Archive for May, 2009

Episode 14

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Host Updates

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.

News

Digg shows Multipart XMLHttpRequest prototype

Chris Anderson talks about Toast, realtime chat CouchDB App

Firefinder plugin for Firebug

Bespin ported to Couch

Jetpack Released

Scala not a functional language?

Progamming font fetish time!

Web Driver released

Reports of Android’s death are greatly exaggerated?

Multicore Mania — A Rebuttal

John Resig on ECMA5

ECMAScript 5 Objects and Properties
ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode, JSON, and More

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 11

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

This content is pre pended to the Episode 12 audio.

Host Updates

Clint Talbert and Sam Minnee guesting.

News

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