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Adam talks with Henk Rogers, Founder of The Tetris Company, Blue Planet Software and Blue Planet Foundation about the beginnings of and the evolution of Tetris, over-coming brick walls, social and mobile gaming, never giving up, changing the world, getting the planet off carbon-based fuels, ending war, creating a backup of Earth and the power of love! Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Henk Rogers – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Tetris - Official Web Site Blue Planet Foundation The History of Tetris Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam talks with Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs, Founders of Slash7 about product development, profiting from Open Source, the key to happiness, living a Unicorn-Free lifestyle and how Amy and Thomas met and ultimately fell in love. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Amy Hoy – Website, XThomas Fuchs – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: slash7 with Amy Hoy Unicornfree freckle: choose your plan twistori Charm Desk coming fall 2010 from the makers of Freckle KO Lists coming soon from the makers of Freckle mir.aculo.us JavaScript with Thomas Fuchs Cheerful Freelancember: 31 Days of Free Gifts for Freelancers Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Yehuda Katz to talk about upcoming changes in Rails 3.1, SproutCore, and his growing list of open source projects. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Yehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Wynn’s deck from ‘07 pays tribute to Yehuda Merb influenced and later merged with Rails SproutCore is an HTML5 application framework for building responsive, desktop-caliber apps in any modern web browser, without plugins. Carl Lerche is the other half of carlhuda Desktop MVC != Server MVC Handlebars.js is Yehuda’s optimization of Mustache.js Backbone.js is a lightweight MVC framework from DocumentCloud Bundler manages an application’s dependencies through its entire life across many machines systematically and repeatably. One of the biggest changes in Rails 3 is The Great Decoupling Railtie is the core of the Rails Framework and provides several hooks to extend Rails and/or modify the initialization process Asset handling is coming in Rails 3.1, meaning better support for Sass, Compass, and CoffeeScript Do you modify your Nginx setup? Yehuda prefers Sass and Compass to Less since the introduction of the SCSS syntax. Haml is the templating language of choice for sophisticated web devs. Yehuda likes JavaScript on the server but thinks evented frameworks like Node are more for edge cases than for the heart of the web. The Ruby Racer is a Ruby binding to V8 and is great for testing your JavaScripts without a browser Charles Lowell wrapped Handlebars.js as Handlebars.rb Yehuda loves CoffeeScript wants a runtime debugger before taking the plunge. 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. Adam really loves Thor, a scripting framework that replaces rake and sake and is used by the new Rails 3 generators. There is no shortage of thor tasks from users on GitHub. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam talks with Allan Branch and Steven Bristol, Founders of Less Everything about how things got started, why they hate QuickBooks, what it takes to create a successful partnership and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Allan Branch – Website, GitHub, XSteven Bristol – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Less Everything – Ruby on Rails Development – Web / UI Design Less Everything Blog Accounting Software | LessAccounting Time Tracking and Expense Tracking | Less Time Spent Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam talks with Ryan Carson, Founder of Carsonified about the “lessons learned” in creating their latest product, Think Vitamin Membership - the biggest being the need to rename the product and go through a re-branding process. In Q2 of 2011 Think Vitamin Membership will transition to the name “Level Up”, a better suited name and far more “tweetable”. 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: Think Vitamin - A blog for web designers and developers Learn Web Design! HTML 5 & CSS3 Video Tutorials & Training Resource Twitter - thinkvitamin Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Chris Matthieu of Voxeo Labs to talk about Phono, Tropo, Adhearsion, and building telephony apps with open source tools. 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: We’re excited to team up with GitHub Jobs! To have your job posting read on air, just check “Advertise this listing on The Changelog Podcast for an additional $100” when you post your job. Chris Matthieu founder of Teleku, now with Voxeo Labs, the company behind Tropo, Teleku, and Phono. Tropo’s GitHub projects Adhearsion uses Ruby to create voice-enabled applications on top of Asterisk Asterisk turns an ordinary computer into a communications server Phono, a jQuery plugin that lets you make phone calls right from your browser. Jay Phillips orginally created Adhearsion Jason Goecke VP of Innovation at Voxeo AGI protocol is at the core of Asterisk Wynn and Chris go way back with TAPI, MAPI, and SAPI Google Voice transcriptions gone bad The SIP protocol allows multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol The Jingle protocol extends XMPP and powers Google Talk Wynn asks how Tropo stacks up against Twilio Tropo does TTS in nine languages Tropo’s Scripting Environment supports Ruby, Python, PHP, Groovy, and Javascript Tropo’s REST API offers a more traditional API approach Facebook Telephone lets you call your Facebook friends via Phono. Twelephone, if Twitter is more your bag Michael Bleigh from Intridea makes Twitter apps easier for Rubyists Facebook’s OpenGraph API makes building Facebook apps much easier than previous APIs Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn sat down with Andy Gross and Mark Phillips of Basho and John Nunemaker of Ordered List to talk about Riak, Riak Search, and moving an open source community to GitHub. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:John Nunemaker – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: NoSQL smackdown, live from SXSW 2010. Are you web scale? Drop us a ping@thechangelog.com and let us know who you want to get on The Changelog Andy Gross VP of Engineering at Basho, the company behind Riak. Mark Phillips Community Manager at Basho AKA * @pharkmillups John Nunemaker of Ordered List and MongoMapper fame Riak is now available as a binary download Bitcask, the new backend for Riak Riak key value store, decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies Riak Search, full-text search engine based on Riak Riak buckets, container and keyspace for data stored in Riak Riak KVS buckets can be automatically searchable by installing the Search pre-commit hook Riak supports an Apache SOLR interface Sean Cribbs made some waves with Ripple Ruby, Python, Node.js are the biggest adopters of Riak Riak aims to scale both up and down. Adding a node adds a linear increase in throughput and storage capacity. 50 nodes run easily on a laptop. Riak nodes are truly decentralized, no node is special Riak compares to Cassandra and Voldemort Riak has built-in JavaScript map reduce but unlike Couch, it’s more an ad hoc approach. Andy explains Riak’s link walking or bucket-key-tag relationships between objects. Riak now has two interfaces, the original REST HTTP interface, and a new protocol buffers interface, a faster binary interface Eric Brewer, a Basho board member, and his cap theorem Bitcask is an append-only file format where the keys are stored in memory for ultra fast lookups. InnoStore, the original Riak backend John Muellerleile, author of the popular NoSQL cartoon about distributed map reduce in Erlang Apache Lucene query syntax a growing standard for search The move from BitBucket to GitHub was ultimately about community, not about DVCS The THANKS file lists many Riak community contributors Harmony - the MongoDB-powered hosted CMS from Ordered List Mozilla runs several Riak clusters to log data from their Test Pilot project Francisco Treacy uses Riak in WideScript, “an innovative app that helps you focus and interact with your texts — on your desktop, your couch or on the go.” Inagist recently moved from Cassandra to Riak Riak has partnered with Joyent and Node creator Ryan Dahl to create Riak SmartMachines Mark also is a fan of Redis Scala and Clojure have Andy excited, too. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Thomas Fuchs to talk about script.aculo.us, Scripty2, Zepto.js and the future of Prototype. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: The Magic Roundabout is crazy Wynn got his UK badge on Gowalla script.aculo.us JavaScript effects framework built on top of Prototype Prototype - JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Thomas is one of many talented RoR core team alumni Scripty2 - completely rewritten version of script.aculo.us RaphaelJS - JavaScript vector graphics library featured in Episode 0.2.5 Johnson Page asks “What’s the future of Prototype.js?” Underscore.js utility library for jQuery, inspired by Prototype, featured in Episode 0.0.5 Zepto.js minimalist inlinable framework for mobile WebKit browsers, with a jQuery-like chaining syntax EveryTimeZone.com - handy tool to pick a time to meet across time zones. A promotional site for Freckle, chock full of JavaScript best practices. Thomas’ blog post on approaches taken with EveryTimeZone.com Gury Chainable syntax wrapper for the <canvas> element Vapor.js “The only JS framework compatible with every browser.” MadRobby gives mad props to @janl, @hblank, @cramforce and other JSConf.eu organizers. FabJS - modular async framework for Node.js Chris Williams’ talk on PromoteJS, an effort The Changelog supports. Eyeballs.js - A lightweight MVC framework for building fast, tidy JavaScript web apps CoffeeScript, featured in Episode 0.2.9 Amy Hoy, Thomas’ wife, product proponent, and usability diva. Freckle helps you manage your time JavaScript Performance Rocks - three books on ultimate web app performance Charm Desk - Thomas and Amy tackle customer support PeepCode’s Smashing into Vim with the soothing voice of Dan Benjamin Mensch and Meslo, the latest stops on Thomas’ journey to find the ultimate Terminal.app font Thomas likes to fly his AR.Drone around the office He’s also building the Lego Milennium Falcon SchnitzelConf a 1-day, full-contact conference in Vienna, Austria focusing on creating products, launching businesses, and charging real money. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam talks with Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe, Founders of Page99Test.com. People in bookstores often read page 99 of a book to get a taste for the writing - to determine if they’d buy the book. Lance, Joanna and technical Co-Founder, Steven Luke took that time tested idea and have built a brand new platform for book enthusiasts, authors, agents and publishers to get excited about. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Joanna Wiebe – Website, XLance Jones – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Page99Test Beyond Page 99 Page 99 Test (page99test) on Twitter Facebook (5) | Page99Test.com Take the Page 99 Test - GalleyCat Putting the Page 99 test to the, er, test | Books | The Guardian Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam talks with Ted Roden, Founder of Fancy Hands, a team of personal assistants in the cloud ready to work for you right now. For those of you who have an over flowing todo list, get back to focusing on what’s important and give Fancy Hands a try. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Ted Roden – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Fancy Hands: Virtual Assistants, Aardvark Style Fancy Hands Finds You an Assistant for $30 a Month … in the Cloud | Fast Company Everybody enjoys things @ enjoysthin.gs Blast - Your files at your fingertips! - Apparent Software Building the Realtime User Experience - O’Reilly Media Fancy Hands - 10 Most Common Requests Fancy Hands - Personal Assistants in the Cloud FoundersCard Google App Engine - Google Code Live Questions & Answers | ChaCha Aardvark Personal Assistant | Concierge Services | Virtual Personal Assistant - AskSunday 24/7 Personal Assistance Red Butler | Personal Assistant & Concierge Services | 888.BUTLER.2 YourManInIndia Amazon Mechanical Turk - Welcome Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!