The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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!

Wynn and Gregg Pollack did a special LIVE episode at Red Dirt Ruby Conf where they sat down with Charles Lowell to talk about embedding JavaScript engines in Ruby. 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: Gregg Pollack from Ruby5 co-hosted this episode! Red Dirt Ruby Conf - the awesome regional Ruby conference in OKC Charles Lowell from the FrontSide The Ruby Racer Embed the V8 Javascript Interpreter into Ruby The Ruby Rhino Embed the Mozilla Rhino Javascript interpreter into Ruby Mustache - logicless views from defunkt Mustache.js - Jan Lehnardt’s awesome port of Mustache Google V8 Google’s super fast JavaScript engine Glenn Vanderburg asks the question “Why send JSON over the wire and not HTML fragments” JSON templates Precursor to Mustache Underscore.js Also has some templating built into this utility JS framework Env.js A pure-JavaScript browser environment from John Resig Drunk and Retired Charles’ own podcast Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Aaron Quint, the brains behind Sammy.js, a neat JavaScript framework built on top on jQuery fashioned after Ruby’s 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: Texas Javascript Join us in Austin for this awesome JavaScript conference. Sammy.js JavaScript framework built on top on jQuery fashioned after Ruby’s Sinatra. Sammy’s routes really help organize your jQuery Sinatra A Ruby framework as classy as The Chairman himself. Sammy plugins Easily extend Sammy Mustache.js Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript from Jan, based on defunkt’s awesome Mustache project haml-js Port of Haml to JavaScript from Tim Caswell CouchDB document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript Couch apps Share your CouchDB codes Step control-flow the node.js way. Do simple async JavaScript library Makin’ Bacon Aaron’s slides from his JSConf talk Chris Williams JSConf organizer aka voodootikigod Chromium Google projects helping to superchare JavaScript LABjs aims to be an all-purpose, on-demand JavaScript loader, capable of loading any JavaScript resource, from any location, into any page, at any time. Fab a modular async web framework from Jed Schmidt for node.js Semantic versioning numbers and the way they change convey meaning about the underlying code and what has been modified from one version to the next. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

While in San Francisco for Chirp, Wynn caught up with Erik and John from 140Proof, Hayes Davis from CheapTweet, and Christie Koehler from Open Source Bridge about Twitter and open source development. 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: 140 Proof Ad platform for Twitter John Manoogian III and Erik Michaels-Ober from 140 Proof Racket Monitor your log files with auralization Merb admin Admin screens slice for Merb, upcoming for Rails 3 Hayes Davis Austin Rubyist and all around nice guy CheapTweet Find deals and coupons on Twitter TweetReach How far did that tweet travel? Grackle Lightweight Ruby Twitter API wrapper with a nice syntax Open Source Bridge Nice sized open source conference in Portland in June Christie Koehler from Open Source Bridge ShopIgniter PHP-based ecommerce platform built on CodeIgniter Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Felix Geisendörfer to talk about Node.js, server-side JavaScript, and JSConf 2010. 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: NodeJS “First server-side JavaScript implementation you’d actually like to use” Ryan Dahl Creator of Node.js C64 The official home computer of the 80s CakePHP CakePHP enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications. Ubuntu Upstart Daemonize your Node Google V8 Google’s open source JavaScript engine. ECMAScript International standardization of JavaScript family of languages WebSockets HTML5 protocol for two-way communication with a remote host Do from Tim Caswell simple async JavaScript library HowToNode.org Learn Node.js via an open blog featured on Episode 0.1.7 Kiwi Node.js package management system inspired by RubyGems Express.js High performance, high class web development for Node.js with a Ruby flavor Fab Rack-esque framework for Node.js CommonJS aims to fill gaps by defining APIs in a standard library as rich as those in Python, Ruby, and Java jspec BDD for JavaScript Transloadit Because uploads and video encoding sucks JSConf 2010 Arrrrrrr you going to THE JavaScript conference? node-dirty NoSQL for the little man berlinjs JavaScript user group in Berlin Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

While in OKC for OpenBeta4, Adam and Wynn sat down with James Edward Gray II and talked about his many Ruby gems, TextMate bundles, and his upcoming Ruby conference Red Dirt Ruby Conf this May. 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: RubyQuiz.com Challenge your Ruby fu, feel dumb, learn something, repeat. OpenBeta4 We were blown away by the startup community in OKC Red Dirt Ruby Conf Join us in OKC for this premier Ruby event FasterCSV De-facto CSV handling in Ruby, now built-in to 1.9 Ruby Kaigi Awesome Ruby conference in Japan TextMate James’ favorite text editor Ruby bundle for TextMate #textmate TextMate IRC channel #thechangelog Drop in and share your latest open source projects Rack Rack provides a minimal interface between webservers supporting Ruby and Ruby frameworks. Rails 3.0 Active Record query interface LA Ruby Conf Ruby conference in L.A. just wrapped in February 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. OK.rb Now meeting at OKCCoCo Irma’s Burger Shack Best place to grab a burger in OKC. Hey, they’re on the Twitter Glenn Vanderburg One of James’ Ruby heroes Oklahoma Mixer James’ full featured and robust FFI interface to Tokyo Cabinet Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

While at SXSW Interactive, Adam and Wynn got to attend the Data Cluster Meetup hosted by Rackspace and Infochimps. Things got a bit rowdy when the panel debated features of Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB and Amazon SimpleDB and started throwing dirt at everybody else’s favorite NoSQL databases. 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:The videos mentioned are dead to the internet, thanks to Blip.tv. The participants: Stu Hood from Cassandra Jan Lehnardt from CouchDB Wynn Netherland from The Changelog, subbing for MongoDB Werner Vogels CTO at Amazon Items mentioned in the discussion: Cassandra The Apache Cassandra Project brings together Dynamo’s fully distributed design and Bigtable’s ColumnFamily-based data model and powers some of the world’s largest sites. CouchDB Apache,CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. MongoDB Combining the best features of document databases, key-value stores, and RDBMSes. Amazon SimpleDB a highly available, scalable, and flexible non-relational data store that offloads the work of database administration. Dynamo Dynamo is a highly available, proprietary key-value structured storage system that powers parts of Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Persevere Persevere helps you rapidly develop data-driven JavaScript-based rich internet applications. Redis Redis is 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. Neo4j Neo4j is a graph database. It is an embedded, disk-based, fully transactional Java persistence engine that stores data structured in graphs rather than in tables. Special thanks to @jchris for the awesome CouchDB theme song! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!