# Unlucky 13

URL: /show/coder-radio/13/
> Michael and Chris discuss what to do when things go wrong. When should you abandon ship? When should you try to land your project in the Hudson? Plus: Java\’s had a bad week, but are we overlooking it\’s positive aspects?

- Show: [Coder Radio](/show/coder-radio/)
- Episode: 13
- Date: 2012-09-03
- Hosts: chris, michael
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/ahVskOe9mUU





### Episode Links

#### Feedback

  * Charles writes in to give his two cents on the advantages learning C and shares some great training resources.

> \+ https://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC6B940F08B9773B9F – Buckland's
> COMP1917
>  \+ https://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC0C5D85DBA20E685C – COMP1927
>  \+ https://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC0C5D85DBA20E685C – COMP2911
>  \+ https://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/
>  \+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtXvUoPx4Qs – intro to the course
>  \+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlPj5Rg1y2w – Google Tech Talk

  * A lot of passionate feedback regarding Niklas FOSS / OSS conundrum.
  * Christopher writes in to tell me that not all listeners are devs and that he likes the business side. So HA Youtube!
  * To C or not to C — a lot of your care… .a lot.
  * Simon writes in to share some great game development stuff:
    * [JMonkeyEngine](http://jmonkeyengine.com/index.html)
    * [OpenGameArt](http://opengameart.org/index.html)
    * [Liberated Pixel Cup](http://lpc.opengameart.org/index.html)
  * Keith writes to ask ‘where is the web development (PHP in particular) and where is the Windows love?’
  * Sven writes in an awesome webpage with a billboard style message! He asks if we think self taught programmers are better at thinking outside of the box than traditional CS grads?
  * [David needs some advice on a distributed African system](http://slexy.org/view/s21ukZS3tO/index.html)
  * Toislav writes in to tell me that Flash is not dead yet! In fact, Adobe AIR seems to have a thriving community — especially in the games space.
  * [Code Snippet for MHazzel](https://gist.github.com/3605676/index.html)

#### This Week’s Dev World Hoopla

  * [Miguel hates on Linux — but does he have a point?](http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html/index.html)

#### Burned By Some Hot Java

  * ZOMG Java is going to destroy our machines! or so say the blogs…
  * What do the Java security issues mean for web developers?
  * Desktop developers?
  * So why would I still go with Java today?
    * Right once one everywhere (sort of)
    * Development ease
    * Inexpensive help
  * [Project Looking Glass – YouTube](https://youtu.be/u1JwfgBv5bg)

#### A Little Bird Bit Me!

  * What happens when you build your great product on someone else’s platform and they say ‘thanks but no thanks’
  * App.net the great gray hope?
  * Whose app is it anyway?

#### Shot Down

  * Your app is live — then it’s not! What do you do?
  * You’ve been gathering metrics right?
  * Do you have some way to contact your users?
  * Data issue? You have a manual way to fix that, right?

#### Tool of the week

  * [Turnkey Linux](http://www.turnkeylinux.org/index.html)

#### Plugs

  * [Code Journal Direct](http://codejournalapp.com/index.html)
  * [Code Journal App Store](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/code-journal/id5404872018027.html?mt=12\\%22)
  * Need some consulting work? Contact the show!