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Episode 80 - Quickfuseapps and conference announcement

mgkimsal — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:03:00 -0400

Last episode I talked about twilio, and this episode I wanted to introduce you to quickfuseapps, and also bring you the announcement I couldn't quite make last episode.

Indieconf is a conference for freelance and independent web professionals, to be held in Raleigh, NC in November. Visit indieconf.com for more, and use coupon code WDR to receive a webdevradio listener discount!

QuickFuseApps :: If Yahoo Pipes was mashed up with Twilio, it would be this awesome
Tropo :: Tropo is a Twilio competitor with some compelling features
indieconf :: Conference for independent web professionals. Use coupon code WDR when registering
CodingQA podcast :: Visit the CodingQA podcast 42 for more on WebMatrix and Razor
WatirPodcast :: Learn more about testing with Watir

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Episode 79: July catchup

mgkimsal — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:03:00 -0400

Just a quick episode catching you up on some of the things I've been up to recently, as well as a few recent tidbits of interest.

Tomcat 7 :: Tomcat 7 released
ASP.NET Web Matrix :: Web Matrix from MS
Razor view engine :: ASP.NET Razor view engine
Postgresql 9 :: Upcoming Postgresql 9.0 release notes.
ZendFramework starter kit :: Starter kit for Zend Framework
TwilioKit :: Starter kit for Twilio using ZF
Twilio :: Phone-app service in the cloud
WebDevIndie :: Blogging on topics for independent web developers
JSMag Blog :: JavaScript Magazine weekly JavaScript news roundup

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Episode 78: Bob Silverberg on ColdFusion, ORM, testing and more

mgkimsal — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:23:00 -0400

I caught up with Bob Silverberg shortly after his ORM presentation at NCDevCon and we rapped on the new CF9 ORM layer, testing and other goodness. Enjoy!

Bob's Blog :: Bob Silverberg's CF blog

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Episode 76: Lithium Framework for PHP

mgkimsal — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:36:00 -0400

I had a great chinwag with Nate Abele and Garrett Woodworth of the Lithium project - a new framework for PHP 5.3. Try as I might to inject Groovy and Grails in to the conversation, we kept coming back to PHP :) Curious about Lithium? Take a listen to see if their philosophy is for you.

Lithium Presentation :: Slideshare presentation on Lithium
Lithium homepage :: Lithium framework

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Episode 75 - Palm, Gosling and PHP

mgkimsal — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:38:00 -0400

Lots of small tidbits all cropped up around the same time. Palm (with its great webOS) looks to be trying to sell itself off. James Gosling, the father of Java, moves on to pastures greener (or just different). Opera Mini is now on the iPhone (and pretty fast too), and I rant a bit about my recent PHP experiences.

Palm for sale? :: Is Palm up for sale?
Gosling leaves Sun :: James Gosling's blog - Time to Move On
Canvas support from Adobe? :: 9to5mac has quick video of Canvas export from CS5
PHPFrameworks :: Find a new PHP framework
Zend Framework :: Zend's PHP Framework
Opera on iPhone :: Opera Mini now available on iPhone
WDR on Twitter :: Follow WebDevRadio on twitter :)

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Episode 74: IE9, visitor recording, conferences and more

mgkimsal — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:19:00 -0400

IE9 developer preview is out - are you testing with it yet?

I recently found UserFly.com as a great tool to track and record your visitors' sessions, then found an older set of example code called MoveLogger if you're inclined to try to build the same thing from scratch.

ClickHeat is a tool I've used to track where people are clicking on sites, giving you a pretty good idea of how visitors are engaging with your site.

Some interesting conferences coming up over next few months - JSConf in DC, TXJS in Austin and NCDevCon in Raleigh. Know of any more?

UserFly :: Track and watch visitors on your site
IE9 roundup :: IE9 roundup of links from JSMag
JSConf :: DC Conference for JavaScript
Texas JavaScript :: Texas JS Conference in Austin
NCDevCon :: North Carolina Developer Conference
JSMag Sampler :: Free sampler PDF of JSMag
MoveLogger :: DIY Code to track and watch your visitors
ClickHeat :: ClickHeat - open source heatmap clicking
YayQuery :: jQuery podcast

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Episode 73: Podcast Child... Slight Return

mgkimsal — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:13:00 -0500

Mostly a quick catch up letting you know what I've been up to, some new technologies I've found that might be of interest to you (Twilio and Titanium), where I'll be in the upcoming months, and an open invitation for your feedback.

Also, a quick update on GroovyMag and JSMag - use coupon code "oneyearold" at http://jsmag.com to select a free issue.

Email michael@webdevradio.com with your feedback, comments and questions.

CodeStock :: CodeStock conference
Twilio :: Twilio phone application service
Titanium :: Cross-platform native app development
JSMag :: Use coupon code "oneyearold" to select a free PDF issue

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Episode 72: Groovy Grails Griffon Greatness at CodeMash

mgkimsal — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:38:00 -0500

I got a chance to catch up with some legendary names from the GR8 community while at CodeMash. Andres Almiray, Dave Klein, Chris Judd and Jim Shingler all gave me a few minutes of their time to talk about the Groovy year behind us and the GR8 year ahead of us.

CodeMash :: Where we all met and chatted - great conference
Dave Klein :: Dave's blog
Andres Almiray :: Andres' blog
Jim Shingler :: Jim's blog
Chris Judd :: Chris' blog
Griffon :: Griffon project
Grails :: Grails project
Groovy :: Groovy project

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Episode 71: Frank Zammetti on webOS

mgkimsal — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:36:00 -0500

We last left Frank back in 2006(!) with the publication of his (then) first book. I caught up with him to talk about his latest book (#6!) - Practical Palm Pre webOS Projects (we eventually get the title right!). Frank talks about the good, the bad and the ugly in the Palm Pre development world.

Zammetti Blog :: Frank's blog
Ares Palm IDE :: Web-based IDE from Palm for webOS development
PreCentral :: Latest and greatest Palm Pre news
JSMag :: Part 1 of Frank's 3 part series on webOS in JSMag

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Episode 70: Brian Hitney of Microsoft

mgkimsal — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:57:00 -0500

I got a chance to talk about web development stuff with Brian Hitney, Developer Evangelist with Microsoft. We talked about WebsiteSpark, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, touched on cloud computing and I kept forgetting the name of a podcast (it was the Startup Success podcast from Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley!).

Structure Too Big :: Brian's blog
CodePlex :: Codeplex was mentioned
WebSiteSpark :: MS program for free enterprise-level software licenses for startup businesses
PHP on Windows :: PHP on IIS installation site
Windows Azure :: All about MS cloud computing initiative Azure

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Episode 69: Curtis Mitchell on Spark with ASP.NET MVC

mgkimsal — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:02:00 -0400

I had a chance to sit down with Curtis Mitchell at the Raleigh Code Camp to talk about the Spark view engine for ASP.NET MVC.

Curtis Mitchel :: Curtis Mitchell's blog
ASP.NET :: ASP.NET home page
Spark :: Spark View Engine

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Episode 67: MySQL with Keith Murphy

mgkimsal — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:36:00 -0400

I did another catch-up show, this time with Keith Murphy (last chatted with in August 2007). Keith talks a bit about his new book, the MySQL Administrator's Bible, his new Open Source Database Magazine (coming out soon) and some of the new developments in the MySQL camp.

MySQL University :: Resource for MySQL developers
Keith's blog :: Keep up with Keith Murphy
Paragon CS :: Keith Murphy's consulting arm
MySQL Magazine :: Quarterly MySQL magazine
MySQL Administrator's Bible :: Purchase from Amazon

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Episode 66: Robert Fischer on Groovy, Grails, GORM and more

mgkimsal — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:10:00 -0400

I got a chance to chat with Robert Fischer, well known in the Groovy/Grails space for his work on Groovy plugins and recent GORM book. Robert and I chatted about dynamic languages on the JVM, his upcoming presentations on Agile and other NFJS talks, his GORM book and a new Polyglot Programming book he's working on for Manning.

Robert's Blog :: Blog of Robert Fischer
Robert's Book :: Grails Persistence with GORM and GSQL
NFJS Bio :: Robert's bio page at No Fluff Just Stuff

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Episode 64: CouchDB with Jan Lenhardt and Chris Anderson

mgkimsal — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:01:00 -0400

I caught up with Jan and Chris at the JSConf in DC last weekend. We went over a bit of the couchdb background, what it's good for, what they're up with with couch.io, and some more goodies. Enjoy!

CouchDB :: Apache's CouchDB project page
Couch IO :: Commercial CouchDB services
Planet CouchDB :: Catch up with all the CouchDB bloggers

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Episode 63: Talking YUI3 with Satyen Desai from Yahoo!

mgkimsal — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:56:00 -0400

I had a chance to sit down for a few minutes with Satyen Desai from Yahoo to talk about YUI3. There's numerous architectural changes coming, and Satyen had presented a few of the major ones in his presentation at JSConf 2009.

YUI Blog :: The place to keep up with all the latest YUI developer
YUI3 at GitHub :: GitHub repo for YUI3 development - fork away!

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Episode 62: Talking SEO and local web promotion with Ashley Berman Hale

mgkimsal — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:14:00 -0400

I got a chance to spend some time with Ashley Berman Hale to discuss steps for local businesses to take when getting in to SEO and web promotion.

Ashley Berman Hale :: Ashley's LinkedIn page
Google's Local Business Center :: Add your business to Google's Local Business listings

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Episode 61: Catching up with Joe Fiorini

mgkimsal — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:30:00 -0500

At the 2008 CodeMash I interviewed Joe Fiorini. Joe was a .Net developer doing ASP.Net work with some side interest in Ruby on Rails. A lot has happened to Joe (and the web world) over the last year, and I talk with Joe about some of those changes, including ASP.Net MVC, the upcoming Rails/Merb merge, and more.

Joe Fiorini :: Joe Fiorini's blog

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Episode 60: Interview with Rails Rumble winners

mgkimsal — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:25:00 -0500

I had a chance to sit down with the winners of the Rails Rumble challenge while I was at CodeMash last week. This is a chat with Josh, Joe and John (Andy couldn't be there due to some weather issues) about the ups and downs of the challenge, sleeping arrangements, monetization, Rails/Merb mering, and more. Enjoy!

Meet In Between Us :: Rails Rumble winning app!

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Episode 59: Jobs, Javascript and Happy Holidays

mgkimsal — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:14:00 -0500

Medium sized update. Some of my thoughts on things people can do in this economic climate for jobs, jsbin.com, a javascript magazine in the planning, Google's Chrome out of beta, and a few more tidbits.

JSBin.com :: Javascript pastebin service
javascript Magazine :: Upcoming javascript magazine signup page

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Episode 58: Raleigh Code Camp reflections, Chrome wins speed tests, GroovyMag

mgkimsal — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:02:00 -0500

I attended the Raleigh Code Camp last week and had a blast meeting some awesome people (but of course there's never enough time to meet everyone you'd like to!). Some great sessions I attended covered the MS MVC platform and an introduction to MS DLR, both of which I discuss here in a bit more detail. Also, following up last podcast's ramblings on Javascript speed tests, there's a story today about how Chrome has beat out other browsers in a Javascript benchmark. Additionally, I chat about my new magazine project, GroovyMag.

130 Web Tools :: Mashable article with 130+ web design tools
CodeMash :: Sign up for CodeMash conference today!
Chrome tops speed tests :: Slashdot story on Chrome's latest benchmarks, from ExtremeTech
GroovyMag :: My magazine for Groovy and Grails developers
WebDevJobs :: Jobs board focused on web development jobs. Free to post, but all posts are vetted and approved before publication.

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Episode 57: Quick catch up

mgkimsal — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:47:00 -0400

Just a few musings on the state of Javascript, OpenID, and Yahoo's recent 'open strategy' announcement. Also, a brief note: GroovyMag.com - a magazine focused on Groovy and Grails - will launch next week.

Yahoo's Open Strategy :: Portal for all things regarding Yahoo's Open Strategy
OpenID :: Info on OpenID
Gmail account is now OpenID :: Techcrunch article on Gmail/OpenID announcement (link to story on MS as well)
FF3.1 speed improvements :: Slashdot article on latest FF3.1 speed improvements
Groovy/Grails magazine :: New magazine launching early November 2008 for Groovy and Grails developers

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Episode 56: Recent experiences with Adobe AIR and the job market

mgkimsal — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:13:00 -0400

No, those aren't related, but I've got a couple small rants about Adobe's Flex/AIR video system, why I moved back to Windows Media, and (separately) a small but insightful(!) take on the current state of job boards and how job seekers and employers find each other (hint - it stinks right now).

Google Chrome :: Google's Chrome Browser
WebDevJobs :: Post job openings for web development positions
Adobe AIR DevNet :: Developer area for Adobe AIR
Windows Media Services :: Windows Media Services info page
Boulder Job Fair :: Win a free trip to Boulder!

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Episode 55: Widgenie interview

mgkimsal — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:35:00 -0400

I had the opportunity to meet with some of the team from LogiXML to discuss their new product Widgenie. Widgenie enables easy publishing and sharing of data with a point and click web interface, saving hours of development time.

LogiXML :: LogiXML
Widgenie :: The all-powerful data visualizer

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Episode 54

mgkimsal — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:51:00 -0400

Recap of the Raleigh Startup weekend, plus some news on happenings in PHP, .NET, Java, Ruby and more.

Raleigh Startup Weekend :: Overview with links to various projects
WebDevJobs :: Post job openings for web development positions
Yahoo Stencil Kit :: Design stencils for site mockups
ASP.NET MVC :: Info/tutorials on upcoming MVC framework for ASP.NET
Github Gist :: Codepast service from GitHub
Ruby Search Sniffer :: Sniff the incoming search engine referrers
Zend Framework 1.6.rc1 :: Announcement of latest RC of Zend Framework
PHP Closures :: Info and code examples on PHP closures
Silverlight2 Reference Card :: Refcardz from Dzone for Silverlight
Groovy/Grails Netbeans :: Example of Groovy/Grails integration in latest Netbeans.

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Episode 53: Crawlable Flash, Concurrent Python, Smart Robots.txt and more

mgkimsal — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:01:00 -0400

Mixed topics today

Adobe works with Google, Yahoo and others to make Flash apps crawlable.

Reddit.com open sources their codebase

"Smart" robots.txt files - do you use them?

Bruce Eckel article on concurrent Python with Twisted

Railo - open source ColdFusion

Cognifty - new PHP framework

Upcoming conferences - Ruby Hoedown, CodeStock, PHPWorks

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PHP Job Hunter Handbook :: Buy my new book for PHP Job Hunters
Cognifty.com :: New PHP framework based on old ideas
Ruby Hoedown :: Ruby Hoedown in Alabama Aug 8,9
Codestock :: Codestock conference in Knoxville, TN August 9
Concurrent Python article :: Article from Bruce Eckel on Twisted, Python and Flex
Railo :: The alternative CFML engine
Lovable Loser :: Music provided by Bob Maus
Smart Robots :: Article on how to program your robots.txt file for search engine crawlers

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Episode 52: Randal Schwartz on Seaside (among other things)

mgkimsal — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:58:00 -0400

This episode is a conversation with Randal Schwartz about Seaside, a Smalltalk-based web application framework. His passion for Seaside and some of the unique features it brings to web development comes through loud and clear here. I hope you enjoy our discussion.

Seaside :: Seaside main home page
Tutorials :: Seaside tutorials
Randal Schwartz :: Randal's overview page
Planet Squeak :: Learn more about Squeak, an open source Smalltalk implementation
Methods and Messages :: Randal's Smalltalk blog

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Episode 51: Martha Rotter on Silverlight

mgkimsal — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:23:00 -0400

I (finally!) got a chance to speak with Martha Rotter from Microsoft Ireland. Martha has been involved in the Silverlight project on multiple fronts, and took time to answer some questions recently. We covered a bit of what Silverlight is all about, where Silverlight is heading, competition with Adobe Flash, and more.

Silverlight :: Main starting point for all things Silverlight
Martha Rotter :: Martha's blog

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