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Hey everybody, how you doing?
Welcome to Devcast number four.

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My name's Adam, coming to you
from the Curry Cottage in
Guilford.

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It's been, uh, crikey. It's been
almost two weeks now since the
last Devcast

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and there are reasons for it.

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I can already, you know, see
that there's grumblings and
people not understanding

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why the radio silence and a lot
has been going on.

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And it's really, it's actually
kind of stupid stuff,

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a little bit beyond our control
because we're so strapped with
everything,

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but a couple of things went
wrong.

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And it all has to do with, well,
it's really all about the setup

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and we have a couple of comments
that came in

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for the Devcast specifically.

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Let me start with this first
one.

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It's kind of relative to what
we're going to talk about,

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what the delay has been and how
we're solving all that.

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Hi Adam, I was just listening to
daily source code 367

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and you were talking about the
developer APIs

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and a source control repository
that you guys were putting up

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in order to share it with the
developers.

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And this statement kind of
concerned me.

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We're setting up a CVS, which is
a revision system.

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CVS is a revision system, but
it's a little out of date

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and you're going to find a lot
of the maintenance

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of the repository to be rather
difficult.

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Many large open source software
projects such as KDE,

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GCC, Python and Samba are all
moving to Subversion,

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which is a revision control
system that was written

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specifically to replace CVS.

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And it supports a lot of things
that CVS just doesn't support,

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like moving things around,
easier authentication,

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running your source repository
through Apache.

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A lot of people are moving
toward this

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revision control system, so I
know I'm geeking out

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a little bit here, but I just
wanted to help out

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and don't want to see you
actually bring up

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all your source code on such an
antiquated system.

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I hope this helps. Thanks.

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Yeah, thank you very much.

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I know exactly what you're
talking about.

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I'm not familiar with what
you're talking about.

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I do get it and I do appreciate
it

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and I know that the rest of the
development team

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is listening to this.

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Well, what we decided to do
actually,

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to make things what we thought
would be really easy

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was to just bring up a
SourceForge project

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and check all of the code in
there

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because, you know, so much stuff
is taking care

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of people already know the
interface.

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And I think actually one of the
names you mentioned

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is something that we're setting
up.

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But what I did is, the problem
has been

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that SourceForge, I think they
had a major meltdown

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on their infrastructure.

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They haven't been able to start
new projects.

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They haven't been able to create
stuff for people.

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So we're somewhere in their
queue waiting,

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literally waiting.

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I'm also finalizing the SDK

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and I asked Andrew Gromit

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to send me an audio comment with
an update.

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Hi, Adam. It's Andrew here at
PodShow HQ.

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I just wanted to give you an
update

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on the modules SDK.

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Some great news.

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We've released a preview copy of
the SDK

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to the first lucky developers

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and are starting to collect
feedback.

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I've already seen some pretty
cool stuff coming in.

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Modules

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that do searches

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and post-soap requests

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and the sky's really the limit.

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We can't wait to get this out
there

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into the hands of more people.

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Some less great news

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is that SourceForge hasn't come
through

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with our requested project.

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They're having some trouble with
their CVS infrastructure.

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And even though we've requested

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Subversion support,

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the infrastructure problems have
apparently brought

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new project creation to a
grinding halt.

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So

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we're now in the process of
setting up

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our own code development system

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that will be based on track and
Subversion.

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Most of the software

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is already in place on the
production servers.

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The team is finalizing that
piece today.

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After that

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we have the first round of
feedback

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to incorporate into the code
base in docs

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and then we're good to go.

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If everything goes according to
plan

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we should be ready by late
Wednesday.

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So that's all for now

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and thanks everyone for your
patience.

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We can't wait to get the modules
SDK

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into your hands.

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They sound kind of like Q

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at HQ telling me what all my
weaponry does.

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Excellent.

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So Wednesday then I guess

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is when we get everything
kicking into high gear.

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Golden ticket still being handed
out.

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We've handed out quite a number
of them actually

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although not everyone has
received a golden ticket.

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Eventually

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we'll just turn it on and make
sure

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that every single person has
one.

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We're just trying to slip stream
stuff in there

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and so far so good.

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Because the people who are
already in on the system

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are actually using PodShow Plus

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and the podcast delivery
network.

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Hey Adam, Nick Starr.

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Just got my ticket to the

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PodShow Plus

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and I have to say I'm really
digging it.

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It's really cool.

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I think there's so many features
on there

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that no one even expected.

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I have to say

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for everyone out there

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when this thing comes out it's
going to be huge.

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If you guys like my space

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this thing blows

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anything out there away.

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It's great for publishing a
podcast.

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It's great for everything.

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Just the PodShow Plus

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is awesome.

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Keep up the great work there at
PodShow Guys.

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Take care.

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So obviously since I don't know
what the hell I'm talking about

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we're going to keep this devcast

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relatively short.

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But then maybe Wednesday

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end of my day here in the UK

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beginning of the San Francisco
day

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with a Skype call or something.

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I'm going to be

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in the British Telecom offices

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meeting with the CEO

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on Wednesday.

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So it may be a little bit later
on in the day

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but I'll definitely try and get
that up.

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I'm going to leave you with the
song.

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I've been looking around for
cool songs for developers

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if possible

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at all. Of course PodSafe

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from the PodSafe Music Network

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and something I played on the
source code the other day

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was MC++

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and I think I've played this one
on the source code before

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but it's

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something for all you code
jockeys out there.

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[ Music ]

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Cold Monkey very simple man

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Big, warm, fuzzy, secret mark

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Cold Monkey like you

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