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960.gs and CSS Grid Frameworks (Changelog Interviews #32) Aug 19, 2010

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Adam and Wynn caught up with Nathan Smith from 960 Grid System to talk about web development and CSS grid frameworks.

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

Show Notes:

960 Grid System - Nathan’s awesome CSS grid framework
960’s awesome templates help you plan your layouts
Wynn’s new monitor setup is just plain obscene
960’s fluid support from Stephen Bau
Episode 0.2.8 where John Resig talks about mobile web dev
Episode 18 of the yayQuery podcast
Wynn asks why Google’s AJAX API library doesn’t include the CSS frameworks
Nathan and Wynn are fans of Jason Santa Maria’s layout-per-post blog
For the non-soccer fans, a little background for Nathan’s midfielder analogy.
We don’t need to link to Sass do we?
Taco Town from SNL
jQuery Cookbook, to which Nathan contributed lucky Chapter 13
Nathan is a big Drupal fan
Rebecca Murphey organizer of the awesome TXJS conference
Textile vs. Markdown

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The WebSocket protocol (Changelog Interviews #31) Aug 09, 2010

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Wynn and Micheil sat down with Peter Griess from Yahoo Mail, Martyn Loughran from Pusher App, and Guillermo Rauch from Socket.IO to talk about Websockets.

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Show Notes:

WebSocket is a technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels, over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket, designed to be implemented in web browsers and web servers.
Socket.IO provides a really simple API to leverage Sockets on the client side.
Socket.IO Node.JS server - sockets for the rest of us (in Node.js)
Pusher App Hosted HTML5 web sockets service
Websocket-js A Flash fallback for browsers that do not support Websockets
Long polling Traditional approach to emulating push for web apps
HAProxy reliable, high performance TCP/HTTP load balancer
True Story A collaborative planning tool for agile teams
HTML5 Event Source A one-way websocket with limited browser support
Node Websocket Server Micheil’s websocket server written in low-level node.js, should be 90-100% spec compatible.
Hummingbird demo - a real time traffic visualizer
MongoDB Awesome NoSQL database featured on Episode 0.0.7
Redis an advanced key-value store. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists, sets, and ordered sets.
EM-Websocket EventMachine based WebSocket server from Ilya Grigorik
Node.js YUI3 bindings YUI3 on the server?!
Telehash - a new wire protocol from Jeremie Miller, the guy behind XMPP, for exchanging JSON in a real-time and fully decentralized manner, enabling applications to connect directly and participate as servers on the edge of the network.

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Sencha Touch (Changelog Interviews #30) Jul 27, 2010

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Wynn caught up with David Kaneda to talk about mobile web app development with Sencha Touch.

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Sencha Touch - HTML5 mobile application framework
WebKitBits - David’s Tumblr for the latest in WebKit news and tips
jQTouch - jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.
Sass - Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets for your CSS, featured in Episode 0.0.1
Outpost Basecamp in your pocket
iUI - Perhaps the original JavaScript toolkit for creating iPhone web apps
PPK - Web standards and browser guru.
Compass - Turbocharges your Sass
Sencha demos including GeoCongress which leverages the Sunlight Labs APIs featured in Episode 0.1.3
YQL - SELECT * FROM Interwebs

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CoffeeScript and JavaScript (Changelog Interviews #29) Jul 23, 2010

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Wynn and special guest host Micheil Smith sat down with Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud to chat about CoffeeScript, a cool language that compiles to JavaScript.

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Show Notes:

CoffeeScript - a cool language that compiles to JavaScript.
DocumentCloud - an index of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web.
Haskell - an advanced purely functional programming language
Everything in CoffeeScript is an expression
Switch statements in CoffeeScript compile to if/else chains
CoffeeScript has powerful comprehensions for Arrays, Objects, and Ranges
Existential operator should look familiar to Rubyists
Splats make JavaScript arguments even easier
ECMAScript 5.0 - the latest JavaScript standard
ECMAScript Harmony
CoffeeScript’s String Interpolation
CoffeeScript’s Class/inheritance features
Function binding - as President Clinton said “It depends on what your definition of ‘this’ is…” ;-)
Jeremy loves working with <canvas> to create Buddhabrot Fractals
Node.js finds its way into every episode!
NPM is the new standard for Node Package Management
JSLint cleans up your JavaScripts.
Jade gives your JavaScript Haml envy from TJ Holowaychuk
Lincoln Shire Poacher - RaphaelJS graphics from Chris Lloyd
Underscore.js - featured in Episode 0.0.5
Comet
@CoffeeScript - Unofficial Twitter account
Join us in #coffeescript on Freenode

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Mobile Web Development and jQuery (Changelog Interviews #28) Jun 25, 2010

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Adam and Wynn caught up with John Resig at TXJS and talked about mobile web development with jQuery and TestSwarm, a continuous integration project from Mozilla Labs.

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TestSwarm - Distributed continuous integration testing for JavaScript.
Pro JavaScript Techniques John’s JavaScript book
Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja John’s upcoming book of trade secrets
WebKit - The rendering engine behind Safari, Chrome, and a growing number of mobile browsers
PhoneGap - Bridges the gap between the web and native functions on the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry
Fennec Firefox for mobile devices
Opera Dragonfly - cross device, cross platform debugging environment for the Opera browser-debug JavaScript, inspect and edit CSS and the DOM
jQTouch - jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch
iUI - create WebApps with an iPhone-like Look and Feel from Firebug creator Joe Hewitt
TouchScroll JavaScript- and CSS?3-based scroller for devices using Webkit Touch (yes, that includes Android). It is meant to mimic “native” scrolling feeling and behavior as much as possible.
Mustache.js - Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript

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Padrino Ruby Web Framework (Changelog Interviews #27) Jun 17, 2010

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Adam and Wynn caught up with Arthur Chiu and Nathan Esquenazi from Padrino, the Ruby web framework built on top of Sinatra.

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Show Notes:

Padrino - über modular web framework built on top Sinatra
#padrino - Padrino’s IRC channel @ irc.freenode.net
Ramaze - “Web framework for Rubyists”
Mountable apps in Padrino
Rack provides a minimal interface between webservers supporting Ruby and Ruby frameworks.
CodeRack - Rack middleware directory
OmniAuth - flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.
padrino-recipes Examples of forthcoming Padrino plugins based on Thor
Sammy.js - Sinatra-inspired javascript framework built on top of jQuery. It’s RESTful Evented JavaScript. Featured in Episode 0.2.2
NestaCMS lightweight Content Management System from Graham Ashton, suitable for running small web sites or blogs. Nesta is written in Ruby using the Sinatra web framework.
Presto Wynn’s shameless port of Nesta to Padrino powering his own site
Express - Sinatra-inspired high performance, high class web development for Node.js
Bowline Create desktop applications with HTML+CSS
MongoDB Powerfully simple NoSQL database, supported in Padrino via Mongoid or Mongomapper

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JSON and JavaScript (Changelog Interviews #26) Jun 08, 2010

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While at TXJS — Adam and Wynn caught up with Douglas Crockford, author of both JavaScript: The Good Parts and the JSON spec, and a global namespace unto himself.

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Show Notes:

JSON - (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format, easy for humans to read and write.
The JSON Saga - how JSON came about
JSON.parse, JSON.stringify - Parse and and generate JSON in a standard way
YAML - YAML Ain’t Markup Language
Douglas says we should scrap HTML5 and start over and address XSS instead
ECMAScript 5 - Version 5 of the international JavaScript standard
JSONP - Current hack to do XSS with JSON
The JSON logo

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RaphaëlJS and Running an Open Source Project (Changelog Interviews #25) May 25, 2010

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Wynn caught up with Dmitry Baranovskiy to talk about his project RaphaëlJS, running an open source project, and why living in Australia is better than living anywhere else in the world.

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Show Notes:

RaphaëlJS Dmitry’s JavaScript vector graphics library
gRaphaël Charting library built on top of Raphaël
TXJS — var TXJS = JS + BBQ + you;
Dmitry Baranovskiy’s homepage
SVG XML vocabulary for describing two-dimensional graphics.
VML Microsoft-backed alternative to SVG
Ext JS RIA JavaScript platform
Raphael demos Wow!
Node.js Lightning fast server-side JavaScript on top of Google V8
Ryan Dahl Creator of Node.js
Mustache.js Logic-less views in JS, based on Mustache from defunkt

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Tornado, Hip-hop, Three20 (Changelog Interviews #24) May 18, 2010

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Adam and Wynn caught up with David Recordon and other Facebook developers to talk about their wide range of open source projects including Tornado, Hip-Hop, and Three20 as well as OpenGraph and OAuth 2.0.

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Show Notes:

David Recordon Open Source developer at Facebook, co-creator of OAuth
Paul Bucheit Co-founder of FriendFeed, creator of Gmail
Haiping Zhao Creator of Hip-Hop at Facebook
Scott MacVicar Developer on Hip-hop at Facebook
Owen Yamauchi - Three20 developer at facebook
Joe Hewitt Original Three20 developer, creator of Firebug
Tornado - Non-blocking web server built in Python
epoll - the Linux magic at the heart of Tornado
EventMachine Ruby approach to evented, asynchronous web
Node.js - You do listen to this show, right?
Hip-hop PHP - Pre-compile your PHP into lightning fast C++
Three20 - iPhone framework extracted from Facebook’s iPhone app
iPhone OS 4.0 Next version of Apple’s mobile operating system
OpenGraph Enables web sites to become rich objects in social graphs
OAuth2 New simpler mobile and desktop-friendly version of everybody’s favorite authentication method
f8 Facebook’s developer conference

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The Ruby Racer (Changelog Interviews #23) May 11, 2010

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Wynn and Gregg Pollack did a special LIVE episode at Red Dirt Ruby Conf where they sat down with Charles Lowell to talk about embedding JavaScript engines in Ruby.

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Show Notes:

Gregg Pollack from Ruby5 co-hosted this episode!
Red Dirt Ruby Conf - the awesome regional Ruby conference in OKC
Charles Lowell from the FrontSide
The Ruby Racer Embed the V8 Javascript Interpreter into Ruby
The Ruby Rhino Embed the Mozilla Rhino Javascript interpreter into Ruby
Mustache - logicless views from defunkt
Mustache.js - Jan Lehnardt’s awesome port of Mustache
Google V8 Google’s super fast JavaScript engine
Glenn Vanderburg asks the question “Why send JSON over the wire and not HTML fragments”
JSON templates Precursor to Mustache
Underscore.js Also has some templating built into this utility JS framework
Env.js A pure-JavaScript browser environment from John Resig
Drunk and Retired Charles’ own podcast

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