Changelog Interviews

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Changelog Interviews episodes

March 20, 2015Elixir and Phoenix
Chris McCord joined the show to take us on a deep dive into the Phoenix web framework and Elixir. We covered the similarities between Ruby and Erlang, getting started with Elixir, and deploying Phoenix. He also shared his plans for the 1.0 release and the future of Phoenix.
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Postico – A Modern PostgreSQL Client for the Mac.
Featuring:
Chris McCord – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Chris McCord is the creator of the Phoenix web framework.
“Jose said it best… When he first looked into Erlang, he loved everything he saw, but hated everything he didn’t see. That’s how Elixir came about; filling in the gaps, building off all the things he loved.” - Chris McCord
Chris McCord
Follow Chris on Twitter
Chris McCord on Github
Littlelines - Ruby on Rails Consulting, Development, and Web Design in Ohio
Elixir
Phoenix
Community Member Benefits
Elixir Sips | Learn Elixir With a Pro
Confreaks TV | Elixir Conf 2014 - Rise of The Phoenix - Building an Elixir Web Framework
phoenixframework/phoenix
Phoenix 0.10 Screencast: Live-reload in Action
Phoenix 0.10 Screencast: Asset Compilation, Live-reload, & Generators
Getting Started with Phoenix · Phoenix
Installing Elixir - Elixir
What is OTP? It’s The Open Telecom Platform!
Metaprogramming Elixir: Write Less Code, Get More Done (and Have Fun!)
Elixir Conf EU
Matsumoto
WhatsApp
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 7 min
March 13, 2015Mind the Gender Parity Gap
Sarah Mei joined the show to talk through a recent article she authored titled “Mind the Gap” and why we’re missing our best chance for gender parity. We discussed our innate subconscious assumptions and prejudices towards one another, how we alienate women from the developer communities, and what we can do to step across this gap and make a conscious effort to combat those assumptions.
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Featuring:
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Sarah shares stories about her work in trying to bring more diversity into the coding community, the credibility gap, what she’s learned from starting RailsBridge, how to reduce bias while searching for employees and conference speakers, and more.
Sarah is also the Founder of RailsBridge, the Director of Ruby Central, and a Chief Consultant at DevMynd.
Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) - Twitter
Sarah Mei (sarahmei) - GitHub
Mind the Gap
[Guest idea] Sarah Mei · Issue #150 · thechangelog/ping
DevMynd Jobs (Working at DevMynd)
RailsBridge
RailsBridge Docs - Open Source Docs and Curriculum
Bridge Foundry
ClojureBridge
MobileBridge
Bridge Troll
Ruby Central
rubycentral/cfp-app
A Huge List of Koans - Beverly Nelson
Pairing with Junior Developers
Institutional Barriers for Women of Color at Code Schools - Model View Culture
Coding Like a Girl — Medium
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 5 min
March 06, 201510+ Years of Rails
David Heinemeier Hansson, aka DHH joined the show to talk through the past, present, and future of Ruby on Rails — the most beloved web application framework in the Ruby community.
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Koding – Instant sharable development environments in a cloud IDE.
Featuring:
David Heinemeier Hansson – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Ruby on Rails has influenced many frameworks over the years, and David shares with us a candid look at 10+ Years of Ruby on Rails.
David shares stories about why he started Ruby on Rails, and explains why programmers should market their projects. He discussed his early work on Rails, some of the early early contributors to Rails, how the success of Basecamp helped Rails succeed (and vice versa), the io.js & Node.js complications, his thoughts on getting paid for working on open source, and so much more.
“If programming is going to be the thing I spend my time on, it damn well better be awesome. I need to have a good time.” - DHH @ 9:42
Ruby on Rails
The ORIGINAL Ruby on Rails demo – Building a blog in 15 minutes with DHH
REMOTE: The new book from 37signals
REWORK: The new business book from 37signals.
The Hottest Hacker on Earth | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
RailsConf
RubyConf
Riding Rails: Rails 1.0: Party like it’s one oh oh!
Riding Rails: Rails 2.0: It’s done!
Riding Rails: Rails 3.0: It’s ready!
Riding Rails: Rails 4.0: Final version released!
The Road to Merb 1.0 with Ezra Zygmuntowicz
DHH on Twitter: “More than 3800 people have contributed code to the core Rails framework”
DHH on Twitter: “@codesoda @steveklabnik I’d rather you spend the $$ on having your people contribute to Rails on company time, if you want.”
DHH on Twitter: “Rails is obligation-free software. See the MIT license. You can use it to make a trillion billion and not owe anyone royalties.”
DHH on Twitter: “Flip side: Do not contribute patches to Rails under the false notion that users of the framework will then be indebted to reward you.”
DHH on Twitter: “You don’t owe me anything to use Rails, and I don’t owe you anything for you using it.”
DHH on Twitter: “@steveklabnik What’s your time horizon of sustainability? Rails has been rocking that model for 10+ years.”
DHH on Twitter: “Congratulations to @shopify for deploying on Rails 4.1. Same app has been on Rails since 2005. 10 yrs later they’re an Ecommerce powerhouse.”
DHH on Twitter: “Rails 5 will target Ruby 2.2+ exclusively, so we can rely on symbol GC and kwargs to cleanup a bunch of cruft. Ruby on Rails keeps moving!”
DHH on Twitter: “After all these years, programming Ruby through TextMate to make Rails dance for the web remains one of my favorite activities in the world.”
Ruby on Rails on Twitter: “2014 has seen 708 contributors get their patches accepted into Rails: http://t.co/18k1hh0vd7 — what a spectacular community effort!”
DHH on Twitter: “@thomasfuchs @thijs Github is on 3.0 now. On the way to 4.x. 2.3 is five years old! Rails has lived as long again as it had at the time.”
DHH on Twitter: “The original reality-compressed 15 minute Rails demo — including WUPS!”
DHH on Twitter: “@gordo24 I think Rails has never been in a better position regarding code, community, and leadership. Broader and more engaged than ever.”
DHH on Twitter: “Staggering collaborative effort on Rails. Almost 12,000 pull requests processed. Just 419 still open. Incredible.”
DHH on Twitter: “Hard to comprehend how far Ruby and Rails have come since 2004 where I attended a 40-person RubyConf with just a few doing paid Ruby.”
[Book] Punished by Rewards - by Alfie Kohn
[Hero] Ward Cunningham
[Hero] Dave Thomas
[Hero] Martin Fowler
Ruby Mailing Lists
Kombucha
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 49 min
February 27, 2015GitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly
Ilya Grigorik joined the show to talk about GitHub Archive, logging and archiving GitHub’s public event data, and how he uses Google BigQuery to make querying that data accessible to everyone.
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Featuring:
Ilya Grigorik – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google where he works day and night making the web faster.
In this show we also announced Changelog Nightly - our new nightly email that unearths the hottest new repos on GitHub before they blow up.
GitHub Archive
Subscribe to Changelog Nightly
Subscribe to Changelog Weekly (highly curated and editorialized)
thechangelog/nightly - GitHub
Google BigQuery - Fully Managed Big Data Analytics Service — Google Cloud Platform
The Changelog #55: Goliath, Event Machine, and SPDY with Ilya Grigorik
Ilya Grigorik - igvita.com
Dremel (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GitHut - Programming Languages and GitHub
Email updates? · Issue #83 · igrigorik/githubarchive.org
The Chromium Projects
High Performance Browser Networking
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
55 min
February 21, 2015Front-end Developer Interview Questions
Darcy Clarke joined the show to talk about his repo on the HTML5 Boilerplate org on GitHub “Front-end Developer Interview Questions”. We discussed why the repo has been so successful, the challenges of translating a text document into multiple languages, managing contributions, the art of interviewing, how the expectations of front-end developers have evolved over time, and how to stay relevant in our fast moving industry.
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Featuring:
Darcy Clarke – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Darcy is the creator of the Front-end Developer Interview Questions project on the H5BP org on GitHub – it’s “a list of helpful front-end related questions you can use to interview potential candidates, test yourself or completely ignore.”
At the end of the episode, we turned the tables on Darcy and asked him a few questions from the list.
“The goal is to try to have the (interview) question be more open ended, and hopefully it starts a discussion between the interviewer and interviewee.” - Darcy Clarke @ 12:28
“This document is like a high school english assignment, with over 100 group members, and they all have differing opinions, and there’s a ton of different subjects… It’s the worst kind of open source project.” - Darcy Clarke @ 22:56
h5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions
darcyclarke (Darcy Clarke)
darcyclarke/DSS
Front-end Job Interview Questions | Darcy Clarke
What I learned interviewing with Google | Wes Bos
Join us on The Changelog (today?) · Issue #258 · h5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions
How io.js built a 146 person, 27 language localization effort… in one day. — Medium
auduno/clmtrackr
The Changelog #67: HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr, and more with Paul Irish
Flipboard/react-canvas
Paul Irish
Wes Bos
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
58 min
February 13, 2015Laravel PHP Framework
Taylor Otwell, the creator of the Laravel PHP framework, joined the show for a deep dive into Laravel, why he doesn’t release without good documentation, building apps to test your own framework, writing an API for Lavarel Forge, and more.
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Featuring:
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Taylor Otwell
Follow Taylor on Twitter
Laravel
Laravel - Docs
Lavavel Elixir
Laravel Forge
Laravel Homestead
Blade Templating
Snappy
Twig Parser
Packagist
Laracasts
Laravel 5 Fundamentals
Laracasts - Meet Composer
adamgoose/forge-cli
Composer | Dependency manager for PHP
Jeffrey Way
Dayle Rees
Vagrant Press
Statamic
Laracon
Laravel: From Apprentice To Artisan
Dayle Rees (@daylerees)
Just Park
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
55 min
February 11, 2015Going fulltime on The Changelog
BIG news! This is the episode where we discuss Adam going fulltime on The Changelog.
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Show Notes:
For last two years, Adam has been rebuilding The Changelog from the ground up in his spare time, nights and weekends, and everywhere in between. As of this week, running The Changelog has become his full-time job.
Adam gave his two week notice to resign from his comfortable, enjoyable, job with Pure Charity to go full-time on this thing. Hopefully, one day we can look back on this episode and say this is where things began.
This is HUGE for us. Read the full story.
Read the full story here.
Changelog Community Membership
Changelog Weekly
Changelog Nightly
Member Benefits
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
28 min
February 06, 2015Aurelia, Durandal, Leaving AngularJS
Rob Eisenberg joined the show to talk about why he left the AngularJS team, how the community responded, the allure of working for Google and getting paid to work on open source full time, why someone might choose Aurelia over other frameworks, and more.
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Featuring:
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Rob is a former AngularJS team member, who left the AngularJS team to work on his own startup, Durandal Inc and their first open source product Aurelia, a next generation JavaScript client framework that supports ES6, WebComponents, Object.observe and more.
Leaving Angular
Introducing Aurelia Video
[Guest idea] Rob Eisenberg, keeper of DurandalJS, an OSS JS project · Issue #96 · thechangelog/ping
Home | Durandal
Home | Aurelia
Rob Eisenberg (@EisenbergEffect) | Twitter
Rob Eisenberg | EisenbergEffect
jspm.io - Frictionless Browser Package Management
systemjs
6to5 Compiler
6to5 Name Suggestions
Seth Godin: The Dip
Eric Evans (@ericevans0) | Twitter
Domain Driven Design
Guy Bedford
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Uncle Bob Martin
.NET Rocks!
Herding Code Podcast
Javascript Jabber
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 12 min
January 30, 2015The Rise of io.js
Mikeal Rogers joined the show to talk about io.js, a friendly fork of Node.js with an open governance model. We discussed why the io.js fork exists, why they choose open governance, the roadmap and future of io.js, supporting ES6, burnout while working in open source, and the steps you can take to get involved with the future of io.js and Node.js.
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Featuring:
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Mikeal Rogers on Github
io.js - JavaScript I/O
io.js - ES6 on io.js
iojs/roadmap
indutny (Fedor Indutny)
Before the Drama | hueniverse
Node Forward
Node Conf
nodeschool.io
Oakland.js
Node Conf One-Shot
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 3 min
January 23, 2015rkt, App Container Spec, CoreOS
Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, joined the show to talk about their new open source product rkt, their App Container Spec, and CoreOS - the container only server OS focused on securing the internet.
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Show Notes:
Alex Polvi (@polvi) on Twitter
Changelog Weekly - Issue #32
CoreOS Calls Docker “Fundamentally Flawed,” Launches Its Own Container Runtime (TechCrunch)
CoreOS.com - Linux for Massive Server Deployments
Using docker with CoreOS
CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket
spec/SPEC.md at master · appc/spec
Quay.io New Features
Docker Blog: Initial Thoughts on the Rocket Announcement
The Changelog #89: Docker, LXC and dotCloud with Solomon Hykes
coreos/etcd
Programming Hero: John Gilmore’s home page
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 1 min

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