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Aug 8, 2012 · 41 min
News Roundup (Changelog Interviews #84)
Andrew and Wynn run down the news from the last month. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: Gitspective - Facebook style timeline for your GitHub feed Hammer.js - Easily add multi-touch to your websites TweetStream - Easily access the Twitter Streaming API t - Powerful command line interface for Twitter Sextant - view your Rails routes without waiting on Rake Episode 0.8.2 - Ruby Motion, MacRuby, and more with Laurent Sansonetti RubyMotion toolchain now open source Ruby Motion Samples - Write iPhone Apps in Ruby Formotion - Making iOS Forms insanely great with RubyMotion Eloy Duran, the creator of CocoaPods BubbleWrap - Cocoa wrappers and helpers for RubyMotion (Ruby for iOS) - Making Cocoa APIs more Ruby like, one API at a time. Cupertino - Mechanize the Apple Dev Center Grunt - a command line build tool for JavaScript Prose - A content editor for GitHub Jekyll - a blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby Octopress - a blogging framework for hackers. Nesta CMS - A Ruby CMS for developers and designers. Mousetrap.js - JavaScript Keyboard Shortcuts Sparrow, a Mac Mail Client, was recently acquired by Google TodoMVC - JavaScript Frameworks Galore! thoughtbot - a mobile and web application design and development firm. Don’t git-blame me, I was pairing Cheddar - Task made simple. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Aug 7, 2012 · 8 min
After Founders Talk #39 (Founders Talk)
Adam and guest Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and the maker of Cheddar after Founders Talk #39. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Sam Soffes – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Aug 7, 2012 · 1 hr 31 min
Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 2 (Founders Talk #39)
Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and the maker of Cheddar joins Adam Stacoviak to share more details about the rise of Cheddar, its revenue, metrics, numbers and more. Sam shares lessons learned, his dreams as well as his thoughts on those who build with only the hope of winning what he calls “the acquisition lottery” as their goal - plus so much more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Sam Soffes – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Make sure you listen to Sam’s other appearances: #51: Sam Soffes / Onward - Part 4 #40: Sam Soffes / Seesaw - Part 3 #38: Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 1 Listen to After Founders Talk #39 for another extended chat with Sam Developer & Designer Boredom & Change Hello Internet: Nexus 7 Acquisitions Retiring at 25 How To Learn Learn iOS What was the rationale for open sourcing Cheddar? - Cheddar (app) on Quora Cheddar (app) on Quora Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jul 17, 2012 · 35 min
Cloud 9 IDE (Changelog Interviews #83)
Wynn caught up with Ruben and Matt from Cloud 9 to talk about what’s new with their IDE in the cloud. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Ruben Daniels is the CEO of Cloud9. Matt Pardee is a developer & evangelist for Cloud9. Tim Caswell was on a previous episode is an employee at Cloud9. Cloud9 is the README editor at GitHub. Ruben was on a previous episode of The Changelog talking about ajax.org. The Cloud9 IDE runs on a Node server. VFS is an open source virtual file system implementation for node.js. Sublime Text is a cross platform text editor. Ace is an open source code editor written in JavaScript. Heroku and JoyentCloud are cloud application platforms. Selenium is used for browser automation. Express is an open source node.js web framework. NPM is a package manager for node.js. Pastebin and gist are both ways to share snippets and pastes. Architect is an open source plugin system for node applications. treehugger is an open source JavaScript Abstract Syntax Tree library. Matt’s programming hero is Linus Torvalds. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jul 14, 2012 · 1 hr 40 min
Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 1 (Founders Talk #38)
Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and the maker of Cheddar joins Adam Stacoviak to share all the details of his wild ride as an indie software developer and designer. Sam has worked at Hipstamatic, built YouTube ripoffs, gotten offers from some of the most respected names in the business (some accepted and some turned down) all to circle back around to start Nothing Magical and build his own products. He shares the highs, the lows and all the things he’s learned along the way - plus so much more. And, check out “After Dark” for a short extended chat with Sam. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Sam Soffes – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Make sure you listen to Sam’s other appearances: #51: Sam Soffes / Onward - Part 4 #40: Sam Soffes / Seesaw - Part 3 #39: Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 2 SSToolkit Four Years GitHub - samsoffes (Sam Soffes) Chedder iOS - Open Source on GitHub GitHub - samsoffes/grater Hello Internet: Selling My Stuff Hello Internet on Vimeo Cheddar Lessons So Far Cheddar Shares App The Changelog - Episode 0.8.2 - Ruby Motion, MacRuby and more with Laurent Sansonetti Freshly Served: Cheddar App - Take your tasks everywhere - The Industry The Industry Radio Show #8: Adobe, HTML5Rocks, Dialoggs invites and making Cheddar Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jul 5, 2012 · 24 min
After Founders Talk #37 (Founders Talk)
Adam and guest Sarah Hatter the founder of CoSupport after Founders Talk #37. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jul 5, 2012 · 1 hr 28 min
Sarah Hatter / CoSupport - Part 2 (Founders Talk #37)
Sarah Hatter the Founder of CoSupport, joins Adam for part 2 of 2 to go back in time and dig deep into her history, we learn about “the early days” and how she got started, her passions for TV and her podcast TVBFF, the early days of blogging and “dramaville”, what inspires her, being a crafts-person, how she learned that “you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do”, how TM meditation changed her life, as well as the challenges she’s faced as a female founder - plus so much more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: After Founders Talk #37 TVBFF (podcast) User Conf - Oct 12th, 2012 in San Francisco (Fort Mason Center) Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk (book) Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh (book) hitenism — Hiten Shah’s Blog The Next Microsoft by minimally minimal Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jun 28, 2012 · 17 min
After Founders Talk #36 (Founders Talk)
Adam and guest Sarah Hatter the founder of CoSupport after Founders Talk #36. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jun 28, 2012 · 1 hr 3 min
Sarah Hatter / CoSupport - Part 1 (Founders Talk #36)
Sarah Hatter the Founder of CoSupport, joins Adam for part 1 of 2 to share her passion for great customer support for web products, being a woman in a man filled industry, her thoughts and history with potentially selling her company and getting aqui-hired, how Allan and Steven of LessEverything have become partners in CoSupport - plus so much more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: After Founders Talk #36 CoSupport.us CoSupport - What Is CoSupport? UserConf - A customer service conference about delighting your customers TurboScan: quickly scan multipage documents into high-quality PDFs Penultimate for iPad Sarah Hatter talks at LessConf 2011 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jun 26, 2012 · 43 min
Ruby Motion and MacRuby (Changelog Interviews #82)
Wynn and Sam caught up with Laurent Sansonetti to talk about MacRuby, RubyMotion, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Tony Arcieri, creator of Celluloid. Celluloid is painless multithreaded programming for Ruby. Celluloid:IO provides evented I/O for Celluloid actors. DCell lets you build distributed Celluloid apps over 0MQ. Adam Keys, formerly of Gowalla, is now teammates with Tony at Living Social. Zed gave us the lowdown on 0MQ on 0.3.4. Reel aims to be a fast, non-blocking evented web server without a Rack API. Tony is aiming to get Reel working with Webmachine. Sean Cribbs talked Riak on a previous episode. Hubot is GitHub’s awesome Campfire bot. Travis uses Celluloid, as discussed on 0.7.5. Tony is shutting down LightRail since the release of Rails::API, from Santiago Pastorino. ActiveModel::Serializer aims to provide an object to encapsulate serialization of ActiveModel objects, including ActiveRecord objects. Wynn loves jbuilder despite its name. E is the secure distributed pure-object platform and p2p scripting language. Data, context and interaction is a paradigm used in computer software to program systems of communicating objects. Tahoe-LAFS is a Python-powered decentralized secure filesystem. Tony likes Clojure. Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding, creators of Erlang are Tony’s programming heroes. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
May 31, 2012 · 39 min
Celluloid and Concurrency (Changelog Interviews #81)
Wynn talked with Tony Arcieri, creator of Celluloid, about concurrency in Ruby and his thoughts on Erlang, Clojure, and design patterns. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Tony Arcieri, creator of Celluloid. Celluloid is painless multithreaded programming for Ruby. Celluloid:IO provides evented I/O for Celluloid actors. DCell lets you build distributed Celluloid apps over 0MQ. Adam Keys, formerly of Gowalla, is now teammates with Tony at Living Social. Zed gave us the lowdown on 0MQ on 0.3.4. Reel aims to be a fast, non-blocking evented web server without a Rack API. Tony is aiming to get Reel working with Webmachine. Sean Cribbs talked Riak on a previous episode. Hubot is GitHub’s awesome Campfire bot. Travis uses Celluloid, as discussed on 0.7.5. Tony is shutting down LightRail since the release of Rails::API, from Santiago Pastorino. ActiveModel::Serializer aims to provide an object to encapsulate serialization of ActiveModel objects, including ActiveRecord objects. Wynn loves jbuilder despite its name. E is the secure distributed pure-object platform and p2p scripting language. Data, context and interaction is a paradigm used in computer software to program systems of communicating objects. Tahoe-LAFS is a Python-powered decentralized secure filesystem. Tony likes Clojure. Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding, creators of Erlang are Tony’s programming heroes. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
May 23, 2012 · 24 min
Luvit and Lua Bindings for libuv (Changelog Interviews #80)
Wynn caught up with Tim Caswell to talk about Luvit, his new project that provides Lua bindings for libuv. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Adam recently married the lovely Heather. Tim Caswell is a long time friend of the show, creator of the How to Node blog. Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Luvit = Lua + libUV + jIT = pure awesomesauce. LuaJIT’s FFI library allows calling external C functions and using C data structures from pure Lua code. Luvit can take advantage of most Node libraries as long as they use non-blocking IO. Rackspace is using Luvit in production already, but without HTTP. Tim likes the callback style of coding that V8 promotes. Wynn asks where Node.js is on the Gartner hype cycle. Luvmonkey is a port of libuv bindings for SpiderMonkey. Tim fails to see the use case for AMD. Tim worked with Jeremy Ashkenas on CoffeeScript while at Document Cloud. Candor is a language inspired by javascript, but with less features and, therefore, less complexity. So no semicolons, no exceptions and simplified anonymous function syntax (dart-like). Tim has played with Go but likes Rust better. Tim is now working at Cloud9 and their cloud-based IDE. Surely Tim isn’t “the only JavaScript developer within a hundred miles of” Red Lick, TX. Nodebits is another Node.js blog. Bert Belder and Ben Noordhuis are the “libuv guys” at Cloud9. Boot2Gecko is “an early-stage project to expose all device capabilities such that infrastructure like phone dialers can be built with Web APIs.” Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Apr 13, 2012 · 40 min
Adhearsion, Telephony, XMPP (Changelog Interviews #79)
Wynn caught up with Ben Klang and Ben Langfeld of the Adhearsion project to talk about Adhearsion 2.0, the future of telephony apps, XMPP, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Ben Klang Principal/Technology Strategist at Mojo Lingo, Project Lead for Adhearsion. Ben Langfeld developer at Mojo Lingo, member of Adhearsion core team. Adhearsion is an open source voice application framework. Rails developers will find some familiarity in Adhearsion’s controllers and routers. Adhearsion just released version 2.0. New in 2.0, Adhearsion supports multiple backends including Asterisk, PRISM, Tropo, and others. Tropo underwrites the development of Adhearsion and also provides features not available on Asterisk, such as high quality text-to-speech. IVR stands for Interactive Voice Response. Adhearsion plugins are simply gems that extend the Adhearsion DSL and are similar to Rails’ Railties. XMPP support has been extracted into a plugin. Adhearsion models voice applications as MVC. Planning is starting for the next Adhearsion Conf. Follow @AdhearsionConf for details. You can watch the AdhearsionConf videos. These well done videos were done by our friends Opus Video. We love their split screen presentation. Never miss the speaker or the slides. Video is still the frontier for telephony apps. Ben Langfeld loves XMPP and helps maintain the Blather library, written by Jeff Smick. XMPP pub-sub is hot right now, as employed by the likes of Superfeedr, the subject of Episdode 0.3.7. Punchblock “is a middleware library for telephony applications. Like Rack is to Rails and Sinatra, Punchblock provides a consistent API on top of several underlying third-party call control protocols.” Adhearsion uses Celluloid which makes Ruby “look and smell a bit like Erlang, but without the yuckiness.” Mike Perham, Tony Arcieri, and Charles Nutter inspire Ben and Ben. Special thanks to Julius Francisco for helping to arrange this episode. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Apr 11, 2012 · 7 min
After Founders Talk #35 (Founders Talk)
Adam Stacoviak and guest Steve Espinosa after Founders Talk #35. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Steve Espinosa – Website, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Apr 11, 2012 · 1 hr
Steve Espinosa / AppStack (Founders Talk #35)
Steve Espinosa, the Founder of AppStack, joins Adam to tell his story of hustling his way to the top, gaining the trust and friendship of Jason Calacanis, Dave McClure, Eric Schmidt and the awesome team behind Google Ventures, what it means to focus and much more. This is a jam packed episode with tons of energy and lots to learn from Steve. Also, check out “After Dark” for an extended chat with Steve. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Steve Espinosa – Website, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: After Founders Talk #35 AppStack @stevemcstud @appstack Joel Beukelman on Dribbble Mobile Ad Optimization Startup AppStack Raises $1.5M From Eric Schmidt, Google Ventures And Others Google Mobile Ads PixelFish Finds A Local Deal In Backyard — Eric Schmidt’s Second Venture Exit In As Many Weeks Backyard Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Apr 5, 2012 · 36 min
CocoaPods and MacRuby (Changelog Interviews #78)
Wynn caught up with Eloy Durán, creator of CocoaPods to talk about the project, MacRuby, and his favorite Objective-C libraries. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Eloy Durán, Ruby developer and creator of CocoaPods. CocoaPods, “the best way to manage library dependencies in Objective-C projects.” CocoaPods uses a Podfile to specify project dependencies. Eloy aspires to achieve the same level of “Twitter hate” that Bundler enjoys. CocoaPods started on MacRuby but now is powered by MRI. Patches for feature requests are welcomed. CocoaPods specs live on GitHub, similar to the Homebrew model. The Passenger pane lets you configure Phusion Passenger on the Mac really easily. Eloy wants a Ruby lib that shows a proper unified diff for Array, Hash, String with color support. Listener Jonah Williams asks how the community can increase adoption. Objective-C is the #10 most popular language on GitHub. Eloy wrote a file browser for MacVim because he likes Vim but is a “gui guy.” If the latest Xcode has got you down, you might try AppCode. BlocksKit, the Objective-C block utilities you always wish you had. QuincyKit offers crash report managment for your iOS apps. JSONKit, a very high performance Objective-C JSON library. Wynn likes Test Flight but Eloy has switched to Hockey App. Laurent Sansonetti, lead developer of MacRuby is Eloy’s programming hero. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Apr 3, 2012 · 6 min
After Founders Talk #34 (Founders Talk)
Adam Stacoviak and guest Jon Crawford of Storenvy after Founders Talk #34. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Jon Crawford – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Apr 3, 2012 · 56 min
Jon Crawford / Storenvy (Founders Talk #34)
Jon Crawford, the Founder of Storenvy joins Adam to talk about how everything began for Storenvy, his road from Kansas to Austin, TX to SF, how he got kicked out of Y Combinator the same week he was accepted then raised $1.5M for Storenvy, and how he’s living the startup dream! Also, listen to After Founders Talk #34 for an extended chat with Jon. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Jon Crawford – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Storenvy Storenvy Jobs @Storenvy @JonCrawford How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5M for My Startup Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Mar 30, 2012 · 1 hr 3 min
Solarized and Linux on the Desktop (Changelog Interviews #77)
Wynn sat down with Ethan Schoonover, creator of Solarized to talk about the science and design behind the wildly popular color scheme as well as his love for Arch Linux. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Ethan Schoonover is a freelance designer, creator of Solarized. Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications. Vimscript can be intimidating for noobs. The Solarized palette aims to maximize sixteen colors, providing contrast on both dark and light backgrounds Ethan works in the CIELAB: A Lab color space is a color-opponent space with dimension L for lightness and a and b for the color-opponent dimensions, based on nonlinearly compressed CIE XYZ color space coordinates. Achievement unlocked: First guest to mention fovea centralis on the show. “This fellow Wright” is W. David Wright, who experimented with color perception in 1930s. Ethan works out of the LAB space, mapping to other color spaces as tools require. Solarized looks great in a number of fonts as well as syntaxes. Wynn asks if Sass should support LAB. Terminus is Ethan’s favorite fixed with font, but also likes Letter Gothic Mono. Wynn’s litmus test for fixed fonts is the dashrocket alignment. Micah Rich, founder of The League of Movable Type was on Episode 0.7.4. Arch Linux is Ethan’s favorite Linux distro. xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. The tmux reference on the Arch wiki is most helpful. Check out Episode 0.7.3 for more on tmux. TotalTerminal from the talented Antonin Hildebrand. brew tap makes it easy to tap a new Homebrew formula repository from GitHub, or list existing taps. Freshmeat.net is now freecode.com. GIMP is no Photoshop replacement. Haskell is an advanced, purely-functional programming language. XMonad.Prompt.Input is similar to Quicksilver. Karthik’s terminal convinced Wynn to give Solarized a go. Wynn figured out how to do ‘transparent’ colors in the tmux status bar. TaskWarrior is Ethan’s todo manager, which is saying something since he created Kinkless GTD. Drew Neil, creator of Vimcasts, featured on Episode 0.5.6. Dr. Nic Williams, on Episode #50. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Mar 16, 2012 · 34 min
.NET, NuGet, Open Source (Changelog Interviews #76)
Wynn caught up with Phil Haack to talk about NuGet and growing the .NET open source community at GitHub. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Phil Haack, GitHubber, Microsoft alumnus, .NET open source guy. NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update third-party libraries and tools in Visual Studio. log4net is often an open source trojan horse in the proprietary enterprise. NuGet features a command line interface and also integrates with SharpDevelop. Wynn asks what impact the names .NET and C# have had on SEO and adoption of Microsoft technology. C# is the #11 most popular language on GitHub. Tiobe places C# as #3 overall. Line endings in Git are everyone’s problem. GitHub may or may not be working on (GitHub for Windows®)™. Phil likes SignalR, an async signaling library for .NET to help build real-time, multi-user interactive web applications. Jabbr is a chat client showcase for SignalR. NancyFx is a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .NET and Mono. OWIN defines a standard interface between .NET web servers and web applications, much like Rack for Ruby. Sammy.js was also Rat Pack-inspired. Phil thinks LINQ and Reactive Extensions (Rx) are some innovations in .NET that should influence the broader community. The await keyword in C# 5 will accelerate async adoption in .NET. Wynn <3’s Hubot and especially likes the Dude and Mustachify scripts. David Fowler, developer on the ASP.NET team and who works on NuGet and SignalR inspires Phil. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!