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Pow, Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline, CoffeeScript and More (Changelog Interviews #64)

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Adam and Wynn caught up with Sam Stephenson from 37Signals to talk about his his many open source projects and developing Basecamp Mobile.

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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!

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