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Wynn caught up with Mike Hostetler and Scott González from AppendTo to talk about Amplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Microsoft, the web, and open source. 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: 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!

Wynn sat down with three Vim users and experts to talk about tips and tricks for using and pimping the popular text editor. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Drew Neil – Website, GitHub, XYehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, XTim Pope – GitHub, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow 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!

Wynn caught up with Ilya Grigorik, Founder and CTO of PostRank to talk about Goliath, async Ruby web development, and Google’s SPDY. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Ilya Grigorik – Website, GitHub, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow 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!

Wynn sat down with Chris Anderson from CouchBase to talk about CouchDB, the merger with Membase, Erlang, and bringing NoSQL to PHPers. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Chris Anderson – GitHub, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Chris Anderson is a Couchbase cofounder, Mobile Architect, CouchDB committer, new dad The CouchDB music video (served up from CouchDB no less) Chris sings the official CouchDB theme song to kick off Episode 0.1.8 Apache CouchDb is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Damien Katz is the creator of CouchDB. CouchBase was formed from merging Membase and CouchOne Chris is one of the rare CFOs with a GitHub account CouchBase makes the case for NoSQL Membase Server currently uses Sqlite under the hood, but will be swapped out for Couch’s storage engine soon Mobile Couchbase runs on iOS and brings Couch to your mobile device CouchApps are JavaScript and HTML5 applications served directly from CouchDB. Zynga makers of Farmville use Membase The CouchApp toolkit is now maintained by Benoît Chesneau Aaron Miller led the charge to get Erlang on iOS, changing dynamic linking to static linking. SpiderMonkey was included iOS for CouchMobile and its JIT compiler made it preferable to V8 or Nitro for Couch tasks. GeoCouch adds geospatial features to CouchDB Chris outlines the distinctives for Couch’s incremental Map/Reduce Jason Smith in Thailand keeps the lights on for CouchBase hosting solutions Cloudant offers hosting for Couch in the cloud Wynn wants to see integration for CouchBase and Appcelerator Titanium Todd Anderson has a great tutorial on using jQuery mobile and CouchDB Damien Katz is Chris’ programming hero Chris says working with Jan Lehnardt is a blast Be sure and check out CouchDB - The Definitive Guide by Chris, Jan, and Noah Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn were joined by Nathan Smith, creator of 960.gs to talk about his new project Formalize and the latest news on The Changelog. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: Nathan Smith, front end dev, speaker, and author 960 Grid System is a versatile CSS grid framework Formalize teaches your forms some manners An exhaustive list of HTML5 cross-browser polyfills Formalize even comes with Sass support out of the box Compass’s CSS3 module is powerful Wynn <3 Mustache Adam writes Sass but converts his stylesheets to SCSS for those who prefer it Haml means never looking for a missing </div> ever again The Changelog on Convore HSLPicker - Most excellent color picker for your enjoyment Fancy buttons makes your buttons fancy with CSS Octopress is a blogging framework for hackers Brandon was on Episode 0.1.7 on open source publishing Nesta CMS is our favorite Ruby CMS reveal: jQuery modal for HTML5 and data attributes Zurb’s CSS playground is awesome rawler: Crawl your website and find broken links with Ruby Inception explained in C code JavaScript version of the Inception code, demonstrating console.group BeerCamp 2011 site design is fun (scroll all the way down) compass-magick: Extend Sass with power of ImageMagick jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 released Nathan recently spoke at DrupalCon in Chicago on his jQuery desktop project Adam is tickled SourceForge runs Grid Coordinates The Open Government project demonstrates how the space is growing Stylus from LearnBoost brings Node.js-flavored CSS preprocessing Zeldman on designers who can’t code Adam loves the work of Mike Kus Wynn’s rant should be read as ten things you can do to spread the word about your open source project Wynn’s post actually spurred Nathan to create a homepage at Formalize.me Ryan Bates’ Railscasts are awesome Jenkins née Hudson almost became Alfred Nathan loves Alfred app Adam and Wynn are on Team Launchbar Nathan stumbled across a really neat way to target Firefox in CSS Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam sat down with Designer/Developer John Long, creator of RadiantCMS about his new project Serve, design, and running a successful open source project. 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, XShow Notes:John Long of Wiseheart design Serve is a rapid prototyping framework for web applications John created RadiantCMS, later extended by Sean Cribbs Radiant led John to a relationship with Pragmatic Programmers and formation of a Ruby Visual Identity team Serve is basically the Rails View layer, sans the Model and Controller. Serve’s makes it easier to use URLs that end in a / instead of file extension Serve’s view helper are Rails compatible Serve is Rack under the hood Acoustic is Django-inspired and aims to be between Sinatra and Rails “What Rails can learn from Django” Running a successful open source project can take over your life In the early days of Radiant, Subversion made it difficult to accept community contributions Git and GitHub has increased community participation Use Compass’s CSS3 module and save your sanity Compass can change your design workflow Fancy Buttons is a Compass plugin to easily create image-less buttons Grab the code for Adam’s nifty Serve bootstrap, which adds easy support for Haml, Sass, Compass, and more. Join the newly created Serve Users group Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Steve and Wynn sat down with Eliot Horowitz from 10gen to talk about MongoDB, the NoSQL landscape, and the fun of building at Web Scale. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – GitHub, XSteve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Eliot Horowitz CTO and Co-Founder of 10gen Dwight Merriman CEO & Co-Founder at 10gen NoSQL is a loose term for Key Value Stores, Graph Databases, and Document Databases MongoDB still has a large roadmap ahead MongoDB was first featured on The Changelog over a year ago Single server durability tops the list of new additions in 1.8 Replica sets are an elaboration on the existing master/slave replication, adding automatic failover and automatic recovery of member nodes Shutterfly and Foursquare boast some of the largest MongoDB implemenation MongoDB’s sharding enables horizontal scaling across multiple nodes. Mongo vs. Riak (and other Dynamo inspired stores) Full vs. eventual consistency Compound indexes Increment operations Be sure and check out our Riak interviews: Part 1 and Part 2 Mongo vs. CouchDB Couch uses Map/Reduce views Couch has great master-master replication Couch runs on mobile Mongo’s sharding is closer to a relational database Mongo’s Geo features now support more precise, spherical geospatial indexing Mongo shines at User profiles CMS data Mongo enjoys wide language binding support Eliot and 10gen think the Web Scale meme is all in good fun BSON [bee · sahn], short for Bin­ary JSON, is a binary-encoded serialization of JSON-like documents Our interview with Douglas Crockford on JSON MongoDB 2.0 will be focusing on concurrency, aggregation, online compaction, and TTL temporal collections Eliot likes Racket when he’s not slinging C. Linus Torvalds is one of Eliot’s heroes Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Steve and Wynn caught up with Dr. Nic from Engine Yard to talk about the cloud, Jenkins, Ruby, and lowering the barrier of entry for learning Rails on Windows. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – GitHub, XSteve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Catch up with us at Red Dirt Ruby Conf Steve will be at Codeconf Kenneth will be covering PyCon 2011 Thanks for putting up with us for 50 episodes! Dr. Nic Williams is Developer Advocate at Engine Yard has a ton of open source projects Engine Yard uses Amazon AWS and Terremark Dr. Nic actively and aggressively abandons most of his 154 public repos and feels good about it due to Git and GitHub Steve maintains a couple of projects from _why Dr. Nic liked how Jamis Buck declared he abandoned Capistrano Dr. Nic prefers TextMate instead of “1960s technology” Steve likes Janus for Vim Steve asks about Redcar Engine Yard has partnered with Appcelerator for mobile app developers Dr. Nic helps maintain Rails Installer, the easiest way to get up and running with Ruby on Rails. For Windows. Mac and Linux coming soon. Luis Lavena and Charles Nutter are core to the Ruby community “If you have to put the shortcuts on a coffee mug!” - Dr. Nic on Vim Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud is a regular on The Changelog for projects like Docco, CloudCrowd, Underscore.js, CoffeeScript The Jenkins rename shows the power of the community to stick together Dr. Nic is sticking with Jenkins, but Travis is worth a look for Rubyists Someone send Dr. Nic an Octocat badge Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam talks with Eric Kuhn, Founder of Founders Card about the ups and downs of building an online business during the era of the “dot com” bubble, managing hyper growth, getting listed and de-listed on the NASDAQ and building an exclusive benefits program, coined as “The Amex Black Card for the Entrepreneur”, exclusively aimed at Entrepreneurs and Founders. If you want an invite, get in touch with Adam. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Eric Kuhn – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: FoundersCard Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Kenneth and Wynn caught up with GitHubber Scott Chacon to talk about Git, distributed version control, and his quest to kill Word as a book authoring tool. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Scott Chacon – GitHub, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XKenneth Reitz – GitHub, XShow Notes: Scott Chacon, Git evangelist, GitHubber, author of ProGit rsync is a software application for Unix and Windows systems which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate. Perforce is a commercial, proprietary, centralized revision control system developed by Perforce Software, Inc. Git Internals, Scott’s PeepCode PDF Chris, Tom, PJ, founders of GitHub Continuous integration is one of Git’s strengths Surprisingly, Scott’s .gitconfig isn’t pimped out gitk The git GUI repository browser gitx Git GUI for OS X gitgui Unlike gitk, git gui focuses on commit generation and single file annotation and does not show project history. Why Git and not Mercurial? Mercurial bookmarks are references to commits that are automatically updated when new commits are made. If you do hg bookmark feature the feature bookmark refers to the current changeset. hg-git is the Hg-Git plugin for Mercurial, adding the ability to push to and pull from a Git server repository from Mercurial. BitBucket is to Hg as GitHub is to Git Scott says he had good intentions in comparing Git to other version control systems and was not lobbing stones at Mercurial Scott says distributed source control systems are key to helping the open source community thrive because it lets anyone commit and get involved The RubyGems.org 404 is amusing libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language which supports C bindings. GitHub has continued the libgit2 Google Summer of Code effort, supporting Vicent Marti to continue the development Scott says that Git is basically a key value store and we should look at uses beyond version control Eclipse is moving to Git away from CVS Git Tower is a beautiful Git UI for the Mac Showoff is a Sinatra web app that reads simple configuration files for a presentation. It is sort of like a Keynote web app engine. Kinectaby, Ruby bindings for XBox Kinect Wynn is excited about Scott’s project Git Scribe for writing, feeling the pain of using Word for archaic book publisher workflows Jason J Williams’s tools have lessened the pain for Wynn in writing the upcoming Sass book for Manning Everybody that works at GitHub is Scott’s programming hero but Ryan Tomayko is one of the smartest developer’s Scott knows. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!