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Pow, Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline, CoffeeScript and More (Changelog Interviews #64) Jul 13, 2011

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Adam and Wynn caught up with Sam Stephenson from 37Signals to talk about his his many open source projects and developing Basecamp Mobile.

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Nathan Smith, friend of the show, creator of 960.gs, Adapt, Formalize, and featured in Episode 0.3.2
Sam Stephenson, programmer at 37signals, creator of massive amounts of open source.
Pow is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X.
Pow supports multiple rubies via RVM.
Powder is a CLI for Pow.
Prototype.js is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
Sprockets is a Ruby library that preprocesses and concatenates JavaScript source files.
Stitch stitches your CommonJS modules together for the browser
ExecJS runs JavaScript code from Ruby.
Josh Peek, Rubyist and GitHubber.
Nack - Node.js adapter for Rack
Sam loves CoffeeScript and hopes to never write JavaScript again.
Sam debunks the FUD of debugging CoffeeScript. “Command-F is your friend.”
Jeremy Ashkenas, creator of CoffeeScript ported his Underscore library as a demonstration.
Sam weighs in on the micro framework movement and loves Zepto, Underscore, and Backbone.
“We’re living in a WebKit world on mobile.”
The goal of the Basecamp Mobile app was to “feel like a web app.”
Basecamp Mobile was a team effort by Sam, Josh, and Jason Zimdars.
“Responsive Web Design”, a term coined by Ethan Marcotte.
Less Framework is an adaptive grid CSS framework for desktop and mobile.
Cinco is the yet-to-be-released framework behind Basecamp Mobile built on Stitch, Backbone, CoffeeScript, and Zepto.
Sprockets powers the new Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline
Jammit is an alternative to Sprockets.
The Ruby Racer from Charles Lowell embeds the V8 Javascript Interpreter into Ruby
The Git commit heard round the world.
Baren generates images from Processing source.
Jamie Dihiansan is the design talent behind the great Pow web site
Pow uses docco for documentation.
Rack-legacy allows you to serve up PHP from Pow.
Be sure and snag Trevor Burnham’s excellent CoffeeScript book
Josh and DHH are Sam’s programming heroes.

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CDNJS (Changelog Interviews #63) Jun 21, 2011

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Adam and Wynn caught up with the developers behind CDNJS, a community-powered CDN for JavaScript libraries.

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

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CDNJS aims to make the web faster by putting more shared JavaScript on a content delivery network.
We’re now part of the Fusion Network
Catch up with us at The Big (D)esign Conference
We’ll be at Lone Star Ruby Conference 2011
Ryan Kirkman, Co-Founder of Protosal.
Thomas Davis, Co-Founder of Protosal, also runs backbonetutorials.com
Fork the GitHub project to get your script included
A CDN helps serve assets from servers closer to the user.
CloudFlare sponsors the project.
Cached Commons has some of the same goals, but uses GitHub as a provider.
CDNJS packages uses the same format as NPM
The Google Library API hosts most of the major JavaScript frameworks.
Microjs is a micro-site for micro-frameworks
Protosal lets you generate proposals using templates and variables to save time.
cdnjs-command is a Ruby gem command line helper for CDNJS.
Backbone.js is a lightweight MVC framework for client-side JavaScript.
Brunch A lightweight approach to building HTML5 applications with emphasis on elegance and simplicity.

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Matt Mickiewicz / 99 Designs (Founders Talk #18) Jun 02, 2011

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Matt Mickiewicz, Co-Founder of SitePoint, 99 Designs, and Flippa talks with Adam about becoming an entrepreneur at a young age, building marketplaces, finding talented people, and using community development and a forum as the spring board for 99 Designs and Flippa.

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IronJS, F#, and .NET (Changelog Interviews #62) Jun 02, 2011

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Wynn caught up with Fredrik Holmström to talk about IronJS, F#, and open source in .NET.

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IronJS A JavaScript implementation for .NET written in F#
Fredrik Holmström, creator of IronJS
F# is a succinct, expressive and efficient functional and object-oriented language for .NET which helps you write simple code to solve complex problems.
“This JScript thing”
Mono is an open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET.
IronJS continues in the tradition of IronPython and IronRuby
IronJS implements EcmaScript 3 but is working towards EcmaScript 5 support
Miguel de Icaza created Mono.
Nuget is a free, open source developer focused package management system for .NET.
Codeplex seems to be the place to find .NET open source
GitHub is hosting more and more .NET projects
C# and .NET are hard to Google
Kayak is an asynchronous HTTP server written in C#
Zed Shaw, featured on Episode 0.3.4
Don Syme, architect behind F#
“John” Gietzen has contributed to IronJS.
Follow @IronJS on Twitter for updates.

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Niel Robertson / Trada (Founders Talk #17) May 28, 2011

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Niel Robertson, Founder and CEO of Trada, talks about crowd-sourcing, crowd mechanics, leveraging “the stealth mode”, raising 52 million dollars, community engagement, as well as thoughts on whether or not crowd-sourcing commoditizes freelance expertise.

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Oh My Zsh (Changelog Interviews #61) May 26, 2011

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Adam and Kenneth caught up with Robby Russell to talk about his community-driven zsh project.

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Kenneth Reitz – Twitter, GitHub

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oh-my-zsh A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
Robby Russell is Chief Evangelist at Planet Argon
Derek Sivers from CD Baby
Robby weighs in on the bash vs. zsh debate
Bash vs Zsh debate? Google returns 175k results on the subject
Themes are a big selling point for oh-my-zsh
Kenneth love is right side prompt
Adam loves hub
oh-my-zsh is currently the eighth most forked project on GitHub.
Follow @ohmyzsh on Twitter for updates
Adam likes the update message.
Robby tries to keep the pull requests under 100.
Robby is looking for a few volunteers to help with pull requests and issue management

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Fog, the Ruby Cloud Services Library (Changelog Interviews #60) May 20, 2011

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Wynn sat down with Wesley Beary from Engine Yard to talk about the Fog project and the Cloud, live from Red Dirt Ruby Conf.

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Wesley Beary aka @geemus
The Fog project is the Ruby cloud services library
By coincidence this interview was recorded the day the cloud went down
Fog supports almost twenty providers for Storage, DNS, Compute, CDN
Dr. Nic made us laugh on Episode 0.5.0
Engine Yard pays Wesley to hack on Fog.
AppCloud is a Ruby Platform as a Service from Engine Yard.
You have to commit to the project to earn a slick Fog tee
Excon grew out of Fog’s need for EXtended http(s) CONnections
Wesley is dubious of ‘compliant APIs’
OpenStack is backed by Rackspace and Nasa
Wesley likes to play with Riak
Red Dirt Ruby Conference videos will be released on May 22

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Avner Ronen / Boxee (Founders Talk #16) May 17, 2011

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Avner Ronen talks about his vision of the “Future of TV,” the role Boxee plays in today’s internet video/audio content on the big screen, the backlash of “big media” against Boxee and how they’ve changed their tune and much more.

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Noah Kagan / App Sumo (Founders Talk #15) May 12, 2011

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Noah Kagan, Founder of App Sumo talks with Adam about his journey to success. Send an email to noah@appsumo.com for more details about something special for 5by5 listeners.

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Bill Boebel / Rackspace (Founders Talk #14) May 11, 2011

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Adam talks with Bill Boebel, VP Strategy/Corp Dev at Rackspace and Founder of Webmail.us about staying the course, keeping the team motivated during turbulent “cash strapped” times, getting acquired by Rackspace and staying on to continue building the company post-acquisition.

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