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Vagrant and virtualized environments (Changelog Interviews #72) Feb 09, 2012

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Wynn caught up with Mitchell Hashimoto from the Vagrant project to talk about virtualized environments, DevOps, and more.

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We’re now @TheChangelog on Twitter.
Mitchell Hashimoto from Vagrant.
Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments by providing automated creation and provisioning of virtual machines using Oracle’s VirtualBox.
Vagrant is currently a Ruby gem.
Mitchell uses Vagrant to test his Chef cookbooks, featured in Episode 0.3.8.
Travis CI uses Vagrant extensively.
Show Travis some love, tell ‘em to come on The Changelog.
Mitchell just returned from FOSDEM.
John Bender has helped out Mitchell with Vagrant.
VeeWee: the tool to easily build vagrant base boxes or KVM, VirtualBox, and Fusion images.

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Peter Cooper / Cooper Press (Founders Talk #30) Feb 03, 2012

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Peter Cooper, the Founder of Cooper Press joins Adam to talk about all the stops along the way on his path to where he is today. Peter shares an immense amount of knowledge on tech publishing, what he’s learned about marketing, email newsletters done right, setting and accomplishing goals, as well as some very good advice at the very end.

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Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Francisco Dao / 50 Kings (Founders Talk #29) Jan 25, 2012

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Francisco Dao, the Founder of 50 Kings (an invitation-only, private community of thinkers and doers) joins Adam to talk about the importance of building relationships, doing only what interests you, entrepreneurship, all sorts of “insider” knowledge around the tech event planning space and more. If you’ve been dying to get invited or referred to 50 Kings, this show will give you all you need to know.

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Andrew Wilkinson / MetaLab (Founders Talk #28) Jan 13, 2012

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Andrew Wilkinson, the Founder of MetaLab (an interface design studio) joins Adam to talk about how he started as a one-man band and learned to delegate to succeed. Andrew started MetaLab in 2006 and quickly built the company into a multi-million dollar interface design and products company with over 30 employees. Andrew shares his thoughts on happiness, some crucial advice from his father, Steve Jobs, good design, developing products, leading a team to success and even a teaser to something super secret.

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Ryan Carson / Carsonified (Founders Talk #27) Dec 21, 2011

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Ryan Carson, the Founder of Carsonified and Treehouse, joins Adam to talk about all the details of starting his new venture, Treehouse.

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Spine and Client-Side MVC (Changelog Interviews #71) Dec 20, 2011

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Wynn caught up with Alex MacCaw to talk about Spine, CoffeeScript, writing books, and working at Twitter.

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Alex MacCaw, O’Reilly writer and open source developer now working on the front-end for Twitter.
Spine Lightweight MVC library for building JavaScript applications, inspired by Backbone.
Spine is written in CoffeeScript
Eco is Alex’s favorite client-side templating engine.
Alex suggests trying to use the same templating engine server-side and client-side, perhaps with Mustache, is a pipe dream.
Spine integrates with Rails out of the box.
Hem is like Bundler but for Node.js.
Juggernaut enables realtime server push with node.js, WebSockets and Comet
Spine.app “Effortlessly generate Spine, CoffeeScript and Hem applications. Spine.App gives your applications structure, CommonJS modules, a development server and more.”
Alex is working on The Little Book on CoffeeScript in printed form for O’Reilly.
JavaScript Web Apps covers building client-side MVC apps in a framework agnostic way.
Twitter is hiring! Got the chops? Get in touch.
Jeremy Ashkenas is Alex’s programming hero.

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Bryan Zmijewski / ZURB (Founders Talk #26) Dec 09, 2011

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Bryan Zmijewski (Shme-yes-key), Founder and Chief Instigator of ZURB, joins Adam to talk about his path to starting ZURB, what sharing code and design patterns has done for their business, product, culture and team development, and what it takes to make awesome stuff on the web.

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Foundation and Other Zurb Goodies (Changelog Interviews #70) Dec 07, 2011

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Wynn caught up with Jonathan and Matt from Zurb to talk about Foundation, their HTML5 front end scaffold and many projects from the Zurb playground.

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Jonathan Smiley - Design lead at Zurb
Matt Kelly is a developer at Zurb
The Zurb playground showcases many Zurb’s front end experiments.
Zurb foundation is an easy to use, powerful, and flexible framework for building prototypes and production code on any kind of device.
Bootstrap from Twitter bakes in more style opinions and currently does not target mobile devices.
Zurb Foundation ships in Rails, Compass, two WordPress, and ASP.NET MVC flavors.
Flickr Bomb is a more entertaining alternative to http://placehold.it
Joyride is a fun way to do feature tours.
Zurb buttons are super awesome.
Orbit is a lightweight image slider for jQuery. The version bundled with Foundation supports responsive layouts.
Reveal is an easy way to add great looking modals to web apps.
Zurb also offers a set of free apps including Axe and Strike.

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Dan Martell / Clarity (Founders Talk #25) Nov 30, 2011

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Dan Martell, Co-Founder of Flowtown, joins Adam to talk about his road to success with Flowtown, getting acquired, how he met his Co-Founder Ethan Bloch on Twitter, angel investing and being an advisor, giving back to charity and customer development and how to get traction. Dan also shared something super secret (a new project) … as well as much, much more.

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Dan Cederholm and Rich Thornett / Dribbble (Founders Talk #24) Nov 10, 2011

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The founders of Dribbble, Rich Thornett and Dan Cederholm, join Adam to talk about how Dribbble came to be, the 3rd edition of Bullet Proof Web Design, product development, new and existing features of Dribbble as well as focusing on revenue producing features … and much, much more.

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