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May 20, 2014 • 1h 13min
Rails Girls Summer of Code and Travis Foundation (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk to Anika Lindtner and Floor Drees about Rails Girls Summer of Code, Travis Foundation, fundraising, supporting open source through grants, and ways the community is showing their support of diversity in tech.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Anika Lindtner (langziehohr) on Twitter
Floor Drees (FloorDrees) on Twitter
Floor “How I feel about being ‘on’ The Changelog later today…” and here’s the original tweet
Rails Girls
Rails Girls Summer of Code
Rails Girls SoC (RailsGirlsSoC) on Twitter
The Travis CI Blog: Travis CI and Rails Girls Summer of Code
Travis Foundation
Travis Foundation - Grants
Anynines · 100% European PaaS - Platform as a service hosting for developers
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May 8, 2014 • 57min
Google's Dart Programming Language (Interview)
Adam and Andrew talk with Lars Bak and Seth Ladd from Google about Dart, a new language and platform started by Google for scalable web app engineering.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAndrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Lars Bak (computer programmer)
Seth Ladd
Dart: Structured web apps for scalable web app engineering
#dartlang · Issue #30 · thechangelog/ping
Who Uses Dart?
Dart - Pub Package Manager
Try Dart - Getting Started
Seth’s hero is Neil deGrasse Tyson and Astrophysicist and host of Star Talk
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

May 2, 2014 • 1h 11min
Ruby Tooling, chruby, ruby-install, Security (Interview)
Adam and Andrew talked to Postmodern about his open source projects chruby, ruby-install, chgems, ronin, and more.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAndrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Postmodern on Twitter - @postmodern_mod3
postmodern/chruby
postmodern/ruby-install
postmodern/chgems
You (yes, you!) should contribute to open source - The Changelog
Ronin
The Elegant Ruby Web Framework - Padrino Ruby Web Framework
The “Postmodern” Ruby environment · Yousef Ourabi
Moving From Rbenv to Chruby and Direnv - Linh M. Tran
BashFAQ - Greg’s Wiki
shunit2 - shUnit2 - xUnit based unit testing for Unix shell scripts - Google Project Hosting
ruby-install/test at master · postmodern/ruby-install
A generic Makefile for building/signing/install bash scripts
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 25, 2014 • 48min
MEAN.js & Full-Stack JavaScript (Interview)
Andrew talks with the fellas behind MEAN.js, Amos Haviv and Roie Cohen. MEAN.js is a full-stack JavaScript solution using MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.
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Harry's – Quality men’s shaving products - get $5 off your purchase with discount code CHANGELOG
Featuring:Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
MEAN.JS - a full-stack JavaScript solution that helps you build fast, robust, and maintainable production web applications using MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js. MEAN.JS will help you getting started and avoid useless grunt work and common pitfalls, while keeping your application organized.
GitHub profile of Roie Cohen - co-founder of meanjs.org
GitHub profile of Amos Haviv
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 18, 2014 • 1h 13min
The Sass Way and Open Publishing (Interview)
Adam and John talk about Sass, The Sass Way, Middleman, and open publishing on GitHub.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
The Sass Way
Here’s your chance to become a contributor to The Sass Way!
Get your very own “The Sass Way” sticker for free! Tweet @TheSassWay for details.
#52: Serve, RadiantCMS, Prototyping, and Design with John Long - The Changelog
@SassWatch: I’ve joined forces with The Sass Way
#17: Open Source publishing with Geoffrey Grosenbach, Brandon Mathis, and Tim Caswell - The Changelog
Dribbble - The Sass Way Logo by John W. Long
Dribbble - SassWatch Sighting! by John W. Long
Middleman: Hand-crafted frontend development
Ruby CMS - Nesta
Serve - Delicious ERB, Haml + Sass
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 16, 2014 • 1h 11min
Go, Martini, Gophercasts (Interview)
Jeremy Saenz joined the show to talk about Go, Martini, Gophercasts, and more.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Jeremy Saenz (codegangsta) on Twitter
codegangsta (Jeremy Saenz)
#18: NoSQL Smackdown! (Hear Chris sing the CouchDB theme song)
The Go Programming Language
Announcing Martini: Classy Web Development in Go - Code Gangsta
Martini - Classy web development in Go.
codegangsta/martini-contrib
codegangsta/envy
GopherCasts
On Go’s Web Application Ecosystem - The Changelog
Go ahead, have an Angular Martini - The Changelog
Flex Gangsta | Who Broke the Build?!
Go Advent Day 11 - Build a Christmas List with Martini - The Gopher Academy Blog
The Revel Web Framework for Go
dl.google.com now served by Go - Google Groups
Rob Pike
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jan 11, 2014 • 1h 5min
Node Black Friday at Walmart (Interview)
Eran Hammer joined the show to talk about Node.js and Black Friday at Walmart.
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Show Notes:
Eran Hammer (eranhammer) on Twitter
Twitter / Search - #nodebf
spumko/hapi
Billion Dollar Question - Palo Alto - Developer Center - Joyent
Node.js at Walmart: Going to production, debugging, monitoring - Developer Center - Joyent
Twitter / eranhammer: 100% of Walmart US mobile traffic …
Walmart Node.js Memory Leak - Blog - Joyent
Walmart Node.js Memory Leak Part I - Developer Center - Joyent
Walmart Node.js Memory Leak Part II - Developer Center - Joyent
Walmart Node.js Memory Leak Part III - Developer Center - Joyent
Node Summit 2013 Bedtime Story - Blog - Joyent
Realtime Conference, the Imagination Platform « hueniverse
#fuckoauth @realtimeconf « hueniverse
Roberta Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Dec 20, 2013 • 43min
Flynn Updates (Interview)
Andrew talks with Jonathan Rudenberg and Jeff Lindsay about their hard work and updates on Flynn, their open source PaaS.
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Featuring:Jonathan Rudenberg – Website, GitHub, XJeff Lindsay – GitHub, XAndrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Flynn - Open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) powered by Docker
flynn/flynn-spec
Jonathan Rudenberg (titanous) on Twitter
Jeff Lindsay (progrium) on Twitter
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Dec 11, 2013 • 54min
RethinkDB (Interview)
Slava Akhmechet, co-founder and CEO of RethinkDB, joined the show to talk with Andrew about RethinkDB - the open-source database for the realtime web.
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Featuring:Slava Akhmechet – Website, GitHub, XAndrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Slava Akhmechet (sakhmechet) on Twitter
RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love
rethinkdb/rethinkdb on GitHub
John D. Carmack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Nov 26, 2013 • 58min
Keep npm Running (Interview)
Isaac Schlueter and Charlie Robbins joined the show to talk about the “crashyness” of npm recently and the community fundraiser they are starting to ask the community to support npm and to keep it running. Isaac is the creator of npm and a maintainer of Node.js. Charlie is the co-founder and CEO of Nodejitsu.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
You are npm. Keep it running. Keep it awesome.
npm (npmjs) on Twitter
Charlie Robbins (indexzero) on Twitter
I Zimmitti S (izs) on Twitter
#101: npm origins and Node.js with Isaac Schlueter - The Changelog
Nodejitsu Open Source Hosting
Go Enterprise with node.js and npm | Nodejitsu Inc.
Nodejitsu | CrunchBase Profile
Billion Dollar Question - Palo Alto - Developer Center - Joyent
@svenlito: “As a Developer I want super fast npm” - Everyone, always.
Trent Mick (trentmick) on Twitter
trentm/node-dashdash
#99: Flynn, Tent, open source PaaSes and more with Jeff Lindsay and Jonathan Rudenberg - The Changelog
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!