Adam and Kenneth caught up with Robby Russell to talk about his community-driven zsh project. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Robby Russell – GitHub , X Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Kenneth Reitz – GitHub , X Show Notes: oh-my-zsh A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. Robby Russell is Chief Evangelist at Planet Argon Derek Sivers from CD...
May 26, 2011•51 min
Wynn sat down with Wesley Beary from Engine Yard to talk about the Fog project and the Cloud, live from Red Dirt Ruby Conf. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Wesley Beary aka @ geemus The Fog project is the Ruby cloud services library By coincidence this interview was recorded the day the cloud went down Fog supports almost twenty providers for Storage , DN...
May 20, 2011•22 min
Avner Ronen talks about his vision of the “Future of TV,” the role Boxee plays in today’s internet video/audio content on the big screen, the backlash of “big media” against Boxee and how they’ve changed their tune and much more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Avner Ronen – Website , X Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Show Notes: Boxee - Watch Movies, TV Shows and cli...
May 17, 2011•32 min
Noah Kagan, Founder of App Sumo talks with Adam about his journey to success. Send an email to noah@appsumo.com for more details about something special for 5by5 listeners. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Noah Kagan – Website , X Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Show Notes: App Sumo Intel Facebook Mint Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework Something missing or bro...
May 12, 2011•1 hr
Adam talks with Bill Boebel, VP Strategy/Corp Dev at Rackspace and Founder of Webmail.us about staying the course, keeping the team motivated during turbulent “cash strapped” times, getting acquired by Rackspace and staying on to continue building the company post-acquisition. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Bill Boebel – Website , GitHub , X Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastod...
May 11, 2011•38 min
Wynn sat down with Nick Quaranto at Red Dirt Ruby Conference to talk about Gemcutter, RubyGems.org, and how to get started creating your own Ruby gem. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Nick Quaranto , creator of Gemcutter which is now RubyGems.org Gemcutter is the Ruby community’s gem hosting service. Tom Preston-Warner , founder of GitHub RubyForge was the...
May 11, 2011•20 min
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Glyph Lefkowitz from Twisted to talk about the project and evented programming in Python. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Kenneth Reitz – GitHub , X Show Notes: Glyph Lefkowitz is creator of Twisted. Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. Twisted has its origin in the game Divmod Imaginary . Glyph says Twisted ...
May 03, 2011•34 min
Adam talks with Chris Nagele, Founder of Wildbit about his 11 year journey of building Wildbit and ultimately some awesome web products like Beanstalk, Postmark, and Newsberry. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Chris Nagele – Website , X Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Show Notes: Wildbit Beanstalk App Postmark App Newsberry Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!...
Apr 28, 2011•50 min
Wynn caught up with Mike Hostetler and Scott González from AppendTo to talk about Amplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Microsoft, the web, and open source. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: AppendTo offers training and consulting for jQuery. Amplify.js is a set of components designed to solve common web application problems with a simplistic API. Mike Hostetle...
Apr 27, 2011•45 min
Wynn sat down with three Vim users and experts to talk about tips and tricks for using and pimping the popular text editor. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Drew Neil – Website , GitHub , X Yehuda Katz – Website , GitHub , X Tim Pope – GitHub , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Vim seeks to provide the power of Unix’s Vi Drew Neil hosts VimCasts Tim Pope has created numerout Vim plugins ...
Apr 12, 2011•42 min
Wynn caught up with Ilya Grigorik, Founder and CTO of PostRank to talk about Goliath, async Ruby web development, and Google’s SPDY. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Ilya Grigorik – Website , GitHub , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Look for Steve Klabnik at CodeConf . Ilya Grigorik founder and CTO of PostRank. PostRank taps into intelligence from the social web. igvita.com is Ilya’s a...
Apr 06, 2011•51 min
Wynn sat down with Chris Anderson from CouchBase to talk about CouchDB, the merger with Membase, Erlang, and bringing NoSQL to PHPers. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Chris Anderson – GitHub , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Chris Anderson is a Couchbase cofounder, Mobile Architect, CouchDB committer, new dad The CouchDB music video (served up from CouchDB no less) Chris sings the off...
Mar 30, 2011•45 min
Adam and Wynn were joined by Nathan Smith, creator of 960.gs to talk about his new project Formalize and the latest news on The Changelog. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Show Notes: Nathan Smith , front end dev, speaker, and author 960 Grid System is a versatile CSS grid framework Formalize teaches your forms some manners An exhaustive list of HTML5 cross-browser polyfills Formalize even comes with Sass s...
Mar 22, 2011•50 min
Adam sat down with Designer/Developer John Long, creator of RadiantCMS about his new project Serve, design, and running a successful open source project. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Show Notes: John Long of Wiseheart design Serve is a rapid prototyping framework for web applications John created RadiantCMS , later extended by Sean C...
Mar 16, 2011•1 hr 2 min
Steve and Wynn sat down with Eliot Horowitz from 10gen to talk about MongoDB, the NoSQL landscape, and the fun of building at Web Scale. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Steve Klabnik – Website , GitHub , X Show Notes: Eliot Horowitz CTO and Co-Founder of 10gen Dwight Merriman CEO & Co-Founder at 10gen NoSQL is a loose term for Key Value Stores , Graph Databases ,...
Mar 09, 2011•35 min
Steve and Wynn caught up with Dr. Nic from Engine Yard to talk about the cloud, Jenkins, Ruby, and lowering the barrier of entry for learning Rails on Windows. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Steve Klabnik – Website , GitHub , X Show Notes: Catch up with us at Red Dirt Ruby Conf Steve will be at Codeconf Kenneth will be covering PyCon 2011 Thanks for putting up with ...
Mar 01, 2011•43 min
Adam talks with Eric Kuhn, Founder of Founders Card about the ups and downs of building an online business during the era of the “dot com” bubble, managing hyper growth, getting listed and de-listed on the NASDAQ and building an exclusive benefits program, coined as “The Amex Black Card for the Entrepreneur”, exclusively aimed at Entrepreneurs and Founders. If you want an invite, get in touch with Adam. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make t...
Feb 24, 2011•40 min
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with GitHubber Scott Chacon to talk about Git, distributed version control, and his quest to kill Word as a book authoring tool. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Scott Chacon – GitHub , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Kenneth Reitz – GitHub , X Show Notes: Scott Chacon , Git evangelist, GitHubber , author of ProGit rsync is a software application for Unix and Windows sys...
Feb 22, 2011•54 min
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Andrew Bayer from the Jenkins project to talk about continuous integration, Java, and corporate backing drama. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Kenneth Reitz – GitHub , X Show Notes: CI Joe is GitHub’s continuous integration server Knowing is half the battle Jenkins née Hudson is the leading open-source continuous ...
Feb 08, 2011•40 min
Adam and Wynn caught up with Carl Tashian from Open Government to talk about OpenGovernment.org, OpenCongress.org, and the rise of the Citizen Coder. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Carl Tashian is Director of Technology at Open Government OpenGovernment: Empower individuals and organizations to ...
Feb 01, 2011•33 min
Adam talks with Rick Perreault, Co-Founder & CEO of Unbounce about entrepreneurship and solving your own pain, sticking to an MVP (Minimal Viable Product) launch strategy, becoming an authority by blogging/marketing before you launch, listening to customers and knowing when to take funding. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Rick Perreault – Website , X Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , Linke...
Jan 28, 2011•51 min
Adam and Wynn caught up with Adam Moore and Satyen Desai from the YUI team to talk about YUI 3, Node.js, and working with Douglas Crockford. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Show Notes: YUI is the Yahoo! User Interface library, a collection of front end code goodies for JavaScript and CSS Follow the YUI Blog for the latest developments, such as the new 3.3.0 release Adam Moore and Satyen Desai are engineers...
Jan 25, 2011•32 min
Adam talks with Ryan Holmes, Founder of Hootsuite entrepreneurship, establishing and leveraging their relationship with Twitter, from “free” to “freemium” with a plan, and growing to well over 1 Million users in 2 years. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Ryan Holmes – Website , X Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Show Notes: Hootsuite Something missing or broken? PRs welc...
Jan 22, 2011•38 min
Wynn caught up with Salvatore Sanfilippo to talk about Redis, the super hot key value store. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Salvatore Sanfilippo – Website , GitHub , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: VMware signs the paychecks for Salvatore and Pieter Noordhuis Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store and data structure server wherein keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, s...
Jan 17, 2011•40 min
Adam talks with Maciej Ceglowski, Founder of Pinboard about turning this side project into the next Delicious, handling a massive in-flux of Delicious users when they announced its “sunset”, keeping the technology and architecture simple and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Maciej Ceglowski – Website , X Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Show Notes: Pinboard - anti...
Jan 10, 2011•38 min
Wynn caught up with Aaron Patterson, aka @tenderlove, to talk about Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, and muscle cars. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Show Notes: RubyCommitters.org lists all the folks who hack on the Ruby language Nokogiri is a library for parsing XML and HTML The origins of tenderlove , Aaron’s online persona Hot linking, check it and see. Got a page rank of a hundred and three. , to the tune of Hot B...
Jan 10, 2011•34 min
Steve Klabnik joined the show to talk about learning to program with Hackety Hack and why the lucky stiff. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Steve Klabnik – Website , GitHub , X Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Wynn Netherland – GitHub , X Show Notes: Steve Klabnik , maintainer of Hackety Hack, newest contributor to The Changelog Hackety Hack will teach you the absolute ...
Jan 05, 2011•32 min
Adam talks with Alex Hillman, Co-Founder of Indy Hall and co-conspirator/creator of many things, about all things Coworking, people helping people, how to hustle, get unstuck and more. Alex also mentions something “super secret” that’s sure to please. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Alex Hillman – Website , GitHub , X Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , Linked...
Dec 24, 2010•56 min
Adam talks with Henk Rogers, Founder of The Tetris Company, Blue Planet Software and Blue Planet Foundation about the beginnings of and the evolution of Tetris, over-coming brick walls, social and mobile gaming, never giving up, changing the world, getting the planet off carbon-based fuels, ending war, creating a backup of Earth and the power of love! Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Henk Rogers ...
Dec 21, 2010•49 min
Adam talks with Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs, Founders of Slash7 about product development, profiting from Open Source, the key to happiness, living a Unicorn-Free lifestyle and how Amy and Thomas met and ultimately fell in love. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Amy Hoy – Website , X Thomas Fuchs – Website , GitHub , X Adam Stacoviak – Website , GitHub , LinkedIn , Mastodon , X Show Notes: slash7 wit...
Dec 17, 2010•49 min