The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source episodes

May 11, 2011RubyGems 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.
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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!
20 min
May 11, 2011 RubyGems and RubyGems.org
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.
20 min
May 03, 2011Twisted 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.
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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!
34 min
May 03, 2011 Twisted and Evented Programming in Python
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Glyph Lefkowitz from Twisted to talk about the project and evented programming in Python.
34 min
April 27, 2011Amplify.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.
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Featuring:
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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!
46 min
April 27, 2011 Amplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript
Wynn caught up with Mike Hostetler and Scott González from AppendTo to talk about Amplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Microsoft, the web, and open source.
46 min
April 12, 2011Vim 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.
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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!
42 min
April 12, 2011 Vim Round Table
Wynn sat down with three Vim users and experts to talk about tips and tricks for using and pimping the popular text editor.
42 min
April 06, 2011Goliath, 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.
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Featuring:
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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!
51 min
April 06, 2011 Goliath, Event Machine, SPDY
Wynn caught up with Ilya Grigorik, Founder and CTO of PostRank to talk about Goliath, async Ruby web development, and Google’s SPDY.
51 min