The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Adam and Wynn caught up with Luigi Montanez and Jeremy Carbaugh from Sunlight Labs and discussed their Python and Ruby projects, government transparency, and civic hacking - open source contributions as activism. 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: Real Time Congress - iPhone app for keeping tabs on Congress, built with Appcelerator Titanium Anthill - Django-powered community website project that runs SunlightLabs.com MediaSync - Django Toolkit to simplify the static media development and deployment. Sunlight Labs API - Congressional data served up for your next mashup. Underscore.js - The tie for jQuery’s tux Open Government Initiative - Every .gov web site now has to outline their transparency efforts Apps for America - Build a mashup, win some $$$ Great American Hackathon - Meetup and hack to improve your government Open Government book from OReilly - Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice Tweet Congress - SXSW Web Award-winning congressional Twitter directory built on Sunlight Labs API Capitol Words - Amazing site and API analysis of what’s said on the floor of Congress Open Congress - Browse, read, discuss, and vote on legislation before Congress. Code for America - Connecting city governments and Web 2.0 talent. Some new gadget from Apple Chromium OS - Google’s new OS discussed on Episode 0.0.4 SauceBrush - an attempt to build a python ETL library that doesn’t suck Homebrew - Package management for Mac as discussed on Episode 0.1.2 Transparency Camp - THE unconference for government representatives, technologists, journalists, developers, NGOs, wonks and activists Los Angeles Ruby Conf - See Luigi and others speak Ruby in beautiful downtown Burbank Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn continued chatting with John Nunemaker about recent featured projects on the blog — including Gordon, Showoff, jQuery Lint, JSpec, congomongo and more. 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: Friendly NoSQL in MySQL configliere - Simple Ruby configuration twitter-node - Node.js tweetstreaming Gordon - Pure JavaScript Flash replacement jQuery Lint - jQuery validator Showoff - Keynote killer? congomongo clojure <3 MongoDB Computer science in Javascript - JS as a teaching aide phpMoAdmin Mo’ admin for the money Momma’s got a FuseBox - and Daddy doesn’t sleep at night AppSalesGraph - measure your App store sales things-rb call Things.app from Ruby JSpec Get your Bee Dee Dee on in JavaScript FoursquareX Foursquare client for OS X Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

John Nunemaker joined the show to talk about open source, improving your craft, building a business, and how MongoDB has changed his life. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:John Nunemaker – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: John Nunemaker Ordered List John’s Ruby projects The Twitter gem, HTTParty, Crack, MongoMapper MongoHQ, shared MongoDB hosting The GitHub Fork Queue Harmony, the new CMS from Ordered List Moonshine Puppet Navvy Liquid Markup from Tobias Lütke of Shopify Redis Resque Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chris Wanstrath joined the show to talk about the past, present, and future of GitHub. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Chris Wanstrath – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Chris Wanstrath GitHub Git Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Marshall Culpepper Appcelerator is back and we go through the news together. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: Fix me repo Persistence jQuery.behavior Configliere Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Marshall Culpepper joined the show to talk about Appcelerator’s Titanium Desktop and Titanium Mobile. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: Marshall Culpepper Appcelerator Titanium Desktop Titanium Mobile Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mike Dirolf joined the show to talk about how MongoDB came about, design decisions, and the future of this cool NoSQL server. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: Mike Dirolf 10gen MongoDB Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Friend of the show, Steven Bristol from LessEverything join us to discuss the latest in open source. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: Steven Bristol LessEverything Erlang Javascript on the server Lighthouse Docsplit Rackamole whackamole Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jeremy Ashkenas is the Lead Developer at DocumentCloud about their effort to revolutionize the way media organizations gather news. Jeremy discusses their open source projects CloudCrowd, Underscore.js, and JAMMIT that they’ve released along the way. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Jeremy Ashkenas – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes:We’re getting the hang of this. We’re pioneering Agile Podcasting! Jeremy Ashkenas DocumentCloud CloudCrowd Underscore.js JAMMIT Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In this show we’re still trying to find our footing with this podcast stuff. Seriously, we get better at this. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: Google Chrome OS HandBrake 0.9.4 CocoUI Rails 2.3.5 Restler Node.js Riot Thor-Git WebROaR Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!