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Spree and Ecommerce in Rails (Changelog Interviews #69) Nov 03, 2011

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Wynn sat down with Sean and Brian from Spree to talk about ecommerce in Rails, SpreeConf, and their recent $1.5M funding round.

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Sean Schofield, Spree founder and CEO of Spree Commerce, Inc.
Brian Quinn, long time Spree contributor and CTO of SpreeCommerce
Spree (née RailsCart) is a Rails engine that provides an out-of-the box, customizable ecommerce platform.
Spree fully integrates into the Rails 3.1 Asset pipeline
Rails engines have accelerated Spree adoption
Spree is built on actively maintained community projects including Devise, Kaminari, Paperclip, ResourceController, State Machine, and ActiveMerchant.
Spree recently closed a $1.5M funding round
SpreeConf is geared to both business and developer audiences
Everybody loves Sticker Mule
Shoedazzle and SecondLife run highly customized versions of Spree.
Spree has a growing list of community extensions.
RailsDog Radio is a great showcase of Spree functionality. Grab the source on GitHub
If you actually need a satellite radio, check out TSS Radio.
Spree will unbox a new demo installation on Heroku just for you.
Deface allows you to customize HTML ERB views in a Rails application without editing the underlying view.
Ryan Bigg, Ruby Hero and co-author of Rails 3 in Action has joined Spree as community manager.
Like Changelog Episodes, Spree is not SemVer compliant.
Sean wants to explore using RailsAdmin into Spree

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Vitaly Friedman / Smashing Magazine (Founders Talk #23) Oct 26, 2011

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Vitaly Friedman, Founder of Smashing Magazine, joins Adam to talk about the beginnings of Smashing Magazine, taking chances, not being copyable, experimenting to find what works, supporting the community, developing content, paying writers, developing publishing principles and philosophies and also shares a bit about what’s next on the horizon for him and his team.

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

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Drew Strojny / The Theme Foundry (Founders Talk #22) Oct 22, 2011

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Drew Strojny joins Adam to talk about his path in life, playing in the NFL, marrying your business partner, web design and pursuing the unknown, developing digital products and themes for WordPress and the 5by5 logo.

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Growl and Open Source in the App Store (Changelog Interviews #68) Oct 11, 2011

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Adam and Wynn caught up with Chris Forsythe, lead of the Growl project to talk about Growl, their App Store launch, and his work on Adium and Perian.

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We recently launched The Sass Way so you can get your fix of all things Sass and Compass
Chris Forsythe is the project lead for Growl.
Growl is a popular notification system for Mac OS X.
Growl is now in the App Store and on GitHub
Chris was formerly the project manager for the Adium.
Your $1.99 will help send Chris to his first WWDC.
GrowlMail is now a separate project.
Over two hundred applications support Growl notifications.
Designers have created many visual Growl styles to make Growl look great.
Wynn’s favorite is Hud from @Rogie.
Growl now supports GNTP, allowing Linux and Windows notifications apps to share a common protocol.
Wynn uses Growl for visual feedback for his test suite.
Chris also is a founder of the Perian project, a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
Chris says that the GPL prevents Perian from taking the App Store path.
The OSI is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community.
Chris relates the impact Steve Jobs had on his open source work.
Evan Schoenberg inspires Chris.

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Mark Jardine and Paul Haddad / Tapbots (Founders Talk #21) Sep 30, 2011

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Mark Jardine and Paul Haddad join Adam to talk about Tapbots, their side project turned business, designing and developing mobile applications on iOS, establishing and building trust and much more.

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Drew Wilson / Valio - Part 2 (Founders Talk #20) Sep 22, 2011

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Drew Wilson joins Adam again for part 2, to talk about his latest venture Advise.me, Valio Con, his ad network Yoggrt (sold) and some future products.

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Drew Wilson / Valio - Part 1 (Founders Talk #19) Sep 15, 2011

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Drew Wilson joins Adam for part 1 to talk about his journey as an entrepreneur, the lows, the highs and the in-betweens. Drew talks with Adam about digital projects, how to chase your dreams and more.

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HTML5 Boilerplate and JavaScript (Changelog Interviews #67) Aug 19, 2011

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Adam and Wynn caught up with Paul Irish of Google’s Chrome developer relations team to talk about HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, polyfills, and more.

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Paul Irish - Chrome dev relations guy at Google.
Dion Almaer - Host of Function Source, all around JavaScript, frontend expert.
“HTML5 is a jewel that we need to cut into a weapon” - Dion /via Yehuda Katz
Adam is in love with GitHub’s new editor powered by Cloud 9
HTML5 Boilerplate contains a set of best practices to use as a starting point for new projects or pick what you need a la cart.
Boilerplate now includes Normalize.css, a customisable CSS file that makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards.
Normalize is a collaboration between Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal
Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites, from Faruk Ate?, Paul, and Alex Sexton.
rack-modernizr from Marshall Yount brings Modernizr to the server
Paul coined the term FOUT - Flash Of Unstyled Text.
HTML5 polyfills implant html5 functionality in browsers that don’t natively support them.
Paul makes micro microapps for CSS3, text shadows, and HSL picking.
Paul is a fan of Chris Coyer of CSS Tricks
Need an idea for a weekend project, check out Paul’s Lazy Web Requests

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RVM and BDSM (Changelog Interviews #66) Aug 04, 2011

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Steve and Wynn caught up with Wayne Seguin to talk about his Ruby enVironment Manager and BDSM shell scripting framework projects.

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Look us up at LSRC V next week.
Madison Ruby Conference August 19-20, 2011 in Madison, WI.
Wayne Seguin, developer at EngineYard, creator of RVM and BDSM.
RVM is a command line tool which allows us to easily install, manage and work with multiple ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems.
BDSM aims to create a framework for maintaining and sharing server side scripts while exposing them through a consistent command line interface (CLI).
Dr. Nic Williams, Wayne’s boss was on Episode 0.5.0
Peter Cooper helped get the word out about RVM.
Michal Papis has been giving Wayne a hand with RVM and BDSM.
Ryan McGeary says “Vendor Everything” while Wayne says he vendors nothing and uses rvm gemsets in most cases.
Bundler now plays nice with RVM.
Using BDSM, you can create consistent service interfaces for everything in your stack.

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Code for America (Changelog Interviews #65) Jul 26, 2011

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Adam and Wynn caught up with Erik and Max, Fellows at Code for America to talk about civic-focused development and open source.

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Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow - Deadline is July 31
LSRC V is just around the corner
Follow @TheSassWay for your Sass news
Code for America enlists the talent of the web industry into public service to use their skills to solve core problems facing our communities.
Erik Michaels-Ober is a Rubyist and Fellow at Code for America
Max Ogden is also a Rubyist and Fellow at Code for America
Erik is using (and improving) the LinkedIn Ruby gem
Max loves Underscore.js from Jeremy Ashkenas
Max’s GitHub page tells recruiters to get lost.
Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org aims to make government information more accessible.
The Sunlight Foundation, featured on Episode 0.1.3
Code For America’s GitHub page features 120 projects.
Rails Admin is Erik’s Rails 3 engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data
Erik and Wynn met through John Nunemaker’s Twitter Gem
Faraday is Rick Olson’s slick Rack-like HTTP client library.
Mislav Marohni? helps maintain Faraday
Want to create your own programming language like Jeremy Ashekenas? Read this book!
Max is a fan of Request from Mikeal Rogers
Erik is a fan of Sam Stephenson, featured in Episode 0.6.4
Brian Ford, Evan Phoenix, make Rubinius rock.
Steve Richert aka @LaserLemon helps out with the Twitter gem. Best username evar.
TextMate users: be nice to your Vim friends.
The opportunity for Civic Startups
Fight for the User
Literary Machines is a thirty year old book from Ted Nelson.
Open211.org - The Redirectory Project is a free and open directory of social services and resources that anyone can contribute to.
Test your Ruby projects against multiple Rubies with Travis
Gemcutter powers RubyGems.org
Substance.io is an HTML5-based document editor from Michael Aufreiter
Be sure and follow Substack on GitHub.
Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow - Deadline is July 31

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