rick: Nothing currently, fun reading. Do have Beautiful Data and Art of Communityon the kindle Craig: Linchpin by Seth Godin Coming Up: Lococast Screencasts starting with Vim #1: Splits Extro Music Hangman - The Gallows: Intro Micronaut - Slinky: Northern Style Kung Fu Music Inside - Outside Forces: Drive Thru Five Star Fall - Automatic Ordinary: What Planet Are We On Havok - World Shroud: Season of the Locust Diablo Swing Orchestra - Butcher's Ballroom: Velvet Embracer

Rick's Rants Episode #2: Newbie Stole My Linux Is it just me or has the progress made in making Linux easier for the non-techies/Linux users actually made it harder to make Linux do what it was best at, molding into the great tool that fits you better than the other OSes out there? I rant on my issues getting Ubuntu to do what I want on my new Laptop and ponder if Ubuntu's outgrown me or I've outgrown it.

Lococast.net Episode 3 - E-Read This Intro Feedback: Thanks Rick's Rants: First episode feedback, potential guest ranters? Events - quick re-reminder PyOhio July 31st - Aug 1st (pyohio.org) OLF September 10-12, 2010 - (ohiolinux.org) Main Topic - E-book readers and rise of the machines Intro to e-books E-Ink vs LCD Devices we own Rick - Kindle 2 Likes Dislikes Craig - Sony PRS-505 Likes Dislikes Other devices Nook Kindle DX iPhone, iPod, Android...ugh Reading material, where to get it Amazon O'reilly Direct Apress Google Books Project Gutenburg Baen Books Steve Jackson Games Books Rick - Freedom, sequel to Daemon Craig - Accelerando- Charles Stross Extro Music Atomic Opera: Rain Parade Micronaut: Vulgar Electric Frankenstein: Fast and Furious Eternal Jazz Project: Cliffhanger Chris Randall: Two Trains Coming

This is our first episode of Rick's Rants. Basically I have a reputation as willing to take on things that annoy me to no end. I tried to start these off in a short, < 10min, test episode with something that's not pure rant. So consider this another beta release. Provide feedback at feedback@lococast.net or in the comments below. Make sure to let me know if you've heard me rant at MUG or CoffeeHouseCoders and think it'd make a good one for the shotcast. In the future I might try to bring in some guests to cover the other point or to help me cover the rant material. Let me know if you might be interested in doing a test co-host rant. And with that I give you Rick's Rants Episode #1: Help Me! Netiquitte

Lococast.net Episode 2 - Meet Me at the App Store Intro Thanks for the feedback Shout Out - Leo Loving the ZSH, awesome Events PyOhio July 31st - Aug 1st Ohio Linuxfest Sept 10-12th App stores on desktop OS's Shot of Jaq discuss software center Canonical Joins the Open Invention Network Books Rick Pro Python Daemon Craig Your Brain at Work Feedback: feedback@lococast.net Extro Music for this Episode (available at Magnatune) The Dino Haak Collective: Life Bit Me Crimsonfaced: Video Jive Ass Sleepers: Naughty But Nice Big Bad Sun: The Spirit Music Inside: Stinky Dog

We delve into our first episode of the podcast. Some intro, some brief discussion, and the promise to return and try again. Lococast.net Episode 1 Show Notes: Intro Purpose of the show Rick's Intro Craig's Intro What to expect Ubuntu news StackOverflow for Ubuntu yay/nay? Vote at:  http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7716/ubuntu What you're reading Rick - Coders at Work Craig - CouchDB: The Definitive Guide: Time to Relax (Animal Guide) Feedback - site/comments (email coming) Music for the show by Drop Trio, available at magnatune.com l.u.g. Invisible Pants Abbey Rhodes