The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source episodes

July 23, 2010CoffeeScript and JavaScript (Interview)
Wynn and special guest host Micheil Smith sat down with Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud to chat about CoffeeScript, a cool language that compiles to JavaScript.
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Featuring:
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Show Notes:
CoffeeScript - a cool language that compiles to JavaScript.
DocumentCloud - an index of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web.
Haskell - an advanced purely functional programming language
Everything in CoffeeScript is an expression
Switch statements in CoffeeScript compile to if/else chains
CoffeeScript has powerful comprehensions for Arrays, Objects, and Ranges
Existential operator should look familiar to Rubyists
Splats make JavaScript arguments even easier
ECMAScript 5.0 - the latest JavaScript standard
ECMAScript Harmony
CoffeeScript’s String Interpolation
CoffeeScript’s Class/inheritance features
Function binding - as President Clinton said “It depends on what your definition of ‘this’ is…” ;-)
Jeremy loves working with to create Buddhabrot Fractals
Node.js finds its way into every episode!
NPM is the new standard for Node Package Management
JSLint cleans up your JavaScripts.
Jade gives your JavaScript Haml envy from TJ Holowaychuk
Lincoln Shire Poacher - RaphaelJS graphics from Chris Lloyd
Underscore.js - featured in Episode 0.0.5
Comet
@CoffeeScript - Unofficial Twitter account
Join us in #coffeescript on Freenode
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
39 min
July 23, 2010 CoffeeScript and JavaScript
Wynn and special guest host Micheil Smith sat down with Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud to chat about CoffeeScript, a cool language that compiles to JavaScript.
39 min
June 25, 2010Mobile Web Development and jQuery (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with John Resig at TXJS and talked about mobile web development with jQuery and TestSwarm, a continuous integration project from Mozilla Labs.
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Show Notes:
TestSwarm - Distributed continuous integration testing for JavaScript.
Pro JavaScript Techniques John’s JavaScript book
Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja John’s upcoming book of trade secrets
WebKit - The rendering engine behind Safari, Chrome, and a growing number of mobile browsers
PhoneGap - Bridges the gap between the web and native functions on the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry
Fennec Firefox for mobile devices
Opera Dragonfly - cross device, cross platform debugging environment for the Opera browser-debug JavaScript, inspect and edit CSS and the DOM
jQTouch - jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch
iUI - create WebApps with an iPhone-like Look and Feel from Firebug creator Joe Hewitt
TouchScroll JavaScript- and CSS?3-based scroller for devices using Webkit Touch (yes, that includes Android). It is meant to mimic “native” scrolling feeling and behavior as much as possible.
Mustache.js - Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
25 min
June 25, 2010 Mobile Web Development and jQuery
Adam and Wynn caught up with John Resig at TXJS and talked about mobile web development with jQuery and TestSwarm, a continuous integration project from Mozilla Labs.
25 min
June 17, 2010Padrino Ruby Web Framework (Interview)
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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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 17, 2010 Padrino 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.
32 min
June 08, 2010JSON and JavaScript (Interview)
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
June 08, 2010 JSON 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.
15 min
May 25, 2010RaphaëlJS and Running an Open Source Project (Interview)
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 25, 2010 RaphaëlJS 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.
33 min