The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Adam and Wynn caught up with Paul Irish of Google’s Chrome developer relations team to talk about HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, polyfills, 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: Paul Irish - Chrome dev relations guy at Google. Dion Almaer - Host of Function Source, all around JavaScript, frontend expert. “HTML5 is a jewel that we need to cut into a weapon” - Dion /via Yehuda Katz Adam is in love with GitHub’s new editor powered by Cloud 9 HTML5 Boilerplate contains a set of best practices to use as a starting point for new projects or pick what you need a la cart. Boilerplate now includes Normalize.css, a customisable CSS file that makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards. Normalize is a collaboration between Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites, from Faruk Ate?, Paul, and Alex Sexton. rack-modernizr from Marshall Yount brings Modernizr to the server Paul coined the term FOUT - Flash Of Unstyled Text. HTML5 polyfills implant html5 functionality in browsers that don’t natively support them. Paul makes micro microapps for CSS3, text shadows, and HSL picking. Paul is a fan of Chris Coyer of CSS Tricks Need an idea for a weekend project, check out Paul’s Lazy Web Requests Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Steve and Wynn caught up with Wayne Seguin to talk about his Ruby enVironment Manager and BDSM shell scripting framework projects. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – GitHub, XSteve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Look us up at LSRC V next week. Madison Ruby Conference August 19-20, 2011 in Madison, WI. Wayne Seguin, developer at EngineYard, creator of RVM and BDSM. RVM is a command line tool which allows us to easily install, manage and work with multiple ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems. BDSM aims to create a framework for maintaining and sharing server side scripts while exposing them through a consistent command line interface (CLI). Dr. Nic Williams, Wayne’s boss was on Episode 0.5.0 Peter Cooper helped get the word out about RVM. Michal Papis has been giving Wayne a hand with RVM and BDSM. Ryan McGeary says “Vendor Everything” while Wayne says he vendors nothing and uses rvm gemsets in most cases. Bundler now plays nice with RVM. Using BDSM, you can create consistent service interfaces for everything in your stack. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Erik and Max, Fellows at Code for America to talk about civic-focused development and open source. 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: Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow - Deadline is July 31 LSRC V is just around the corner Follow @TheSassWay for your Sass news Code for America enlists the talent of the web industry into public service to use their skills to solve core problems facing our communities. Erik Michaels-Ober is a Rubyist and Fellow at Code for America Max Ogden is also a Rubyist and Fellow at Code for America Erik is using (and improving) the LinkedIn Ruby gem Max loves Underscore.js from Jeremy Ashkenas Max’s GitHub page tells recruiters to get lost. Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org aims to make government information more accessible. The Sunlight Foundation, featured on Episode 0.1.3 Code For America’s GitHub page features 120 projects. Rails Admin is Erik’s Rails 3 engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data Erik and Wynn met through John Nunemaker’s Twitter Gem Faraday is Rick Olson’s slick Rack-like HTTP client library. Mislav Marohni? helps maintain Faraday Want to create your own programming language like Jeremy Ashekenas? Read this book! Max is a fan of Request from Mikeal Rogers Erik is a fan of Sam Stephenson, featured in Episode 0.6.4 Brian Ford, Evan Phoenix, make Rubinius rock. Steve Richert aka @LaserLemon helps out with the Twitter gem. Best username evar. TextMate users: be nice to your Vim friends. The opportunity for Civic Startups Fight for the User Literary Machines is a thirty year old book from Ted Nelson. Open211.org - The Redirectory Project is a free and open directory of social services and resources that anyone can contribute to. Test your Ruby projects against multiple Rubies with Travis Gemcutter powers RubyGems.org Substance.io is an HTML5-based document editor from Michael Aufreiter Be sure and follow Substack on GitHub. Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow - Deadline is July 31 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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!