The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source episodes

October 26, 2010Scripty2, Zepto.js, Vapor.js (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Thomas Fuchs to talk about script.aculo.us, Scripty2, Zepto.js and the future of Prototype.
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Show Notes:
The Magic Roundabout is crazy
Wynn got his UK badge on Gowalla
script.aculo.us JavaScript effects framework built on top of Prototype
Prototype - JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
Thomas is one of many talented RoR core team alumni
Scripty2 - completely rewritten version of script.aculo.us
RaphaelJS - JavaScript vector graphics library featured in Episode 0.2.5
Johnson Page asks “What’s the future of Prototype.js?”
Underscore.js utility library for jQuery, inspired by Prototype, featured in Episode 0.0.5
Zepto.js minimalist inlinable framework for mobile WebKit browsers, with a jQuery-like chaining syntax
EveryTimeZone.com - handy tool to pick a time to meet across time zones. A promotional site for Freckle, chock full of JavaScript best practices.
Thomas’ blog post on approaches taken with EveryTimeZone.com
Gury Chainable syntax wrapper for the element
Vapor.js “The only JS framework compatible with every browser.”
MadRobby gives mad props to @janl, @hblank, @cramforce and other JSConf.eu organizers.
FabJS - modular async framework for Node.js
Chris Williams’ talk on PromoteJS, an effort The Changelog supports.
Eyeballs.js - A lightweight MVC framework for building fast, tidy JavaScript web apps
CoffeeScript, featured in Episode 0.2.9
Amy Hoy, Thomas’ wife, product proponent, and usability diva.
Freckle helps you manage your time
JavaScript Performance Rocks - three books on ultimate web app performance
Charm Desk - Thomas and Amy tackle customer support
PeepCode’s Smashing into Vim with the soothing voice of Dan Benjamin
Mensch and Meslo, the latest stops on Thomas’ journey to find the ultimate Terminal.app font
Thomas likes to fly his AR.Drone around the office
He’s also building the Lego Milennium Falcon
SchnitzelConf a 1-day, full-contact conference in Vienna, Austria focusing on creating products, launching businesses, and charging real money.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
51 min
October 26, 2010 Scripty2, Zepto.js, Vapor.js
Wynn caught up with Thomas Fuchs to talk about script.aculo.us, Scripty2, Zepto.js and the future of Prototype.
51 min
October 12, 2010DevOps and Chef (Interview)
Wynn sat down with Corey Donohoe from GitHub and Seth Chisamore from Opscode to talk about DevOps, Chef, agile infrastructure and innovation in the datacenter.
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Show Notes:
Corey Donahoe aka @atmos, DevOps dude at GitHub
Seth Chisamore aka @schisamo, evangelist at Opscode, makers of Chef
Chef, an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.
DevOps is defined as a set of processes, methods and systems for communication, collaboration and integration between departments for Development (Applications/Software Engineering), Technology Operations and Quality Assurance (QA)
Puppet, an open source data center automation and configuration management framework.
Cfengine, continuous datacenter automation and repair
Knife, the Chef command line interface
Chef Hosted platform is an instant hosted, highly scalabe Chef Server
Chef solo lets you run Chef without a Chef server
Chef was architected to be multi-tenant
The Opscode Team members have impressive resumes.
Chef includes impressive role-based authorities
Cookbooks are like Rubygems for Chef
Cinderella née Cider = apple + homebrew + chef + rvm
Homebrew as the most forked project is GitHub’s stress test. Be sure to catch Max on Episode 0.3.5
Wynn makes the case that the Swedish Chef be the face of the DevOps movement
Silverline from Librato does complex systems management and monitoring
EY or EngineYard, Corey’s former employer uses VMs in their architecture
Simon Wardley’s OSCon keynote
OpenStack is an effort to standardize the cloud
DevOps version of the account that got Shatner back on TV
DevOps Borat tweets from the datacenter
Fog, Wesley Beary’s excellent Ruby abstraction layer for popular cloud providers
Knife, donated by 37 Signals
Wynn digs infinity_test to test against multiple versions of Ruby at the same time
collectd, system statistics collection daemon
Using Visage to graph collectd stats
Sign up for the Opscode platform free beta
Look up Seth as schisamo in #chef and #chef-hacking on IRC
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
37 min
October 12, 2010 DevOps and Chef
Wynn sat down with Corey Donohoe from GitHub and Seth Chisamore from Opscode to talk about DevOps, Chef, agile infrastructure and innovation in the datacenter.
37 min
October 05, 2010PubSubHubBub and the Real-Time Web (Interview)
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
October 05, 2010 PubSubHubBub and the Real-Time Web
Wynn chatted with Julien Genestoux (github/twitter) from Superfeedr about PubSubHubBub, XMPP, Websockets, and the real-time web.
31 min
September 23, 2010Django Dash, Python, Ruby (Interview)
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 23, 2010 Django 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.
28 min
September 14, 2010Homebrew and OSX Package Management (Interview)
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 14, 2010 Homebrew 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.
33 min