WebDevGeekly http://webdevgeekly.com/a Weekly discussion about web development issues, news and views Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:07:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Weekly web development discussion with Robert Fischer, Mikeal Rogers, Adam Christian, Matthew Eernisse and Michael Kimsal. 10 TUNE IN 20 TURN ON 30 DROP OUT 40 GOTO 10 Michael Kimsal, Robert Fischer, Mikeal Rogers, Matthew Eernisse, Adam Christian yes Michael Kimsal, Robert Fischer, Mikeal Rogers, Matthew Eernisse, Adam Christian mgkimsal@gmail.com mgkimsal@gmail.com (Michael Kimsal, Robert Fischer, Mikeal Rogers, Matthew Eernisse, Adam Christian) 2009 Weekly web development discussion web, software, development, php, .net, java, flash, perl, ruby, groovy WebDevGeekly http://www.webdevgeekly.com/images/geekly_144.jpg http://webdevgeekly.com/a Episode 18 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=310 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=310#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:42:05 +0000 mde http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=310 Host Updates

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

News

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

]]> http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?feed=rss2&p=310 Host Updates 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 News MS can't sell Word anymore Host Updates 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 News 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 Michael Kimsal, Robert Fischer, Mikeal Rogers, Matthew Eernisse, Adam Christian yes 57:21 Episode 17 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=300 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=300#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:05:07 +0000 mikeal http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=300 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?

]]> http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?feed=rss2&p=300 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 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? Michael Kimsal, Robert Fischer, Mikeal Rogers, Matthew Eernisse, Adam Christian yes 66:58 Episode 16 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=297 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=297#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:13:30 +0000 mgkimsal http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=297 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.

]]> http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?feed=rss2&p=297 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' Kr... 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. Michael Kimsal, Robert Fischer, Mikeal Rogers, Matthew Eernisse, Adam Christian yes 60:16 Episode 15 - slight return http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=289 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=289#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:14:52 +0000 mgkimsal http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=289 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

http://java.sun.com/javaone/

http://opensourcebridge.org/

Couple of audio glitches in this hour-long episode - skype kept dropping people.  :/

]]> http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?feed=rss2&p=289 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 - http://java.sun.com/javaone/ 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 http://java.sun.com/javaone/ http://opensourcebridge.org/ Couple of audio glitches in this hour-long episode - skype kept dropping people.  :/ Michael Kimsal, Robert Fischer, Mikeal Rogers, Matthew Eernisse, Adam Christian yes 66:39 Episode 14 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=264 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=264#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 01:56:44 +0000 mikeal http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=264 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

]]> http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?feed=rss2&p=264 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 mo... 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 Michael Kimsal, Robert Fischer, Mikeal Rogers, Matthew Eernisse, Adam Christian yes 78:39 Episode 13 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=251 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=251#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 04:44:56 +0000 mikeal http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=251 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.

]]> http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?feed=rss2&p=251 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 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. Michael Kimsal, Robert Fischer, Mikeal Rogers, Matthew Eernisse, Adam Christian yes 54:27 Episode 12 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=238 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=238#comments Sun, 03 May 2009 01:45:27 +0000 mikeal http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=238 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

]]> http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?feed=rss2&p=238 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/ 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 Michael Kimsal, Robert Fischer, Mikeal Rogers, Matthew Eernisse, Adam Christian yes 77:47 Episode 10 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=207 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=207#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:35:06 +0000 mikeal http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=207 News

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

]]> http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?feed=rss2&p=207 News 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 News 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 Michael Kimsal, Robert Fischer, Mikeal Rogers, Matthew Eernisse, Adam Christian yes 66:11 Episode 9 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=192 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=192#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:23:02 +0000 mikeal http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=192 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

]]> http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?feed=rss2&p=192 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 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 Michael Kimsal, Robert Fischer, Mikeal Rogers, Matthew Eernisse, Adam Christian yes 63:42 Episode 8 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=168 http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=168#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:54:37 +0000 mikeal http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?p=168 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

]]> http://webdevgeekly.com/a/?feed=rss2&p=168 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... 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 on Future of News http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/03/21/theFutureNewsSystemOfTheWo.html on Twitter as a news platform http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/03/25/whyItMattersThatTwitterIsA.html Michael Kimsal, Robert Fischer, Mikeal Rogers, Matthew Eernisse, Adam Christian yes 31:56