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Ruby, Rails, the Cloud (Changelog Interviews #50) Mar 01, 2011

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Steve and Wynn caught up with Dr. Nic from Engine Yard to talk about the cloud, Jenkins, Ruby, and lowering the barrier of entry for learning Rails on Windows.

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Catch up with us at Red Dirt Ruby Conf
Steve will be at Codeconf
Kenneth will be covering PyCon 2011
Thanks for putting up with us for 50 episodes!
Dr. Nic Williams is Developer Advocate at Engine Yard has a ton of open source projects
Engine Yard uses Amazon AWS and Terremark
Dr. Nic actively and aggressively abandons most of his 154 public repos and feels good about it due to Git and GitHub
Steve maintains a couple of projects from _why
Dr. Nic liked how Jamis Buck declared he abandoned Capistrano
Dr. Nic prefers TextMate instead of “1960s technology”
Steve likes Janus for Vim
Steve asks about Redcar
Engine Yard has partnered with Appcelerator for mobile app developers
Dr. Nic helps maintain Rails Installer, the easiest way to get up and running with Ruby on Rails. For Windows. Mac and Linux coming soon.
Luis Lavena and Charles Nutter are core to the Ruby community
“If you have to put the shortcuts on a coffee mug!” - Dr. Nic on Vim
Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud is a regular on The Changelog for projects like Docco, CloudCrowd, Underscore.js, CoffeeScript
The Jenkins rename shows the power of the community to stick together
Dr. Nic is sticking with Jenkins, but Travis is worth a look for Rubyists
Someone send Dr. Nic an Octocat badge

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Eric Kuhn / Founders Card (Founders Talk #12) Feb 24, 2011

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Adam talks with Eric Kuhn, Founder of Founders Card about the ups and downs of building an online business during the era of the “dot com” bubble, managing hyper growth, getting listed and de-listed on the NASDAQ and building an exclusive benefits program, coined as “The Amex Black Card for the Entrepreneur”, exclusively aimed at Entrepreneurs and Founders. If you want an invite, get in touch with Adam.

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FoundersCard

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**Git, Showoff, XBox Kinect (Changelog Interviews #49)** Feb 22, 2011
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Kenneth and Wynn caught up with GitHubber Scott Chacon to talk about Git, distributed version control, and his quest to kill Word as a book authoring tool.

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Kenneth Reitz – Twitter, GitHub
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Scott Chacon, Git evangelist, GitHubber, author of ProGit

rsync is a software application for Unix and Windows systems which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate.

Perforce is a commercial, proprietary, centralized revision control system developed by Perforce Software, Inc.

Git Internals, Scott’s PeepCode PDF

Chris, Tom, PJ, founders of GitHub

Continuous integration is one of Git’s strengths

Surprisingly, Scott’s `.gitconfig` isn’t pimped out

gitk The git GUI repository browser

gitx Git GUI for OS X

gitgui Unlike gitk, git gui focuses on commit generation and single file annotation and does not show project history.

Why Git and not Mercurial?

Mercurial bookmarks are references to commits that are automatically updated when new commits are made. If you do hg bookmark feature the feature bookmark refers to the current changeset.

hg-git is the Hg-Git plugin for Mercurial, adding the ability to push to and pull from a Git server repository from Mercurial.

BitBucket is to Hg as GitHub is to Git

Scott says he had good intentions in comparing Git to other version control systems and was not lobbing stones at Mercurial

Scott says distributed source control systems are key to helping the open source community thrive because it lets anyone commit and get involved

The RubyGems.org 404 is amusing

libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language which supports C bindings.

GitHub has continued the libgit2 Google Summer of Code effort, supporting Vicent Marti to continue the development

Scott says that Git is basically a key value store and we should look at uses beyond version control

Eclipse is moving to Git away from CVS

Git Tower is a beautiful Git UI for the Mac

Showoff is a Sinatra web app that reads simple configuration files for a presentation. It is sort of like a Keynote web app engine.

Kinectaby, Ruby bindings for XBox Kinect

Wynn is excited about Scott’s project Git Scribe for writing, feeling the pain of using Word for archaic book publisher workflows

Jason J Williams’s tools have lessened the pain for Wynn in writing the upcoming Sass book for Manning

Everybody that works at GitHub is Scott’s programming hero but Ryan Tomayko is one of the smartest developer’s Scott knows.

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Jenkins and Continous Integration (Changelog Interviews #48) Feb 08, 2011

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Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Andrew Bayer from the Jenkins project to talk about continuous integration, Java, and corporate backing drama.

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CI Joe is GitHub’s continuous integration server
Knowing is half the battle
Jenkins née Hudson is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
Kohsuke Kawaguchi is the creator of Jenkins
Andrew Bayer is a Build Engineer at Cloudera
Nearly 30K Jenkins installations worldwide
Jenkins is written in Java but with its rich plugin system, you can run almost anything with it
Jenkins supports Git, Mercurial, SVN, and even Visual SourceSafe
Jenkins does more than running tests, it can also do parameterized deploys
GitHub has fueled an explosion in Jenkins community growth
Wynn asks why Java is only 6% of GitHub projects
Funny cartoon on how language fanboys see one another
Git and GitHub adoption actually sparked the name change and Oracle split
The community voted 214-14 to rename
Andy addresses how plugins will migrate to the new name. Thanks, Matthew J McCullough.
At what point do projects look at a jQuery Foundation-style governance model?
Hudson was the butler in Upstairs, Downstairs
Alfred, the butler from Batman was a consideration, but conflicted with the Mac program
James Clark is Kohsuke’s programming hero
Kohsuke and Lisp’s Guy Steele are Andrew’s heroes
MZ Scheme now Racket makes Kenneth’s head hurt
Andrew recommends Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs from MIT
As a build guy, Selenium gets Andrew excited
Kohsuke is trying to hack the Airport Express to stream tunes from Linux

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Open Government and the Citizen Coder (Changelog Interviews #47) Feb 01, 2011

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Adam and Wynn caught up with Carl Tashian from Open Government to talk about OpenGovernment.org, OpenCongress.org, and the rise of the Citizen Coder.

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Carl Tashian is Director of Technology at Open Government
OpenGovernment: Empower individuals and organizations to track government at every level
OpenCongress.org - open source Rails app to track the goings on in the US Congress
Library of Congress THOMAS site is the source for federal legislative information
OpenGovernment.org, a public resource for government transparency at the state, city, and local levels. Free and open-source.
Open States API
The Sunlight Foundation aims to make government transparent and accountable
Wynn helped create TweetCongress.org winner of a SXSW 2009 Web award for activism, making use of Sunlight APIs
Follow the money and connect the dots between bills, key votes, and campaign donations.
Transparency Data is a central source for federal lobbying disclosure, federal grants and contracts, earmarks and federal and state campaign contributions, complete with it’s own API
GovKit
Luigi Montanez and Wynn wrote a wrapper for Transparency Data
Fog, the Ruby cloud services library
Carl worked at ZipCar prior to joining Open Government
Syncing large datasets from different providers is a big challenge
PostgreSQL and PostGIS power the backend of OpenGovernment
GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data.
MongoDB and Rack provide a fast way to track page views in the app
Sunlight, Code for America, and Open Government - rise of the Citizen Coder?
Oakland Crimespotting is a case study on developers having an impact on government
DocumentCloud, featured in Episode 0.0.5
Jammit, Industrial Strength Asset Packaging for Rails
Pythonistas, why not help out by creating a scraper for your state?
Kenneth and Wynn debate the best terminal font

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Rick Perreault / Unbounce (Founders Talk #11) Jan 28, 2011

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Adam talks with Rick Perreault, Co-Founder & CEO of Unbounce about entrepreneurship and solving your own pain, sticking to an MVP (Minimal Viable Product) launch strategy, becoming an authority by blogging/marketing before you launch, listening to customers and knowing when to take funding.

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YUI 3, Node.js, JSLint, Douglas Crockford Code Reviews (Changelog Interviews #46) Jan 25, 2011

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Adam and Wynn caught up with Adam Moore and Satyen Desai from the YUI team to talk about YUI 3, Node.js, and working with Douglas Crockford.

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YUI is the Yahoo! User Interface library, a collection of front end code goodies for JavaScript and CSS
Follow the YUI Blog for the latest developments, such as the new 3.3.0 release
Adam Moore and Satyen Desai are engineers on the YUI team.
The Autocomplete widget provides a flexible, configurable, and accessible implementation of the AutoComplete design pattern.
The DataTable widget renders columnar data into a highly customizable and fully accessible HTML table
The Dial widget is an alternative to sliders
The YUI Charts recently moved from Flash to JavaScript in YUI 3
The Community developed the drag/move component
YUI is on GitHub, fueling community involvement
YUI Theater is a great source for JavaScript talks and all things YUI
Douglas Crockford is the author of JSLint, the JSON spec, featured on Episode 0.2.6 from TXJS
Nicholas C. Zakas aka @slicknet is the author of a number of JavaScript books
Eric Miraglia is the Engineering Manager for the YUI team
JSLint improves your JavaScript but will not spare your feelings
Dave Glass - has a great talk about YUI + Node
“I love async, but I can’t code like this”
Many of the additional Node.js modules deal with parallel execution
Adam suggests targeting features, not platform since features like touch will be on the desktop eventually.
Satyen’s talk on YUI’s mobile strategy
The module pattern in JavaScript
The YUI Gallery lists discoverable components contributed by the community

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Ryan Holmes / HootSuite (Founders Talk #10) Jan 22, 2011

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Adam talks with Ryan Holmes, Founder of Hootsuite entrepreneurship, establishing and leveraging their relationship with Twitter, from “free” to “freemium” with a plan, and growing to well over 1 Million users in 2 years.

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Hootsuite

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Redis In-Memory Data Store (Changelog Interviews #45) Jan 17, 2011

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Wynn caught up with Salvatore Sanfilippo to talk about Redis, the super hot key value store.

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VMware signs the paychecks for Salvatore and Pieter Noordhuis
Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store and data structure server wherein keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets
Redis internals consist of ANSI C with an evented model
Non-blocking replication has always been a Redis design goal
Replication in Redis is async
Salvatore’s Redis toolbox includes the Redis Ruby gem and Sinatra
Chances are you can find a Redis library in your favorite language
The C client is the only officially supported wrapper
Salvatore thinks the NoSQL moniker isn’t perfect, focusing too much on performance, but it frames a discussion
Redis Pub/Sub is perfect for real-time apps
GitHub’s adoption of Redis in Resque helped fuel the growth of the project
Redis users tend to use it as a database, as a messaging bus, or as a cache
Salvatore thinks hosted solutions like Redis-to-Go need to add more value like more frequent backups and seamless upgrades.
Blizzard uses an 8-node Redis install in serving avatars for WoW
Justin Campbell asks will VMWare feature Redis in any upcoming projects?
Ezra Zygmuntowicz and GitHub were among the first “few brave users”
After a few months Salvatore noticed a dip in adoption , but he trusted his gut and stuck with it

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Maciej Ceglowski / Pinboard (Founders Talk #9) Jan 10, 2011

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Adam talks with Maciej Ceglowski, Founder of Pinboard about turning this side project into the next Delicious, handling a massive in-flux of Delicious users when they announced its “sunset”, keeping the technology and architecture simple and more.

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