Changelog Interviews

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Changelog Interviews episodes

June 17, 2010Padrino Ruby Web Framework
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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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
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
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
32 min
June 08, 2010JSON and JavaScript
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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Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
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
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
15 min
May 25, 2010RaphaëlJS and Running an Open Source Project
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
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
33 min
May 18, 2010Tornado, Hip-hop, Three20
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
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
40 min
May 11, 2010The Ruby Racer
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
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
22 min
April 20, 2010Sammy.js and Semantic Versioning
Adam and Wynn caught up with Aaron Quint, the brains behind Sammy.js, a neat JavaScript framework built on top on jQuery fashioned after Ruby’s Sinatra.
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Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Texas Javascript Join us in Austin for this awesome JavaScript conference.
Sammy.js JavaScript framework built on top on jQuery fashioned after Ruby’s Sinatra.
Sammy’s routes really help organize your jQuery
Sinatra A Ruby framework as classy as The Chairman himself.
Sammy plugins Easily extend Sammy
Mustache.js Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript from Jan, based on defunkt’s awesome Mustache project
haml-js Port of Haml to JavaScript from Tim Caswell
CouchDB document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript
Couch apps Share your CouchDB codes
Step control-flow the node.js way.
Do simple async JavaScript library
Makin’ Bacon Aaron’s slides from his JSConf talk
Chris Williams JSConf organizer aka voodootikigod
Chromium Google projects helping to superchare JavaScript
LABjs aims to be an all-purpose, on-demand JavaScript loader, capable of loading any JavaScript resource, from any location, into any page, at any time.
Fab a modular async web framework from Jed Schmidt for node.js
Semantic versioning numbers and the way they change convey meaning about the underlying code and what has been modified from one version to the next.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
45 min
April 20, 2010Tweets from Chirp, Twitter's Developer Conference
While in San Francisco for Chirp, Wynn caught up with Erik and John from 140Proof, Hayes Davis from CheapTweet, and Christie Koehler from Open Source Bridge about Twitter and open source development.
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Show Notes:
140 Proof Ad platform for Twitter
John Manoogian III and Erik Michaels-Ober from 140 Proof
Racket Monitor your log files with auralization
Merb admin Admin screens slice for Merb, upcoming for Rails 3
Hayes Davis Austin Rubyist and all around nice guy
CheapTweet Find deals and coupons on Twitter
TweetReach How far did that tweet travel?
Grackle Lightweight Ruby Twitter API wrapper with a nice syntax
Open Source Bridge Nice sized open source conference in Portland in June
Christie Koehler from Open Source Bridge
ShopIgniter PHP-based ecommerce platform built on CodeIgniter
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
20 min
April 06, 2010Node.js and Server-Side JavaScript
Adam and Wynn caught up with Felix Geisendörfer to talk about Node.js, server-side JavaScript, and JSConf 2010.
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Show Notes:
NodeJS “First server-side JavaScript implementation you’d actually like to use”
Ryan Dahl Creator of Node.js
C64 The official home computer of the 80s
CakePHP CakePHP enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications.
Ubuntu Upstart Daemonize your Node
Google V8 Google’s open source JavaScript engine.
ECMAScript International standardization of JavaScript family of languages
WebSockets HTML5 protocol for two-way communication with a remote host
Do from Tim Caswell simple async JavaScript library
HowToNode.org Learn Node.js via an open blog featured on Episode 0.1.7
Kiwi Node.js package management system inspired by RubyGems
Express.js High performance, high class web development for Node.js with a Ruby flavor
Fab Rack-esque framework for Node.js
CommonJS aims to fill gaps by defining APIs in a standard library as rich as those in Python, Ruby, and Java
jspec BDD for JavaScript
Transloadit Because uploads and video encoding sucks
JSConf 2010 Arrrrrrr you going to THE JavaScript conference?
node-dirty NoSQL for the little man
berlinjs JavaScript user group in Berlin
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
43 min
March 30, 2010Ruby, TextMate, Red Dirt Ruby Conf
While in OKC for OpenBeta4, Adam and Wynn sat down with James Edward Gray II and talked about his many Ruby gems, TextMate bundles, and his upcoming Ruby conference Red Dirt Ruby Conf this May.
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Show Notes:
RubyQuiz.com Challenge your Ruby fu, feel dumb, learn something, repeat.
OpenBeta4 We were blown away by the startup community in OKC
Red Dirt Ruby Conf Join us in OKC for this premier Ruby event
FasterCSV De-facto CSV handling in Ruby, now built-in to 1.9
Ruby Kaigi Awesome Ruby conference in Japan
TextMate James’ favorite text editor
Ruby bundle for TextMate
#textmate TextMate IRC channel
#thechangelog Drop in and share your latest open source projects
Rack Rack provides a minimal interface between webservers supporting Ruby and Ruby frameworks.
Rails 3.0 Active Record query interface
LA Ruby Conf Ruby conference in L.A. just wrapped in February
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.
OK.rb Now meeting at OKCCoCo
Irma’s Burger Shack Best place to grab a burger in OKC. Hey, they’re on the Twitter
Glenn Vanderburg One of James’ Ruby heroes
Oklahoma Mixer James’ full featured and robust FFI interface to Tokyo Cabinet
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
26 min
March 18, 2010NoSQL Smackdown!
While at SXSW Interactive, Adam and Wynn got to attend the Data Cluster Meetup hosted by Rackspace and Infochimps. Things got a bit rowdy when the panel debated features of Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB and Amazon SimpleDB and started throwing dirt at everybody else’s favorite NoSQL databases.
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Show Notes:
The videos mentioned are dead to the internet, thanks to Blip.tv.
The participants:
Stu Hood from Cassandra
Jan Lehnardt from CouchDB
Wynn Netherland from The Changelog, subbing for MongoDB
Werner Vogels CTO at Amazon
Items mentioned in the discussion:
Cassandra The Apache Cassandra Project brings together Dynamo’s fully distributed design and Bigtable’s ColumnFamily-based data model and powers some of the world’s largest sites.
CouchDB Apache,CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.
MongoDB Combining the best features of document databases, key-value stores, and RDBMSes.
Amazon SimpleDB a highly available, scalable, and flexible non-relational data store that offloads the work of database administration.
Dynamo Dynamo is a highly available, proprietary key-value structured storage system that powers parts of Amazon Web Services.
Amazon S3 Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Persevere Persevere helps you rapidly develop data-driven JavaScript-based rich internet applications.
Redis Redis is 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.
Neo4j Neo4j is a graph database. It is an embedded, disk-based, fully transactional Java persistence engine that stores data structured in graphs rather than in tables.
Special thanks to @jchris for the awesome CouchDB theme song!
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
48 min

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