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While in OKC for OpenBeta4, Adam and Wynn sat down with James Edward Gray II and talked about his many Ruby gems, TextMate bundles, and his upcoming Ruby conference Red Dirt Ruby Conf this May. 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: RubyQuiz.com Challenge your Ruby fu, feel dumb, learn something, repeat. OpenBeta4 We were blown away by the startup community in OKC Red Dirt Ruby Conf Join us in OKC for this premier Ruby event FasterCSV De-facto CSV handling in Ruby, now built-in to 1.9 Ruby Kaigi Awesome Ruby conference in Japan TextMate James’ favorite text editor Ruby bundle for TextMate #textmate TextMate IRC channel #thechangelog Drop in and share your latest open source projects Rack Rack provides a minimal interface between webservers supporting Ruby and Ruby frameworks. Rails 3.0 Active Record query interface LA Ruby Conf Ruby conference in L.A. just wrapped in February 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. OK.rb Now meeting at OKCCoCo Irma’s Burger Shack Best place to grab a burger in OKC. Hey, they’re on the Twitter Glenn Vanderburg One of James’ Ruby heroes Oklahoma Mixer James’ full featured and robust FFI interface to Tokyo Cabinet Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

While at SXSW Interactive, Adam and Wynn got to attend the Data Cluster Meetup hosted by Rackspace and Infochimps. Things got a bit rowdy when the panel debated features of Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB and Amazon SimpleDB and started throwing dirt at everybody else’s favorite NoSQL databases. 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:The videos mentioned are dead to the internet, thanks to Blip.tv. The participants: Stu Hood from Cassandra Jan Lehnardt from CouchDB Wynn Netherland from The Changelog, subbing for MongoDB Werner Vogels CTO at Amazon Items mentioned in the discussion: Cassandra The Apache Cassandra Project brings together Dynamo’s fully distributed design and Bigtable’s ColumnFamily-based data model and powers some of the world’s largest sites. CouchDB Apache,CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. MongoDB Combining the best features of document databases, key-value stores, and RDBMSes. Amazon SimpleDB a highly available, scalable, and flexible non-relational data store that offloads the work of database administration. Dynamo Dynamo is a highly available, proprietary key-value structured storage system that powers parts of Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Persevere Persevere helps you rapidly develop data-driven JavaScript-based rich internet applications. Redis Redis is 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. Neo4j Neo4j is a graph database. It is an embedded, disk-based, fully transactional Java persistence engine that stores data structured in graphs rather than in tables. Special thanks to @jchris for the awesome CouchDB theme song! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Geoffrey Grosenbach, Brandon Mathis, and Tim Caswell to talk about publishing with open source tools, open blogging, and the back-to-the-future world of static site generators and database-less blogs. 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: Peepcode In-depth screencasts and tutorials Git Peepcode The best way to get up to speed with git About this Blog TopFunky’s blog stack Brandon’s Design blog Open Blogging Close to the source control metal blogging where article submissions are pull requests EdgeRails.info Fast-moving blog for Rails early adopters Octopress A blogging framework for hackers built on top of Jekyll, Compass, Sass, and Haml HowToNode.org Tim’s open blog for how to learn Node.js Node Blog The blogging engine behind HowToNode.org Nesta Neat dynamic blogging tool on top of Sinatra Webby Ruby tool for creating static web sites (or other text output) Blosxom PERL reminds us that none of these ideas are new RailsCamp “Imagine yourself and a posse of like-minded ruby hackers on a country retreat with zero internet for a weekend of fun.” Nanoc Awesome static site generator from Denis Defreyne that powers the upcoming Compass docs site haml-js Bringing Haml to JavaScript views RaphaelJS SVG graphs in JavaScript Fancy Buttons Brandon’s Compass plugin for making great looking buttons out of <button> or <a> tags node-dirty A key value store for node.js that is simple, fast & dirty. TXJS Join us in Austin for an awesome JavaScript conference Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Ruben Daniels and Rik Arends from Ajax.org and talked about APF and O3, their frameworks for both browser and server based JavaScript applications. 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: Gowalla @ SXSW Check in and join the party RedDirt Ruby Conf Awesome new regional Ruby conference in Oklahoma City. Chirp Twitter’s API developers conference JSConf The conference for everyone’s favorite new retro language. Ajax.org Pure javascript application framework for creating real-time collaborative applications that run in the browser. O3 Collection of C++ components which are exposed through a JavaScript API Demo of Markup and JSON APIs Skinning Define a skin with XML Flex XML-based RIA framework from Adobe XAML Declarative UI XML format from Microsoft Google Gears Browser storage from Google, abandoned in favor for HTML5 features Node.js This must be your first episode of the show… Promises Control flow in Node Ajax.org’s GitHub’s page and other downloads CouchDB Erlang + JavaScript = NoSQL goodness CommonJS JavaScript standard library Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Leah Culver and talked about startups, APIs, and her open source work on OAuth, oEmbed, Hurl.it, Baconfile, and more. 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: OAuth An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications. oEmbed oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. 90210 One of Adam’s favorite TV shows from the 90s Beverly Hillbillies For the previous generation Boxee Open Source media on your TV or PC/Mac Hurl.it Test APIs from your browser Charles Proxy Monitor or proxy HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between your machine and the Internet. Gowalla’s API explorer Neat way to test your Gowalla API calls Baconfile Share files simply on your own S3 account Chunky Baconfile Wynn’s wrapper for Baconfile, a naming tribute to _why Motion Community microblogging on the TypePad API written in Django. TypeKit Legally embed fonts from the largest foundries Node.js The streak continues! How to Node Learn Node.js open blog from Tim Caswell and Micheil Smith. And it’s pronounced Michael, sorry, mate. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Andy Gross from Basho and Sean Cribbs, a freelance Ruby developer, to discuss Riak, the new Erlang-based NoSQL store and Ripple, Sean’s new Ruby wrapper for Riak. 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: Ripple New Ruby wrapper for Riak Link walking in Riak RadiantCMS Ruby-powered Content Management System Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Luigi Montanez and Jeremy Carbaugh from Sunlight Labs and discussed their Python and Ruby projects, government transparency, and civic hacking - open source contributions as activism. 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: Real Time Congress - iPhone app for keeping tabs on Congress, built with Appcelerator Titanium Anthill - Django-powered community website project that runs SunlightLabs.com MediaSync - Django Toolkit to simplify the static media development and deployment. Sunlight Labs API - Congressional data served up for your next mashup. Underscore.js - The tie for jQuery’s tux Open Government Initiative - Every .gov web site now has to outline their transparency efforts Apps for America - Build a mashup, win some $$$ Great American Hackathon - Meetup and hack to improve your government Open Government book from OReilly - Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice Tweet Congress - SXSW Web Award-winning congressional Twitter directory built on Sunlight Labs API Capitol Words - Amazing site and API analysis of what’s said on the floor of Congress Open Congress - Browse, read, discuss, and vote on legislation before Congress. Code for America - Connecting city governments and Web 2.0 talent. Some new gadget from Apple Chromium OS - Google’s new OS discussed on Episode 0.0.4 SauceBrush - an attempt to build a python ETL library that doesn’t suck Homebrew - Package management for Mac as discussed on Episode 0.1.2 Transparency Camp - THE unconference for government representatives, technologists, journalists, developers, NGOs, wonks and activists Los Angeles Ruby Conf - See Luigi and others speak Ruby in beautiful downtown Burbank Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn continued chatting with John Nunemaker about recent featured projects on the blog — including Gordon, Showoff, jQuery Lint, JSpec, congomongo and more. 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: Friendly NoSQL in MySQL configliere - Simple Ruby configuration twitter-node - Node.js tweetstreaming Gordon - Pure JavaScript Flash replacement jQuery Lint - jQuery validator Showoff - Keynote killer? congomongo clojure <3 MongoDB Computer science in Javascript - JS as a teaching aide phpMoAdmin Mo’ admin for the money Momma’s got a FuseBox - and Daddy doesn’t sleep at night AppSalesGraph - measure your App store sales things-rb call Things.app from Ruby JSpec Get your Bee Dee Dee on in JavaScript FoursquareX Foursquare client for OS X Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

John Nunemaker joined the show to talk about open source, improving your craft, building a business, and how MongoDB has changed his life. 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, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: John Nunemaker Ordered List John’s Ruby projects The Twitter gem, HTTParty, Crack, MongoMapper MongoHQ, shared MongoDB hosting The GitHub Fork Queue Harmony, the new CMS from Ordered List Moonshine Puppet Navvy Liquid Markup from Tobias Lütke of Shopify Redis Resque Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chris Wanstrath joined the show to talk about the past, present, and future of GitHub. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Chris Wanstrath – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Chris Wanstrath GitHub Git Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!