The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source episodes

September 08, 2010Mongrel2 and high performance web sites (Interview)
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
September 08, 2010 Mongrel2 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.
39 min
August 31, 2010Node Knockout (Interview)
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 31, 2010 Node 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.
25 min
August 19, 2010960.gs and CSS Grid Frameworks (Interview)
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 19, 2010 960.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.
34 min
August 09, 2010The WebSocket protocol (Interview)
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:
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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
August 09, 2010 The 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.
29 min
July 27, 2010Sencha Touch (Interview)
Wynn caught up with David Kaneda to talk about mobile web app development with Sencha Touch.
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Featuring:
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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 27, 2010 Sencha Touch
Wynn caught up with David Kaneda to talk about mobile web app development with Sencha Touch.
26 min