Chris and Mike take a look at joining an open source project, the formerly brown Ubuntu as a developer platform. Dell is getting ready to launch Sputnik, but should you jump on board or take a big old bite of a Macintosh?

Plus should the release of the iPhone 5 and the Lumia 920 turn developer heads?

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Show Notes:

Feedback

• Jay writes in to report that I have swayed him on his views on piracy in 20,000 Leagues Under Java.
  • About Windows Phone 8
  • A few anonymous writers write in with tales of ‘Imposter’s Syndrome’
  • A number of listeners ask: ‘why don’t you get a Fire and root it?’
  • David writes in to let us know that he went with CouchDB and is happy with it!

This Week’s Dev World Hoopla

• Github CRASHED!!!
• Steam Greenlight
• iPhone UUID Apocalypse — just another reason to use paid apps
• The iPhone 5 release — le bore
• Amazon Enters the Maps Game
• Google says ‘NO’ to Aliyun and here’s why

My Week Working in Ubuntu As a Dev Box

• The death of the air…
• The Sputnik developer experience
• My dev stack on Ubuntu
• Why Ubuntu over Mac?

The Open-Source Inductee’s Oath

• Geary
• Ok, how do I volunteer for open-source?

Vala — A Hidden Gem

• Syntax similar to C#
• Compiles down to C, then compiles with the system’s native compiler (ie gcc)
• Can be freely mixed with C

Book of the Week

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Tool of the Week

• Day Journal

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