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 – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow 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 – GitHub, XShow 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!

Adam and Kenneth caught up with Robby Russell to talk about his community-driven zsh project. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Robby Russell – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XKenneth Reitz – GitHub, XShow Notes: oh-my-zsh A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. Robby Russell is Chief Evangelist at Planet Argon Derek Sivers from CD Baby Robby weighs in on the bash vs. zsh debate Bash vs Zsh debate? Google returns 175k results on the subject Themes are a big selling point for oh-my-zsh Kenneth love is right side prompt Adam loves hub oh-my-zsh is currently the eighth most forked project on GitHub. Follow @ohmyzsh on Twitter for updates Adam likes the update message. Robby tries to keep the pull requests under 100. Robby is looking for a few volunteers to help with pull requests and issue management Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn sat down with Wesley Beary from Engine Yard to talk about the Fog project and the Cloud, live from Red Dirt Ruby Conf. 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: Wesley Beary aka @geemus The Fog project is the Ruby cloud services library By coincidence this interview was recorded the day the cloud went down Fog supports almost twenty providers for Storage, DNS, Compute, CDN Dr. Nic made us laugh on Episode 0.5.0 Engine Yard pays Wesley to hack on Fog. AppCloud is a Ruby Platform as a Service from Engine Yard. You have to commit to the project to earn a slick Fog tee Excon grew out of Fog’s need for EXtended http(s) CONnections Wesley is dubious of ‘compliant APIs’ OpenStack is backed by Rackspace and Nasa Wesley likes to play with Riak Red Dirt Ruby Conference videos will be released on May 22 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn sat down with Nick Quaranto at Red Dirt Ruby Conference to talk about Gemcutter, RubyGems.org, and how to get started creating your own Ruby gem. 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: Nick Quaranto, creator of Gemcutter which is now RubyGems.org Gemcutter is the Ruby community’s gem hosting service. Tom Preston-Warner, founder of GitHub RubyForge was the original spot to host your Ruby project. Peter Cooper, publisher of Ruby Inside and co-host of the Ruby Show. A gemspec is a manifest for a Ruby gem. Since a gemspec is saved as YAML, you can embed Ruby in it. Bundler manages a Ruby application’s dependencies through its entire life across many machines systematically and repeatably. Bundler 1.1 aims to speed up how gems are fetched. Jeweler and Hoe help you create, package, and release gems. Ryan Tomayko from GitHub tells us why “require ‘rubygems’” is wrong GitHub is no longer in the Gem building business. Erik Michaels-Ober uses the gem post install message to share resources with users. When not squashing Gemcutter bugs or applying patches, Nick likes to play with Redis and EventMachine. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Glyph Lefkowitz from Twisted to talk about the project and evented programming in Python. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – GitHub, XKenneth Reitz – GitHub, XShow Notes: Glyph Lefkowitz is creator of Twisted. Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. Twisted has its origin in the game Divmod Imaginary. Glyph says Twisted programming is easier than programming with gevent and eventlet. Twisted.web is the most popular package, but Twisted supports a wide range of other protocols in addtion to HTTP including NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, FTP, and others. Twisted even supports IO Completion Ports on Windows. Twisted’s non-blocking approach makes it great for GUI programming via GTK+, wxPython, and more, even Pygame. Glyph expands on his blog post drawing distinctions between Tornado and Twisted. Benchmark nerds should check out speed.twistedmatrix.com. Dustin Sallings ported Tornado to Twisted’s low-level networking stack and eliminated over 1,200 lines of code. Twisted success stories include LucasFilm, HipChat, TweetDeck, Justin.tv, and more. Twisted also powers OpenStack, used by Nasa to run its cloud. Glyph is proud of his rock star sister Sara. Twisted tracks high scores for community involvement in 8-bit beauty. Free Changelog stickers for the first person to @reply us with Glyph’s real name. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Mike Hostetler and Scott González from AppendTo to talk about Amplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Microsoft, the web, and open source. 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: AppendTo offers training and consulting for jQuery. Amplify.js is a set of components designed to solve common web application problems with a simplistic API. Mike Hostetler is CEO at AppendTo. Scott González works on jQuery UI. amplify.request makes building JavaScript API wrapper easier, providing hooks for mocking transport and payload transformation. amplify.store is a wrapper for various persistent client-side storage systems and provides advanced features such as cache expiration. Amplify’s PubSub system provides offers advanced options for handling custom events including priority. The AppendTo guys weigh in on the all-in-one vs. best-of-breed JavaScript framework debate. Wynn asks how Microsoft’s adoption of jQuery has led to its adoption. DamianEdwards worked to get jQuery UI packages for Nuget. Rails now includes CoffeeScript by default. Wynn loves cake. CommonJS aims to create a standard library for JavaScript. Keep an eye out for AppendTo’s new Learn site, a JavaScript 101 course for newcomers. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn sat down with three Vim users and experts to talk about tips and tricks for using and pimping the popular text editor. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Drew Neil – Website, GitHub, XYehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, XTim Pope – GitHub, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Vim seeks to provide the power of Unix’s Vi Drew Neil hosts VimCasts Tim Pope has created numerout Vim plugins Yehuda Katz from SproutCore, Rails, and jQuery fame. Dr. Nic says Vim is cutting edge 1960s tech. Janus Yehuda and Carl’s MacVim bundle Everyone that tried to convince Yehuda to try Vim were wrong. Vim is a modal interface Wynn laments that TextMate 2 is the new Duke Nukem NerdTree is a text-based treeview inside your vim Tim uses his vibrantink mod called vividchalk Yehuda wants to give Solarized Vim is cutting edge 1960s tech. Yehuda like visual block mode MacVim lets you use ?-S. Wynn asks how the world would be different if DHH had used Vim instead of TextMate for his famous Rails screencast. Tim likes CTRL-X, CTRL-E to bind an editor to the command line. Yehuda says you should be using ruby -e instead of grep Drew loves CTRL-R, CTRL-W in Vim. “Matz is (under)rated.” Tim says we owe so much to Linus for Linux and Git. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Ilya Grigorik, Founder and CTO of PostRank to talk about Goliath, async Ruby web development, and Google’s SPDY. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Ilya Grigorik – Website, GitHub, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Look for Steve Klabnik at CodeConf. Ilya Grigorik founder and CTO of PostRank. PostRank taps into intelligence from the social web. igvita.com is Ilya’s awesome Ruby, performance, and big data blog. Goliath Goliath is an open source version of the non-blocking (asynchronous) Ruby web server framework powering PostRank. Thin glues together Mongrel parser, Event Machine, and Rack. Evidently we’ve discussed Node.js “at length” on this show. Goliath hides much of the complexity of its asynchronous architecture from the developer Goliath was designed for and has been benchmarked on MRI, JRuby and Rubinius PostRank heavily employs AMQP The PostRank APIs allow you to create applications that interact with the subscription management component of the PostRank website, as well as, create and retrieve story ratings and customized RSS feeds for your users. The Top Posts Widget lets you showcase the most important articles on your site, encouraging viewers to click on more articles and read what matters. A GitHub account and a blog are key differentiators for developers looking to get hired at PostRank. Ilya says “presentation is 50% of the actual deliverable”. Great READMEs are important. Ilya looks up to Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal and Memcached fame. Ilya’s blog tagline: “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Anybody still using GTD? Ilya isn’t beholden to any one editor but loves both Vim and TextMate. SPDY: (pronounced “SPeeDY”) An experimental protocol for a faster web. The usual HTTP GET and POST message formats remain the same; however, SPDY specifies a new framing format for encoding and transmitting the data over the wire. If you’re using Chrome, you may be using SPDY and not even know it. mod_spdy is an experimental proof-of-concept SPDY Apache module. ØMQ zeromq: socket library that acts as a concurrency framework as discussed on Episode 0.3.4. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!