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October 05, 2010PubSubHubBub and the Real-Time Web
Wynn chatted with Julien Genestoux (github/twitter) from Superfeedr about PubSubHubBub, XMPP, Websockets, and the real-time web.
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Show Notes:
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
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
31 min
September 23, 2010Django Dash, Python, Ruby
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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Show Notes:
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
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
28 min
September 14, 2010Homebrew and OSX Package Management
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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Featuring:
Max Howell – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
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!
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
33 min
September 08, 2010Mongrel2 and high performance web sites
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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Featuring:
Zed Shaw – Website, GitHub, X
Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
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.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
39 min
August 31, 2010Node Knockout
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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Show Notes:
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!
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
25 min
August 19, 2010960.gs and CSS Grid Frameworks
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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Featuring:
Nathan Smith – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
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
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
34 min
August 09, 2010The WebSocket protocol
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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Featuring:
Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
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.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
29 min
July 27, 2010Sencha Touch
Wynn caught up with David Kaneda to talk about mobile web app development with Sencha Touch.
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Featuring:
Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
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
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
26 min
July 23, 2010CoffeeScript and JavaScript
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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Featuring:
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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 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
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
39 min
June 25, 2010Mobile Web Development and jQuery
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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Show Notes:
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
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
25 min

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