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Scripty2, Zepto.js, Vapor.js (Changelog Interviews #39) Oct 26, 2010

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Wynn caught up with Thomas Fuchs to talk about script.aculo.us, Scripty2, Zepto.js and the future of Prototype.

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The Magic Roundabout is crazy
Wynn got his UK badge on Gowalla
script.aculo.us JavaScript effects framework built on top of Prototype
Prototype - JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
Thomas is one of many talented RoR core team alumni
Scripty2 - completely rewritten version of script.aculo.us
RaphaelJS - JavaScript vector graphics library featured in Episode 0.2.5
Johnson Page asks “What’s the future of Prototype.js?”
Underscore.js utility library for jQuery, inspired by Prototype, featured in Episode 0.0.5
Zepto.js minimalist inlinable framework for mobile WebKit browsers, with a jQuery-like chaining syntax
EveryTimeZone.com - handy tool to pick a time to meet across time zones. A promotional site for Freckle, chock full of JavaScript best practices.
Thomas’ blog post on approaches taken with EveryTimeZone.com
Gury Chainable syntax wrapper for the <canvas> element
Vapor.js “The only JS framework compatible with every browser.”
MadRobby gives mad props to @janl, @hblank, @cramforce and other JSConf.eu organizers.
FabJS - modular async framework for Node.js
Chris Williams’ talk on PromoteJS, an effort The Changelog supports.
Eyeballs.js - A lightweight MVC framework for building fast, tidy JavaScript web apps
CoffeeScript, featured in Episode 0.2.9
Amy Hoy, Thomas’ wife, product proponent, and usability diva.
Freckle helps you manage your time
JavaScript Performance Rocks - three books on ultimate web app performance
Charm Desk - Thomas and Amy tackle customer support
PeepCode’s Smashing into Vim with the soothing voice of Dan Benjamin
Mensch and Meslo, the latest stops on Thomas’ journey to find the ultimate Terminal.app font
Thomas likes to fly his AR.Drone around the office
He’s also building the Lego Milennium Falcon
SchnitzelConf a 1-day, full-contact conference in Vienna, Austria focusing on creating products, launching businesses, and charging real money.

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Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe / Page 99 Test (Founders Talk #3) Oct 22, 2010

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Adam talks with Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe, Founders of Page99Test.com. People in bookstores often read page 99 of a book to get a taste for the writing - to determine if they’d buy the book. Lance, Joanna and technical Co-Founder, Steven Luke took that time tested idea and have built a brand new platform for book enthusiasts, authors, agents and publishers to get excited about.

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Joanna Wiebe – Twitter, Website
Lance Jones – Twitter, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Ted Roden / Fancy Hands (Founders Talk #2) Oct 16, 2010

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Adam talks with Ted Roden, Founder of Fancy Hands, a team of personal assistants in the cloud ready to work for you right now. For those of you who have an over flowing todo list, get back to focusing on what’s important and give Fancy Hands a try.

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

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Venn diagram — **DevOps and Chef (Changelog Interviews #38)** Oct 12, 2010
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Wynn sat down with Corey Donohoe from GitHub and Seth Chisamore from Opscode to talk about DevOps, Chef, agile infrastructure and innovation in the datacenter.

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Show Notes:

Corey Donahoe aka @atmos, DevOps dude at GitHub

Seth Chisamore aka @schisamo, evangelist at Opscode, makers of Chef

Chef, an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

DevOps is defined as a set of processes, methods and systems for communication, collaboration and integration between departments for Development (Applications/Software Engineering), Technology Operations and Quality Assurance (QA)

Puppet, an open source data center automation and configuration management framework.

Cfengine, continuous datacenter automation and repair

Knife, the Chef command line interface

Chef Hosted platform is an instant hosted, highly scalabe Chef Server

Chef solo lets you run Chef without a Chef server

Chef was architected to be multi-tenant

The Opscode Team members have impressive resumes.

Chef includes impressive role-based authorities

Cookbooks are like Rubygems for Chef

Cinderella née Cider = apple + homebrew + chef + rvm

Homebrew as the most forked project is GitHub’s stress test. Be sure to catch Max on Episode 0.3.5

Wynn makes the case that the Swedish Chef be the face of the DevOps movement

Silverline from Librato does complex systems management and monitoring

EY or EngineYard, Corey’s former employer uses VMs in their architecture

Simon Wardley’s OSCon keynote

OpenStack is an effort to standardize the cloud

DevOps version of the account that got Shatner back on TV

DevOps Borat tweets from the datacenter

Fog, Wesley Beary’s excellent Ruby abstraction layer for popular cloud providers

Knife, donated by 37 Signals

Wynn digs infinity_test to test against multiple versions of Ruby at the same time

collectd, system statistics collection daemon

Using Visage to graph collectd stats

Sign up for the Opscode platform free beta

Look up Seth as schisamo in #chef and #chef-hacking on IRC

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Geoffrey Grosenbach / PeepCode (Founders Talk #1) Oct 06, 2010

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Adam talks with Geoffrey Grosenbach about his quest for greatness as Senior Visionary in building PeepCode Screencasts. Complete with the signature voice that Geoff delivers, he walks us through the various aspects of building Peepcode from scratch, adhering to the Minimal Viable Product methodology (MVP), starting on “the cheap” and the reason he says “no” to DRM to reduce piracy on his digital products.

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

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PubSubHubBub and the Real-Time Web (Changelog Interviews #37) Oct 05, 2010

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Wynn chatted with Julien Genestoux (github/twitter) from Superfeedr about PubSubHubBub, XMPP, Websockets, and the real-time web.

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Superfeedr - pushes realtime data at scale using PubSubHubBub and XMPP.
PubSubHubHub - simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS.
XMPP - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is an open technology for real-time communication and generalized routing of XML data.
Discovery links in feeds
Superfeeder has some big names among its publishers and subscribers
Gowalla demo using websockets and Gowalla’s hub.
Twitter’s streaming APIs
Considerations for PubSubHubBub vs. XMPP
Superfeedr’s GitHub profile
EventMachine and Node.js are cool
Julien loves Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB
Superfeedr’s list of popular feeds, firehose of the blogosphere
Redis’ as a pubsub store
Chef from Opscode is serious cool for setting up servers

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Django Dash, Python, Ruby (Changelog Interviews #36) Sep 23, 2010

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Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Daniel, Christian, and Matt from Pragmatic Badger to talk about the Django Dash, Python, and Ruby.

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Daniel, Christian, and Matt from Pragmatic Badger host the Django Dash.
Django Dash - you’ve got 48 hours to build a Django app. Go!
Pyweek - Build a Python app in a week
Rails Rumble - Ruby on Rails’ a own 48 hour web application development competition.
The Dash rules
Great Big Crane - 2010 Dash winner
The Dash moved to distributed version control this year on GitHub & BitBucket
Love for Pythons’ explicit imports and Python’s module system
Twisted - an event-driven networking engine written in Python.
Node.js - Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript.
Eventlet - a concurrent networking library for Python that allows you to change how you run your code, not how you write it.
EventMachine - fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs.
Christian is using Compass and Sass in Django, but hates on Haml
Forkinit - forkin’ brilliant! Share and fork your favorite recipes.
Flask - Flask is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions.
Web.py - a web framework for python that is as simple as it is powerful.
Google’s AppEngine Run your Python web apps on Google’s infrastructure.
Pypy - implemenation of the Python language focusing on speed, memory usage, and sandboxing.
Rubinius - an implementation of the Ruby programming language. The Rubinius bytecode virtual machine is written in C++.
Manoria - an MMO city-building and resource management game [Source]
Server tail - a service which lets you quickly and easily see real time output of log files on your servers, with just a web browser. [Source]
Read the docs - a place to create, host, and browse docs. [Source]
GitHub made covering the event live much more fun
PhoneGap - open source development framework for building cross-platform mobile apps using HTML and JavaScript.
Leah Culver, who created Leafy Chat in last year’s Dash, talked about it in Episode 0.1.5

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Homebrew and OSX Package Management (Changelog Interviews #35) Sep 14, 2010

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Adam and Wynn caught up with Max Howell, creator of Homebrew to talk about package managment on OSX, beer, and scrobbling.

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

Show Notes:

Homebrew The awesome OSX package manager from Max Howell
Last.fm - The world’s largest online music catalogue, powered by your scrobbles. Max’s former employer.
Tweet Deck Desktop and mobile Twitter client
ImageMagick - fabulous software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images which can be a pain to install on OSX.
Amarok - is a free software music player for Linux and other varieties of Unix
GitHub - where all the cool people put code
Homebrew terms in the Homebrew Cookbook
No sudo for you and the dangers therein
MacPorts - an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system
Gentoo - highly optimized Linux distro
Most forked projects on GitHub
Max prefers British ales
pengwynn is looking to get his hands on the Tatical Nuclear Penguin from Brewdog
The Silicon roundabout gets its name due to the prominence of British web based companies
Max created the Last.fm Scrobbler, proving open source can land you a job
Transmission is beautiful on the Mac
Glasses, This is the next generation of VLC for Mac also called Lunettes.
brew install sl, then sl — enjoy the ride!

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Mongrel2 and high performance web sites (Changelog Interviews #34) Sep 08, 2010

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Wynn caught up with Zed Shaw’s non-rockstar alter ego to talk about Mongrel2, high performance web sites, guitar, and software community ponzi schemes.

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Zed Shaw – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Wynn Netherland – Twitter, GitHub

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Mongrel2 - an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies.
Original mongrel
_why an anonymous and prolific writer, cartoonist, musician, artist, and computer programmer notable for his work with Ruby
Unicorn - Eric Wong’s mostly pure-Ruby HTTP backend
Thin A fast and very simple Ruby web server
0MQ Fastest. Messaging. Ever.
Node.js Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript.
Nginix is a HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev
HAProxy The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
Twisted an event-driven networking engine written in Python
libevent Asynchronous event notification library
EventMachine fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs
Websockets - technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channel, featured in Episode 0.3.1
SPDY - An experimental protocol for a faster web
Fretwar The guitar competition and social time waster.
LayerTennis from Coudal
MP3 streaming demo in Mongrel2
Librelist a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source projects.
Dethklok, Pantera, Slayer, Metallica
Wynn asks if Rails is still a ghetto
Joyent
Ajax.im an open-source, extensible, theme-able instant messaging framework.
Qt Cross platform UI framework
Awesome window manager is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X
Vimperator Vimperator is a Firefox browser extension with strong inspiration from the Vim text editor, with a mind towards faster and more efficient browsing.
Screen screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Reaper is a digital audio workstation: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment.

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Node Knockout (Changelog Interviews #33) Aug 31, 2010

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Micheil and Wynn caught up with Gerad and Visnu from the Node Knockout to talk about the 48 hour Node.js development competition and its entries.

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Lone Star Ruby Conference - Texas’ regional Ruby conference in Austin
Mike Perham - The awesome Rubyist whose name gives Wynn fits
Node Knockout - The 48 hour Node.js coding competition
Rails Rumble - Ruby’s own 48 hour coding bash
Gerad - of Gerad & Visnu, the “data-y” and “product-y” guy
Visnu - the “developer-y” and “designer-y” guy
Fortnight Labs - the proper name for Gerad & Visnu, Inc.
List of great Node Knockout Judges
Joyent & Heroku are great places to host your Node.js apps.
Express High performance, high class web development for Node.js
Connect - high performance middleware framework for node featuring robust middleware for serving static files, advanced routing, cookie and session implementations, error handling and much more.
npm is a package manager for node. You can use it to install and publish your node programs. It manages dependencies and does other cool stuff.
Node Inspector is a web inspector based Node.js debugger
Socket.io - Websockets toolkit covered in 0.3.1 and used in so many contest entries
Go vote for your favorite entries!

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