News, views and issues for the web developer

Welcome

Podcast series on all topics relating to web development.

[RSS] Podcast feed
[RSS] Podcast feed + comments

Last 5 Comments

  • Michael Kimsal (Episode 60: Interview with Rails Rumble winners)
  • Josh Walsh (Episode 60: Interview with Rails Rumble winners)
  • Michael Kimsal (Episode 56: Recent experiences with Adobe AIR and the job market)
  • Peter McDonald (Episode 56: Recent experiences with Adobe AIR and the job market)
  • Ruslan (Episode 50: Live and late - Flash opens up, CSS cleaner, MySQL conf recap)

Categories

Episode 67: MySQL with Keith Murphy

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

 Get MP3 (28 MB | 51:25 min)

# 2009-06-24 by mgkimsal | [RSS] Comments (0) | default

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

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

 Get MP3 (32 MB | 58:08 min)

# 2009-06-15 by mgkimsal | [RSS] Comments (0) | default

Episode 65: Kyle Simpson's SWFObject presentation from JSConf

This episode is solely a recording of Kyle Simpson's discussion of SWFObject - how it works, recent changes, common problems people have using it, and more.

flxhr
Cross domain AJAX with Flash
Flensed
Kyle's set of JS tools for Flash
SWFObject
The SWFObject code page

 Get MP3 (24 MB | 46:13 min)

# 2009-05-02 by mgkimsal | [RSS] Comments (0) |

Episode 64: CouchDB with Jan Lenhardt and Chris Anderson

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

 Get MP3 (14 MB | 27:51 min)

# 2009-05-02 by mgkimsal | [RSS] Comments (0) | default

Episode 63: Talking YUI3 with Satyen Desai from Yahoo!

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!

 Get MP3 (9 MB | 15:31 min)

# 2009-04-25 by mgkimsal | [RSS] Comments (0) | default