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MDE working on Windmill Flash
Robert was a space case and missed last week. He and his wife got a new dog, and he’s been busy working on his book.
Adam still in Russia
MS can’t sell Word anymore
RealNetworks’ RealDVD barred from market
Facebook buys Friendfeed
VMWare buys SpringSource
Working from home, better
Palm Pre privacy problems
MemcacheDB, Tokyo Tyrant, Redis performance test
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Back from a month long hiatus.
Adam is on his way to Russia.
Pro Git book freely available
Improving perceived performance
Computing with Web Workers
Drag and Drop from Desktop to Web Application
ChromeOS roundup
Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple board
Google reveals plans for Chrome cloud synchronization
What is your editor of choice?
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Mikeal disses us by not showing up, Adam has some thoughts, Robert grows cranky as he approaches middle age, and Matt (hearts) Bing. Special K tries to come up with nicknames for everyone else but fails, and edits out references to the Simpsons’ Krabapple in a fit of ennui. Seriously.
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After a few weeks of chaos, most of the gang is back in full force, catching up on what’s been going on on the conference scene, and we get diverted in to many philosophical tangents (what’s new?)
Conferences
Couple of audio glitches in this hour-long episode - skype kept dropping people. :/
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Lot’s of moving, mikeal and mde.
Kimsal in .eu
Robert has been doing gardening and billing. Will be going to JavaOne, and is organizing Groovy/Grails Tweetup: start at SpringSource booth Monday at 6:30 PM, follow #gr8beer for more. Going to be giving out GroovyMag and JSMag samplers at select points. The rest of his schedule.
Adam’s head in the CLOUD.
Digg shows Multipart XMLHttpRequest prototype
Chris Anderson talks about Toast, realtime chat CouchDB App
Scala not a functional language?
Reports of Android’s death are greatly exaggerated?
ECMAScript 5 Objects and Properties
ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode, JSON, and More
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Mikeal loves tree style tabs
Alex on Chrome Security model *
Another defection to the git camp
Buffett doesn’t want anything to do with it
Mozilla is trying to make the web browser into an OS
Rails 3 stuff
http://railsconf.blip.tv/file/2081411
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/301952/rails_3_add_security_enhancement
* this is the one Mikeal had no opinion on.
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Note that this episode is also a partial recording of episode 11 at the beginning.
Kimsal at jsconf
* hg-git plugin http://hg-git.github.com/
* Jacob Kaplan-Moss on REST http://jacobian.org/writing/rest-worst-practices/
http://ajaxian.com/archives/960-gridder-easy-to-use-layout-design-tool
http://gridder.andreehansson.se/
http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2009/04/28/how-to-be-edgy/
http://damienkatz.net/2009/04/pr0n_on_the_couch.html
http://dyepot-teapot.com/2009/04/25/dear-fellow-rubyists/
http://www.chesnok.com/daily/2009/04/27/what-works-getting-more-women-involved-in-open-source/
http://dyepot-teapot.com/2009/04/26/so-now-what/
http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/39-im-an-r-rated-individual
http://afreshcup.com/2009/04/28/a-painful-decision/
Other
http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10231467-12.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
Seriously: http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/30/203225
http://paularmstrongdesigns.com/weblog/basejs-a-mobile-javascript-framework
Beaten to death? http://bitworking.org/news/Why_so_many_Python_web_frameworks
This content is pre pended to the Episode 12 audio.
Clint Talbert and Sam Minnee guesting.
Google Releases O3D
* Announcement http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/
* Alex Russell loves it http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/2009/04/an-now-for-something-entireoooh-shiny/
* Chris Blizzard on the differences between O3D and the open 3D work being done in Firefox http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=1223
Persevere
http://godark.us/tu103958
Sun Aquired by Oracle
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/oracle-acquires-sun-ars-explores-the-impact-on-open-source.ars
Mark Pilgrim “Fuck the Foundries”
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/04/21/fuck-the-foundries
FireDiff
http://ajaxian.com/archives/firediff-firebug-extension-to-track-changes-to-dom-and-css
Volume Controls in Safari
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10226032-2.html
RIP Geocities
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/23/2339224
VMWare offers Buzzword
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16402
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rev=canonical debate
http://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/11/revcanonical/
http://shiflett.org/blog/2009/apr/a-rev-canonical-http-header
http://annevankesteren.nl/2009/04/rev-canonical
http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/04/14/Canonical-Reverse-Or-Wisdom-Defying-Shorturl
http://www.mnot.net/blog/2009/04/14/rev_canonical_bad
http://decafbad.com/blog/2009/04/13/i-like-revcanonical
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-November/017292.html
Firebug trying to define portable HTTP log format
http://groups.google.com/group/firebug-working-group/web/http-tracing—export-format
Buddypress fixes poor design
(or, mgkimsal rants way too long about buddypress and wpmu innards)
http://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/1265
Non-web - Britain’s Got Talent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY
Atul releases BrowserCouch
http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=580
GitHub gits an issue tracker
http://github.com/blog/411-github-issue-tracker
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Mikeal and Adam @ PyCon
jsmag issue 2
JRuby on Rails on Google App Engine
http://olabini.com/blog/2009/04/jruby-on-rails-on-google-app-engine/
JavaScript on Rhino on Google App Engine
http://dev.helma.org/ng/Running+Rhino+and+Helma+NG+on+Google+App+Engine/
Choose your hell: tables or divs
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/08/from-table-hell-to-div-hell/
Text overflow goodness
http://ajaxian.com/archives/text-overflow-for-firefox-via-jquery
Chinese Social Networks out earn US Social Networks
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/05/chinese-social-networks-virtually-out-earn-facebook-and-myspace-a-market-analysis/
Bespin Adds iPhone Simulation
http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/04/bespin-community-update-outline-view-iphone-preview-python-support-and-defragging/
Digg Gets and URL shortener
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/04/02/diggHasAUrlshortener.html
http://apidoc.digg.com/ShortURLs
CouchHack
http://damienkatz.net/2009/03/couchhack_april_2009.html
Dojo 1.3 Released
http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/2009/03/dojo-13-is-out/
RIM hires former Apple, Microsoft designer
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10216420-94.html
Yelp: Businesses may publicly respond to reviews
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10216382-2.html
Q&A: Foursquare co-creator on privacy, Easter eggs
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10215732-2.html
Cloudera: Hadoop commercialization
http://cloudera.com
