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Feb 13, 2015 • 54min
Laravel PHP Framework (Interview)
Taylor Otwell, the creator of the Laravel PHP framework, joined the show for a deep dive into Laravel, why he doesn’t release without good documentation, building apps to test your own framework, writing an API for Lavarel Forge, and more.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Taylor Otwell
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Laravel
Laravel - Docs
Lavavel Elixir
Laravel Forge
Laravel Homestead
Blade Templating
Snappy
Twig Parser
Packagist
Laracasts
Laravel 5 Fundamentals
Laracasts - Meet Composer
adamgoose/forge-cli
Composer | Dependency manager for PHP
Jeffrey Way
Dayle Rees
Vagrant Press
Statamic
Laracon
Laravel: From Apprentice To Artisan
Dayle Rees (@daylerees)
Just Park
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Feb 11, 2015 • 27min
Going fulltime on The Changelog (Interview)
BIG news! This is the episode where we discuss Adam going fulltime on The Changelog.
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, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:For last two years, Adam has been rebuilding The Changelog from the ground up in his spare time, nights and weekends, and everywhere in between. As of this week, running The Changelog has become his full-time job.
Adam gave his two week notice to resign from his comfortable, enjoyable, job with Pure Charity to go full-time on this thing. Hopefully, one day we can look back on this episode and say this is where things began.
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Feb 6, 2015 • 1h 12min
Aurelia, Durandal, Leaving AngularJS (Interview)
Rob Eisenberg joined the show to talk about why he left the AngularJS team, how the community responded, the allure of working for Google and getting paid to work on open source full time, why someone might choose Aurelia over other frameworks, and more.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Rob is a former AngularJS team member, who left the AngularJS team to work on his own startup, Durandal Inc and their first open source product Aurelia, a next generation JavaScript client framework that supports ES6, WebComponents, Object.observe and more.
Leaving Angular
Introducing Aurelia Video
[Guest idea] Rob Eisenberg, keeper of DurandalJS, an OSS JS project · Issue #96 · thechangelog/ping
Home | Durandal
Home | Aurelia
Rob Eisenberg (@EisenbergEffect) | Twitter
Rob Eisenberg | EisenbergEffect
jspm.io - Frictionless Browser Package Management
systemjs
6to5 Compiler
6to5 Name Suggestions
Seth Godin: The Dip
Eric Evans (@ericevans0) | Twitter
Domain Driven Design
Guy Bedford
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Uncle Bob Martin
.NET Rocks!
Herding Code Podcast
Javascript Jabber
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Jan 30, 2015 • 1h 3min
The Rise of io.js (Interview)
Mikeal Rogers joined the show to talk about io.js, a friendly fork of Node.js with an open governance model. We discussed why the io.js fork exists, why they choose open governance, the roadmap and future of io.js, supporting ES6, burnout while working in open source, and the steps you can take to get involved with the future of io.js and Node.js.
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Featuring:Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Mikeal Rogers on Github
io.js - JavaScript I/O
io.js - ES6 on io.js
iojs/roadmap
indutny (Fedor Indutny)
Before the Drama | hueniverse
Node Forward
Node Conf
nodeschool.io
Oakland.js
Node Conf One-Shot
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Jan 23, 2015 • 1h
rkt, App Container Spec, CoreOS (Interview)
Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, joined the show to talk about their new open source product rkt, their App Container Spec, and CoreOS - the container only server OS focused on securing the internet.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Alex Polvi (@polvi) on Twitter
Changelog Weekly - Issue #32
CoreOS Calls Docker “Fundamentally Flawed,” Launches Its Own Container Runtime (TechCrunch)
CoreOS.com - Linux for Massive Server Deployments
Using docker with CoreOS
CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket
spec/SPEC.md at master · appc/spec
Quay.io New Features
Docker Blog: Initial Thoughts on the Rocket Announcement
The Changelog #89: Docker, LXC and dotCloud with Solomon Hykes
coreos/etcd
Programming Hero: John Gilmore’s home page
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Jan 16, 2015 • 1h 6min
Better GitHub Issues with HuBoard (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Ryan built about HuBoard - a project management solution for teams and organizations using GitHub. He gives us an inside look at how he created HuBoard, how he made the transition from free service to paid users, the technical challenges of getting set up to handle enterprise, and more.
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DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account
Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:How do you build a business on top of the Github API? What are the technical challenges of serving big enterprise with your SasS? What would you do if Github wanted to acquire your business? Ryan Rauh joins us today to answer these questions.
If you enjoyed this show, or if you’re a happy user of HuBoard, head over to our Ping repo and leave us some feedback! We appreciate you for listening.
rauhryan (Ryan Rauh)
Ryan Rauh (@rauhryan) | Twitter
HuBoard - GitHub issues made awesome.
rauhryan/huboard
Contributor License Agreement
HuBoard Enterprise
Crushpath :: It’s time for new business.
Charles Lowell (@cowboyd) | Twitter
GitHub Enterprise - The best way to build and ship software
Faye: Simple pub/sub messaging for the web
Ember.js - A framework for creating ambitious web applications.
The Changelog #131: The Road to Ember 2.0 with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz
Podcast recommendations from Ryan Rauh:
The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast
The Frontside Podcast
Ruby Rogues
Javascript Jabber
Herding Code Podcast
Ruby 5 Podcast
Ruby on Rails Podcast
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Jan 8, 2015 • 1h 1min
Phusion Passenger (aka Ruby Raptor) (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Hong Lai, one of the co-founders of Phusion. His company recently got a lot of attention for their upcoming version of Phusion Passenger, which they decided to call Ruby Raptor in a clever marketing play to get people excited about Passenger again. It worked, and we invited Hongli on the show to talk about Passenger/Ruby Raptor, the challenges of marketing open source, and how to get the internet excited about your next version.
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Featuring:Hongli Lai – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Hongli Lai
Follow Hongli on Twitter
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Phusion Passenger
phusion/passenger
Ruby Raptor - A radically new Ruby web server
Raptor Turbo Caching
Phusion Products
Introducing Phusion Passenger 5 beta 1, codename “Raptor” - Phusion Corporate BlogPhusion Corporate Blog
phusion/traveling-ruby
The Changelog #34: Mongrel2, guitar, and more with Zed Shaw
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Dec 20, 2014 • 1h
End of Year 2014 (Interview)
Adam and Jerod close out the year and give thanks to everyone who helps support The Changelog – community members, listeners, readers, sponsors, as well as our various partners. We also discuss top topics from 2014, Changelog Weekly and how we use Trello as a CMS, contributing to the topics we cover through our Ping repo on GitHub, and what’s to come in 2015.
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[Guest idea] Rob Eisenberg, keeper of DurandalJS, an OSS JS project · Issue #96 · thechangelog/ping
Lets talk about Perl! · Issue #87 · thechangelog/ping
Laravel: The PHP Framework for Web Artisans · Issue #31 · thechangelog/ping
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Dec 10, 2014 • 58min
Open Sourcing .NET Core (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with the members of the .NET Core team at Microsoft about Microsoft’s motivation for open sourcing the base class libraries of .NET, open source vs source open, the true goal of open sourcing .NET Core, and this new Microsoft we’ve been seeing.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Rich Lander on Twitter
Immo Landwerth on Twitter
Varun Gupta on Twitter
.NET Core is Open Source - .NET Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Introducing .NET Core - .NET Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Microsoft on GitHub
One Week of Open Source - .NET Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
.NET Foundation - Welcome to the .NET Foundation
.NET Foundation - .NET Foundation Projects
.NET Foundation Forums
A less terrible .NET project build with NuGet - You’ve Been Haacked
winjs/winjs
NuGet.org
.NET on The Changelog! · Issue #128 · dotnet/corefx
.NET Channel on Changelog
#76: .NET, NuGet, and open source with Phil Haack - The Changelog
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Dec 3, 2014 • 59min
All things Perl (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Curtis “Ovid” Poe about how he got started with Perl, what Perl is really good at, why he doesn’t expect everyone to love Perl, why Perl doesn’t get no respect, the difference between Perl 5 and Perl 6, and why the Perl community doesn’t like marketing.
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Featuring:Curtis Poe – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Curtis “Ovid” Poe - Twitter
Ovid - GitHub
Beginning Perl by Curtis Poe - Amazon.com
Larry Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lets talk about Perl! · Issue #87 · thechangelog/ping
Learn Perl - learn.perl.org
John Siracusa discusses Perl on Hypercritical | Philip Durbin [blogs.perl.org]
John Siracusa’s Perl Page
COBOL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Booking.com dev blog
Curtis Poe (Ovid) - Roles versus Inheritance - YouTube
Ovid/Role-Basic
Roles without Moose? | Ovid [blogs.perl.org]
Is Perl 6 pointless, hopeless or just not done? | David Golden
What is happening with Perl 6 and Larry Wall? : perl
Role::Tiny - search.cpan.org
Moose::Role - search.cpan.org
miyagawa/cpanminus
Catalyst | Perl MVC web application framework
Damian Conway - Perl Best Practices
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