The Floating Point – rAVe [PUBS] https://www.ravepubs.com/radio/the-floating-point/ Hosted by Hope Roth, the Floating Point brings together AV Programmers and other industry notables, to discuss a wide variety of topics related to AV programming. Our aim? To float above the obvious points. Fri, 29 Mar 2024 01:34:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.ravepubs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/cropped-favicon-32x32.png The Floating Point – rAVe [PUBS] https://www.ravepubs.com/radio/the-floating-point/ 32 32 Hosted by Hope Roth, the Floating Point brings together AV Programmers and other industry notables, to discuss a wide variety of topics related to AV programming. Our aim? To float above the obvious points. rAVe Publications clean rAVe Publications rAVe Publications | 2015 rAVe Publications | 2015 The Floating Point 6bac77fa-5989-562c-965d-e55a23adcfa6 The Floating Point — Episode 14: The Future of Programming https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-14/ https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-14/#respond Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:09:14 +0000 https://www.ravepubs.com/?p=108949 The Floating Point —InfoComm 2018 is in the rearview mirror, and it’s time to podcast again! Jimmy Vaughan (@jrsyjmy), UC Technical Product Manager at Crestron Electronics, joins host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) to talk about Unified Communication, the future of programming, and why you need to know what a VLAN is.

But first! How professional wrestling can prepare you for a career in technology. Spoiler alert: it (unfortunately) doesn’t involve hitting anyone with a chair.

Hope and Jimmy get into it about RL, Crestron Studio, and “the Google.”

And finally! Jimmy’s craziest story about emergency travel to help out a client (hint: it involves flying from New Jersey to Texas to Vancouver) (It also starts with “O” and ends in “lympics.”)

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https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-14/feed/ 0 InfoComm 2018 is in the rearview mirror, and it's time to podcast again! Jimmy Vaughan (@jrsyjmy), UC Technical Product Manager at Crestron Electronics, joins host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) to talk about Unified Communication, the future of programming, InfoComm 2018 is in the rearview mirror, and it's time to podcast again! Jimmy Vaughan (@jrsyjmy), UC Technical Product Manager at Crestron Electronics, joins host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) to talk about Unified Communication, the future of programming, and why you need to know what a VLAN is.<br /> <br /> But first! How professional wrestling can prepare you for a career in technology. Spoiler alert: it (unfortunately) doesn't involve hitting anyone with a chair.<br /> <br /> Hope and Jimmy get into it about RL, Crestron Studio, and "the Google."<br /> <br /> And finally! Jimmy's craziest story about emergency travel to help out a client (hint: it involves flying from New Jersey to Texas to Vancouver) (It also starts with "O" and ends in "lympics.") rAVe Publications full clean
The Floating Point — Episode 13: The #AVWonderTwins Crossover Edition https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-13/ https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-13/#respond Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:00:29 +0000 https://www.ravepubs.com/?p=99979 The Floating Point —

It’s a very special crossover edition! rAVe’s own Christa Bender (@AVChrista) joins host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) to talk some Super Bowl Smack (stay tuned for the details of our big bet!), New Year’s podcasting resolutions, and why Hope wants to bring more women onto this show. We also announce the AV Book Club (@AVbookclub). We finish up with a friendly debate about the merits of the Amazon Echo. Hope is firmly pro-Alexa. Christa is against. Fight fight fight!

If you’re a woman who wants to talk about programming, please let us know! There are so many brilliant, talented women out there… and way too many of them don’t seem realize that they have great things to say.

Leonard Suskin’s article that we discussed on the show: https://www.ravepubs.com/myths-male-panels/

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https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-13/feed/ 0 It's a very special crossover edition! rAVe's own Christa Bender (@AVChrista) joins host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) to talk some Super Bowl Smack (stay tuned for the details of our big bet!), New Year's podcasting resolutions, It's a very special crossover edition! rAVe's own Christa Bender (@AVChrista) joins host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) to talk some Super Bowl Smack (stay tuned for the details of our big bet!), New Year's podcasting resolutions, and why Hope wants to bring more women onto this show. We also announce the AV Book Club (@AVbookclub). We finish up with a friendly debate about the merits of the Amazon Echo. Hope is firmly pro-Alexa. Christa is against. Fight fight fight!<br /> If you're a woman who wants to talk about programming, please let us know! There are so many brilliant, talented women out there... and way too many of them don't seem realize that they have great things to say.<br /> Leonard Suskin's article that we discussed on the show: https://www.ravepubs.com/myths-male-panels/ rAVe Publications full clean
The Floating Point — Episode 12: Marketable Research https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-12/ https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-12/#respond Wed, 26 Jul 2017 13:00:47 +0000 https://www.ravepubs.com/?p=93337 The Floating Point —It’s been a minute… but we’re back! Julia Baillie (@julia_baillie), president of CommuniQuest Consulting joins host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) to talk about market research, the user experience, and the importance of telling a story. Julia is a bona fide people person, and she’s been talking to everyone in our industry.

Julia and Hope discuss her recent white paper for Listen WiFi. The growing trend towards BYOD is often seen as a threat to our industry, but leveraging the fact that just about everyone carries around their own tiny super-computer in their pocket (plus their preferred headphones!), can actually help us to sell products and offer better solutions to our customers. We just might have to change some of our old ways of thinking.

So many aspects of our industry are changing, which can be scary. But there are so many amazing things that we can do with all of the amazing technology out there. The people who thrive going forward, are those who can learn, adapt, and change. Don’t fear the future! And, uh, you should probably talk more with your users.

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https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-12/feed/ 0 It's been a minute... but we're back! Julia Baillie (@julia_baillie), president of CommuniQuest Consulting joins host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) to talk about market research, the user experience, and the importance of telling a story. It's been a minute... but we're back! Julia Baillie (@julia_baillie), president of CommuniQuest Consulting joins host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) to talk about market research, the user experience, and the importance of telling a story. Julia is a bona fide people person, and she's been talking to everyone in our industry.<br /> <br /> Julia and Hope discuss her recent white paper for Listen WiFi. The growing trend towards BYOD is often seen as a threat to our industry, but leveraging the fact that just about everyone carries around their own tiny super-computer in their pocket (plus their preferred headphones!), can actually help us to sell products and offer better solutions to our customers. We just might have to change some of our old ways of thinking.<br /> <br /> So many aspects of our industry are changing, which can be scary. But there are so many amazing things that we can do with all of the amazing technology out there. The people who thrive going forward, are those who can learn, adapt, and change. Don't fear the future! And, uh, you should probably talk more with your users. rAVe Publications full clean
The Floating Point — Episode 11: Huddling Together https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-11/ https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-11/#respond Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:00:42 +0000 https://www.ravepubs.com/?p=88176 The Floating Point —It’s April in New England, which means that it’s been oscillating between snow and 80 degree weather.

Floating Point host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) put on a light jacket, braved her hotel WiFi, and then joined Harman’s Paul Zielie (@paulzielie) to talk about large-scale systems (spoiler alert: even huddle rooms can be large-scale if you look at them just right) and how to make programmer’s work together.

Treat your programmers right, people, or else they will delete all of their files, throw their laptops at your head, and then quit. We talk about how to protect against some of that (hint: it rhymes with shmautomated shmackups). But, seriously, treat your programmers right.

We close with tales of flying across oceans to press buttons. Remote access: it’s a good thing!

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https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-11/feed/ 0 It's April in New England, which means that it's been oscillating between snow and 80 degree weather. - Floating Point host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) put on a light jacket, braved her hotel WiFi, and then joined Harman's Paul Zielie (@paulzielie) to tal... It's April in New England, which means that it's been oscillating between snow and 80 degree weather.<br /> <br /> Floating Point host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) put on a light jacket, braved her hotel WiFi, and then joined Harman's Paul Zielie (@paulzielie) to talk about large-scale systems (spoiler alert: even huddle rooms can be large-scale if you look at them just right) and how to make programmer's work together.<br /> <br /> Treat your programmers right, people, or else they will delete all of their files, throw their laptops at your head, and then quit. We talk about how to protect against some of that (hint: it rhymes with shmautomated shmackups). But, seriously, treat your programmers right.<br /> <br /> We close with tales of flying across oceans to press buttons. Remote access: it's a good thing! rAVe Publications full clean
The Floating Point — Episode 10: [Insert Binary Joke Here] https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-10/ https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-10/#respond Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:20:53 +0000 https://www.ravepubs.com/?p=86866 The Floating Point —It’s our 10th (or is it second?) episode of the Floating Point! Host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) is joined by Patrick Murray (@controlhauspat) to talk standards, certifications, and to panic slightly about the future.

It’s a wild, wild west out there… but we’d like to see some better standards for programmers. How do you go about doing that? Do we need a CTS-P? The problem is, so much about AV programming is manufacturer specific, so it doesn’t fall under Infocomm’s purview.

Which brings us to the million dollar question… do we still need to purchase controls in a box? Patrick thinks the future is all Raspberry Pis. Hope thinks the future is standardized and pre-configured control systems. We both agree that the future for people who write terrible code and don’t know how to architect a system is fuzzy at best.

And then we laugh about that time that Patrick kept programming in the middle of the stormy seas (no, that’s not a metaphor).

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https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-10/feed/ 0 It's our 10th (or is it second?) episode of the Floating Point! Host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) is joined by Patrick Murray (@controlhauspat) to talk standards, certifications, and to panic slightly about the future. - It's a wild, It's our 10th (or is it second?) episode of the Floating Point! Host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) is joined by Patrick Murray (@controlhauspat) to talk standards, certifications, and to panic slightly about the future.<br /> <br /> It's a wild, wild west out there... but we'd like to see some better standards for programmers. How do you go about doing that? Do we need a CTS-P? The problem is, so much about AV programming is manufacturer specific, so it doesn't fall under Infocomm's purview.<br /> <br /> Which brings us to the million dollar question... do we still need to purchase controls in a box? Patrick thinks the future is all Raspberry Pis. Hope thinks the future is standardized and pre-configured control systems. We both agree that the future for people who write terrible code and don't know how to architect a system is fuzzy at best.<br /> <br /> And then we laugh about that time that Patrick kept programming in the middle of the stormy seas (no, that's not a metaphor). rAVe Publications full clean
The Floating Point — Episode 9: Episode 9? More like 9000 https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-9/ https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-9/#respond Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:30:35 +0000 https://www.ravepubs.com/?p=83672 The Floating Point —

It’s the 9th episode of the Floating Point, and host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) is joined by Hal Dalzell (@MatthewArthur14), a programmer from the Frozen North, aka Canada, aka America’s Hat. 

Hal is an honest to goodness engineer, got his start at the Canadian Broadcasting Company (Hope whiffed on her chance to make a Trailer Park Boys joke), and now works at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.

Hope and Hal talk about the joys and challenges of working in higher education, how you can bring a semblance of order into chaos, and what you should do if your wifi connection goes down. Say, right smack dab in the middle of a podcast. This is why we architect self-contained systems, people. 

We finish with some tales of awkward moments in front of full classrooms, and solemnly swear to never cancel a lecture just because power point stopped working.

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https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-9/feed/ 0 It's the 9th episode of the Floating Point, and host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) is joined by Hal Dalzell (@MatthewArthur14), a programmer from the Frozen North, aka Canada, aka America's Hat.  Hal is an honest to goodness engineer, It's the 9th episode of the Floating Point, and host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) is joined by Hal Dalzell (@MatthewArthur14), a programmer from the Frozen North, aka Canada, aka America's Hat. <br /> Hal is an honest to goodness engineer, got his start at the Canadian Broadcasting Company (Hope whiffed on her chance to make a Trailer Park Boys joke), and now works at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.<br /> Hope and Hal talk about the joys and challenges of working in higher education, how you can bring a semblance of order into chaos, and what you should do if your wifi connection goes down. Say, right smack dab in the middle of a podcast. This is why we architect self-contained systems, people. <br /> We finish with some tales of awkward moments in front of full classrooms, and solemnly swear to never cancel a lecture just because power point stopped working. rAVe Publications full clean
The Floating Point — Episode 8: This Podcast Is Under Construction https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-8/ https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-8/#respond Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:00:48 +0000 https://www.ravepubs.com/?p=82117 The Floating Point — Johnny Mota (@jmota3) joins host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) to talk about construction, lights, stuff, and things. What’s it like to be the one person on a construction site who is carrying a laptop? Does Johnny really program lights from his smartphone, or is he just on snapshot all day?

We talk about construction etiquette, why Hope keeps a hard hat in her car, and what it’s like to work with Victoria Barela (@barelAVictoria_) when everyone thinks we both snuck in. Then we tell tales of awkward moments on job sites. Did Hope really pardon someone’s french? You’ll have to listen to find out.

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https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-8/feed/ 0 Johnny Mota (@jmota3) joins host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) to talk about construction, lights, stuff, and things. What's it like to be the one person on a construction site who is carrying a laptop? Does Johnny really program lights from his smartphone, Johnny Mota (@jmota3) joins host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) to talk about construction, lights, stuff, and things. What's it like to be the one person on a construction site who is carrying a laptop? Does Johnny really program lights from his smartphone, or is he just on snapshot all day?<br /> <br /> We talk about construction etiquette, why Hope keeps a hard hat in her car, and what it's like to work with Victoria Barela (@barelAVictoria_) when everyone thinks we both snuck in. Then we tell tales of awkward moments on job sites. Did Hope really pardon someone's french? You'll have to listen to find out. rAVe Publications full clean
The Floating Point — Episode 7: Our Favorite Baldwin https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-7/ https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-7/#respond Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:00:13 +0000 https://www.ravepubs.com/?p=81280 The Floating Point —
It’s episode seven of the Floating Point and co-host Chris Tatton (@Chris_Tatton) has gone MIA. Maybe even AWOL. We’re not sure. Billy Silar (@SillyBilar) joins host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) to follow up on his past year spent learning how to be a Crestron programmer.

Billy jumped in with both feet and it sounds like he’s thriving. Learn what helped him, what he’s learned, and where he’s going from here. Hope is duly impressed, and offers up what little advice she has. Pro-tip: if you find yourself doing something all the time, you should probably write a module for it. Also, shout-out to Ms. Clapham for making me do all of those logic puzzles back in 4th grade.

For our fun question, we talk about “other duties as necessary.” Spoiler alert: there is a hot pink elf costume involved.

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https://www.ravepubs.com/the-floating-point-episode-7/feed/ 0 It's episode seven of the Floating Point and co-host Chris Tatton (@Chris_Tatton) has gone MIA. Maybe even AWOL. We're not sure. Billy Silar (@SillyBilar) joins host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) to follow up on his past year spent learning how to be a Crest... It's episode seven of the Floating Point and co-host Chris Tatton (@Chris_Tatton) has gone MIA. Maybe even AWOL. We're not sure. Billy Silar (@SillyBilar) joins host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) to follow up on his past year spent learning how to be a Crestron programmer.<br /> <br /> Billy jumped in with both feet and it sounds like he's thriving. Learn what helped him, what he's learned, and where he's going from here. Hope is duly impressed, and offers up what little advice she has. Pro-tip: if you find yourself doing something all the time, you should probably write a module for it. Also, shout-out to Ms. Clapham for making me do all of those logic puzzles back in 4th grade.<br /> <br /> For our fun question, we talk about "other duties as necessary." Spoiler alert: there is a hot pink elf costume involved. rAVe Publications full clean
The Floating Point: Episode 6: Supersize My Code https://www.ravepubs.com/floating-point-episode-6/ https://www.ravepubs.com/floating-point-episode-6/#respond Thu, 22 Sep 2016 18:50:15 +0000 https://www.ravepubs.com/?p=80258 thefloatingpoint-largeIt’s episode six of the Floating Point! Co-host Chris Tatton (@Chris_Tatton) returns from his undisclosed location to join host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) and this month’s guest, Jay Basen, (@[error-twitter-account-not-found]) to discuss templates, scaleability, and awkward interactions.

Jay is wrapping up a long, and illustrious career (seriously, we’re all in awe of his accomplishments), and has gifted automation programmers with both his thought processes and a host of original source code. 

We talk about how to create a system that will scale to a 40,000 square foot house (most of us call those “hotels”), how to plan a system out, and why it’s important to spend some time maintaining a template.

We close with some crazy stories about what can happen when you’re working in someone else’s home. How crazy? You’ll just have to take a listen for yourself.

Jay’s Home Automation Blog: http://topicsinhomeautomation.blogspot.com/

Source Code on GitHub: https://github.com/jbasen/Crestron-Template/tree/master

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https://www.ravepubs.com/floating-point-episode-6/feed/ 0 It's episode six of the Floating Point! Co-host Chris Tatton (@Chris_Tatton) returns from his undisclosed location to join host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) and this month's guest, Jay Basen, (@[error-twitter-account-not-found]) to discuss templates, It's episode six of the Floating Point! Co-host Chris Tatton (@Chris_Tatton) returns from his undisclosed location to join host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) and this month's guest, Jay Basen, (@[error-twitter-account-not-found]) to discuss templates, scaleability, and awkward interactions.<br /> Jay is wrapping up a long, and illustrious career (seriously, we're all in awe of his accomplishments), and has gifted automation programmers with both his thought processes and a host of original source code. <br /> We talk about how to create a system that will scale to a 40,000 square foot house (most of us call those "hotels"), how to plan a system out, and why it's important to spend some time maintaining a template.<br /> We close with some crazy stories about what can happen when you're working in someone else's home. How crazy? You'll just have to take a listen for yourself.<br /> Jay's Home Automation Blog: http://topicsinhomeautomation.blogspot.com/<br /> Source Code on GitHub: https://github.com/jbasen/Crestron-Template/tree/master rAVe Publications full clean 44:43
The Floating Point: Episode 5: Pigs, Parks, and Open Architecture https://www.ravepubs.com/floating-point-episode-5/ https://www.ravepubs.com/floating-point-episode-5/#respond Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:16:49 +0000 https://www.ravepubs.com/?p=77969 thefloatingpoint-largeIt’s the 5th episode of the Floating Point and Chris Tatton (@Chris_Tatton) is playing hooky. Host Hope Roth (@BeerAndPie) holds down the fort from an undisclosed location. We still managed to keep producer Corey Moss (@Cbmoss) on mute the entire time, shattering our own world record for consecutive Corey Mute Minutes, Katy Ledecky-style 

Jake Corlett (@corlett_jake) from Biamp joins Hope to talk about how we can make our control systems and DSPs play nicely (hint: use instance tags and don’t even think about messing with the gain structure). 

Things take a turn for the hilarious when they start talking about the horrors that they’ve found in certain AV racks. 

What does all of this have to do with pigs and parks? You’ll just have to take a listen to find out. 

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https://www.ravepubs.com/floating-point-episode-5/feed/ 0 It's the 5th episode of the Floating Point and Chris Tatton (@Chris_Tatton) is playing hooky. Host Hope Roth (@BeerAndPie) holds down the fort from an undisclosed location. We still managed to keep producer Corey Moss (@Cbmoss) on mute the entire time,... It's the 5th episode of the Floating Point and Chris Tatton (@Chris_Tatton) is playing hooky. Host Hope Roth (@BeerAndPie) holds down the fort from an undisclosed location. We still managed to keep producer Corey Moss (@Cbmoss) on mute the entire time, shattering our own world record for consecutive Corey Mute Minutes, Katy Ledecky-style <br /> Jake Corlett (@corlett_jake) from Biamp joins Hope to talk about how we can make our control systems and DSPs play nicely (hint: use instance tags and don't even think about messing with the gain structure). <br /> Things take a turn for the hilarious when they start talking about the horrors that they've found in certain AV racks. <br /> What does all of this have to do with pigs and parks? You'll just have to take a listen to find out.  rAVe Publications full clean 36:49