January 16, 2010 at 6:23PM
It’s a jam packed show this week. We discuss alternative DNS services including OpenDNS and Google’s DNS service with special guest George Starcher. We talk about the advantages and disadvantages of using an alternative DNS service and compare the new Google DNS service with OpenDNS. We also conduct a follow-up interview with Paul Kent of [...]
Hosted by David Sparks & Katie Floyd.
January 15, 2010 at 12:00PM • 49 minutes
Puromac 163: Basta de Tablet, Primer 4G, Fede instala Bootcamp
Hosted by Flavio Guinsburg.
January 8, 2010 at 12:00PM • 1 hour 11 minutes
Puromac 162: Purobaires, Equipo de Lealtad, La Tableta, Captura de Imagen
Hosted by Flavio Guinsburg.
December 31, 2009 at 8:07PM
This has been one of our most requested episodes. We talk all about information managers. These are applications that handle all those random bits of information that don’t seem to fit in any other type of organizational system. We’ll give you a general overview of some of the options available on the Mac and Katie [...]
Hosted by David Sparks & Katie Floyd.
December 23, 2009 at 12:00PM • 60 minutes
Puromac 161: Mas Google, Juicios, mas vista previa y Ajustes en la captura de Pantallas
Hosted by Flavio Guinsburg.
December 22, 2009 at 9:45AM • 25 minutes
This episode was originally published on December 22, 2005.
The creator of the Seaside Smalltalk framework talks about the philosophy behind different web frameworks.
Hosted by Brittany Martin.
December 18, 2009 at 4:58PM
Episode #103 Dan edition.
Show Notes
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Rails 2.3.5 has been released with several bug fixes and improved Ruby 1.9 compatibility.
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Koz has released the rails xss plugin which makes all strings html unsafe by default and uses Erubis for templating.
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ConFreaks has posted the 2009 RubyConf videos.
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Speedy automates the virtual host creation and gives you rapid deployment with Passenger and Apache. It currently works on Ubuntu and Debian variants only. It will eventually support both Linux and Mac platforms.
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A draft of the Ruby Specification document has been released and they're looking for comments to submit to the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee. The draft is based on Ruby 1.8.7.
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Grant Michaels posts on Ruby Inside about Rango, a new web app framework from Jakub Šťastný.
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Flotomatic is a new Rails plugin built on top of flot (jquery / javascript based graphs). It's got a nice DSL that makes it really easy to drop graphs into your site.
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Partioprint plugin adds partial name as a HTML comment whenever a partial is rendered from the ERBs.
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Viewtastic is a presenter plugin for Rails.
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The Finternails in Oatmeal blog has a post about using Authlogic to create an unobtrusive login system.
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The Usware blog has a post on getting in to the Django way of doing things from a Rails developers point of view.
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ActiveDevice is a rails plugin that detects mobile device user agents and sets the format accordingly.
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Rubinius 1.0 rc1 has been released.
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This post by Peter Cooper aims to round up a selection of his recent Ruby library discoveries, with his thoughts about each. Included are RConfig – Powerful Ruby configuration management, Ruby-GMail – A Rubyesque interface to GMail, Versionomy – A “version number” library.

Hosted by Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin.
December 17, 2009 at 12:45PM • 21 minutes
This episode was originally published on December 17, 2005.
Rick Olson explains the Rails plugin system, RJS templates, and Rails-weenie.
Hosted by Brittany Martin.
December 17, 2009 at 8:00AM
Adam and Wynn spoke with Mike Dirolf from 10gen about their fast-growing MongoDB project. Mike gave us insight on how MongoDB came about, design decisions, and the future of this cool NoSQL server.
Hosted by Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo.