November 13, 2009 at 4:43PM
Episode #100: Mustache edition. And hey, it's episode 100!
Show Notes
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JRuby 1.4 has been released. New in this version is a native launcher for JRuby on Windows.
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Chris Parsons and Corey Haines release the katacasts blog and video cast. Software Craftsmanship Katas is a place dedicated to promote screencasts of coding katas to a wide audience of people interested in seeing other craftsmen perform a given kata.
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JetBrains has released RubyMine 2.0 release candidate
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Dr Nic has taken over this gem! This release moves over to GemCutter and adds issue page integration.
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This is a Rack Middleware which will find and send static files provided by loaded gems.
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Nick Seiger releases HPricot 0.8.2 with bug fixes and a JRuby bug fix.
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The pivotal labs gang are growing mustaches for charity!
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This is asset packager for Heroku, which only supports a read only file system.
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Andre over on the Scout blog shows a neat technique for tracking goals with Google Analytics and Rails.
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Andy Jeffries goes over a technique for debugging a single request on a production app.
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Eric Lindvall goes over how he finally solved the memory leak in god.

Hosted by Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin.
November 13, 2009 at 7:27AM
In episode seven of the EE Podcast, Dan and Ryan cover the latest ExpressionEngine news, the good and bad of the Structure module and put out a call to action for a new plugin to support Twitter search.
Links for this episode:
- Continuing the trend started by Brandon Kelly, "Lodewijk Schutte":http://loweblog.com/freelance/article/ee20-addon-roadmap/ (Low) published his EE add-on roadmap.
- Do you develop EE add-ons? Will you be porting them to 2.0? If so, you want to be "listed on this special Devot-ee page":http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/ee2/.
- EE Insider published a special bonus interview with Derek Allark of EllisLab. "Derek talks about CodeIgniter":http://eeinsider.com/blog/ee-2-week-straggler-the-return-of-derek-allard-interview/ today, in the future and how it ties into ExpressionEngine 2.0.
- "Structure 2.0 was released":http://eeinsider.com/blog/structure-2-released/ late last week. It's a significant update to the original, free version.
- Speaking of Structure, if you're like me, you want your clients to use the Structure interface for managing the website. Chad Crowell published a simple plugin, "WI Direct to Structure":http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/134161/ that redirects you to the Structure page whenever you add or update an entry.
Hosted by Lea Alcantara & Ryan Irelan.
November 11, 2009 at 12:00PM • 1 hour 29 minutes
Puromac 157: Fede usa el Droid, Vida de baterias Macbook, OS X 10.6.2, Atom, Virus iPhone y solucion.
Hosted by Flavio Guinsburg.
November 9, 2009 at 7:00PM • 31 minutes
This episode was originally published on November 9, 2007.
Robert Stevenson interviews Stuart Halloway at eRubyCon in Ohio.
Hosted by Brittany Martin.
November 9, 2009 at 1:37PM
Episode #99 Like a Boss edition. Here's a YouTube link (NSFW) for those that haven't heard it and don't get the joke.
Show Notes
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RailsConf 2010 will be held June 7-10, 2010 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD – and Ruby Central and O'Reilly Media are now accepting proposals for conference sessions and tutorials. Proposals are due at 11:59pm EDT March 17, 2010.
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Resque is GitHub's Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later.
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BigRecord is an object-data mapping layer for distributed column-oriented data stores (inspired by Google's BigTable) such as HBase and Cassandra. Adapted from ActiveRecord, BigRecord is designed to work as a drop-in for Rails applications.
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Wen-Tien Chang's slideshare presentation Rails Best Practices from kungfurails.
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Alchemist is a fine Ruby unit conversion library designed for readability and convenience.
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Limelight is a rich client GUI framework.
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Ruby Manor 2: Manor Harder is taking place December 12th at Parry Hall, London and has the best tag line of any ruby or rails conference ever.
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This rails plugin will hide the messiness of passing variables from rails into javascript. It will automatically add the js needed to create a variable you define in rails, or add variables to objects.
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Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux.
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Twitter gem version 0.7.0 has been released with list support.
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Vinsol has posted a small tutorial on using Yahoo BOSS with rails.
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HTTPing.rb is a utility to measure web service response time. This is a Ruby port of HTTPing (http://www.vanheusden.com/httping/).
http://github.com/jpignata/httping
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Engine Yard is sponsoring another programming contest. The goal of this contest is to collaborate with your other contestants to build the “worst app server ever” (WASE) , and use it to complete one or more challenge computations.
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Refraction is a Rack middleware replacement for mod_rewrite.
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Signal is a continuous integration server written in Rails.
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"XML is like violence – if it doesn't solve your problems, you are not using enough of it."
Version 1.4.0 has been released. A big change in this one: Hpricot compatibility layer removed

Hosted by Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin.
November 5, 2009 at 12:00PM • 1 hour 26 minutes
Puromac 156: Apple TV 3, iMac 27, Raid 1 y zonas horarias en iCal.
Hosted by Flavio Guinsburg.
November 5, 2009 at 7:25AM
In episode six of the ExpressionEngine Podcast, Dan and Ryan discuss the future of EE add-ons, roadmaps, the community's reaction to EE 2.0, and the latest EE news.
Links for this episode:
- Round-up the "EE 2.0 Week":http://eeinsider.com/blog/show/category/expressionengine-2-week coverage at "EE Insider":http://eeinsider.com at the "ExpressionEngine Blog":http://expressionengine.com/blog/entry/tuning_the_engine/.
- EllisLab is "soliciting contributions of default avatars for EE 2.0":http://expressionengine.com/blog/entry/default_set_Needs_You/.
- Brandon Kelly publishes his "EE 2.0 add-on conversion roadmap":http://brandon-kelly.com/blog/transitions.
- "More than":http://twitter.com/jpaylor/statuses/5374408463 "one person":http://twitter.com/StinHambo/statuses/5363870276 expresses concern over the availability of EE 2.0 add-ons.
- If you still want to build add-ons for EE 1.6.x, Erik Reagan "wrote a tutorial that documents the process":http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/cmss/building-your-first-expressionengine-plugin/.
Hosted by Lea Alcantara & Ryan Irelan.
November 3, 2009 at 2:30AM • 24 minutes
This episode was originally published on November 3, 2006.
Correspondent Robert Stevenson interviews two developers from investment banking company JPMorgan Chase.
Hosted by Brittany Martin.
November 2, 2009 at 8:58PM
We’ve gotten a lot of requests for this episode, so here it is, our Task Management Smackdown. In one corner, David and The Omni Group’s Omni Focus. In another, Katie and Cultured Code’s Things. The duo discuss their system for managing tasks and how their preferred application helps to get things done. The verdict: the [...]
Hosted by David Sparks & Katie Floyd.
October 29, 2009 at 5:30PM • 32 minutes
This episode was originally published on October 29, 2005.
ODEO’s lead developer talks about developing with agility and moving to Rails 1.0
Hosted by Brittany Martin.