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Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, Tender Lovemaking (Changelog Interviews #44) Jan 10, 2011

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Wynn caught up with Aaron Patterson, aka @tenderlove, to talk about Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, and muscle cars.

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RubyCommitters.org lists all the folks who hack on the Ruby language
Nokogiri is a library for parsing XML and HTML
The origins of tenderlove, Aaron’s online persona
Hot linking, check it and see. Got a page rank of a hundred and three., to the tune of Hot Blooded
Mechanize adds an API to any website
Being a Ruby committer is ‘alright’
Yugui, release manager for Ruby 1.9
The current state of rubycommitters.org reminds us of CSS Naked Day
REXML is a pure Ruby XML processor
MiniTest is Aaron’s favorite testing framework
His favorite Ruby 1.9.2 feature is speed
texticle is a wrapper around Postgress T-Search APIs
Aaron will be keynoting at Red Dirt Ruby Conf
FasterCSV from JEG2, one of the organizers for Red Dirt Ruby Conf.
El Camino, IROC-Z, or Firebird with T-tops are Aaron’s top three dream cars
For those who have never shaved a Yak and otherwise did not know it.
Arel is at the heart of Rails 3 ActiveRecord improvements
Debian’s Ruby maintainer says he’s out
Ruby Kaigi, the C conference disguised as a Ruby conference
In addition to Japanese, Aaron also speaks Scheme and Haskell
Wynn ? CoffeeScript
Aaron wants to pair program with Jim Weirich
Wynn suggests Aaron capitalize on Tenderlovemaking by organizing promiscuous pair programming

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Hackety Hack and _why (Changelog Interviews #43) Jan 05, 2011

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Steve Klabnik joined the show to talk about learning to program with Hackety Hack and why the lucky stiff.

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

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Steve Klabnik, maintainer of Hackety Hack, newest contributor to The Changelog
Hackety Hack will teach you the absolute basics of programming from the ground up.
_why, creator of Hackety Hack. Help keep his memory alive.
Abbott and Costello’s classic “Who’s on first?”
Yakety Yak is a song written, produced, and arranged by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Coasters and released on Atlantic Records in 1958
Shoes is a tiny graphical app kit for ruby
GTK is a highly usable, feature rich toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces which boasts cross platform compatibility and an easy to use API.
MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9 directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C runtime and garbage collector, the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Foundation and ICU frameworks.
The Shoebox is a gallery of Shoes apps.
Mad props to Heroku, Sinatra, and MongoMapper for handling a LifeHacker traffic spike
Ruby is a great language to teach programming
_why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby
ChunkFive is a nice bold free and open source typeface
Steve is intrigued by projects like cool.io and node.js and the evented style of programming.

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Alex Hillman / Indy Hall (Founders Talk #8) Dec 24, 2010

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Adam talks with Alex Hillman, Co-Founder of Indy Hall and co-conspirator/creator of many things, about all things Coworking, people helping people, how to hustle, get unstuck and more. Alex also mentions something “super secret” that’s sure to please. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Henk Rogers / The Tetris Company (Founders Talk #7) Dec 21, 2010

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Adam talks with Henk Rogers, Founder of The Tetris Company, Blue Planet Software and Blue Planet Foundation about the beginnings of and the evolution of Tetris, over-coming brick walls, social and mobile gaming, never giving up, changing the world, getting the planet off carbon-based fuels, ending war, creating a backup of Earth and the power of love!

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Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs / Slash7 (Founders Talk #6) Dec 17, 2010

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Adam talks with Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs, Founders of Slash7 about product development, profiting from Open Source, the key to happiness, living a Unicorn-Free lifestyle and how Amy and Thomas met and ultimately fell in love.

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Rails 3.1 and SproutCore (Changelog Interviews #42) Dec 09, 2010

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Adam and Wynn caught up with Yehuda Katz to talk about upcoming changes in Rails 3.1, SproutCore, and his growing list of open source projects.

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

Show Notes:

Wynn’s deck from ‘07 pays tribute to Yehuda
Merb influenced and later merged with Rails
SproutCore is an HTML5 application framework for building responsive, desktop-caliber apps in any modern web browser, without plugins.
Carl Lerche is the other half of carlhuda
Desktop MVC != Server MVC
Handlebars.js is Yehuda’s optimization of Mustache.js
Backbone.js is a lightweight MVC framework from DocumentCloud
Bundler manages an application’s dependencies through its entire life across many machines systematically and repeatably.
One of the biggest changes in Rails 3 is The Great Decoupling
Railtie is the core of the Rails Framework and provides several hooks to extend Rails and/or modify the initialization process
Asset handling is coming in Rails 3.1, meaning better support for Sass, Compass, and CoffeeScript
Do you modify your Nginx setup?
Yehuda prefers Sass and Compass to Less since the introduction of the SCSS syntax.
Haml is the templating language of choice for sophisticated web devs.
Yehuda likes JavaScript on the server but thinks evented frameworks like Node are more for edge cases than for the heart of the web.
The Ruby Racer is a Ruby binding to V8 and is great for testing your JavaScripts without a browser
Charles Lowell wrapped Handlebars.js as Handlebars.rb
Yehuda loves CoffeeScript wants a runtime debugger before taking the plunge.
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.
Adam really loves Thor, a scripting framework that replaces rake and sake and is used by the new Rails 3 generators.
There is no shortage of thor tasks from users on GitHub.

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Allan Branch and Steven Bristol / Less Everything (Founders Talk #5) Dec 07, 2010

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Adam talks with Allan Branch and Steven Bristol, Founders of Less Everything about how things got started, why they hate QuickBooks, what it takes to create a successful partnership and more.

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Steven Bristol – Twitter, GitHub, Website
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Ryan Carson / Carsonified (Founders Talk #4) Nov 30, 2010

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Adam talks with Ryan Carson, Founder of Carsonified about the “lessons learned” in creating their latest product, Think Vitamin Membership - the biggest being the need to rename the product and go through a re-branding process. In Q2 of 2011 Think Vitamin Membership will transition to the name “Level Up”, a better suited name and far more “tweetable”.

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Building Telephony Apps (Changelog Interviews #41) Nov 30, 2010

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Wynn caught up with Chris Matthieu of Voxeo Labs to talk about Phono, Tropo, Adhearsion, and building telephony apps with open source tools.

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We’re excited to team up with GitHub Jobs! To have your job posting read on air, just check “Advertise this listing on The Changelog Podcast for an additional $100” when you post your job.
Chris Matthieu founder of Teleku, now with Voxeo Labs, the company behind Tropo, Teleku, and Phono.
Tropo’s GitHub projects
Adhearsion uses Ruby to create voice-enabled applications on top of Asterisk
Asterisk turns an ordinary computer into a communications server
Phono, a jQuery plugin that lets you make phone calls right from your browser.
Jay Phillips orginally created Adhearsion
Jason Goecke VP of Innovation at Voxeo
AGI protocol is at the core of Asterisk
Wynn and Chris go way back with TAPI, MAPI, and SAPI
Google Voice transcriptions gone bad
The SIP protocol allows multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol
The Jingle protocol extends XMPP and powers Google Talk
Wynn asks how Tropo stacks up against Twilio
Tropo does TTS in nine languages
Tropo’s Scripting Environment supports Ruby, Python, PHP, Groovy, and Javascript
Tropo’s REST API offers a more traditional API approach
Facebook Telephone lets you call your Facebook friends via Phono.
Twelephone, if Twitter is more your bag
Michael Bleigh from Intridea makes Twitter apps easier for Rubyists
Facebook’s OpenGraph API makes building Facebook apps much easier than previous APIs

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Riak Revisited (Changelog Interviews #40) Nov 09, 2010

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Wynn sat down with Andy Gross and Mark Phillips of Basho and John Nunemaker of Ordered List to talk about Riak, Riak Search, and moving an open source community to GitHub.

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Wynn Netherland – Twitter, GitHub

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NoSQL smackdown, live from SXSW 2010.
Are you web scale?
Drop us a ping@thechangelog.com and let us know who you want to get on The Changelog
Andy Gross VP of Engineering at Basho, the company behind Riak.
Mark Phillips Community Manager at Basho AKA * @pharkmillups
John Nunemaker of Ordered List and MongoMapper fame
Riak is now available as a binary download
Bitcask, the new backend for Riak
Riak key value store, decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies
Riak Search, full-text search engine based on Riak
Riak buckets, container and keyspace for data stored in Riak
Riak KVS buckets can be automatically searchable by installing the Search pre-commit hook
Riak supports an Apache SOLR interface
Sean Cribbs made some waves with Ripple
Ruby, Python, Node.js are the biggest adopters of Riak
Riak aims to scale both up and down. Adding a node adds a linear increase in throughput and storage capacity. 50 nodes run easily on a laptop.
Riak nodes are truly decentralized, no node is special
Riak compares to Cassandra and Voldemort
Riak has built-in JavaScript map reduce but unlike Couch, it’s more an ad hoc approach.
Andy explains Riak’s link walking or bucket-key-tag relationships between objects.
Riak now has two interfaces, the original REST HTTP interface, and a new protocol buffers interface, a faster binary interface
Eric Brewer, a Basho board member, and his cap theorem
Bitcask is an append-only file format where the keys are stored in memory for ultra fast lookups.
InnoStore, the original Riak backend
John Muellerleile, author of the popular NoSQL cartoon about distributed map reduce in Erlang
Apache Lucene query syntax a growing standard for search
The move from BitBucket to GitHub was ultimately about community, not about DVCS
The THANKS file lists many Riak community contributors
Harmony - the MongoDB-powered hosted CMS from Ordered List
Mozilla runs several Riak clusters to log data from their Test Pilot project
Francisco Treacy uses Riak in WideScript, “an innovative app that helps you focus and interact with your texts — on your desktop, your couch or on the go.”
Inagist recently moved from Cassandra to Riak
Riak has partnered with Joyent and Node creator Ryan Dahl to create Riak SmartMachines
Mark also is a fan of Redis
Scala and Clojure have Andy excited, too.

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