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Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Andrew Bayer from the Jenkins project to talk about continuous integration, Java, and corporate backing drama. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – GitHub, XKenneth Reitz – GitHub, XShow Notes: CI Joe is GitHub’s continuous integration server Knowing is half the battle Jenkins née Hudson is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project. Kohsuke Kawaguchi is the creator of Jenkins Andrew Bayer is a Build Engineer at Cloudera Nearly 30K Jenkins installations worldwide Jenkins is written in Java but with its rich plugin system, you can run almost anything with it Jenkins supports Git, Mercurial, SVN, and even Visual SourceSafe Jenkins does more than running tests, it can also do parameterized deploys GitHub has fueled an explosion in Jenkins community growth Wynn asks why Java is only 6% of GitHub projects Funny cartoon on how language fanboys see one another Git and GitHub adoption actually sparked the name change and Oracle split The community voted 214-14 to rename Andy addresses how plugins will migrate to the new name. Thanks, Matthew J McCullough. At what point do projects look at a jQuery Foundation-style governance model? Hudson was the butler in Upstairs, Downstairs Alfred, the butler from Batman was a consideration, but conflicted with the Mac program James Clark is Kohsuke’s programming hero Kohsuke and Lisp’s Guy Steele are Andrew’s heroes MZ Scheme now Racket makes Kenneth’s head hurt Andrew recommends Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs from MIT As a build guy, Selenium gets Andrew excited Kohsuke is trying to hack the Airport Express to stream tunes from Linux Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Carl Tashian from Open Government to talk about OpenGovernment.org, OpenCongress.org, and the rise of the Citizen Coder. 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: Carl Tashian is Director of Technology at Open Government OpenGovernment: Empower individuals and organizations to track government at every level OpenCongress.org - open source Rails app to track the goings on in the US Congress Library of Congress THOMAS site is the source for federal legislative information OpenGovernment.org, a public resource for government transparency at the state, city, and local levels. Free and open-source. Open States API The Sunlight Foundation aims to make government transparent and accountable Wynn helped create TweetCongress.org winner of a SXSW 2009 Web award for activism, making use of Sunlight APIs Follow the money and connect the dots between bills, key votes, and campaign donations. Transparency Data is a central source for federal lobbying disclosure, federal grants and contracts, earmarks and federal and state campaign contributions, complete with it’s own API GovKit Luigi Montanez and Wynn wrote a wrapper for Transparency Data Fog, the Ruby cloud services library Carl worked at ZipCar prior to joining Open Government Syncing large datasets from different providers is a big challenge PostgreSQL and PostGIS power the backend of OpenGovernment GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. MongoDB and Rack provide a fast way to track page views in the app Sunlight, Code for America, and Open Government - rise of the Citizen Coder? Oakland Crimespotting is a case study on developers having an impact on government DocumentCloud, featured in Episode 0.0.5 Jammit, Industrial Strength Asset Packaging for Rails Pythonistas, why not help out by creating a scraper for your state? Kenneth and Wynn debate the best terminal font Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam talks with Rick Perreault, Co-Founder & CEO of Unbounce about entrepreneurship and solving your own pain, sticking to an MVP (Minimal Viable Product) launch strategy, becoming an authority by blogging/marketing before you launch, listening to customers and knowing when to take funding. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Rick Perreault – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Landing Pages: Create, Publish & A/B Test Without I.T. | Unbounce Building a Minimum Viable Product – No Time For Edge Cases | Unbounce 101 Landing Page Optimization Tips | Unbounce CASE STUDY: Creating an eBook as a Lead Capture Prize | Unbounce HOW TO: Create a Landing Page Design Concept in 10 Minutes | Unbounce HOW TO: Use Twitter as a Knowledge Filter Using Social Breadcrumbs and Lists | Unbounce Founder Story #1, Rick Perreault, Unbounce on Vimeo Unbounce + Wufoo + MailChimp = Sexy Segmentation Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Adam Moore and Satyen Desai from the YUI team to talk about YUI 3, Node.js, and working with Douglas Crockford. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: YUI is the Yahoo! User Interface library, a collection of front end code goodies for JavaScript and CSS Follow the YUI Blog for the latest developments, such as the new 3.3.0 release Adam Moore and Satyen Desai are engineers on the YUI team. The Autocomplete widget provides a flexible, configurable, and accessible implementation of the AutoComplete design pattern. The DataTable widget renders columnar data into a highly customizable and fully accessible HTML table The Dial widget is an alternative to sliders The YUI Charts recently moved from Flash to JavaScript in YUI 3 The Community developed the drag/move component YUI is on GitHub, fueling community involvement YUI Theater is a great source for JavaScript talks and all things YUI Douglas Crockford is the author of JSLint, the JSON spec, featured on Episode 0.2.6 from TXJS Nicholas C. Zakas aka @slicknet is the author of a number of JavaScript books Eric Miraglia is the Engineering Manager for the YUI team JSLint improves your JavaScript but will not spare your feelings Dave Glass - has a great talk about YUI + Node “I love async, but I can’t code like this” Many of the additional Node.js modules deal with parallel execution Adam suggests targeting features, not platform since features like touch will be on the desktop eventually. Satyen’s talk on YUI’s mobile strategy The module pattern in JavaScript The YUI Gallery lists discoverable components contributed by the community Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam talks with Ryan Holmes, Founder of Hootsuite entrepreneurship, establishing and leveraging their relationship with Twitter, from “free” to “freemium” with a plan, and growing to well over 1 Million users in 2 years. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Ryan Holmes – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Hootsuite Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Salvatore Sanfilippo to talk about Redis, the super hot key value store. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Salvatore Sanfilippo – Website, GitHub, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: VMware signs the paychecks for Salvatore and Pieter Noordhuis Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store and data structure server wherein keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets Redis internals consist of ANSI C with an evented model Non-blocking replication has always been a Redis design goal Replication in Redis is async Salvatore’s Redis toolbox includes the Redis Ruby gem and Sinatra Chances are you can find a Redis library in your favorite language The C client is the only officially supported wrapper Salvatore thinks the NoSQL moniker isn’t perfect, focusing too much on performance, but it frames a discussion Redis Pub/Sub is perfect for real-time apps GitHub’s adoption of Redis in Resque helped fuel the growth of the project Redis users tend to use it as a database, as a messaging bus, or as a cache Salvatore thinks hosted solutions like Redis-to-Go need to add more value like more frequent backups and seamless upgrades. Blizzard uses an 8-node Redis install in serving avatars for WoW Justin Campbell asks will VMWare feature Redis in any upcoming projects? Ezra Zygmuntowicz and GitHub were among the first “few brave users” After a few months Salvatore noticed a dip in adoption , but he trusted his gut and stuck with it Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam talks with Maciej Ceglowski, Founder of Pinboard about turning this side project into the next Delicious, handling a massive in-flux of Delicious users when they announced its “sunset”, keeping the technology and architecture simple and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Maciej Ceglowski – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Pinboard - antisocial bookmarking Pinboard (PinboardIN) on Twitter What The “Great Delicious Exodus” Looked Like For Pin-Sized Competitor Pinboard Pinboard’s Dead-Simple Bookmarking Service Is Still Going Strong Want To Give Pinboard A Try? You’ll Have To Pay $2.84 Back To Basics: Ditch Delicious, Use Pinboard Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Aaron Patterson, aka @tenderlove, to talk about Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, and muscle cars. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: RubyCommitters.org lists all the folks who hack on the Ruby language Nokogiri is a library for parsing XML and HTML The origins of tenderlove, Aaron’s online persona Hot linking, check it and see. Got a page rank of a hundred and three., to the tune of Hot Blooded Mechanize adds an API to any website Being a Ruby committer is ‘alright’ Yugui, release manager for Ruby 1.9 The current state of rubycommitters.org reminds us of CSS Naked Day REXML is a pure Ruby XML processor MiniTest is Aaron’s favorite testing framework His favorite Ruby 1.9.2 feature is speed texticle is a wrapper around Postgress T-Search APIs Aaron will be keynoting at Red Dirt Ruby Conf FasterCSV from JEG2, one of the organizers for Red Dirt Ruby Conf. El Camino, IROC-Z, or Firebird with T-tops are Aaron’s top three dream cars For those who have never shaved a Yak and otherwise did not know it. Arel is at the heart of Rails 3 ActiveRecord improvements Debian’s Ruby maintainer says he’s out Ruby Kaigi, the C conference disguised as a Ruby conference In addition to Japanese, Aaron also speaks Scheme and Haskell Wynn ? CoffeeScript Aaron wants to pair program with Jim Weirich Wynn suggests Aaron capitalize on Tenderlovemaking by organizing promiscuous pair programming Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Steve Klabnik joined the show to talk about learning to program with Hackety Hack and why the lucky stiff. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Steve Klabnik, maintainer of Hackety Hack, newest contributor to The Changelog Hackety Hack will teach you the absolute basics of programming from the ground up. _why, creator of Hackety Hack. Help keep his memory alive. Abbott and Costello’s classic “Who’s on first?” Yakety Yak is a song written, produced, and arranged by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Coasters and released on Atlantic Records in 1958 Shoes is a tiny graphical app kit for ruby GTK is a highly usable, feature rich toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces which boasts cross platform compatibility and an easy to use API. MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9 directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C runtime and garbage collector, the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Foundation and ICU frameworks. The Shoebox is a gallery of Shoes apps. Mad props to Heroku, Sinatra, and MongoMapper for handling a LifeHacker traffic spike Ruby is a great language to teach programming _why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby ChunkFive is a nice bold free and open source typeface Steve is intrigued by projects like cool.io and node.js and the evented style of programming. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam talks with Alex Hillman, Co-Founder of Indy Hall and co-conspirator/creator of many things, about all things Coworking, people helping people, how to hustle, get unstuck and more. Alex also mentions something “super secret” that’s sure to please. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Alex Hillman – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Coworking Philadelphia - Independents Hall, a Coworking Community and Space dangerouslyawesome | Alex Hillman Writes Here The Coworking Book what’s next? unstick.me helps you find that thing you need to get going again. the cluetrain manifesto Caroline Collective Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!