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Oct 12, 2010 • 37min
DevOps and Chef (Changelog Interviews #38)
Wynn sat down with Corey Donohoe from GitHub and Seth Chisamore from Opscode to talk about DevOps, Chef, agile infrastructure and innovation in the datacenter.
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Corey Donahoe aka @atmos, DevOps dude at GitHub
Seth Chisamore aka @schisamo, evangelist at Opscode, makers of Chef
Chef, an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.
DevOps is defined as a set of processes, methods and systems for communication, collaboration and integration between departments for Development (Applications/Software Engineering), Technology Operations and Quality Assurance (QA)
Puppet, an open source data center automation and configuration management framework.
Cfengine, continuous datacenter automation and repair
Knife, the Chef command line interface
Chef Hosted platform is an instant hosted, highly scalabe Chef Server
Chef solo lets you run Chef without a Chef server
Chef was architected to be multi-tenant
The Opscode Team members have impressive resumes.
Chef includes impressive role-based authorities
Cookbooks are like Rubygems for Chef
Cinderella née Cider = apple + homebrew + chef + rvm
Homebrew as the most forked project is GitHub’s stress test. Be sure to catch Max on Episode 0.3.5
Wynn makes the case that the Swedish Chef be the face of the DevOps movement
Silverline from Librato does complex systems management and monitoring
EY or EngineYard, Corey’s former employer uses VMs in their architecture
Simon Wardley’s OSCon keynote
OpenStack is an effort to standardize the cloud
DevOps version of the account that got Shatner back on TV
DevOps Borat tweets from the datacenter
Fog, Wesley Beary’s excellent Ruby abstraction layer for popular cloud providers
Knife, donated by 37 Signals
Wynn digs infinity_test to test against multiple versions of Ruby at the same time
collectd, system statistics collection daemon
Using Visage to graph collectd stats
Sign up for the Opscode platform free beta
Look up Seth as schisamo in #chef and #chef-hacking on IRC
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 6, 2010 • 37min
Geoffrey Grosenbach / PeepCode (Founders Talk #1)
Adam talks with Geoffrey Grosenbach about his quest for greatness as Senior Visionary in building PeepCode Screencasts. Complete with the signature voice that Geoff delivers, he walks us through the various aspects of building Peepcode from scratch, adhering to the Minimal Viable Product methodology (MVP), starting on “the cheap” and the reason he says “no” to DRM to reduce piracy on his digital products.
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PeepCode
Meet Node.js
A Serviceable Business Card
Lessons Learned from Three Years of PeepCode
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 5, 2010 • 30min
PubSubHubBub and the Real-Time Web (Changelog Interviews #37)
Wynn chatted with Julien Genestoux (github/twitter) from Superfeedr about PubSubHubBub, XMPP, Websockets, and the real-time web.
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Superfeedr - pushes realtime data at scale using PubSubHubBub and XMPP.
PubSubHubHub - simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS.
XMPP - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is an open technology for real-time communication and generalized routing of XML data.
Discovery links in feeds
Superfeeder has some big names among its publishers and subscribers
Gowalla demo using websockets and Gowalla’s hub.
Twitter’s streaming APIs
Considerations for PubSubHubBub vs. XMPP
Superfeedr’s GitHub profile
EventMachine and Node.js are cool
Julien loves Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB
Superfeedr’s list of popular feeds, firehose of the blogosphere
Redis’ as a pubsub store
Chef from Opscode is serious cool for setting up servers
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 23, 2010 • 27min
Django Dash, Python, Ruby (Changelog Interviews #36)
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Daniel, Christian, and Matt from Pragmatic Badger to talk about the Django Dash, Python, and Ruby.
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Daniel, Christian, and Matt from Pragmatic Badger host the Django Dash.
Django Dash - you’ve got 48 hours to build a Django app. Go!
Pyweek - Build a Python app in a week
Rails Rumble - Ruby on Rails’ a own 48 hour web application development competition.
The Dash rules
Great Big Crane - 2010 Dash winner
The Dash moved to distributed version control this year on GitHub & BitBucket
Love for Pythons’ explicit imports and Python’s module system
Twisted - an event-driven networking engine written in Python.
Node.js - Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript.
Eventlet - a concurrent networking library for Python that allows you to change how you run your code, not how you write it.
EventMachine - fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs.
Christian is using Compass and Sass in Django, but hates on Haml
Forkinit - forkin’ brilliant! Share and fork your favorite recipes.
Flask - Flask is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions.
Web.py - a web framework for python that is as simple as it is powerful.
Google’s AppEngine Run your Python web apps on Google’s infrastructure.
Pypy - implemenation of the Python language focusing on speed, memory usage, and sandboxing.
Rubinius - an implementation of the Ruby programming language. The Rubinius bytecode virtual machine is written in C++.
Manoria - an MMO city-building and resource management game [Source]
Server tail - a service which lets you quickly and easily see real time output of log files on your servers, with just a web browser. [Source]
Read the docs - a place to create, host, and browse docs. [Source]
GitHub made covering the event live much more fun
PhoneGap - open source development framework for building cross-platform mobile apps using HTML and JavaScript.
Leah Culver, who created Leafy Chat in last year’s Dash, talked about it in Episode 0.1.5
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 14, 2010 • 33min
Homebrew and OSX Package Management (Changelog Interviews #35)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Max Howell, creator of Homebrew to talk about package managment on OSX, beer, and scrobbling.
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Homebrew The awesome OSX package manager from Max Howell
Last.fm - The world’s largest online music catalogue, powered by your scrobbles. Max’s former employer.
Tweet Deck Desktop and mobile Twitter client
ImageMagick - fabulous software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images which can be a pain to install on OSX.
Amarok - is a free software music player for Linux and other varieties of Unix
GitHub - where all the cool people put code
Homebrew terms in the Homebrew Cookbook
No sudo for you and the dangers therein
MacPorts - an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system
Gentoo - highly optimized Linux distro
Most forked projects on GitHub
Max prefers British ales
pengwynn is looking to get his hands on the Tatical Nuclear Penguin from Brewdog
The Silicon roundabout gets its name due to the prominence of British web based companies
Max created the Last.fm Scrobbler, proving open source can land you a job
Transmission is beautiful on the Mac
Glasses, This is the next generation of VLC for Mac also called Lunettes.
brew install sl, then sl — enjoy the ride!
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 8, 2010 • 38min
Mongrel2 and high performance web sites (Changelog Interviews #34)
Wynn caught up with Zed Shaw’s non-rockstar alter ego to talk about Mongrel2, high performance web sites, guitar, and software community ponzi schemes.
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Mongrel2 - an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies.
Original mongrel
_why an anonymous and prolific writer, cartoonist, musician, artist, and computer programmer notable for his work with Ruby
Unicorn - Eric Wong’s mostly pure-Ruby HTTP backend
Thin A fast and very simple Ruby web server
0MQ Fastest. Messaging. Ever.
Node.js Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript.
Nginix is a HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev
HAProxy The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
Twisted an event-driven networking engine written in Python
libevent Asynchronous event notification library
EventMachine fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs
Websockets - technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channel, featured in Episode 0.3.1
SPDY - An experimental protocol for a faster web
Fretwar The guitar competition and social time waster.
LayerTennis from Coudal
MP3 streaming demo in Mongrel2
Librelist a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source projects.
Dethklok, Pantera, Slayer, Metallica
Wynn asks if Rails is still a ghetto
Joyent
Ajax.im an open-source, extensible, theme-able instant messaging framework.
Qt Cross platform UI framework
Awesome window manager is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X
Vimperator Vimperator is a Firefox browser extension with strong inspiration from the Vim text editor, with a mind towards faster and more efficient browsing.
Screen screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Reaper is a digital audio workstation: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 31, 2010 • 24min
Node Knockout (Changelog Interviews #33)
Micheil and Wynn caught up with Gerad and Visnu from the Node Knockout to talk about the 48 hour Node.js development competition and its entries.
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Lone Star Ruby Conference - Texas’ regional Ruby conference in Austin
Mike Perham - The awesome Rubyist whose name gives Wynn fits
Node Knockout - The 48 hour Node.js coding competition
Rails Rumble - Ruby’s own 48 hour coding bash
Gerad - of Gerad & Visnu, the “data-y” and “product-y” guy
Visnu - the “developer-y” and “designer-y” guy
Fortnight Labs - the proper name for Gerad & Visnu, Inc.
List of great Node Knockout Judges
Joyent & Heroku are great places to host your Node.js apps.
Express High performance, high class web development for Node.js
Connect - high performance middleware framework for node featuring robust middleware for serving static files, advanced routing, cookie and session implementations, error handling and much more.
npm is a package manager for node. You can use it to install and publish your node programs. It manages dependencies and does other cool stuff.
Node Inspector is a web inspector based Node.js debugger
Socket.io - Websockets toolkit covered in 0.3.1 and used in so many contest entries
Go vote for your favorite entries!
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 19, 2010 • 34min
960.gs and CSS Grid Frameworks (Changelog Interviews #32)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Nathan Smith from 960 Grid System to talk about web development and CSS grid frameworks.
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960 Grid System - Nathan’s awesome CSS grid framework
960’s awesome templates help you plan your layouts
Wynn’s new monitor setup is just plain obscene
960’s fluid support from Stephen Bau
Episode 0.2.8 where John Resig talks about mobile web dev
Episode 18 of the yayQuery podcast
Wynn asks why Google’s AJAX API library doesn’t include the CSS frameworks
Nathan and Wynn are fans of Jason Santa Maria’s layout-per-post blog
For the non-soccer fans, a little background for Nathan’s midfielder analogy.
We don’t need to link to Sass do we?
Taco Town from SNL
jQuery Cookbook, to which Nathan contributed lucky Chapter 13
Nathan is a big Drupal fan
Rebecca Murphey organizer of the awesome TXJS conference
Textile vs. Markdown
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 9, 2010 • 29min
The WebSocket protocol (Changelog Interviews #31)
Wynn and Micheil sat down with Peter Griess from Yahoo Mail, Martyn Loughran from Pusher App, and Guillermo Rauch from Socket.IO to talk about Websockets.
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WebSocket is a technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels, over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket, designed to be implemented in web browsers and web servers.
Socket.IO provides a really simple API to leverage Sockets on the client side.
Socket.IO Node.JS server - sockets for the rest of us (in Node.js)
Pusher App Hosted HTML5 web sockets service
Websocket-js A Flash fallback for browsers that do not support Websockets
Long polling Traditional approach to emulating push for web apps
HAProxy reliable, high performance TCP/HTTP load balancer
True Story A collaborative planning tool for agile teams
HTML5 Event Source A one-way websocket with limited browser support
Node Websocket Server Micheil’s websocket server written in low-level node.js, should be 90-100% spec compatible.
Hummingbird demo - a real time traffic visualizer
MongoDB Awesome NoSQL database featured on Episode 0.0.7
Redis an advanced key-value store. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists, sets, and ordered sets.
EM-Websocket EventMachine based WebSocket server from Ilya Grigorik
Node.js YUI3 bindings YUI3 on the server?!
Telehash - a new wire protocol from Jeremie Miller, the guy behind XMPP, for exchanging JSON in a real-time and fully decentralized manner, enabling applications to connect directly and participate as servers on the edge of the network.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 27, 2010 • 25min
Sencha Touch (Changelog Interviews #30)
Wynn caught up with David Kaneda to talk about mobile web app development with Sencha Touch.
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Sencha Touch - HTML5 mobile application framework
WebKitBits - David’s Tumblr for the latest in WebKit news and tips
jQTouch - jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.
Sass - Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets for your CSS, featured in Episode 0.0.1
Outpost Basecamp in your pocket
iUI - Perhaps the original JavaScript toolkit for creating iPhone web apps
PPK - Web standards and browser guru.
Compass - Turbocharges your Sass
Sencha demos including GeoCongress which leverages the Sunlight Labs APIs featured in Episode 0.1.3
YQL - SELECT * FROM Interwebs
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!