The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Micheil and Wynn caught up with Gerad and Visnu from the Node Knockout to talk about the 48 hour Node.js development competition and its entries. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: Lone Star Ruby Conference - Texas’ regional Ruby conference in Austin Mike Perham - The awesome Rubyist whose name gives Wynn fits Node Knockout - The 48 hour Node.js coding competition Rails Rumble - Ruby’s own 48 hour coding bash Gerad - of Gerad & Visnu, the “data-y” and “product-y” guy Visnu - the “developer-y” and “designer-y” guy Fortnight Labs - the proper name for Gerad & Visnu, Inc. List of great Node Knockout Judges Joyent & Heroku are great places to host your Node.js apps. Express High performance, high class web development for Node.js Connect - high performance middleware framework for node featuring robust middleware for serving static files, advanced routing, cookie and session implementations, error handling and much more. npm is a package manager for node. You can use it to install and publish your node programs. It manages dependencies and does other cool stuff. Node Inspector is a web inspector based Node.js debugger Socket.io - Websockets toolkit covered in 0.3.1 and used in so many contest entries Go vote for your favorite entries! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Nathan Smith from 960 Grid System to talk about web development and CSS grid frameworks. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Nathan Smith – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: 960 Grid System - Nathan’s awesome CSS grid framework 960’s awesome templates help you plan your layouts Wynn’s new monitor setup is just plain obscene 960’s fluid support from Stephen Bau Episode 0.2.8 where John Resig talks about mobile web dev Episode 18 of the yayQuery podcast Wynn asks why Google’s AJAX API library doesn’t include the CSS frameworks Nathan and Wynn are fans of Jason Santa Maria’s layout-per-post blog For the non-soccer fans, a little background for Nathan’s midfielder analogy. We don’t need to link to Sass do we? Taco Town from SNL jQuery Cookbook, to which Nathan contributed lucky Chapter 13 Nathan is a big Drupal fan Rebecca Murphey organizer of the awesome TXJS conference Textile vs. Markdown Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn and Micheil sat down with Peter Griess from Yahoo Mail, Martyn Loughran from Pusher App, and Guillermo Rauch from Socket.IO to talk about Websockets. 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: WebSocket is a technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels, over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket, designed to be implemented in web browsers and web servers. Socket.IO provides a really simple API to leverage Sockets on the client side. Socket.IO Node.JS server - sockets for the rest of us (in Node.js) Pusher App Hosted HTML5 web sockets service Websocket-js A Flash fallback for browsers that do not support Websockets Long polling Traditional approach to emulating push for web apps HAProxy reliable, high performance TCP/HTTP load balancer True Story A collaborative planning tool for agile teams HTML5 Event Source A one-way websocket with limited browser support Node Websocket Server Micheil’s websocket server written in low-level node.js, should be 90-100% spec compatible. Hummingbird demo - a real time traffic visualizer MongoDB Awesome NoSQL database featured on Episode 0.0.7 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. EM-Websocket EventMachine based WebSocket server from Ilya Grigorik Node.js YUI3 bindings YUI3 on the server?! Telehash - a new wire protocol from Jeremie Miller, the guy behind XMPP, for exchanging JSON in a real-time and fully decentralized manner, enabling applications to connect directly and participate as servers on the edge of the network. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with David Kaneda to talk about mobile web app development with Sencha Touch. 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: Sencha Touch - HTML5 mobile application framework WebKitBits - David’s Tumblr for the latest in WebKit news and tips jQTouch - jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices. Sass - Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets for your CSS, featured in Episode 0.0.1 Outpost Basecamp in your pocket iUI - Perhaps the original JavaScript toolkit for creating iPhone web apps PPK - Web standards and browser guru. Compass - Turbocharges your Sass Sencha demos including GeoCongress which leverages the Sunlight Labs APIs featured in Episode 0.1.3 YQL - SELECT * FROM Interwebs Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn and special guest host Micheil Smith sat down with Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud to chat about CoffeeScript, a cool language that compiles to JavaScript. 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: CoffeeScript - a cool language that compiles to JavaScript. DocumentCloud - an index of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web. Haskell - an advanced purely functional programming language Everything in CoffeeScript is an expression Switch statements in CoffeeScript compile to if/else chains CoffeeScript has powerful comprehensions for Arrays, Objects, and Ranges Existential operator should look familiar to Rubyists Splats make JavaScript arguments even easier ECMAScript 5.0 - the latest JavaScript standard ECMAScript Harmony CoffeeScript’s String Interpolation CoffeeScript’s Class/inheritance features Function binding - as President Clinton said “It depends on what your definition of ‘this’ is…” ;-) Jeremy loves working with <canvas> to create Buddhabrot Fractals Node.js finds its way into every episode! NPM is the new standard for Node Package Management JSLint cleans up your JavaScripts. Jade gives your JavaScript Haml envy from TJ Holowaychuk Lincoln Shire Poacher - RaphaelJS graphics from Chris Lloyd Underscore.js - featured in Episode 0.0.5 Comet @CoffeeScript - Unofficial Twitter account Join us in #coffeescript on Freenode Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with John Resig at TXJS and talked about mobile web development with jQuery and TestSwarm, a continuous integration project from Mozilla Labs. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: TestSwarm - Distributed continuous integration testing for JavaScript. Pro JavaScript Techniques John’s JavaScript book Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja John’s upcoming book of trade secrets WebKit - The rendering engine behind Safari, Chrome, and a growing number of mobile browsers PhoneGap - Bridges the gap between the web and native functions on the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry Fennec Firefox for mobile devices Opera Dragonfly - cross device, cross platform debugging environment for the Opera browser-debug JavaScript, inspect and edit CSS and the DOM jQTouch - jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch iUI - create WebApps with an iPhone-like Look and Feel from Firebug creator Joe Hewitt TouchScroll JavaScript- and CSS?3-based scroller for devices using Webkit Touch (yes, that includes Android). It is meant to mimic “native” scrolling feeling and behavior as much as possible. Mustache.js - Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Arthur Chiu and Nathan Esquenazi from Padrino, the Ruby web framework built on top of Sinatra. 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: Padrino - über modular web framework built on top Sinatra #padrino - Padrino’s IRC channel @ irc.freenode.net Ramaze - “Web framework for Rubyists” Mountable apps in Padrino Rack provides a minimal interface between webservers supporting Ruby and Ruby frameworks. CodeRack - Rack middleware directory OmniAuth - flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware. padrino-recipes Examples of forthcoming Padrino plugins based on Thor Sammy.js - Sinatra-inspired javascript framework built on top of jQuery. It’s RESTful Evented JavaScript. Featured in Episode 0.2.2 NestaCMS lightweight Content Management System from Graham Ashton, suitable for running small web sites or blogs. Nesta is written in Ruby using the Sinatra web framework. Presto Wynn’s shameless port of Nesta to Padrino powering his own site Express - Sinatra-inspired high performance, high class web development for Node.js Bowline Create desktop applications with HTML+CSS MongoDB Powerfully simple NoSQL database, supported in Padrino via Mongoid or Mongomapper Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

While at TXJS — Adam and Wynn caught up with Douglas Crockford, author of both JavaScript: The Good Parts and the JSON spec, and a global namespace unto himself. 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: JSON - (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format, easy for humans to read and write. The JSON Saga - how JSON came about JSON.parse, JSON.stringify - Parse and and generate JSON in a standard way YAML - YAML Ain’t Markup Language Douglas says we should scrap HTML5 and start over and address XSS instead ECMAScript 5 - Version 5 of the international JavaScript standard JSONP - Current hack to do XSS with JSON The JSON logo Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Dmitry Baranovskiy to talk about his project RaphaëlJS, running an open source project, and why living in Australia is better than living anywhere else in the world. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: RaphaëlJS Dmitry’s JavaScript vector graphics library gRaphaël Charting library built on top of Raphaël TXJS — var TXJS = JS + BBQ + you; Dmitry Baranovskiy’s homepage SVG XML vocabulary for describing two-dimensional graphics. VML Microsoft-backed alternative to SVG Ext JS RIA JavaScript platform Raphael demos Wow! Node.js Lightning fast server-side JavaScript on top of Google V8 Ryan Dahl Creator of Node.js Mustache.js Logic-less views in JS, based on Mustache from defunkt Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with David Recordon and other Facebook developers to talk about their wide range of open source projects including Tornado, Hip-Hop, and Three20 as well as OpenGraph and OAuth 2.0. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: David Recordon Open Source developer at Facebook, co-creator of OAuth Paul Bucheit Co-founder of FriendFeed, creator of Gmail Haiping Zhao Creator of Hip-Hop at Facebook Scott MacVicar Developer on Hip-hop at Facebook Owen Yamauchi - Three20 developer at facebook Joe Hewitt Original Three20 developer, creator of Firebug Tornado - Non-blocking web server built in Python epoll - the Linux magic at the heart of Tornado EventMachine Ruby approach to evented, asynchronous web Node.js - You do listen to this show, right? Hip-hop PHP - Pre-compile your PHP into lightning fast C++ Three20 - iPhone framework extracted from Facebook’s iPhone app iPhone OS 4.0 Next version of Apple’s mobile operating system OpenGraph Enables web sites to become rich objects in social graphs OAuth2 New simpler mobile and desktop-friendly version of everybody’s favorite authentication method f8 Facebook’s developer conference Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!