Hosting provided by Host Tornado.

They offer website hosting packages, dedicated servers, and VPS solutions.

HostT.net.

Programming Throwdown, episode 24.

Some JVM languages, Jifon, Closure, and Scala.

Take it away, Jason.

Hey, how's it going, everybody?

We're back.

Longest episode title so far.

Yeah, yeah, that's what we're going for.

We breaking records left and right.

So, yeah, we actually, you know, I think it's been a little while since we did a programming language show. Yeah. We had the mailbag and then we had, you know, the Hadoop framework. And so it's pretty cool. We're actually going to cover three languages. Make up for it. And it hits you with, yeah. Sure. One, two, three punch combo. Say what you want. Save judgment until the end. We have a question from Roger. Actually, out in the audience that we wanted to kick off the show with. We have an audience? We have an audience. Actually, well, we know we have Roger. I don't know if we have an audience. No, we get email from a couple of loyal listeners no yeah we definitely and we definitely

appreciate the email questions and comments comments on our G plus posts and stuff yeah totally

it's good to see the community's living thriving um thanks for checking out the books too and all that

good stuff and the tools of the show and hope that we can keep you know giving you guys some

some expert it must be the new year you sound we can keep, you know, giving you guys some expert advice.

It must be the new year. You sound very insightful. Like you've been thinking about this

or something. Yeah, I mean, I had that whole like, you know, Christmas break to just

kind of reflect and... Okay. Anyways, Roger. All right. So Roger had a question. His question

is, do you guys ever feel behind in work? For example, I have a job where I code in C in Java, but lately I feel like I'm falling behind

the whole web movement.

I try to work on side projects to help keep up.

...