SitePoint Podcast

Episode 192 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week we have the full current panel, Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) and Kevin Dees (@kevindees) who are joined first by previous hosts Kevin Yank (@sentience) and Brad Williams (@williamsba) and then later by producers Karn Broad (@WebKarnage) and Carl Longnecker. Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #192: The End (MP3, 02:11:04, 125.8MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Episode Summary In this, the very last episode of the SitePoint Podcast, the extended panel of hosts and producers take a reminisce through their memories of the four years doing the podcast, what it has meant to them and how they will look back on it. Interview Transcript Patrick: Hello and welcome to the final SitePoint podcast. I’m Patrick O’Keefe, and I’m joined by my usual cohosts, Kevin Dees, Louis Simoneau and Stephan Segravess. Gentlemen, as Michael Jackson once said, “This is it.” How’s it going? Louis: Hey, guys. Stephan: Hi. Patrick: Kevin, do you want to say something? Kevin Dees: I don’t know what to say. Patrick: Forget it. We’ll just skip you then. All right. So, we have quite a show planned for you today. We’re not going to do the stories. We’re not going to do the spotlights. We’ve kind of wrapped that up on the last episode for the final time. Instead, we’re going to be looking back at the past four years of the SitePoint podcast. We’re going to bring on some familiar faces from the past. Like former host, Brad William and Kevin Yank. And, just have a lot of fun reminiscing about the show, where it started, how we made the journey and finally where it ends up at. Stephan: Sounds like fun. Patrick: And without further ado, let’s go ahead and get this show on the road. We now have Brad Williams and Kevin Yank on our show with us back again. Brad, Kevin, welcome back. Brad: Hello. Kevin Yank: Hello. Brad: How’s it going? Patrick: It’s going good. You know this is the first time, we’ve had all six current or former SitePoint hosts on a single Skype call, on a single show, so hopefully, it doesn’t break the Internet with all this great awesomeness, manliness, and handsomeness. Kevin Yank: It’s like we never left. It’s the last one. What have you guys been talking about? Patrick: Nothing really. We’re just going to. We were waiting to talk about anything until we got you guys on here. So, I was just looking at the topics right now. Kevin Yank: No, I don’t mean this episode. I mean all this time since we left. Fill me in. Patrick: I don’t know. I don’t know. What happened? Well, there’s Internet Explorer. Right? Louis: Mostly Internet Explorer. Yeah. Patrick: Mostly Internet Explorer. Brad: So, you picked up right where we left off is what you’re saying. Patrick: Exactly. It’s all the same. So, you know, you mentioned where we left off and so you know, I think it’s fitting to start like where the show started and I put together a little bit of a timeline, back in the SitePoint forum. It’s a private forum there which I still have access to for probably a limited time. Pull out those spread. So, the first mention of the SitePoint podcast was June 27th, 2007. Okay? And Brad started a thread to ask if there was any interest in a site point podcast, not the SitePoint podcast but just a site point podcast. Brad, [...]

Episode 191 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week we have the full panel, Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) and Kevin Dees (@kevindees). Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #191: The Beat Don’t Stop (MP3, 41:44, 40.1MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary The panel discuss topics that were discussed in the first SitePoint Podcast and how things have changed in the period of just over 4 years. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Opera: Just 4.13% of Web’s Code is Valid Yahoo Launches Web Analytics Update- Yahoo! Web Analytics To Be Discontinued EC2 out of Beta: Now with Windows Support and More Browser Trends December 2012: Chrome Grabs Legacy IE Users Do you know this guy? | Internet Explorer from The Browser You Loved To Hate Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/191. Host Spotlights Patrick: Eternal moonwalk – A tribute to Michael Jackson. Louis: Banjo Ben | Banjo Ben Clark | Home | Online Banjo, Guitar & Mandolin Instruction and GANGSTAGRASS Stephan: Theresa Christy of Otis Elevator: Making Elevators Go | Creating – WSJ.com Kevin: So Real it’s Scary – YouTube Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to yet another episode of the SitePoint podcast. Hi guys, we’ve got a full house today. Stephan: Good evening. Kevin: Yeah. Patrick: Yes, we do. Kevin: I sounded really depressed. Patrick: Sounded very authoritative. Like, “Yes. We do. You want to make something of it?” Kevin: Oh, me. Good times. Patrick: This is our final group news show. This is the end. Kevin: I’m very sad. Louis: It is. Patrick: I’ll miss our chats. The first one we did that was a group news show, that was what the podcast originally was, was November 10, 2008 we released Episode 1. Four years and about a month later released. New show. Time to wrap it up. We have some good stories. Look back a little bit and should be fun. Kevin: Yeah. Louis: I’m still here. Patrick: That’s all I’ve got to say. Why don’t you interject with something, Louis? Louis: You had this cool idea to jump back and have a look at the stories that were covered in Episode 1 of the podcast and just thought we’d talk a little bit about what has changed and what hasn’t changed. Maybe we can start with that. What was Episode 1 all about? Patrick: That’s a great idea and we have a couple of extra stories at the end. As I said, four years ago, Episode 1, we had three news stories on that show. That show was hosted by me, Stephan, Kevin Yank and Brad Williams. The first news story that we discussed was a study that was done by Opera and they found just 4.13% of the web’s code was standards compliant. I actually looked to see if they had updated this survey at all, if they had done it again, and I could not find it. I don’t think they have updated but I guess it’s an opportunity to reflect on where the web has come in four years as far as standards compliance goes. 4.13 now. What would it be now? Louis: I feel as if you were, and this is just a total shot in the dark but that’s what we do here, if you were to go with the HTML 5 specification I think you’d probably have a much larger percentage of sites validating only because HTML 5 is a bit more lax. Did they mention in that study what standard they were [...]

Episode 190 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week Kevin Dees (@kevindees) interviews Dave Rupert (@davatron5000) of Paravel about open source development. Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #190: Open Source Projects with Dave Rupert. (MP3, 38:11, 36.7MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary Kevin and Dave discuss developing open source projects, but before that Patrick O’Keefe has an announcement about the SitePoint Podcast. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/190. Interview Transcript Patrick: Hello, and welcome to another addition of the SitePoint Podcast. This is Patrick O’Keefe and before Kevin Dees gets started with the interview that he recorded for this week’s episode, we wanted to take a moment to share a special announcement with you. There’s no way to say this without it being a surprise. There’s no way to say this without it coming completely out of the blue. There’s just no way around that. The announcement is that the SitePoint podcast is coming to an end. We’ve had a really great run, and it’s been a great experience for all of us. But everything must eventually come to an end, and now is that time for this show. We’re sorry to see it end, but we are planning a grand finale two weeks from now, and we want you to be a part of it. One of the greatest things about this show for us has been the listeners, everyone who tunes in, who shares the show, who subscribes, who listens, who leaves comments. This is one of the things that has really made it worthwhile for us and that’s why we want you to be a part of our finale. We’d love to hear your thoughts about the podcast, your memories, your favorite moments. Whatever you want to share, please send it to us via email at podcast@sitepoint.com. We accept both text and audio comments. For audio comments, please record them and then upload them somewhere where we can download them. So for example, your Dropbox account, your web hosting space, something like that, and then send us the link to the file via email. Don’t worry if you don’t have the greatest mic in the world. But if you do have the opportunity to export it in a higher quality audio format, for example, .wav or a high quality Apple format, that’s great as opposed to an mp3. But even if all you have is an mp3, that’s fine as well. More than anything else, we just want to hear your thoughts on the show. Again, send us a link to your audio comment, or send us your text comments at podcast@sitepoint.com, and they might just be included in our final show. The deadline for submissions is December 9th, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. That’s 8:00 p.m. GMT UTC -5, or 1:00 a.m. on Monday, December 10th, UTC time. Whether you submit a comment or not, we’d like to take a moment to thank you for all of your support over the years. It really has meant a lot to us, and we look forward to sharing more of that with you on our grand finale, which will be released on Friday, December 14th. Announcement out of the way, please enjoy this week’s interview. Over to you, Kevin. Kevin: So today I get to talk with Mr. Dave Rupert. Hello, Dave. Dave: Howdy, howdy. Kevin: I’m so excited to get to talk to you. This is awesome. Dave: Hey, thanks for having me. I really appreciate it, and it’s nice to be here. Good to see you again. Kevin: Yeah, [...]

Episode 189 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week we have the full panel, Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) and Kevin Dees (@kevindees). Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #189: Websites Got Fat (MP3, 38:58, 37.4MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary The panel discuss topics such as 30% page weight increases, are responsive images worth doing, the demand for different platforms when selling websites and more! googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Average Page Weight Increases 30% in 2012 – SitePoint referring to Optimizing large font files for @font-face | Kevin Dees and Yahoo! Smush.it™ What’s Powering the Internet? Flippa’s In-Demand Platforms How should we handle responsive images? | Boagworld – Web & Digital Advice Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/189. Host Spotlights Patrick: Some thoughts and musings about making things for the web – The Oatmeal Louis: vimtips (vimtips) on Twitter Stephan: Learn how to make Data Visualizations with D3.js Kevin: Retro Game Crunch • Six Games in Six Months Interview Transcript Louis: Hello. Welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast. We got a full-panel show back together this week to discuss the last few weeks’ events and happenings in the world of the web. Hi, guys. Kevin: Hi. Stephan: Hi. Louis: How is it going? Patrick: It is going great. Kevin and I were just together this past weekend, in Raleigh, North Carolina, for IndieConf, which is a conference for independent web professionals, freelancers, solo entrepreneurs, and so on. Kevin did a great job talking about pragmatic WordPress development. I performed at a satisfactory level. Right, Kevin? Kevin: Patrick had one person tell him that he spoke a little fast, so Patrick got a 99.9 out of 100. Louis: Right, OK. Kevin: It was a lot of fun, a great event; a lot of freelancers, developers, programmers, and people of all stripes. It was pretty cool that we had a listener come down from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, her name was Meg Prescott. On Twitter, she is @meg_at_e_lys. I realize that is not the easiest Twitter name to spell out. Louis: That is an awesome Twitter handle. Patrick: I spoke slowly there. She is an associate professor of computer technologies at Great Bay Community College, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and again, came about 760 miles, so that was really cool. She came just because we mentioned it on the show, and mentioned how we would be there. Louis: Holy . . . That is extremely impressive. Patrick: It was awesome. She was really nice. She attended both our sessions, also. We had a great time chatting with her afterward, at the networking event. Really, it was really cool. Louis: That is awesome. That probably takes the cake for Listener of the Year. Kevin: Yes, I would agree. I am going to vote 10-stars. Louis: I know it is still November, but I think . . . Patrick: Everyone else is going to stop listening then, because they are out of the running. That is great. Louis: They are going to say, ‘Ah, no.’ Cool. I was also away on the weekend. I was at Rails Camp, in Tasmania. It was a lot of fun. Patrick: Oh, yes? Louis: If you do not know what a Rails Camp is, find one in your area and go to it, even if you are not a Rails developer. Half the people [...]

Episode 188 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) interviews Lee LeFever (@leelefever) from Common Craft about how their explaining videos came about, the community around Common Craft, his book The Art Of Explanation and more! Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #188: The Art of Explanation with Lee LeFever (MP3, 54:54, 52.7MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Episode Summary Patrick and Lee talk about the place for creativity in explaining many things and how explanation (or sometimes the lack of it) can impact in so many areas of creativity and client relationships. Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/188. Interview Transcript Patrick: Hello and welcome to the SitePoint Podcast. This is Patrick O’Keefe and I’m doing an interview show today with my friend Lee LeFever. Lee is the founder and Chief Explainer at Common Craft, and he’s the author of a new book, The Art of Explanation: Making Your Ideas, Products, and Services Easier to Understand. According to the Common Craft website they are on a mission, they want to make the world a more understandable place to live and work by helping professionals like you possibly become explanation specialists because more specialists mean better explanations. And that’s a good thing. Common Craft is married couple Lee and Sachi LeFever with Tom Bosco serving as a mascot. I’ve known Lee for a while and it’s great to have him on the show. Lee, welcome to the SitePoint Podcast. Lee: It’s great to be here Patrick, thanks. Patrick: My pleasure. I want to talk about a few different areas of your life and your business, Common Craft, and a little bit on online community and of course explanation. So first the business, Common Craft. I mentioned how Common Craft is just you and Sachi, and for the record, on the cover of the book, is that you and Sachi to the right? Lee: Yeah, that is an image that has been with us for a few years. I re-did it for the book but it is meant to be me and Sachi. Patrick: Okay, now who’s that other third guy, is he like a creepy guy who follows you around pointing at his head, or who is that person? Lee: Just a little more Common Craft art. Patrick: Awesome, so one of the cool things about Common Craft, and there’s a number of cool things about Common Craft, but you’ve spoken about how important lifestyle is as a priority for you as a business. Specifically being small and happy. To me, Common Craft is at least to some extent a lifestyle business. You’re successful but you never want to be successful at the cost of sacrificing your independent lifestyle. That sometimes can be hard for some people to understand, because they think that you should always want to be bigger, bigger, bigger. But bigger can come with a cost, and it’s been interesting to watch Common Craft grow while also seeing you negotiate that cost and maintain your mission. I wanted to ask you to speak a little bit about that negotiation with the cost of sacrificing that lifestyle but also growing and how you’ve been able to accomplish your goals. Lee: Yeah, definitely, that’s a great question. Common Craft started in 2003 with me being an independent consultant and then when Sachi joined in 2007 we became a two-person company and that’s when we started making the videos for which we’re known now. [...]

Episode 187 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week we have 3/4 of the panel, Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves) and Kevin Dees (@kevindees). Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #187: Louis Goes to the Horse Race (MP3, 37:06, 35.6MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary The panel discuss topics such as Instagram’s new look on the web, browser trends, security threats, the position of audio on the web and more! googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web! – Instagram Blog Browser Trends November 2012: Entering Equilibrium? – SitePoint Not One Microsoft Product on Kaspersky’s Top 10 Vulnerabilities List cites IT Threat Evolution: Q3 2012 – Securelist and IT Threat Evolution: Q3 2010 – Securelist ReadWrite – The Web Needs An Instapaper-Style “Listen Later” Button For Audio Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/187. Host Spotlights Kevin: Angry Birds Star Wars official gameplay trailer Patrick: Live-in replica of the Disneyland Haunted Mansion for sale – Boing Boing ref. Mansion For sale by Theme Park Connection Modeled After the Disneyland Haunted Mansion Attraction Stephan: The United 787 Ready to Taxi Interview Transcript Patrick: Hello, and welcome back to the SitePoint Podcast. This is Patrick O’Keefe, and I’m joined today by Kevin Dees and Stephan Segraves. How’s it going, gentlemen? Stephan: Pretty good, Patrick. Kevin: It’s going well. Patrick: Yeah, it’s good to have you back. Stephan, I know you were sick last time, so we couldn’t get you on the show. Stephan: Yeah, it’s good to be back. Even if it’s just because I feel better. [laughs] Patrick: [laughs] Right. It’s just good to be upright. Stephan: Yes. Patrick: We’re without Louis Simoneau today, our usual fourth co-host, because of an Australian holiday, I think. Kevin: Horse races, right? [laughs] Patrick: [laughs] Yeah, it’s not a horse race. This podcast is going to be released on November 9th, and November 10th marks the fourth anniversary of us starting this show. Me and Stephan were a part of the initial lineup, along with Kevin Yank and Brad Williams, and of course now we’ve got Louis Simoneau and Kevin Dees, but, yeah, we’re coming up on four years. You know, Stephan, what do you think about that passage of time, [laughs], old man. Stephan: It’s a long time to be a broadcaster. [laughs] No, it’s good. Patrick: [laughs] I mean, a broadcaster. Right up there with Brokaw. Yeah. Stephan: It’s good. Patrick: No, it’s great, and it’s been fun to see how the show’s grown, and, definitely, thank you to all the listeners we’ve had over the years, and all the people who… Stephan: Absolutely. Patrick: …helped us get that .net magazine podcast of the year award, and it’s been a fun run. Kevin: Four years and going. Patrick: We’re going to continue on here, with a news panel show. Let’s jump right into it. Stephan: Well, I have kind of an interesting story, guys, from Instagram. They’ve decided that they’re going to have web profiles. Instagram has been something that’s been on Android and iPhone… Patrick: Right. Stephan: …for a long time. And now, they’re going to have, basically, a web version of your feed, available online. So they’ve got these profiles, they have a whole [...]

Episode 186 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week Kevin Dees (@kevindees) interviews Michael Kimsal (@mgkimsal) of IndieConf about many things concerning freelancing. Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #186: Freelancing with Michael Kimsal (MP3, 39:00, 37.5MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary Kevin and Michael talk about freelancing and how his experience in visiting conferences as a freelancer was instrumental in the inspiration of IndieConf. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/186. Interview Transcript Kevin: Well, welcome to the Sitepoint podcast. I’m Kevin Dees and I’m joined by Michael Kimsal . Welcome to the show. Michael: Hello, thank you very much. Kevin: I have to say, I love your voice. You sound so much more professional than I do. Michael: I’ve become attached to it over the years, thank you. Kevin: That’s good to hear, that you’re not sharing that with anyone else. It’s a very podcast-y kind of voice. You can tell my talking isn’t quite as eloquent, maybe, as it could be. Michael: I think it’s fine. I’m enjoying it so far. Kevin: Thank you. You do do a podcast, right? Michael: I do. I’ve been doing Web Dev Radio, which obviously it’s not radio, it’s just a podcast. Actually for a little over seven years now, started in 2005. Fourth of July weekend, just started doing it. I interview people sometimes, sometimes it’s just me rambling. I had a review on iTunes once and somebody said, ‘I don’t get it. This just seems like some old guy.’ He said something like, ‘this is just like some old guy who just likes to complain about stuff.’ He happened to hit an issue where I really was complaining about rails, some issues that I had with it. I don’t normally complain that much, but sometimes I vent. Kevin: That’s pretty funny. I feel like I’m doing the listeners discourtesy by not letting them know who exactly you are before getting too far into the conversation. I feel like maybe it would be good to introduce yourself. Now Michael, you do a conference for the last few years, you’re also a PHP programmer. Maybe you could tell us a little bit about those two things and then we can go from there? Michael: Wow, yes. How do I start? There’s a lot of background. I have been working with PHP, fortunately in many respects, I’ve been working with software for a long time, but I got into the web in very early 96. I was telnetting and gophering around before that, but got into web development and found this thing called PHP FI. That was I think February 96, January 96. I feel very fortunate because I got into web development very early on in my career. I didn’t have to unlearn a lot of concepts. I’ve been working largely with PHP. I’ve done Perl, ASP, some Java. I like Grails and Groovy a lot these days, but PHP has been probably 70% of my career. It’s been very good to me. It’s been very interesting to watch that grow and evolve over time. You mentioned this conference. I have organized a conference, this is year three for IndieConf, which is for largely initially people like myself, web freelancers. If you do freelance Druple, WordPress, PHP, .NET, Java, whatever it may be. If you work on the web and you’re freelance, you’ve got the same kind of questions that I was looking to have answered. I put it [...]

Episode 185 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week we have 3/4 of the panel, Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) and Kevin Dees (@kevindees). Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #185: CSRF is the New SQL Injection (MP3, 47:38, 45.8MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary The panel discuss topics such as Google’s new Disavow Links tool, the numbers of different security threats and where they come from, the new ReadWrite site and more! googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Cross-site Scripting Attacks Up 69% – Insider ReadWrite – Editor’s Note: Welcome To The New ReadWrite Google Launches Disavow Links Tool Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/185. Host Spotlights Louis: jq – A Lightweight and Flexible Command-line JSON Processor Kevin: Debugging CSS Media Queries · Johan Brook Patrick: Not Quite What the Doctor Ordered Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of The Site Point Podcast. We’re back this week with a news and commentary show. With me are 2 of the regular panelists, Kevin Dees and Patrick O’Keefe. Hi, guys. Kevin: Howdy, howdy. Patrick: We’re back. Louis: Yeah. It hasn’t been, you know, terribly long since you were here on the last show. Steven unfortunately is away this week. He’s sick. So we’ll hope he feels a little bit better and he can get back with us next time. Kevin: Get well. Louis: So let’s dive straight into this week’s news. Patrick. You had a couple of stories there. Patrick: Yeah. I do have a couple of stories. So Firehost is a cloud hosting provider. They’re renowned for their secure cloud host and they really focus on security and they have published the results of a statistical analysis of 15 million cyber attacks that were blocked from their servers in the U.S. and Europe during the 3rd quarter of 2012. What they found, I see they categorized the attacks into 4 different categories. Those were as follows: Cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, directory traversal and SQL injection. Of those 4 categories, the cross site scripting attacks far and away were the leader and most importantly, they grew by an estimated 69%, those 2 types of attacks. Cross-site scripting represented 35%, cross-site request forgery 29%, directory traversal 24% and SQL injection was just 12%. If you don’t know what those are, you’re like me and you’re really a Layman, the XSS attacks, the cross-site scripting attacks involve web application gathering malicious data from a user via a trusted site, often coming in the form of a hyperlink containing malicious content. Then the CSRF or the cross-site request forgery attacks exploit the trust the user has for a particular site. Those 2 attacks are far and away the most prevalent, likewise, the United States was the most prevalent as far as the origination of the attacks. 74% or 11 million came from the US. There was a shift though with the 2nd place country which in this quarter was Europe, or I shouldn’t say country, but Europe was 17% of all malicious attacks whereas Southern Asia was 6%. They have previously been the second place leader. This is the part where I just kick it over to you guys to talk about the importance of sanitizing and whatever words you use. Louis: Yeah. Obviously, this is interesting in a few [...]

Episode 184 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Colin Ihrig (@cjihrig) about the new website from Sitepoint called JSPro.com where Colin is the Managing Editor. Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #184: JSPro.com with Colin Ihrig (MP3, 16:05, 15.4MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary Louis and Colin talk about the launch of JSPro.com, what it’s aims are immediately, and how it aims to move forward. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/184. Interview Transcript Louis: Hello, and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast. With me on the show today is the managing editor of SitePoint’s latest content site, which is JSPro.com, Colin Ihrig. Hi, Colin. Colin: Hi, Louis. Louis: Hi, and welcome to the show. Colin: Thanks for having me. Louis: Yeah, so we’ve just launched a new site, really, all about JavaScript. Do you want to talk a little bit about what JSPro is and how you came to be involved in it? Colin: Okay, so JSPro is basically the SitePoint network’s new place for everything related to JavaScript. We’re going to be covering things like jQuery, Node.js, native JavaScript — plain old vanilla JavaScript — and just everything on the topic. The way I got involved was I was originally just a writer for SitePoint, and I asked Tom, the editor, “What could I do to be more involved?” And I was originally just planning on writing more articles, but he said, “Oh, well, we have this new site launching. How would you like to work with it?” I said, “Sure.” Louis: Right. So I take it you’ve been working with JavaScript for some time? Colin: I taught myself back in high school and, basically, every job I’ve had since then, I’ve been working with it. Louis: Right. One of the things that was surprising to me when I found out that this new site was being launched, I thought, “Oh, yeah, that’s great — a good, new site by JavaScript — that makes sense.” And then I thought to myself, “Well, that’s funny. I don’t know any other sites that spring to mind as a place to go to find tutorials and information by JavaScript.” So there was nothing off the top of my head, but then even when I looked into it, I couldn’t really find anything. So I wonder if it’s maybe just sort of a sign of a new stage in JavaScript’s development that it’s the right time for a site focused on JavaScript? I was thinking things like CoffeeScript and Backbone.js and Node have only been around for a few years, so does it seem to you like now is a good time for this? Colin: Well, I think it’s a combination of a few things. First, for a long time JavaScript had a bad reputation and it was just something that teenagers would put on their websites to make things blink. And second, there are a lot of blogs out there and random websites that have some content, but JavaScript has evolved to the point where there is so much with so many different libraries and everything — client-side, server-side – that to get everything in one place is just really hard, and we need a site that is collective of real people, or working lists such as JSPro. Louis: Yeah, I’m looking forward to seeing the kind of stuff you’ll be covering. Have you worked with Node.js, for example? Colin: Yeah, I have worked [...]

Episode 183 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week we have 3/4 of the panel, Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) and Kevin Dees (@kevindees). Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #183: Social Login (MP3, 35:48, 34.4MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary The panel discuss topics such as a new paid social network, user testing and several typography related topics! googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: WebPlatform.org — Your Web, documented Social Login Buttons Aren’t Worth It | MailChimp Email Marketing Blog Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/183. Host Spotlights Patrick: Official Website – The Art of Explanation, a book by Lee LeFever Louis: Zeus – a Ruby gem for preloading Kevin: How to destroy angels_ Keep it together_ [official] Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint podcast. We’re back with our every other weekly roundup of the latest news and events in the world of web design and development. I’m joined on the panel this week by Patrick O’Keefe and Kevin Dees. Stephan is away this week. Hi guys. Kevin: Hello. Patrick: Click and drag continues. Kevin: Yes. Louis: Yeah, clicking and dragging still. Kevin: Let’s just pull this joke out of the way longer than it needs to be. Patrick: Stretch it. Kevin: Stretch it. Louis: All right, so, Patrick, you were saying you were asking around on Twitter for what stories we should cover and you came up with a lot of people who replied with the same story that I had identified as being something I wanted to talk about on the show. So why don’t we dive right into that? Patrick: Yeah. I asked on Twitter and Dale McGlathery, Joe Anzelone, and Andy Con all responded with the same story. When I saw it I thought very strongly that at least one of you would have it, if not both of you, just because it seems like it’s being talked about like crazy today. So, let’s talk about it ourselves. It’s webplatform.org. It bills itself as an open community of developers building resources for a better web regardless of brand, browser, or platform. In the launch blog post which was made today they said that they aim to have accurate, up to date, comprehensive references and tutorials for every part of client side development and design with quirks and bugs revealed and explained. Now, this isn’t just another online community. This is being backed by Microsoft, Opera, Google, Facebook, Mozilla, Nokia, Adobe, HP, and the W3C. They said they wanted to put out this alpha site, which is what they’re calling it, in the earliest possible point in the spirit of release early, release often. So they want to improve it in public with the web community’s help. Now, the organizations I mentioned are called stewards. They’re stewards for the project and it says they’ve enabled the W3C to convene the community and grow the site. Those organizations have put a lot into it and they’re basically pledging to put people, content, money, and effort into this site. But this blog post stressed they’re doing so as peers with the same privileges available to anyone else who builds up trust and becomes a site admin. Right now, webplatform.org is mostly a wiki. It also has a forum, a chat room, a blog, but their focus is really on the wiki and on growing it [...]

Episode 182 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews John Allsopp (@johnallsopp) about the series of conferences he works on, Web Directions and more. Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #182: Web Directions with John Allsopp (MP3, 41:25, 39.8MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary Louis and John talk about the Web Directions conferences, what has been added to them in terms of startup talks, and his history of the web timeline at WebDirections.org/history using Timeline JS. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/182. Interview Transcript Louis: Hello, and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast. With me on the show today, returning to the show, is Mr. John Allsopp. Hi John. John: Hey. Good to be back. Thanks for having me. Louis: It’s good to have you back. John is best known as one of the founders of the Web Directions series of conferences of which the flagship event, Web Directions South is coming up in just a couple of weeks, so I really appreciate you taking the time out of what I imagine must be a very busy schedule this time of the year. John: Yeah, it gets hectic. You think you’d have all your ducks lined up, everything ready to go, but there’s always keynote speakers who can’t make it. Louis: Yeah. John: Actually, it’s the first time it’s ever happened, but it’s always very challenging, and, you know, I’m continuing to do “hacky” things that hopefully we can do at the conference, “Well, let’s just see if they work.” So I probably should have put the whole thing to be about a month ago, but, “No, no. Let’s just see if we can build this thing over here that’s really cool that people will talk about.” Louis: Well, that’s what makes those conferences great. I definitely know from the ones I’ve attended that it’s always a great experience. So you guys have got a lot of great speakers this year. John: Yeah, no. It’s a pretty amazing line-up. It gets sort of bigger and better each year. I think we’ve got 65 people this year, and one particular reason for that is we’ve added a start-up track to the conference this year. Obviously, start-ups are the hot, hot thing, and, you know, there’s a lot flying around about the whole kind of starting up your own business thing. We’ve been doing that for a long time and been involved really since the early ’90s, I guess with what’s come to be known as start-ups, and I see a lot of hype and a lot of nonsense out there. What we’re really trying to do is address that by having people who’ve gone out and done it come back and share what they’ve learned. We’ve basically given people the brief to say what they wish they’d known before they started out. So that’s what that’s all about. Then, of course, a great range of people across the design and development kind of world, and then people who kind of think big telling us about what they think is happening out there. So yeah, it’s lots of fun, very challenging to put together a great program year on year, you know, to get people to come all the way out here or across the country, but always very rewarding and a fantastic couple of days, which increasingly, we actually get to enjoy, whereas in the past we’d be so stressed that we probably wouldn’t [...]

Episode 181 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week we have the full panel, Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) and Kevin Dees (@kevindees). Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #181: Solving More Problems Than You Create (MP3, 33:41, 32.3MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary The panel discuss topics such as a new paid social network, user testing and several typography related topics! googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Indieconf 2012 – Web Freelancer Conference Adobe Edge Reflow | Edge Tools and Services | Adobe and HTML W3C Announce HTML5 2014 Delivery Plan – SitePoint Myspace teases a completely rethought service, and believe it or not, it looks beautiful – The Next Web Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/181. Host Spotlights Patrick: GameMaster Howard on Facebook.com Louis: xkcd: Click and Drag Stephan: World’s Best Father Kevin: Cross domain javascript interface Interview Transcript Louis: Hello, and welcome to the SitePoint Podcast. We’ve got a panel show together this week to talk about all the latest news and developments in the world of web design and development. So with me on the show today is our full panel of regular hosts, Kevin Dees, Patrick O’Keefe, and the Stephan Segraves. Hi guys. Kevin: Howdy, howdy. Stephan: Hi. Patrick: It feels like it’s been longer than it has been. It’s actually only been two group shows since we’ve done one altogether and we were talking about this before the show but I think it’s just because we love each other so much. That’s all. That why it feels longer. Louis: Yeah, I thought you were going to say it feels like it’s been more than the three seconds it’s been since the last take of that intro. Kevin: It feels like deja vu in here. Patrick: We’re professionals. Louis: Yeah, we are. So how’s everybody been? Stephan: Been good. How about yourself? Louis: Most excellent. Things are progressing, all kinds of work projects. At the moment we’ve got something on the go at Flippa that we’ll be revealing pretty soon, so excited about that. Patrick: Excellent. Kevin: I have interesting things going on myself. I don’t know if you guys know, but Patrick and I will be speaking at Indie Comp. I’m kind of nervous about it because last time I went, my car broke down, so- Patrick: Yeah, Kevin’s car broke down and thankfully I was there so he didn’t have to sleep outside with the wolves. Kevin: Yes. Patrick: The wolves of Raleigh, North Carolina. Yeah, so we’re going to speak, both are going to be speaking at Indie Comp this year and that’s in Raleigh, North Carolina on November 17th. I’m going to be speaking about how to monetize your website and get the most out of that. Kevin, what are you talking about? Kevin: I’ll be talking about basically booting up, pragmatic WordPress development kind of launching a WordPress site using some tools that are available. I’ll probably end up writing a blog post about it once I have everything together. I don’t want to spoil anything for those who are going to show up to the event. Patrick: Awesome. Well, indieconf is focused at independent web professionals and freelancers, so if you’re in the area, Raleigh, an hour or two away, definitely come check it out. We’d love to meet [...]

Episode 180 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) interviews David Lee King (@davidleeking) about digital media in a modern library and also his book Face2Face – Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Tools to Create Great Customer Connections. Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #180: Face2Face with David Lee King (MP3, 42:19, 40.6MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Episode Summary Patrick and David discuss the challenges of digital media for a modern library, like eBook pricing and serving your customers through digital pathways. THey also discuss his book Face2Face and not only how this relates to libraries connecting in a ‘human’ manner with customers, but how this can apply to all businesses. Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/180. Interview Transcript Patrick: Hello and welcome back to another edition of The Site Point Podcast. My name is Patrick O’Keefe. And we have an interview today with David Lee King. David is a friend of mine. He is the Digital Services Director at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library in Topeka Kansas. He is a constant, prominent voice regarding digital innovation in libraries. In 2008, he released “Designing the Digital Experience, How to Use Experience, Design Tools and Techniques to Build Web Sites Customers Love.” He has now followed that up with a brand new book, “Face2Face, Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Tools to Create Great Customer Connections.” David, it’s great to have you on. David: Hey, thanks. Thanks, Patrick. Patrick: We met, I want to say . . . I know we met in person first at South by Southwest, probably three or four years ago. I don’t know if that was the first time that we met, or if we had talked online before that. It’s hard to keep track. David: We did talk online before that. Patrick: Okay. David: Because of your book. Patrick: Oh, I applaud your memory. David: I think I had a question or something. I was like, I think I’m going to email the author, or something like that. Patrick: Excellent. Well, I applaud your memory, then. But, since then, we’ve kept in touch. I’ve read both your books, and provided advance praise, and like what you’re doing. You were kind enough to have me out to speak at Pod Camp Topeka 2010 . . . David: Right. Patrick: . . . which is a great event. A great un-conference. It’s happening again this year. David: Yes, it is. Patrick: We’ll talk about that a little later. But for now I want to jump in to, kind of, your background, a little bit. You know, looking at your LinkedIn profile, I’ve picked up a few details. Doing some stalking, some Googling. David: Sure. Patrick: But you were the acting Director at the Kansas City Public Library for seven years. And then you became the Digital Branch and Services Manager at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library for about six years, before you were promoted to Digital Services Director. Or at least a title change, I noticed. David: Title change, yes. Patrick: Come, on, promotion. Beef it up a little bit. No, but the question I have is libraries are a constant in your background. Were libraries a specific choice? Or were you just an IT guy who the job was at the library and then you developed into that space? Or was it always, libraries something that you wanted to [...]

Episode 179 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week we have 3/4 of the panel, Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) and Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves). Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #179: Mining the Database (MP3, 30:17, 29.1MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary The panel discuss topics such as a new paid social network, user testing and several typography related topics! googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Paypal President Marcus Vows Change at Payments Giant – Tricia Duryee – Commerce – AllThingsD and PayPal president makes house-call (or email) to smooth over customer dispute Download Digg Archives via Essentials of the Online Business.com – Chris Trynkiewicz PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 9.2 released Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/179. Host Spotlights Patrick: Amazon.com: Hyperkin SUPABOY Portable Pocket SNES Console Louis: Amazon.com: Year Zero: A Novel (9780345534415): Rob Reid: Books Stephan: BBC News – Jazz junctions – riding New York’s A Train Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to the Site Point podcast. We’re back with the panel show this week to discuss some new stories and events from around the world of web design and development. With me on the show today are Patrick and Steven. Hi guys. Stephan: Yep, how are you? Patrick: Hey, how’s it going? Louis: Kevin Dees could not make it this week but we will carry on in his absence. Patrick: Yes, Kevin was actually showing me around Minecraft the other day. Louis: Oh, all right. Are you dead to the world now? Patrick: He got lost. I threw you guys right off the bat with that one. Yeah we did a screen share on Skype and he was showing me his server he had set up for Minecraft. It’s pretty cool. My little brother’s playing it on his iPod, and it’s like a pretty neat thing. It reminded me of some things that I played in the past. I’m not an old man per se. Louis: You’re such an old man Patrick. Patrick: But I am older than Kevin. And it reminded me of Runescape in some elements. Even Sim City to some extent. But it’s a pretty cool game. I don’t know if you guys have played around with it at all. Louis: Yeah, I did very briefly. I only played locally, not on a server and at that, only for a few hours. I kind of put it aside and never got back to it. But it was definitely interesting and it’s captivated a lot of people’s imaginations, so it’s an interesting development in gaming. I like the fact that it’s just a purely open world kind of thing and really focuses on letting you just build whatever you want to build. Patrick: You know it’s funny, to give you an inside into my mindset. One of the questions I’m asking him when he starts showing me and he’s on this server he has with a friend and I’m well can the other person destroy what you built? He’s like yeah. That’s like one of my first questions. And he’s like, yeah they can but that’s why I have my own server with my friend. We built things and we built all these little traps and stuff, and yeah it’s pretty cool. But that’s my mindset. It’s wait a minute, can this person come to what I just built and change it? So, I’m very protective. Louis: All right, on that note. I don’t have a segue, unfortunately Kevin, the master of the segues isn’t with us [...]

Episode 178 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Giovanni Difeterici (@giodif) about his new book for SitePoint, The Web Designer’s Roadmap. Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #178: Web Design Process and Creativity with Giovanni Difeterici (MP3, 26:02, 25MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary Louis and Giovanni talk about what the book covers, and how Giovanni interviewed a number of great designers to get a wide breadth of views and methods of working. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/178. Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint podcast. This week on the show I have an interview with the author of SitePoint’s latest book, “The Web Designer’s Roadmap,” Giovanni Difeterici. Hi and welcome to the show, Giovanni. Giovanni: Hey, how are you, nice to meet you. Louis: I’m very well, how are you? Giovanni: Great, great, we’ve been having a lot of storms here lately but it’s been a good time to work. Louis: That’s good. I wanted to have you on the show mostly because you have a book that just came out and I wanted to talk about it a bit because it’s a little bit different from a lot of books that’s SitePoint’s had in the past and I thought there’d be a lot of material for conversation there. Giovanni: Sure. Louis: So the book is called the Web Designer’s Roadmap. Do you want to just explain a little bit about what the title means and what people can expect to find in the book? Giovanni: Sure, we went back and forth about the title a number of times and settled on the Web Designer’s Roadmap because the book is about all the way up to the point right before you do your markup, everything from discovery to mockups. And I like to think of it as two things, as the practical, procedural steps that you take to get something done so you can communicate effectively with clients and with other people that you’re working on, but at the exact same time you’re doing this creative process whereby you’re trying to invent interesting ways of communicating ideas and interactions and all of those things. So there’s these two simultaneous processes. I wanted to write a book that talked about both of those things and how they work together, so that’s really what the book is about. Louis: Right, I remember talking with some of the people in the SitePoint office while the book was in development, it was just called the Process Book, and I guess it didn’t have a title at that point. Giovanni: No, well like I said, it really evolved kind of like what the book was about evolved as we worked on it. I think the first working title was like “Digital Inspiration” or something like that, and it became much more a deeper sort of book about ideas, and as that changed, the title went through a few iterations and eventually settled on the Web Designer’s Roadmap. Louis: Right. We’ll talk a bit more about the book itself later, but maybe for the moment we can just start off by talking about what are those key elements of process and how do you view the way that you do design. Giovanni: I think that it breaks into two sort of broad phases. The first of which is an information gathering phase, it’s the pre-design phase, and that has everything to do from [...]