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Feb 23, 2012 · 52 min
The League of Moveable Type (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Micah Rich from The League of Moveable type to talk about open source typography. 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 Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Micah Rich, from The League of Movable Type. Caroline Hadilaksono, co-founder of The League. League Gothic, one of Caroline’s popular faces is Wynn’s favorite. Several of League fonts are available on TypeKit. Dave Crossland, designer of Cantarell. Chunk was created by Meredith Mandel. The League fonts are forkable on GitHub. FontForge is an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, and more. Glyphs is a professional font editor for Mac OS X. Wynn’s slide decks make use of League Gothic and Hand of Sean. Lettering.js gives you more control over kerning on the web. The Manifesto lays out the vision for The League. Haley Fiege contributed Sniglet. Barry Schwartz has contributed several fonts. Want to help Micah introduce typographers to git? Get in touch. Wynn asks about vertical rhythm, which Compass makes easier. Lettercase is a social font manager. Adam uses FontExplorer X but wishes it did more. Micah on Dribbble. Lettercase is powered by Sinatra, Warden, and Grape. Hoefler & Co. are Micah’s heroes in typography design. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Feb 17, 2012 · 37 min
tmux, dotfiles, and Text Mode (Interview)
Wynn sat down with Brian Hogan and Josh Clayton to talk about tmux, dotfiles, and the joys of text mode. 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: Brian Hogan speaker, trainer, and author of _Tmux: Productive, Mouse Free development, out now from PragProg. Josh Clayton is a developer at Thoughtbot. Factory Girl - fixture replacement for Ruby. tmux is a terminal multiplexer similar to GNU screen. tmuxinator helps you manage tmux sessions. taskpaper.vim - Vim interface for Taskpaper. Josh’s dotfiles are extensive. A patch to reattach to user namespace in tmux. Palette lets you write Vim color schemes with Ruby Evergreen - Run Jasmine JavaScript unit tests, integrate them into Ruby applications The latest iTerm2 ships with tmux integration. tslime.vim is a simple vim script to send portion of text from a vim buffer to a running tmux session. vim-turbux - Ruby testing with tmux. Justin Smestad turned Wynn onto tmux for pair programming. Derick Bailey from Watch Me Code. pair.io gives you a one-button, collaboration-friendly dev environment for your GitHub repo. Jesse Dearing is the unnamed “DevOps guy” at Pure Charity. Thoughtbot has a company-wide dotfiles repo. Josh rolls his own Vim setup with Tim Pope’s pathogen. Brian uses TTYtter, is a terminal-based Twitter client, Wynn uses Earthquake. Josh likes irrsi for IRC. Brian likes Alpine over mutt for mail. Search GitHub for “tmux.conf.” Zach Holman says dotfiles are meant to be forked. Zach’s own dotfiles. Yan Pritzker’s dotfiles are opinionated. Josh says that if you don’t think your dotfiles are the best out there, you’re doing it wrong. (29:55) Joe Ferris at Thoughtbot inspired Josh’s dotfiles. Brian and Josh say Janus and oh-my-zsh are great to get started, but you need to understand your dotfiles. Wynn uses this shell function to list colors to put into his tmux config. Dotshare is web site to share dotfile configs plus screenshots. Pianobar is text-based command line interface for Pandora. Wynn uses shell.fm for Last.fm. Be sure and check out the Tmux Crash Course. NEW: Humans Present: tmux a Thoughtbot Workshop. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Feb 9, 2012 · 25 min
Vagrant and virtualized environments (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Mitchell Hashimoto from the Vagrant project to talk about virtualized environments, DevOps, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Mitchell Hashimoto – Website, GitHub, X Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: We’re now @TheChangelog on Twitter. Mitchell Hashimoto from Vagrant. Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments by providing automated creation and provisioning of virtual machines using Oracle’s VirtualBox. Vagrant is currently a Ruby gem. Mitchell uses Vagrant to test his Chef cookbooks, featured in Episode 0.3.8. Travis CI uses Vagrant extensively. Show Travis some love, tell ‘em to come on The Changelog. Mitchell just returned from FOSDEM. John Bender has helped out Mitchell with Vagrant. VeeWee: the tool to easily build vagrant base boxes or KVM, VirtualBox, and Fusion images. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Dec 20, 2011 · 23 min
Spine and Client-Side MVC (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Alex MacCaw to talk about Spine, CoffeeScript, writing books, and working at Twitter. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Alex MacCaw – Website, GitHub, X Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Alex MacCaw, O’Reilly writer and open source developer now working on the front-end for Twitter. Spine Lightweight MVC library for building JavaScript applications, inspired by Backbone. Spine is written in CoffeeScript Eco is Alex’s favorite client-side templating engine. Alex suggests trying to use the same templating engine server-side and client-side, perhaps with Mustache, is a pipe dream. Spine integrates with Rails out of the box. Hem is like Bundler but for Node.js. Juggernaut enables realtime server push with node.js, WebSockets and Comet Spine.app “Effortlessly generate Spine, CoffeeScript and Hem applications. Spine.App gives your applications structure, CommonJS modules, a development server and more.” Alex is working on The Little Book on CoffeeScript in printed form for O’Reilly. JavaScript Web Apps covers building client-side MVC apps in a framework agnostic way. Twitter is hiring! Got the chops? Get in touch. Jeremy Ashkenas is Alex’s programming hero. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Dec 7, 2011 · 34 min
Foundation and Other Zurb Goodies (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Jonathan and Matt from Zurb to talk about Foundation, their HTML5 front end scaffold and many projects from the Zurb playground. 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: Jonathan Smiley - Design lead at Zurb Matt Kelly is a developer at Zurb The Zurb playground showcases many Zurb’s front end experiments. Zurb foundation is an easy to use, powerful, and flexible framework for building prototypes and production code on any kind of device. Bootstrap from Twitter bakes in more style opinions and currently does not target mobile devices. Zurb Foundation ships in Rails, Compass, two WordPress, and ASP.NET MVC flavors. Flickr Bomb is a more entertaining alternative to http://placehold.it Joyride is a fun way to do feature tours. Zurb buttons are super awesome. Orbit is a lightweight image slider for jQuery. The version bundled with Foundation supports responsive layouts. Reveal is an easy way to add great looking modals to web apps. Zurb also offers a set of free apps including Axe and Strike. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 3, 2011 · 46 min
Spree and Ecommerce in Rails (Interview)
Wynn sat down with Sean and Brian from Spree to talk about ecommerce in Rails, SpreeConf, and their recent $1.5M funding round. 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: Sean Schofield, Spree founder and CEO of Spree Commerce, Inc. Brian Quinn, long time Spree contributor and CTO of SpreeCommerce Spree (née RailsCart) is a Rails engine that provides an out-of-the box, customizable ecommerce platform. Spree fully integrates into the Rails 3.1 Asset pipeline Rails engines have accelerated Spree adoption Spree is built on actively maintained community projects including Devise, Kaminari, Paperclip, ResourceController, State Machine, and ActiveMerchant. Spree recently closed a $1.5M funding round SpreeConf is geared to both business and developer audiences Everybody loves Sticker Mule Shoedazzle and SecondLife run highly customized versions of Spree. Spree has a growing list of community extensions. RailsDog Radio is a great showcase of Spree functionality. Grab the source on GitHub If you actually need a satellite radio, check out TSS Radio. Spree will unbox a new demo installation on Heroku just for you. Deface allows you to customize HTML ERB views in a Rails application without editing the underlying view. Ryan Bigg, Ruby Hero and co-author of Rails 3 in Action has joined Spree as community manager. Like Changelog Episodes, Spree is not SemVer compliant. Sean wants to explore using RailsAdmin into Spree Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Oct 11, 2011 · 44 min
Growl and Open Source in the App Store (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Chris Forsythe, lead of the Growl project to talk about Growl, their App Store launch, and his work on Adium and Perian. 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 Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: We recently launched The Sass Way so you can get your fix of all things Sass and Compass Chris Forsythe is the project lead for Growl. Growl is a popular notification system for Mac OS X. Growl is now in the App Store and on GitHub Chris was formerly the project manager for the Adium. Your $1.99 will help send Chris to his first WWDC. GrowlMail is now a separate project. Over two hundred applications support Growl notifications. Designers have created many visual Growl styles to make Growl look great. Wynn’s favorite is Hud from @Rogie. Growl now supports GNTP, allowing Linux and Windows notifications apps to share a common protocol. Wynn uses Growl for visual feedback for his test suite. Chris also is a founder of the Perian project, a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats. Chris says that the GPL prevents Perian from taking the App Store path. The OSI is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community. Chris relates the impact Steve Jobs had on his open source work. Evan Schoenberg inspires Chris. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Aug 19, 2011 · 57 min
HTML5 Boilerplate and JavaScript (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Paul Irish of Google’s Chrome developer relations team to talk about HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, polyfills, and 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 Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Paul Irish - Chrome dev relations guy at Google. Dion Almaer - Host of Function Source, all around JavaScript, frontend expert. “HTML5 is a jewel that we need to cut into a weapon” - Dion /via Yehuda Katz Adam is in love with GitHub’s new editor powered by Cloud 9 HTML5 Boilerplate contains a set of best practices to use as a starting point for new projects or pick what you need a la cart. Boilerplate now includes Normalize.css, a customisable CSS file that makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards. Normalize is a collaboration between Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites, from Faruk Ate?, Paul, and Alex Sexton. rack-modernizr from Marshall Yount brings Modernizr to the server Paul coined the term FOUT - Flash Of Unstyled Text. HTML5 polyfills implant html5 functionality in browsers that don’t natively support them. Paul makes micro microapps for CSS3, text shadows, and HSL picking. Paul is a fan of Chris Coyer of CSS Tricks Need an idea for a weekend project, check out Paul’s Lazy Web Requests Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Aug 4, 2011 · 57 min
RVM and BDSM (Interview)
Steve and Wynn caught up with Wayne Seguin to talk about his Ruby enVironment Manager and BDSM shell scripting framework projects. 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 Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: Look us up at LSRC V next week. Madison Ruby Conference August 19-20, 2011 in Madison, WI. Wayne Seguin, developer at EngineYard, creator of RVM and BDSM. RVM is a command line tool which allows us to easily install, manage and work with multiple ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems. BDSM aims to create a framework for maintaining and sharing server side scripts while exposing them through a consistent command line interface (CLI). Dr. Nic Williams, Wayne’s boss was on Episode 0.5.0 Peter Cooper helped get the word out about RVM. Michal Papis has been giving Wayne a hand with RVM and BDSM. Ryan McGeary says “Vendor Everything” while Wayne says he vendors nothing and uses rvm gemsets in most cases. Bundler now plays nice with RVM. Using BDSM, you can create consistent service interfaces for everything in your stack. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jul 26, 2011 · 1 hr
Code for America (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Erik and Max, Fellows at Code for America to talk about civic-focused development and open source. 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 Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow - Deadline is July 31 LSRC V is just around the corner Follow @TheSassWay for your Sass news Code for America enlists the talent of the web industry into public service to use their skills to solve core problems facing our communities. Erik Michaels-Ober is a Rubyist and Fellow at Code for America Max Ogden is also a Rubyist and Fellow at Code for America Erik is using (and improving) the LinkedIn Ruby gem Max loves Underscore.js from Jeremy Ashkenas Max’s GitHub page tells recruiters to get lost. Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org aims to make government information more accessible. The Sunlight Foundation, featured on Episode 0.1.3 Code For America’s GitHub page features 120 projects. Rails Admin is Erik’s Rails 3 engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data Erik and Wynn met through John Nunemaker’s Twitter Gem Faraday is Rick Olson’s slick Rack-like HTTP client library. Mislav Marohni? helps maintain Faraday Want to create your own programming language like Jeremy Ashekenas? Read this book! Max is a fan of Request from Mikeal Rogers Erik is a fan of Sam Stephenson, featured in Episode 0.6.4 Brian Ford, Evan Phoenix, make Rubinius rock. Steve Richert aka @LaserLemon helps out with the Twitter gem. Best username evar. TextMate users: be nice to your Vim friends. The opportunity for Civic Startups Fight for the User Literary Machines is a thirty year old book from Ted Nelson. Open211.org - The Redirectory Project is a free and open directory of social services and resources that anyone can contribute to. Test your Ruby projects against multiple Rubies with Travis Gemcutter powers RubyGems.org Substance.io is an HTML5-based document editor from Michael Aufreiter Be sure and follow Substack on GitHub. Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow - Deadline is July 31 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jul 13, 2011 · 1 hr 2 min
Pow, Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline, CoffeeScript and More (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Sam Stephenson from 37Signals to talk about his his many open source projects and developing Basecamp Mobile. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Show Notes: Nathan Smith, friend of the show, creator of 960.gs, Adapt, Formalize, and featured in Episode 0.3.2 Sam Stephenson, programmer at 37signals, creator of massive amounts of open source. Pow is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X. Pow supports multiple rubies via RVM. Powder is a CLI for Pow. Prototype.js is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Sprockets is a Ruby library that preprocesses and concatenates JavaScript source files. Stitch stitches your CommonJS modules together for the browser ExecJS runs JavaScript code from Ruby. Josh Peek, Rubyist and GitHubber. Nack - Node.js adapter for Rack Sam loves CoffeeScript and hopes to never write JavaScript again. Sam debunks the FUD of debugging CoffeeScript. “Command-F is your friend.” Jeremy Ashkenas, creator of CoffeeScript ported his Underscore library as a demonstration. Sam weighs in on the micro framework movement and loves Zepto, Underscore, and Backbone. “We’re living in a WebKit world on mobile.” The goal of the Basecamp Mobile app was to “feel like a web app.” Basecamp Mobile was a team effort by Sam, Josh, and Jason Zimdars. “Responsive Web Design”, a term coined by Ethan Marcotte. Less Framework is an adaptive grid CSS framework for desktop and mobile. Cinco is the yet-to-be-released framework behind Basecamp Mobile built on Stitch, Backbone, CoffeeScript, and Zepto. Sprockets powers the new Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline Jammit is an alternative to Sprockets. The Ruby Racer from Charles Lowell embeds the V8 Javascript Interpreter into Ruby The Git commit heard round the world. Baren generates images from Processing source. Jamie Dihiansan is the design talent behind the great Pow web site Pow uses docco for documentation. Rack-legacy allows you to serve up PHP from Pow. Be sure and snag Trevor Burnham’s excellent CoffeeScript book Josh and DHH are Sam’s programming heroes. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jun 21, 2011 · 37 min
CDNJS (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with the developers behind CDNJS, a community-powered CDN for JavaScript libraries. 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 Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: CDNJS aims to make the web faster by putting more shared JavaScript on a content delivery network. We’re now part of the Fusion Network Catch up with us at The Big (D)esign Conference We’ll be at Lone Star Ruby Conference 2011 Ryan Kirkman, Co-Founder of Protosal. Thomas Davis, Co-Founder of Protosal, also runs backbonetutorials.com Fork the GitHub project to get your script included A CDN helps serve assets from servers closer to the user. CloudFlare sponsors the project. Cached Commons has some of the same goals, but uses GitHub as a provider. CDNJS packages uses the same format as NPM The Google Library API hosts most of the major JavaScript frameworks. Microjs is a micro-site for micro-frameworks Protosal lets you generate proposals using templates and variables to save time. cdnjs-command is a Ruby gem command line helper for CDNJS. Backbone.js is a lightweight MVC framework for client-side JavaScript. Brunch A lightweight approach to building HTML5 applications with emphasis on elegance and simplicity. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jun 2, 2011 · 31 min
IronJS, F#, and .NET (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Fredrik Holmström to talk about IronJS, F#, and open source in .NET. 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: IronJS A JavaScript implementation for .NET written in F# Fredrik Holmström, creator of IronJS F# is a succinct, expressive and efficient functional and object-oriented language for .NET which helps you write simple code to solve complex problems. “This JScript thing” Mono is an open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET. IronJS continues in the tradition of IronPython and IronRuby IronJS implements EcmaScript 3 but is working towards EcmaScript 5 support Miguel de Icaza created Mono. Nuget is a free, open source developer focused package management system for .NET. Codeplex seems to be the place to find .NET open source GitHub is hosting more and more .NET projects C# and .NET are hard to Google Kayak is an asynchronous HTTP server written in C# Zed Shaw, featured on Episode 0.3.4 Don Syme, architect behind F# “John” Gietzen has contributed to IronJS. Follow @IronJS on Twitter for updates. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
May 26, 2011 · 50 min
Oh My Zsh (Interview)
Adam and Kenneth caught up with Robby Russell to talk about his community-driven zsh project. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Robby Russell – GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X Show Notes: oh-my-zsh A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. Robby Russell is Chief Evangelist at Planet Argon Derek Sivers from CD Baby Robby weighs in on the bash vs. zsh debate Bash vs Zsh debate? Google returns 175k results on the subject Themes are a big selling point for oh-my-zsh Kenneth love is right side prompt Adam loves hub oh-my-zsh is currently the eighth most forked project on GitHub. Follow @ohmyzsh on Twitter for updates Adam likes the update message. Robby tries to keep the pull requests under 100. Robby is looking for a few volunteers to help with pull requests and issue management Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
May 20, 2011 · 22 min
Fog, the Ruby Cloud Services Library (Interview)
Wynn sat down with Wesley Beary from Engine Yard to talk about the Fog project and the Cloud, live from Red Dirt Ruby Conf. 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: Wesley Beary aka @geemus The Fog project is the Ruby cloud services library By coincidence this interview was recorded the day the cloud went down Fog supports almost twenty providers for Storage, DNS, Compute, CDN Dr. Nic made us laugh on Episode 0.5.0 Engine Yard pays Wesley to hack on Fog. AppCloud is a Ruby Platform as a Service from Engine Yard. You have to commit to the project to earn a slick Fog tee Excon grew out of Fog’s need for EXtended http(s) CONnections Wesley is dubious of ‘compliant APIs’ OpenStack is backed by Rackspace and Nasa Wesley likes to play with Riak Red Dirt Ruby Conference videos will be released on May 22 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
May 11, 2011 · 19 min
RubyGems and RubyGems.org (Interview)
Wynn sat down with Nick Quaranto at Red Dirt Ruby Conference to talk about Gemcutter, RubyGems.org, and how to get started creating your own Ruby gem. 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: Nick Quaranto, creator of Gemcutter which is now RubyGems.org Gemcutter is the Ruby community’s gem hosting service. Tom Preston-Warner, founder of GitHub RubyForge was the original spot to host your Ruby project. Peter Cooper, publisher of Ruby Inside and co-host of the Ruby Show. A gemspec is a manifest for a Ruby gem. Since a gemspec is saved as YAML, you can embed Ruby in it. Bundler manages a Ruby application’s dependencies through its entire life across many machines systematically and repeatably. Bundler 1.1 aims to speed up how gems are fetched. Jeweler and Hoe help you create, package, and release gems. Ryan Tomayko from GitHub tells us why “require ‘rubygems’” is wrong GitHub is no longer in the Gem building business. Erik Michaels-Ober uses the gem post install message to share resources with users. When not squashing Gemcutter bugs or applying patches, Nick likes to play with Redis and EventMachine. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
May 3, 2011 · 33 min
Twisted and Evented Programming in Python (Interview)
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Glyph Lefkowitz from Twisted to talk about the project and evented programming in Python. 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 Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X Show Notes: Glyph Lefkowitz is creator of Twisted. Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. Twisted has its origin in the game Divmod Imaginary. Glyph says Twisted programming is easier than programming with gevent and eventlet. Twisted.web is the most popular package, but Twisted supports a wide range of other protocols in addtion to HTTP including NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, FTP, and others. Twisted even supports IO Completion Ports on Windows. Twisted’s non-blocking approach makes it great for GUI programming via GTK+, wxPython, and more, even Pygame. Glyph expands on his blog post drawing distinctions between Tornado and Twisted. Benchmark nerds should check out speed.twistedmatrix.com. Dustin Sallings ported Tornado to Twisted’s low-level networking stack and eliminated over 1,200 lines of code. Twisted success stories include LucasFilm, HipChat, TweetDeck, Justin.tv, and more. Twisted also powers OpenStack, used by Nasa to run its cloud. Glyph is proud of his rock star sister Sara. Twisted tracks high scores for community involvement in 8-bit beauty. Free Changelog stickers for the first person to @reply us with Glyph’s real name. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Apr 27, 2011 · 45 min
Amplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Mike Hostetler and Scott González from AppendTo to talk about Amplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Microsoft, the web, and open source. 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: AppendTo offers training and consulting for jQuery. Amplify.js is a set of components designed to solve common web application problems with a simplistic API. Mike Hostetler is CEO at AppendTo. Scott González works on jQuery UI. amplify.request makes building JavaScript API wrapper easier, providing hooks for mocking transport and payload transformation. amplify.store is a wrapper for various persistent client-side storage systems and provides advanced features such as cache expiration. Amplify’s PubSub system provides offers advanced options for handling custom events including priority. The AppendTo guys weigh in on the all-in-one vs. best-of-breed JavaScript framework debate. Wynn asks how Microsoft’s adoption of jQuery has led to its adoption. DamianEdwards worked to get jQuery UI packages for Nuget. Rails now includes CoffeeScript by default. Wynn loves cake. CommonJS aims to create a standard library for JavaScript. Keep an eye out for AppendTo’s new Learn site, a JavaScript 101 course for newcomers. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Apr 12, 2011 · 41 min
Vim round table discussion (Interview)
Wynn sat down with three Vim users and experts to talk about tips and tricks for using and pimping the popular text editor. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Drew Neil – Website, GitHub, X Yehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, X Tim Pope – GitHub, X Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Vim seeks to provide the power of Unix’s Vi Drew Neil hosts VimCasts Tim Pope has created numerout Vim plugins Yehuda Katz from SproutCore, Rails, and jQuery fame. Dr. Nic says Vim is cutting edge 1960s tech. Janus Yehuda and Carl’s MacVim bundle Everyone that tried to convince Yehuda to try Vim were wrong. Vim is a modal interface Wynn laments that TextMate 2 is the new Duke Nukem NerdTree is a text-based treeview inside your vim Tim uses his vibrantink mod called vividchalk Yehuda wants to give Solarized Vim is cutting edge 1960s tech. Yehuda like visual block mode MacVim lets you use ?-S. Wynn asks how the world would be different if DHH had used Vim instead of TextMate for his famous Rails screencast. Tim likes CTRL-X, CTRL-E to bind an editor to the command line. Yehuda says you should be using ruby -e instead of grep Drew loves CTRL-R, CTRL-W in Vim. “Matz is (under)rated.” Tim says we owe so much to Linus for Linux and Git. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Apr 6, 2011 · 50 min
Goliath, Event Machine, SPDY (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Ilya Grigorik, Founder and CTO of PostRank to talk about Goliath, async Ruby web development, and Google’s SPDY. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Ilya Grigorik – Website, GitHub, X Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Look for Steve Klabnik at CodeConf. Ilya Grigorik founder and CTO of PostRank. PostRank taps into intelligence from the social web. igvita.com is Ilya’s awesome Ruby, performance, and big data blog. Goliath Goliath is an open source version of the non-blocking (asynchronous) Ruby web server framework powering PostRank. Thin glues together Mongrel parser, Event Machine, and Rack. Evidently we’ve discussed Node.js “at length” on this show. Goliath hides much of the complexity of its asynchronous architecture from the developer Goliath was designed for and has been benchmarked on MRI, JRuby and Rubinius PostRank heavily employs AMQP The PostRank APIs allow you to create applications that interact with the subscription management component of the PostRank website, as well as, create and retrieve story ratings and customized RSS feeds for your users. The Top Posts Widget lets you showcase the most important articles on your site, encouraging viewers to click on more articles and read what matters. A GitHub account and a blog are key differentiators for developers looking to get hired at PostRank. Ilya says “presentation is 50% of the actual deliverable”. Great READMEs are important. Ilya looks up to Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal and Memcached fame. Ilya’s blog tagline: “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Anybody still using GTD? Ilya isn’t beholden to any one editor but loves both Vim and TextMate. SPDY: (pronounced “SPeeDY”) An experimental protocol for a faster web. The usual HTTP GET and POST message formats remain the same; however, SPDY specifies a new framing format for encoding and transmitting the data over the wire. If you’re using Chrome, you may be using SPDY and not even know it. mod_spdy is an experimental proof-of-concept SPDY Apache module. ØMQ zeromq: socket library that acts as a concurrency framework as discussed on Episode 0.3.4. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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