Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Episode 17

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Host Updates

Back from a month long hiatus.
Adam is on his way to Russia.

News

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

Questionaire

What is your editor of choice?

Episode 13

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Host Updates

new jsmag out

Mikeal loves tree style tabs

News

Alex on Chrome Security model *

Another defection to the git camp

Ongoing coverage on the death of traditional media

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.

Episode 12

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Note that this episode is also a partial recording of episode 11 at the beginning.

Host Updates

Kimsal at jsconf

News

* hg-git plugin http://hg-git.github.com/

* Jacob Kaplan-Moss on REST http://jacobian.org/writing/rest-worst-practices/

960 Grid Bookmarklet

http://ajaxian.com/archives/960-gridder-easy-to-use-layout-design-tool
http://gridder.andreehansson.se/

Rails implosion

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

Episode 9

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Host Update

Mikeal and Adam @ PyCon
jsmag issue 2

News

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

Episode 8

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Host Updates

Windmill 1.0
Windmill 1.0 Lightning Talk Movie to Blow your Mind, Journey, Web2, AJAX

News

Why Facebook shouldn’t listen to its users
http://scobleizer.com/2009/03/21/why-facebook-has-never-listened-and-why-it-definitely-wont-start-now/

Groovy on Grails Moves to GitHub
http://github.com/blog/390-groovy-on-grails-on-github

Stallman says “Free the JavaScript”
http://ajaxian.com/archives/richard-stallman-free-the-javascript

Mark Pilgrim explains the state of accessibility for content creators
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/03/21/accessibility-is-a-harsh-mistress

I seriously considered getting an MBA about 2 years ago, http://tbm.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2009/03/25/rip-mba

I fought learning scheme in college, but we did it because that’s what MIT used, http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-from-scheme-to-python

What does this mean for metaweb? http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Google_Adds_Semantic_Search_Technology_36198.html

http://blog.datamation.com/blog/2009/03/is-twitter-the.html

Are we going to miss china contributing to youtube? http://www.crn.com/security/216300048;jsessionid=ML1PUQFU3OIXEQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?cid=ChannelWebCompleteFeed

IBM wants Sun, pwned. http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/66572.html

TestSwarm - distributed javascript testing

Future of News

nytimes sends threats to bloggers
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/19/new-york-times-sends.html

Winer on News

Episode 6

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Host Updates

JavaScript Magazine Released
http://jsmag.com

News

JavaScript emulator for 6502 chip
http://6502asm.com/

Great introduction to functional web testing
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-aj-testing/

JavaScript/ActionScript PHP compiler
http://jaspa.org.uk/

Rapid prototyping with greasemonkey
http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/rapid-prototyping-with-greasemonkey/

A Python interpreter is not created for each request in mod_python.
http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/03/python-interpreter-is-not-created-for.html

DB stuff

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql

Redis “key-value database”
http://code.google.com/p/redis/

(I missed this convo last week)
Facebook redesign == facebook wants to wipe out twitter
http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/homepage_tour.php

Server stuff

mod_xsendfile
http://tn123.ath.cx/mod_xsendfile/

Publishing

10 ways the newspaper insdustry is using social technology to save itself
http://mashable.com/2009/03/11/newspaper-industry/

Jay Rosen interviewed by Dave Winer
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/03/08/interviewWithJayRosen.html

Episode 5 - too much javascript!

Friday, March 6th, 2009

News Links

Using JavaScript map/reduce to create a browser cluster
http://www.igvita.com/2009/03/03/collaborative-map-reduce-in-the-browser/

Using JSONP in jQuery
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-aj-jsonp1/?ca=dgr-jw22JSONP-jQuery

Annoying performance bug in the Python stdlib
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2009/3/1/the-1000-speedup-or-the-stdlib-sucks

Asynchronous by default
http://rcoder.net/content/never-do-today

Taking on Twitter

More on Publishing

Javascript

Episode 4

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Host Updates

Mikeal got a kindle!

Adam released MyTabs
http://adamchristian.com/

News Links

Safari 4 Beta Release

Great discussion of CSS Rule additions to jQuery API
http://simonwillison.net/2009/Feb/22/rule/

Lifehacker’s 10 ways to get a better job
http://lifehacker.com/5157794/top-10-tools-for-landing-a-better-job?skyline=true

Facebook’s TOS, Our Bad
http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/26/facebook-releases-draft-of-new-user-terms-asks-for-feedback/

Louis C.K.: “Everything is so Amazing”
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/02/so_amazing_but.php

Do we just expect stuff to be kind of broken on the Web?
http://mushpot.net/item/213

More cuts at the SF Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/24/MNO2164F73.DTL

Newspaper Deathwatch: http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/

JSMag coming soon!  http://www.jsmag.com

Getting started

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

I was asked to help bring some order from the chaos that is Adam Christian, Mikeal Rogers and Matthew Eernisse when they get together to chat about web stuff.  So I did.  This blog will be the hosting place for our upcoming chats  There’s actually one already done, which may end up getting released in the next couple days.  Stay tuned  :)

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