Wynn caught up with Alex MacCaw to talk about Spine, CoffeeScript, writing books, and working at Twitter. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Alex MacCaw – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteWynn Netherland – Twitter, GitHubShow Notes: Alex MacCaw, O’Reilly writer and open source developer now working on the front-end for Twitter. Spine Lightweight MVC library for building JavaScript applications, inspired by Backbone. Spine is written in CoffeeScript Eco is Alex’s favorite client-side templating engine. Alex suggests trying to use the same templating engine server-side and client-side, perhaps with Mustache, is a pipe dream. Spine integrates with Rails out of the box. Hem is like Bundler but for Node.js. Juggernaut enables realtime server push with node.js, WebSockets and Comet Spine.app “Effortlessly generate Spine, CoffeeScript and Hem applications. Spine.App gives your applications structure, CommonJS modules, a development server and more.” Alex is working on The Little Book on CoffeeScript in printed form for O’Reilly. JavaScript Web Apps covers building client-side MVC apps in a framework agnostic way. Twitter is hiring! Got the chops? Get in touch. Jeremy Ashkenas is Alex’s programming hero. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Jonathan and Matt from Zurb to talk about Foundation, their HTML5 front end scaffold and many projects from the Zurb playground. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – Twitter, GitHubShow Notes: Jonathan Smiley - Design lead at Zurb Matt Kelly is a developer at Zurb The Zurb playground showcases many Zurb’s front end experiments. Zurb foundation is an easy to use, powerful, and flexible framework for building prototypes and production code on any kind of device. Bootstrap from Twitter bakes in more style opinions and currently does not target mobile devices. Zurb Foundation ships in Rails, Compass, two WordPress, and ASP.NET MVC flavors. Flickr Bomb is a more entertaining alternative to http://placehold.it Joyride is a fun way to do feature tours. Zurb buttons are super awesome. Orbit is a lightweight image slider for jQuery. The version bundled with Foundation supports responsive layouts. Reveal is an easy way to add great looking modals to web apps. Zurb also offers a set of free apps including Axe and Strike. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn sat down with Sean and Brian from Spree to talk about ecommerce in Rails, SpreeConf, and their recent $1.5M funding round. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – Twitter, GitHubShow Notes: Sean Schofield, Spree founder and CEO of Spree Commerce, Inc. Brian Quinn, long time Spree contributor and CTO of SpreeCommerce Spree (née RailsCart) is a Rails engine that provides an out-of-the box, customizable ecommerce platform. Spree fully integrates into the Rails 3.1 Asset pipeline Rails engines have accelerated Spree adoption Spree is built on actively maintained community projects including Devise, Kaminari, Paperclip, ResourceController, State Machine, and ActiveMerchant. Spree recently closed a $1.5M funding round SpreeConf is geared to both business and developer audiences Everybody loves Sticker Mule Shoedazzle and SecondLife run highly customized versions of Spree. Spree has a growing list of community extensions. RailsDog Radio is a great showcase of Spree functionality. Grab the source on GitHub If you actually need a satellite radio, check out TSS Radio. Spree will unbox a new demo installation on Heroku just for you. Deface allows you to customize HTML ERB views in a Rails application without editing the underlying view. Ryan Bigg, Ruby Hero and co-author of Rails 3 in Action has joined Spree as community manager. Like Changelog Episodes, Spree is not SemVer compliant. Sean wants to explore using RailsAdmin into Spree Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Chris Forsythe, lead of the Growl project to talk about Growl, their App Store launch, and his work on Adium and Perian. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteWynn Netherland – Twitter, GitHubShow Notes: We recently launched The Sass Way so you can get your fix of all things Sass and Compass Chris Forsythe is the project lead for Growl. Growl is a popular notification system for Mac OS X. Growl is now in the App Store and on GitHub Chris was formerly the project manager for the Adium. Your $1.99 will help send Chris to his first WWDC. GrowlMail is now a separate project. Over two hundred applications support Growl notifications. Designers have created many visual Growl styles to make Growl look great. Wynn’s favorite is Hud from @Rogie. Growl now supports GNTP, allowing Linux and Windows notifications apps to share a common protocol. Wynn uses Growl for visual feedback for his test suite. Chris also is a founder of the Perian project, a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats. Chris says that the GPL prevents Perian from taking the App Store path. The OSI is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community. Chris relates the impact Steve Jobs had on his open source work. Evan Schoenberg inspires Chris. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Paul Irish of Google’s Chrome developer relations team to talk about HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, polyfills, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteWynn Netherland – Twitter, GitHubShow Notes: Paul Irish - Chrome dev relations guy at Google. Dion Almaer - Host of Function Source, all around JavaScript, frontend expert. “HTML5 is a jewel that we need to cut into a weapon” - Dion /via Yehuda Katz Adam is in love with GitHub’s new editor powered by Cloud 9 HTML5 Boilerplate contains a set of best practices to use as a starting point for new projects or pick what you need a la cart. Boilerplate now includes Normalize.css, a customisable CSS file that makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards. Normalize is a collaboration between Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites, from Faruk Ate?, Paul, and Alex Sexton. rack-modernizr from Marshall Yount brings Modernizr to the server Paul coined the term FOUT - Flash Of Unstyled Text. HTML5 polyfills implant html5 functionality in browsers that don’t natively support them. Paul makes micro microapps for CSS3, text shadows, and HSL picking. Paul is a fan of Chris Coyer of CSS Tricks Need an idea for a weekend project, check out Paul’s Lazy Web Requests Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Steve and Wynn caught up with Wayne Seguin to talk about his Ruby enVironment Manager and BDSM shell scripting framework projects. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – Twitter, GitHubSteve Klabnik – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: Look us up at LSRC V next week. Madison Ruby Conference August 19-20, 2011 in Madison, WI. Wayne Seguin, developer at EngineYard, creator of RVM and BDSM. RVM is a command line tool which allows us to easily install, manage and work with multiple ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems. BDSM aims to create a framework for maintaining and sharing server side scripts while exposing them through a consistent command line interface (CLI). Dr. Nic Williams, Wayne’s boss was on Episode 0.5.0 Peter Cooper helped get the word out about RVM. Michal Papis has been giving Wayne a hand with RVM and BDSM. Ryan McGeary says “Vendor Everything” while Wayne says he vendors nothing and uses rvm gemsets in most cases. Bundler now plays nice with RVM. Using BDSM, you can create consistent service interfaces for everything in your stack. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Erik and Max, Fellows at Code for America to talk about civic-focused development and open source. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteWynn Netherland – Twitter, GitHubShow Notes: Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow - Deadline is July 31 LSRC V is just around the corner Follow @TheSassWay for your Sass news Code for America enlists the talent of the web industry into public service to use their skills to solve core problems facing our communities. Erik Michaels-Ober is a Rubyist and Fellow at Code for America Max Ogden is also a Rubyist and Fellow at Code for America Erik is using (and improving) the LinkedIn Ruby gem Max loves Underscore.js from Jeremy Ashkenas Max’s GitHub page tells recruiters to get lost. Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org aims to make government information more accessible. The Sunlight Foundation, featured on Episode 0.1.3 Code For America’s GitHub page features 120 projects. Rails Admin is Erik’s Rails 3 engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data Erik and Wynn met through John Nunemaker’s Twitter Gem Faraday is Rick Olson’s slick Rack-like HTTP client library. Mislav Marohni? helps maintain Faraday Want to create your own programming language like Jeremy Ashekenas? Read this book! Max is a fan of Request from Mikeal Rogers Erik is a fan of Sam Stephenson, featured in Episode 0.6.4 Brian Ford, Evan Phoenix, make Rubinius rock. Steve Richert aka @LaserLemon helps out with the Twitter gem. Best username evar. TextMate users: be nice to your Vim friends. The opportunity for Civic Startups Fight for the User Literary Machines is a thirty year old book from Ted Nelson. Open211.org - The Redirectory Project is a free and open directory of social services and resources that anyone can contribute to. Test your Ruby projects against multiple Rubies with Travis Gemcutter powers RubyGems.org Substance.io is an HTML5-based document editor from Michael Aufreiter Be sure and follow Substack on GitHub. Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow - Deadline is July 31 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Sam Stephenson from 37Signals to talk about his his many open source projects and developing Basecamp Mobile. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: Nathan Smith, friend of the show, creator of 960.gs, Adapt, Formalize, and featured in Episode 0.3.2 Sam Stephenson, programmer at 37signals, creator of massive amounts of open source. Pow is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X. Pow supports multiple rubies via RVM. Powder is a CLI for Pow. Prototype.js is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Sprockets is a Ruby library that preprocesses and concatenates JavaScript source files. Stitch stitches your CommonJS modules together for the browser ExecJS runs JavaScript code from Ruby. Josh Peek, Rubyist and GitHubber. Nack - Node.js adapter for Rack Sam loves CoffeeScript and hopes to never write JavaScript again. Sam debunks the FUD of debugging CoffeeScript. “Command-F is your friend.” Jeremy Ashkenas, creator of CoffeeScript ported his Underscore library as a demonstration. Sam weighs in on the micro framework movement and loves Zepto, Underscore, and Backbone. “We’re living in a WebKit world on mobile.” The goal of the Basecamp Mobile app was to “feel like a web app.” Basecamp Mobile was a team effort by Sam, Josh, and Jason Zimdars. “Responsive Web Design”, a term coined by Ethan Marcotte. Less Framework is an adaptive grid CSS framework for desktop and mobile. Cinco is the yet-to-be-released framework behind Basecamp Mobile built on Stitch, Backbone, CoffeeScript, and Zepto. Sprockets powers the new Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline Jammit is an alternative to Sprockets. The Ruby Racer from Charles Lowell embeds the V8 Javascript Interpreter into Ruby The Git commit heard round the world. Baren generates images from Processing source. Jamie Dihiansan is the design talent behind the great Pow web site Pow uses docco for documentation. Rack-legacy allows you to serve up PHP from Pow. Be sure and snag Trevor Burnham’s excellent CoffeeScript book Josh and DHH are Sam’s programming heroes. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with the developers behind CDNJS, a community-powered CDN for JavaScript libraries. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteWynn Netherland – Twitter, GitHubShow Notes: CDNJS aims to make the web faster by putting more shared JavaScript on a content delivery network. We’re now part of the Fusion Network Catch up with us at The Big (D)esign Conference We’ll be at Lone Star Ruby Conference 2011 Ryan Kirkman, Co-Founder of Protosal. Thomas Davis, Co-Founder of Protosal, also runs backbonetutorials.com Fork the GitHub project to get your script included A CDN helps serve assets from servers closer to the user. CloudFlare sponsors the project. Cached Commons has some of the same goals, but uses GitHub as a provider. CDNJS packages uses the same format as NPM The Google Library API hosts most of the major JavaScript frameworks. Microjs is a micro-site for micro-frameworks Protosal lets you generate proposals using templates and variables to save time. cdnjs-command is a Ruby gem command line helper for CDNJS. Backbone.js is a lightweight MVC framework for client-side JavaScript. Brunch A lightweight approach to building HTML5 applications with emphasis on elegance and simplicity. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Fredrik Holmström to talk about IronJS, F#, and open source in .NET. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – Twitter, GitHubShow Notes: IronJS A JavaScript implementation for .NET written in F# Fredrik Holmström, creator of IronJS F# is a succinct, expressive and efficient functional and object-oriented language for .NET which helps you write simple code to solve complex problems. “This JScript thing” Mono is an open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET. IronJS continues in the tradition of IronPython and IronRuby IronJS implements EcmaScript 3 but is working towards EcmaScript 5 support Miguel de Icaza created Mono. Nuget is a free, open source developer focused package management system for .NET. Codeplex seems to be the place to find .NET open source GitHub is hosting more and more .NET projects C# and .NET are hard to Google Kayak is an asynchronous HTTP server written in C# Zed Shaw, featured on Episode 0.3.4 Don Syme, architect behind F# “John” Gietzen has contributed to IronJS. Follow @IronJS on Twitter for updates. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!