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Ryan Carson, the Founder of Carsonified and Treehouse, joins Adam to talk about all the details of starting his new venture, Treehouse. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Ryan Carson – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: http://teamtreehouse.com/ http://carsonified.com/ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204903804577079022094984772.html Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Alex MacCaw to talk about Spine, CoffeeScript, writing books, and working at Twitter. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Alex MacCaw – Website, GitHub, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Alex MacCaw, O’Reilly writer and open source developer now working on the front-end for Twitter. Spine Lightweight MVC library for building JavaScript applications, inspired by Backbone. Spine is written in CoffeeScript Eco is Alex’s favorite client-side templating engine. Alex suggests trying to use the same templating engine server-side and client-side, perhaps with Mustache, is a pipe dream. Spine integrates with Rails out of the box. Hem is like Bundler but for Node.js. Juggernaut enables realtime server push with node.js, WebSockets and Comet Spine.app “Effortlessly generate Spine, CoffeeScript and Hem applications. Spine.App gives your applications structure, CommonJS modules, a development server and more.” Alex is working on The Little Book on CoffeeScript in printed form for O’Reilly. JavaScript Web Apps covers building client-side MVC apps in a framework agnostic way. Twitter is hiring! Got the chops? Get in touch. Jeremy Ashkenas is Alex’s programming hero. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Bryan Zmijewski (Shme-yes-key), Founder and Chief Instigator of ZURB, joins Adam to talk about his path to starting ZURB, what sharing code and design patterns has done for their business, product, culture and team development, and what it takes to make awesome stuff on the web. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Bryan Zmijewski – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: http://www.zurb.com/ http://www.zurb.com/soapbox http://www.zurb.com/think http://www.notableapp.com/ http://www.bounceapp.com/ http://verifyapp.com/ http://www.jigapp.com/ Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Jonathan and Matt from Zurb to talk about Foundation, their HTML5 front end scaffold and many projects from the Zurb playground. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Jonathan Smiley - Design lead at Zurb Matt Kelly is a developer at Zurb The Zurb playground showcases many Zurb’s front end experiments. Zurb foundation is an easy to use, powerful, and flexible framework for building prototypes and production code on any kind of device. Bootstrap from Twitter bakes in more style opinions and currently does not target mobile devices. Zurb Foundation ships in Rails, Compass, two WordPress, and ASP.NET MVC flavors. Flickr Bomb is a more entertaining alternative to http://placehold.it Joyride is a fun way to do feature tours. Zurb buttons are super awesome. Orbit is a lightweight image slider for jQuery. The version bundled with Foundation supports responsive layouts. Reveal is an easy way to add great looking modals to web apps. Zurb also offers a set of free apps including Axe and Strike. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Dan Martell, Co-Founder of Flowtown, joins Adam to talk about his road to success with Flowtown, getting acquired, how he met his Co-Founder Ethan Bloch on Twitter, angel investing and being an advisor, giving back to charity and customer development and how to get traction. Dan also shared something super secret (a new project) … as well as much, much more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Dan Martell – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: http://www.flowtown.com/blog/flowtown-has-been-acquired-by-demandforce http://maplebutter.com/ http://timely.is/ http://clarity.fm/ http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2011/10/big-omaha-backstage-pass-dan-martell-work-on-something-bigger Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

The founders of Dribbble, Rich Thornett and Dan Cederholm, join Adam to talk about how Dribbble came to be, the 3rd edition of Bullet Proof Web Design, product development, new and existing features of Dribbble as well as focusing on revenue producing features … and much, much more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Dan Cederholm – Website, GitHub, XRich Thornett – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: http://dribbble.com/ http://blog.dribbble.com/ http://blog.dribbble.com/post/2828527653/to-infinity-and-beyond https://twitter.com/#!/dribbble http://www.meetup.com/dribbble/ Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn sat down with Sean and Brian from Spree to talk about ecommerce in Rails, SpreeConf, and their recent $1.5M funding round. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Sean Schofield, Spree founder and CEO of Spree Commerce, Inc. Brian Quinn, long time Spree contributor and CTO of SpreeCommerce Spree (née RailsCart) is a Rails engine that provides an out-of-the box, customizable ecommerce platform. Spree fully integrates into the Rails 3.1 Asset pipeline Rails engines have accelerated Spree adoption Spree is built on actively maintained community projects including Devise, Kaminari, Paperclip, ResourceController, State Machine, and ActiveMerchant. Spree recently closed a $1.5M funding round SpreeConf is geared to both business and developer audiences Everybody loves Sticker Mule Shoedazzle and SecondLife run highly customized versions of Spree. Spree has a growing list of community extensions. RailsDog Radio is a great showcase of Spree functionality. Grab the source on GitHub If you actually need a satellite radio, check out TSS Radio. Spree will unbox a new demo installation on Heroku just for you. Deface allows you to customize HTML ERB views in a Rails application without editing the underlying view. Ryan Bigg, Ruby Hero and co-author of Rails 3 in Action has joined Spree as community manager. Like Changelog Episodes, Spree is not SemVer compliant. Sean wants to explore using RailsAdmin into Spree Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Vitaly Friedman, Founder of Smashing Magazine, joins Adam to talk about the beginnings of Smashing Magazine, taking chances, not being copyable, experimenting to find what works, supporting the community, developing content, paying writers, developing publishing principles and philosophies and also shares a bit about what’s next on the horizon for him and his team. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Vitaly Friedman – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: http://www.smashingmagazine.com https://twitter.com/smashingmag https://twitter.com/vitalyf http://www.alvit.de/handbook http://www.alvit.de/blog http://www.alvit.de/vf http://www.alvit.de/vf/en/my-profile-curriculum-vitae-and-biography.html Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Drew Strojny joins Adam to talk about his path in life, playing in the NFL, marrying your business partner, web design and pursuing the unknown, developing digital products and themes for WordPress and the 5by5 logo. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Drew Strojny – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: http://jestro.com/ http://thethemefoundry.com/ http://drewstrojny.com/ http://forge.thethemefoundry.com/ http://5by5.tv/dailyedition/27-changes Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Chris Forsythe, lead of the Growl project to talk about Growl, their App Store launch, and his work on Adium and Perian. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: We recently launched The Sass Way so you can get your fix of all things Sass and Compass Chris Forsythe is the project lead for Growl. Growl is a popular notification system for Mac OS X. Growl is now in the App Store and on GitHub Chris was formerly the project manager for the Adium. Your $1.99 will help send Chris to his first WWDC. GrowlMail is now a separate project. Over two hundred applications support Growl notifications. Designers have created many visual Growl styles to make Growl look great. Wynn’s favorite is Hud from @Rogie. Growl now supports GNTP, allowing Linux and Windows notifications apps to share a common protocol. Wynn uses Growl for visual feedback for his test suite. Chris also is a founder of the Perian project, a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats. Chris says that the GPL prevents Perian from taking the App Store path. The OSI is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community. Chris relates the impact Steve Jobs had on his open source work. Evan Schoenberg inspires Chris. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!