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Episode 177 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 #177: Non-Passive Income (MP3, 32:04, 30.8MB) 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 Facebook’s Big Data, passive income for developers, and 3 Youtube spotlights! Here are the main topics covered in this episode: googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Stripe Blog: Capture the Flag 2.0 How Big Is Facebook’s Data? 2.5 Billion Pieces Of Content And 500+ Terabytes Ingested Every Day | TechCrunch via Essentials of the Online Business.com – Chris Trynkiewicz Open Source – Facebook Developers Passive Income Strategies For Web Designers | Smashing Magazine Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/177. Host Spotlights Patrick: Ghostbuster’s Theme on eight floppy drives – YouTube Louis: What the #$%@ is UX Design? – YouTube Kevin: Flight of Conchords FEEL INSIDE AND STUFF LIKE THAT WITH KIDS – YouTube Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to the Sitepoint Podcast. We’re back this week with our regular news and commentary show. With me on the show are two-thirds of the regular panel of guests, Patrick O’Keefe and Kevin Dees. Hi guys. Kevin: Howdy, howdy. Patrick: And together we make up three quarters of the hosting lineup. Louis: Now that we’ve dazzled our audience with our ability to do basic fractional math, we can move on to talking about the web. First up, I have to apologize to listeners for the abysmal quality of my audio. My microphone was outputting a lot of static and I couldn’t figure out how to make it stop. I rebooted, I changed the USB cable, I did all the things and none of them worked. So I am recording this on the built in microphone in a laptop which is in a big echoy room, so apologies for that. Patrick: Sorry. I was going to say Kevin even offered his USB cable from Greenville, SC, USA to Louis who’s in Australia. Louis: You know. Kevin: It’s the thought that counts. Louis: Yes, it is the thought that counts. Patrick: It’s the thought. Well maybe one day we’ll have the printers, you know those 3D printers. I’m reading about them all the time now. It seems like there’s more and more videos where they have 3D printers. How far can we be from printing out cables? Louis: It can’t be that far, yeah. Although cable has got, you do metal in at as well. So it might be a little more difficult than just printing out a plastic wrench. Kevin: I have to ask, while we’re talking about technology, before we get too far into the weblinks- Louis: Aren’t we always talking about technology? Patrick: Occasionally. Kevin: Yes. I just heard about this Raspberry Pi thing. When did that come out? I just heard about it today. Louis: It was a few months ago. I have a, one of my friends here at work the lead designer for Flippa is big into physical computing, has been working with Arduino for quite some time. He’s built this code library for Arduino that sort of controls his greenhouse with the humidity sensors and temperature sensors to control the greenhouse. He’s built an open source library to do that. He was really looking forward to the Raspberry Pi when it was announced. There was a big delay in shipping because the demand was pretty high. For anyone who [...]

Episode 176 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Paul Kinlan (@paul_kinlan) about the Web Intents API from Google and where it’s going. 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 #176: Web Intents in Depth with Paul Kinlan (MP3, 22:47, 21.9MB) 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 Paul discuss how the Web Intents API is being worked on at the W3C and other groups, what it will mean for web apps and browsers, and how this could even extend in the future to working with other devices in your home. 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/176. Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast. Today in the show, I thought it would be a good idea to delve a little deeper into a topic that we’ve covered in the past. So, a few episodes ago on the podcast, we talked a little bit about Web Intents, which is a new browser API specification. At the time, it had just landed in a release of Chrome, and we talked a little bit about what it was. But I thought it was a really interesting topic and worth going into more depth. So, today on the show I have with me Paul Kinlan, who’s a Developer Advocate at Google, and who blogs and talks a lot about the Web Intents specification, just to go over this a little bit in more detail. Hi, Paul, welcome to the show. Paul: Hi. Thank you for having me. Louis: It’s a pleasure to have you. Paul: Yeah. It’s good to be here. I’m currently in L.A. I normally am based in London. So, yeah, my time zones are all pretty crazy. Louis: Yeah, well L.A. is a little bit easier actually for us here in Australia to coordinate with. GMT is the worst. It’s always exactly the middle of the night whenever we’re awake in Australia. Well, it’s great to have you on the show. So, before we dive in maybe for anyone who hasn’t heard the previous episode – or even people who have because my understanding of Web Intents was, at the time, fairly limited, so I probably butchered a few things. Do you want to talk a little bit about what the Web Intents specification is and what its role is in the modern browser? Paul: Yeah. Web Intents is a specification that we’ve been working on with kind of partnership with the W3C. It’s still kind of in a very kind of early, experimental stage at the moment. It’s by no way an official standard just yet. But it’s something that we’re working on to try and make it easier for developers to build connected web applications. Kind of the thing that we find at the moment is when people build applications they’ll talk to another web app, they do a whole load of server work to kind of get two apps talking together, or they use kind of JavaScript widgets. There’s no consistent API to kind of connect those two services together. But also at the same time, there’s no kind of one consistent way of being able to plug in your own preferred service to talk to another application. So, if you were on a website and you wanted to share a link to, say, Google Plus and it wasn’t on the page – but only Twitter and, say, Facebook or some other social networks are on there – right now, there’s no other way than getting the developer to actually implement that integration to, say, Google Plus into their site. Web Intents is designed [...]

Episode 175 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 #175: Typography (MP3, 46:37, 44.8MB) 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 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: Join the Movement – App.net Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source type family « Typblography Help Us Help WordPress | Smashing WordPress TextMate — The Missing Editor for Mac OS X – Going Open Source Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/175. Host Spotlights Patrick: VEDA – Vlog Every Day in August from Brandon Eley Louis: 18 National Flags Made From Food Kevin: Free Icon Fonts for Web User Interfaces Stephan: Hear, All Ye People; Hearken, O Earth (Part One) – NYTimes.com Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to the SitePoint podcast. We’ve got a panel show this week to talk about all the latest happenings in the world of the web. But this time, it feels odd to say this is special, but it is a little bit special. We’ve got a full panel show. Everybody’s here. Hi, guys. Kevin: Hey. Stephan: Hey, woo-hoo. Patrick: Hey, it’s been a while. I missed us. Kevin: I didn’t get that the first time. Oh, wait you didn’t say it twice. Dang it. Patrick: No, I didn’t say it twice. Kevin: I don’t even know. Patrick: Sorry, we already don’t know what we’re doing. Kevin: I must be drowsy. Stephan: Yeah. Louis: This is how long it’s been. We’ve forgotten how to do this. Patrick: But it’s good. There’s a lot of travel, a lot of things going on, people being away, accidentally on purpose, planned or otherwise. So, it’s good to have everybody back together. Louis: Yeah, it’s good. Well, that obviously means we’re going to have a lot to talk about. So why don’t we just kick right into it? I think you and Stephan both glommed onto the same story this week, so why don’t we start with that? Patrick: Yes, we glommed on like a tumor. Go ahead, Stephen. Stephan: Well, we glommed onto the same story about app.net, a real-time social feed without the ads being funded finally. So they had a project goal of $500,000, and they’re now up to $760,000, and I think it’s kind of a neat project to look at. I guess the take is that it’s going to be a Twitter competitor, and they really just want to create something that’s not media-driven, but more of the API and developer-driven type application. So, Patrick, you add your two cents. Patrick: Sure. No, I think to understand app.net – and as you said they’ve got nine hours left of funding so they are still taking money. But to understand them, you can take a look at the app.net core values on join.app.net, and I’ll go over those briefly here. The first is we are selling our product, not our users. So, they promise not to sell data or anything to advertisers. Second is, you own your content. They’ll provide an easy way to back up, export, and delete your data whenever you want. Third, we will align our financial incentives with members and developers. So, they’re operating under a paid model, not an ad- supported model. So people pay [...]

Episode 174 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week Kevin Dees (@kevindees) interviews Ronnie Taylor (@rontec76) about the world of Drupal and how to make the most of what it has to offer. 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 #174: Drupal with Ronnie Taylor (MP3, 46:22, 44.6MB) 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 Kevin and Ronnie go through how Drupal is structured, and how that can suit different types of project, and how a user new to Drupal can into using it for the first time. They then cover some more advanced tools you can use with Drupal and how this can improve workflow. 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/174. Interview Transcript Kevin: All right. So I am here with Ronnie Taylor at CoWork Greenville and today we’re going to talk about this mysterious system called Drupal. But before we jump into Drupal, I’d like to introduce you to Ronnie. Ronnie is one of my friends here at CoWork Greenville, and we get to talk about code all the time. I was like, “Why don’t we just talk about this code stuff on the SitePoint podcast?” So here we are. Ronnie, tell me a little bit about yourself, how you got started in this web world. Ronnie: It’s sort of a common story. I started out doing other things and sort of evolved into doing web work full-time. I have an IT and engineering background and then worked in the newspaper world for a while. Starting learning web stuff on the side on my own and just it sort of evolved from there, started taking on customers and so eventually jumped out into the freelance world. I’ve been doing this for a while. I started full-time back in 2004 and I’ve gone through a couple iterations of business. So, that’s how I got started. Kevin: You did freelancing for a while, right? Now, you’re kind of migrating into different things? Ronnie: Yeah, I actually have just taken a full-time job with one of my clients. I’m doing a lot of Drupal stuff for them, but also expand into some Rails and some other stuff. But, yes, I’ve been doing freelance for quite a long time. Kevin: Very cool. So what made you pick Drupal as a platform? Tell us why we should consider that as a viable solution outside of something like, say WordPress, which is extremely popular, has a lot of plug-ins out there. Out there, there are many, many, many reasons to use WordPress and I think Drupal gets overlooked, but you’ve chosen Drupal and, I think, for some really good reasons. I like to use Drupal on specific projects. So what are the reasons that you use Drupal? What drew you to it? Ronnie: I would say that it’s – and then we’ll talk about some of these things later as well – but the modularity of it, which allows for a high level of customization even down into the core parts of Drupal. So, it allows it to be very flexible and almost function as a framework, whereas some other systems I’ve used, they’re inherently geared towards just being specific things and specific types of sites. So, it’s the flexibility is the short answer Kevin: Right. Ronnie: Then the community on top of that. There’s a huge number of modules and there’s a huge community that’s very friendly and willing to help out. Kevin: So, you’re mentioning this community that was online, a part of the reason why you picked Drupal. You picked Drupal starting out near its very beginning, [...]

Episode 173 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of our regular host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves) and Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy). 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 #173: Unleash The Chaos Monkey (MP3, 32:00, 30.8MB) 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 Microsoft launching it’s new Outlook web mail service, password-less logins and more! Here are the main topics covered in this episode: googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Outlook.com – New Webmail from Microsoft XOXCO – More on password-less login Netflix/SimianArmy (including Chaos Monkey) · GitHub via Netflix Open Sources Chaos Monkey – A Tool Designed To Cause Failure So You Can Make A Stronger Cloud | TechCrunch Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/173. Host Spotlights Stephan: battellemedia.com – What we lose when we glorify cashless Patrick: Nas – Daughters (Official Music Video) – YouTube Louis: intridea – grape – Framework for APIs Interview Transcript Louis: Hello, and welcome to the SitePoint podcast. We’re back this week with a little panel show discussing the week’s events in the web. With me on the show today are Patrick and Steven, Kevin is away this week. Hi, guys. Steven: Howdy, howdy. Patrick: Hey, Louis, we were so close to having all four of us back together again. This close. Louis: We were minutes away, minutes away, but Kevin had a last-minute thing come up. But Steven’s back. Good to have you back, Steven. Patrick: Welcome back, Steven. Steven: Thank you, guys. It’s been weird not being on the show for a couple weeks. Louis: It’s been weird not having you on the show for a couple weeks. Patrick: Given that it’s your first day back, do you want to kick us off? Steven: Sure. I think some news just came out today about Outlook and the new Outlook.com. Microsoft announcing that they’re going to get rid of Hotmail.com or merge it into this new Outlook.com and they’re calling it “modern e-mail for the next billion mailboxes”. Kind of cheesy but it looks good. Kind of looks a little like G-mail. The Microsoft blog for Office has a pretty good description of what they’ve tried to do, and one of those things is reduce the clutter around your mail. It looks pretty cool. I don’t know. What do you guys think? Louis: I am trying, I’ve been since a couple of minutes before this show, I’ve been trying to get into this thing. Oh my God. It just keeps going. I’ve been trying to get into it. Basically, every time I go to sign in to some Microsoft, and this has been the case for, like, probably more than a decade now because you had a, whatever it was, Passport was it that it used to be called and then that become the Live account and then I had a Xbox account and basically every time I try and sign in, it’s like, “No, no, no, you’ve already got an account.” And I’m like, “I have no idea.” Now I’ve been battling a captcha, for a few minutes now. Let’s try this one again. I’ve tried this three times. Hey! No, no, I failed the captcha again. Steven: Let’s do a screen share here. We can read that for you. Louis: Basically, I can’t get into this thing. I’ve tried. I tried to just set up an account that I could use, just to see what it looked like. “You’ve reached the limit for number of attempts. These limits help us [...]

Episode 172 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week Kevin Dees (@kevindees) interviews Jason Beaird (@JasonGraphix) of Zaarly and disusses the likes of SASS Less, jQuery and many other parts of the front end development world. 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 #172: Work-Life Balance with Jason Beaird (MP3, 25:35, 24.6MB) 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 Kevin and Jason discuss how to balance the time and priorities for a web designer with a long term relationship and the addition of a child too. Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/172. Interview Transcript Kevin: I am here with Jason Beaird, and we are going to be talking about basically work/life balance. Now, if you don’t know who Jason is, he’s authored a book for SitePoint called “The Principles of Beautiful Web Design”, correct? Jason: Yep. Kevin: He’s also a new father. Jason: Well, to start that off, I’m still trying to figure out the whole work/life balance thing. So, I’m no expert, but I’m learning as I go. Kevin: Right. Well, that’s the best time to ask though, because you’re actually starting to think about these things and maybe research ways to do that, right? Jason: Yep. Kevin: So, it’ll be nice to have this interview with you now, and then in the future maybe have you come back and say, “Hey, these are the things I learned along the way.” Jason: Sounds good. Kevin: So, to kick things off, Jason, tell us a little bit about yourself. Jason: My name is Jason, and as you said, most people know me from the book “The Principles of Beautiful Web Design”. I’ve been doing web design for a long time, back to the GeoCities days when I was in high school, and bulletin board systems, and discovering the web through the early, early days when everything was table- based. I’ve just enjoyed the changes and the evolution of the web. It’s what I do for fun and it’s what I do professionally, currently a User Experience Designer at MailChimp in Atlanta, Georgia. As Kevin was saying, we’re going to talk about work/life balance. My wife and I just had our first baby. She’s four and a half months old. Her name is Adelyn and she’s pretty much changed my entire life. So, it’s always fun to talk about her. Kevin: Yeah, that’s good. Tell me a little bit about the history of your expertise and the development of your career. Did you attend college, that kind of thing? Jason: I knew by the time I graduated high school that the web was what I wanted to do, but I thought I wanted to design websites. But at the same time I had planned to go to school for computer science, because I thought that’s what you do if you want to build websites. I ended up changing my major at orientation, before even getting in to any of the computer science classes, to art/graphic design. Because they told me at orientation at University of Central Florida that if I wanted to design websites then I had to go to graphic design. I’m always curious, if I had gone the computer science route, where it would have taken me. But the art/graphic design route treated me pretty well. There are a lot of things that are hard to learn about art without taking traditional art classes, learning how to draw, learning how to paint, framing pictures, making pottery, learning about art history. That kind of guided my sense of design for [...]

Episode 171 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of 3 of our 4 our regular hosts, 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 #171: Don’t Trust The Users (MP3, 35:18, 33.9MB) 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 color pallets for websites, the sale of Digg, password security and more. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Betaworks to Buy Fallen Social Media Star Digg – WSJ.com and Digg Sold To LinkedIn AND The Washington Post And Betaworks | TechCrunch via Cashing Out: Week of July 8th – 14th 2012 in Online Marketing News | ReveNews Hackers post over 400,000 Yahoo! Voice passwords online | CSO with Secure Salted Password Hashing – How to do it Properly How to choose a colour scheme | Creative Bloq Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/171. Host Spotlights Louis: Shell in the Arctic | Shell by The Yes Men Kevin: MVC is dead, it’s time to MOVE on. Patrick: The “GOODBYE I HATE YOU ALL” post generator Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast. We’ve got a panel show this week, Talking about the latest news and developments in the world of the world wide web. Stephan is away this week but Kevin and Patrick are both here with me, hi guys. Kevin: Howdy howdy. Patrick: Hello! Louis: How is everyone going? Kevin: I am marvellous. Patrick, Excellent, doing great. Louis: Fantastic, it’s good to hear it. Patrick: One of the bigger stories in the past week is the sale of Digg, and it was initially reported that it was sold for $500k to a company called Betaworks, which might be best know for owning bit.ly the popular URL shortener. It was later reported by TechCrunch that the entirely of Digg everything that made up the company was sold for about $16M and how that broke down is that the Washington Post bought the talent, they are paying about $12M for what was left of the Digg team, Linkdin paid between $3.75M and $4M for about 15 patents that Digg held, and finally Betaworks bought the remainder for $500k – $700k. So they (Betaworks) bought the name, the domain, whatever that was on the website, those assets were acquired by Betaworks. In addition to the $500k they issues Digg shareholders with some warrants in the combined company that will be Digg and News.me which is Betaworks’ company that they are looking to fork this technology into. Now, of course Digg is well known in tech circles and their refusal to be bought out is also well known, they apparently had a reported offer back in 2008 from Google for $200M and now have sold for about $16M and according to CrunchBase they raised at least $45M dollars in venture money. A lot of startups rise and fall, and I don’t know if this is one of those stories but it seemed more interesting to me just because of the well known name that’s attached to it, Digg. I was a Digg user for a little while, not really that hardcore, but for a little while and, I don’t know, we’re guys on Digg? Were you into Digg? Louis: Super briefly, but yeah. Patrick: Kevin? Kevin: Yeah, I started using it when the new version… I mean, I’d use it on and off, of course. I mean, you can’t avoid Digg. But I’d basically create an account to try it [...]

Episode 170 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Wolf Becvar (@wdbecvar) the COO of HotGloo to talk about Interactive Wireframes and how HotGloo was developed for this job, and where it will go next. 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 #170: Interactive Wireframing with Wolf Becvar of HotGloo (MP3, 24:40, 23.7MB) 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 Louis and Wolf discuss the reasons and benefits in terms of aspects like copy and micro-copy of Interactive Wireframing over jumping into design first, or starting in HTML5 prototyping. 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/170. Interview Transcript Louis: Hello, and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint podcast. With me on the show today, I have Wolf Becvar. Hi, Wolf. Wolf: Hi. Louis: Wolf is the COO of a company called HotGloo, which is sort of this online tool for interactive prototyping. For anyone who builds websites or software, just to sort of sketch out the types of interactions that’ll go into each page before actually launching into full on design. I thought it’d be great to have you on to talk a little bit about just the role of UX design and wireframes and prototyping in web design, because it’s not something we cover a lot on the show. I just recently started using HotGloo, and I really like the tool, so I figured who better to have on to talk about this stuff? Wolf: Well, thanks a lot for inviting me. When we started, now three years ago, in 2009, we saw a need in a tool like we built back then. Hannes and myself, Hannes is the CEO and the CTO, we were working at an interactive media agency. He was a developer there, and I was doing project management, I was doing concept stuff. We were realizing that a lot of our workflow was based on – we were getting into a client meeting. We were writing down specifications. We had our layouts basically of what the client’s idea was of his future website. What was happening back then was that actually the designers would jump straight in, fire up Photoshop, and would start to design right away. Back then, there was this kind of idea flowing over that we were then jumping on to say, “Well, that’s not the right way to do it. We actually should think about whole site structure, information architecture first. Then after all these processes have been laid out and are being discussed with the client, then we actually should jump in and do the design.” That was the basic idea for HotGloo back then. What also was very important for us when we started out was that this whole process is actually a really collaborative process. It’s not that in your whole team of 45 people in an agency, everybody’s working independently and one is doing only the design, the other’s doing only the development. Of course there are these specialized roles within a team, but for us it was really important that everybody on the team was on the same page. Then, when we started out, that actually someone who started doing wireframes would have the designer, the developer, you know, surely every second day looking on the project and bringing in his thoughts and sharing the ideas. At an earlier point of the project, everybody in the team would know where the project would head to. You’d have the client come in again. You would show [...]

Episode 169 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of 3 of our 4 our regular hosts, 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 #169: Web Intents (MP3, 41:27, 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 The panel discuss topics such as the statistic that around 50% of popular websites link to Facebook, an online retailer introduces an Internet Explorer 7 tax and more. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: jQuery Blog » jQuery 1.8 Beta 1: See What’s Coming (and Going!) The US hosts 43% of the world’s top 1 million websites via TheNextWeb – Pingdom: The US Leads Worldwide Website Hosting Web Intents – webintents.org example Web Intents support at AddThis Twitter Should ‘Memorialize’ Our Accounts when We Die – The Next Web Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/169. Host Spotlights Louis: GeekyLucas – Some thoughts on the recent AWS outage (and outages in general) Kevin: Swatch Book with CSS3 and jQuery Patrick: Chester French / She Loves Everybody EP / Available Now Interview Transcript Louis: Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Sitepoint podcast. We’re back with a little news and commentary show this week. With me on the panel are Patrick O’Keefe and Kevin Dees . Hi, guys. Patrick: Howdy, howdy. Kevin: Hey, Louis. Louis: What’s been up? I haven’t spoken with you guys in a while. I missed last week’s show. Patrick: Kevin, you were away last week too. What have you been up to? Kevin: OK. I was helping out at a youth camp, where kids go into the community and do repair work on homes and go into nursing homes and do little drama skits and stuff. That was really cool, so I volunteered to do that and helped journal that experience for the campers, as they went throughout the week. Louis: Very nice. Patrick: Wow, that sounds great and makes me look like a selfish piece of crap. Because I just released a book. I didn’t do anything to help other people. Louis: Well in fairness, the book is free, so it somewhat selfless, right? Patrick: Right, it is a free book. It’s called “Monetizing Online Forums,” and it’s about monetizing online forums in the right way, in a way that respects the community and balances out the need for a great member experience, with the need to generate revenue. Though it is focused at forums, it’ll be for people who are looking to monetize website in general as well. There’s a lot you can pick up, and we cover all the methods in a detailed manner, with a lot of information based on real life experiences, and just a really detailed guide. I’ve been managing online forums for 12 years, and nothing out there that’s really like it, so I wrote it. Kevin: Very cool. Louis: Awesome. I had a quick look at the website. The whole design is really sleek, I like it. Patrick: Yeah, as you know, as you might guess, I can take no credit for that. Skim Links sponsored the project, and basically that’s why I’m able to offer it for free, because they paid me. I had full independence though, I had full editorial control over the work, and that’s how I made my money, was from them paying me. They get value from being associated with the work and from the resulting coverage. But the design was totally them. They have a [...]

Episode 168 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Jeremy Keith (@adactio) who now works at ClearLeft to talk about the developments in the Responsive Design world, and particularly the ongoing discussions on proposed image element solutions. 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 #168: Secret Src with Jeremy Keith (MP3, 32:47, 31.5MB) 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 Louis and Jeremy to talk about the developments in the Responsive Design world, and particularly the ongoing discussions on proposed image element solutions the WHATWG are looking at from various proposals. 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/168. Interview Transcript Louis: Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Sitepoint podcast. Today on the show, I’m very pleased to have with me Mr. Jeremy Keith, all the way from the sunny United Kingdom. Hi, Jeremy. Jeremy: Hi, good to be back. Louis: It’s great to have you back. You were on the show I believe in May of 2011, and we had a pretty far ranging conversation about responsive web design. Obviously since then, almost the only thing you hear about on the Internet is responsive web design. So I thought it’d be a great time to have you back and see where things have come in the past year. Jeremy: Excellent. Sounds good. Louis: All right. First of all, one of the things you mentioned the last time you were on the show, you made a prediction. You said the situation reminded you of the early days of web standards, and there will probably be some high profile site that will do it right. They’ll be the first canonical big, responsive brand in the same way as we had ESPN.com or the Wired redesign. You said that in May. In September, the Boston Globe launched their massive responsive redesign. It sounds like a pretty accurate prediction.` Jeremy: Yeah, I think that’s exactly what happened. Now there is somebody you can point to and say, “Like that.” Then I’ve actually noticed it even with clients, that they’re coming to us now and pointing to the Boston Globe and saying, “How did they do that?” And, “Can we have that?” Which was exactly what it was like with the big web standards changes at the start of the millennium. Louis: You’ve already seen this in the wild. Do clients immediately get that that’s a more attractive approach for them than going the traditional mobile separate site or app route? Jeremy: Where I’ve seen it be convincing for clients is for clients who have tried to do separate apps for different platforms. Maybe two, three years ago they built an iOS app, and then in the last 18 months, oh, we need to build an Android app. Then at some point they realized oh, we need to build Windows phone. It’s those clients who are now saying, “All right, enough is enough. This is getting out of hand, and where is this going to stop?” They’re looking at their numbers and realizing that this just won’t scale. It’s those clients that are the ones who are quite intrigued by responsive design and what it promises. There’s a bit of a danger though in that responsive design has also become a trendy, buzzwordy term amongst people who don’t make websites. When it’s being used by developers and designers, that’s fine. We all understand what we mean by responsive design. Ethan Marcotte was very, [...]

Episode 167 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of only 2 of our 4 our regular hosts, 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 #167: Fireside Chat (MP3, 26:32, 25.5MB) 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 The panel discuss topics such as the statistic that around 50% of popular websites link to Facebook, an online retailer introduces an Internet Explorer 7 tax and more. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: How many sites have Facebook integration? You’d be surprised. via Report: Over 24% Of The Web’s Top 10,000 Sites Now Use Facebook’s Official Widgets | TechCrunch SitePoint’s New Logo — and the Story Behind It – SitePoint along with Web Archive of SitePoint.com Retailer’s Tax on IE 7 Users Opens New Front in Browser Wars Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/167. Host Spotlights Stephan 1: Business – Derek Thompson – Forget Edison: This Is How History’s Greatest Inventions Really Happened – The Atlantic Stephan 2: TriggerTrap Mobile App Patrick: Two and the Zoo – The Adventures of April, Brad, and the Ridiculous Zoo with Professional WordPress Second Edition is Coming! Interview Transcript Patrick: Hello, and welcome to the SitePoint Podcast. For another group show, or is it a group show? Joining me today is only one person, Stephan Segraves. Hey Stephan. How’s it going? Stephan: It’s going alright Patrick. How are you? Patrick: It’s going good, going good. I had some fun time with my family this past week. Stephan: Good. Patrick: Yeah, I mean, I was thinking, I think this is what they call the Core Two show. Only baseball fans and maybe Yankee fans would be familiar with the term Core Four, which was kind of a nickname given to Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, and Mariano Rivera, who were players that were on the Yankees at the same time. Each won championships, and stayed with the team for a long time. Stephan and I are the remaining two members form the initial podcast hosting lineup and also the only remaining members from the Dot Net Magazine award-winning podcast theater team. So, this is the Core Two show. Stephan: I wouldn’t put us on the same level as the Yankees though. Patrick: Sure, well, you know, there were some luminaries nominated that year such as Jeffery Zeldman, so that was a big win. Stephan: Yeah, it was good. Patrick: You know, and if we only have two of us then it’s just a more intimate chat. It’s like you and I and the listener at the fireplace, right? Stephan: Fireside chat. Patrick: Yeah, it’s just a fireside chat, us three just talking about a few news items. So that’s what we’re going to do today. So the first story that we’re going to tackle today is from Pingdom, it’s pingdom.com, and they have done a study of the top 1000 websites in the world, to measure the presence on those sites of Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn, specifically how many of those sites use the official widgets provided by those services and how many just link and combine those numbers. They found that 24.3% of the top 10,000 websites in the world have some form of official Facebook integration on their homepage. That means some sort of widget script that Facebook provides on their website for webmaster, website owners, etc. to use, and links to the site, [...]

Episode 166 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week Kevin Dees (@kevindees) interviews Mason Stewart (@masondesu) of Zaarly and disusses the likes of SASS Less, jQuery and many other parts of the front end development world. 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 #166: Front End Development with Mason Stewart (MP3, 33:16, 32.0 MB) 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 Kevin and Mason discuss how all the frameworks and languages offer the front end developer so many ways working up great things on the web. Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/166. Interview Transcript Kevin: Welcome to SitePoint Podcast. I’m Kevin Dees and today I’m joined by Mason Stewart from Zarlee and here at Cowork, welcome to the show. Mason: Hey. How’s it going? Kevin: It’s going all right. How’s has your day been going? Mason: Uh, pretty good just code slapping so far. Kevin: Very nice, so we are at Cowork recording in the physical location, this isn’t a Skype interview. Today we’re gonna talk about Javascript, Backbone.js, jQuery, kind of the slew of front end frame works. I know we’ve talked a little bit about Backbone in past interviews here on the site point pod cast and that was a really, really good interview. Go listen to it if you have a chance I believe it’s like episode one forty something. So, you have experience in JQuery and Backbone and a lot of cool tools so I wanna give you a chance to answer some questions around that I think the audience will find very useful. But before we do that I want you to tell me about yourself and maybe those listening, so that we can an idea of where your experience lies. Mason: Yeah, so, hey my name’s Mason Stewart. I usually go by the monocular Mason Desu, and always the same little green avatar with a beard guy on it, that’s me. Anyway, yeah, I write a code for Zarlee. I’m a Javascripter full time. I probably write ten lines of Ruby a month, even though we’re a ruby shop we do a huge amount of Javascript as well and so I spend most of my time in Backbone js. We do everything in coffeescript. I spend a lot of time doing the architectural work for the Zarlee Javascript ecosystem. I spend a lot of time dealing with our modeling’s the way we we’re modeling our data on the front end, the way we’re displaying that through the views and the controller logic and all that stuff. But, I definitely do my fair share of DOM manipulation stuff with jQuery and things like that. It’s definitely a little bit more computer science kind of stuff ,than I’ve done in previous jobs before. It’s a lot of thinking about classes and bigger picture architecture stuff. Kevin: You mentioned Zarlee and that you worked there, but what is it Zarlee? Mason: Zarlee, there’s a whole lot of different ways that you can describe kind of what Zarlee was and is. Basically, it’s a hyper local market place, and what that kind of means in plain English is that we have a platform where you can say like “hey I need somebody to deliver like three dozen cupcakes to this office party we’re having and we’d like them to be homemade and, you know, peanut butter chocolate chip”, whatever. Then that sends out push notifications to everyone around and you can do it for any kind of service or thing you need. I had somebody help me haul some lumber on Zarlee, because my car isn’t big enough to move it. So [...]

Episode 165 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of 3 of our 4 our regular hosts, Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Kevin Dees (@kevindees) and Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy). 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 #165: You Say Cache, I Say Caché (MP3, 45:15, 43.5MB) 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 The panel discuss topics such as the applications received by ICANN for new TLDs, the X-Box getting a version of IE 9 and more. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Google Applies for More than 50 New Domains Including .LOL and .YouTube | Digital – Advertising Age and Official Google Blog: Expanding the Internet domain space plus Google Applies for .Google, .Docs, .YouTube and .LOL Top-Level Domains | TechCrunch via Cashing Out: Week of May 27th – June 2nd 2012 in Online Marketing News | ReveNews Moog Music: Staying online when Google doodles you and Bob Moog’s Birthday Surprise Google Doodle, May 23, 2012 in graphs via How MoogMusic.com survived the traffic influx of a Google Doodle Browser Trends June 2012: Chrome Takes IE’s Crown Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/165. Host Spotlights Louis: YouTube – World’s Worst Hacker Patrick: YouTube – Andy Samberg Class Day || Harvard Commencement 2012 Kevin: Snoopy | View-source bookmarklet for iPad, iPhone and other mobile devices Interview Transcript Louis: Hello, and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint podcast. It’s our biweekly panel show, and I’m back. Kevin: Yay! Patrick: Welcome back. Louis: Steven’s not back, though. Patrick and Kevin are with me on the show today. Patrick: He’s healthy, though. He’s healthy. He didn’t fly off a bicycle going 80 mph with the wind ablaze, fires, flames, and everything. Louis: Alright. That’s certainly a dramatization of the events that occurred. Because I’m concerned for what stories people might have constructed in my absence, let me say that I was on a bike going well under the speed limit. Patrick: Is this a pedal bike or a motor bike? Louis: A pedal bike. In a bike lane, when a car that was going to park in the street side parking across from the bike lane cut across the bike lane without actually checking his mirror, to get to the parking spot. He knocked me off the bike. I would have been going about 30-35 kph, so still fairly high velocity. I hit the ground hard and have some cracks in the tips of my elbows and one of my ribs as well. So, I’ve been out of commission for a while, but I’m mostly back. I got some ability back in my arms. I can’t lift anything, but I can type and move around. I’m getting there. So, if you are a motorist listening to this, please just check your mirrors. Be aware of other things around you on the road. If you’re a cyclist and this thing happens to you, don’t do what I did, which was to get get pissed off, give the guy hell, get back on your bike, and ride away because you felt fine. You probably will feel fine, even if you’ve broken some bones, right after getting knocked off the thing, because of the adrenaline. So, do take the time to sit around for a little bit and see if you’re going to be okay. Also, get the license plate number of the person who hit you, which I didn’t do, because I felt fine. I was like this is bullshit, rode off and went home. About an hour later, my elbow started swelling up and I [...]

Episode 164 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) interviews Scott Fox (@scott_fox) about his book Click Millionaires (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814431917) and how you can take what you love and make it a business. 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 #164: Lifestyle Business with Scott Fox (MP3, 01:14:30, 71.5MB) 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 Patrick and Scott about his book Click Millionaires, the online community, and how you can take what you love and make it a business. They also cover a few news stories of the week. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Amazon bans Kindle Store spam (finally) via Amazon bans junk ebooks – The Domino Project How Does Facebook Make Money? What Now… Yahoo? | PandoDaily Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/164. Interview Transcript Patrick: Hello, and welcome to another edition of the SitePoint podcast. This is Patrick O’Keefe, and I am joined today for our interview show by my friend, Scott Fox. Scott is an Internet lifestyle entrepreneur and he focuses on online small business, social media marketing, and e-business start-up strategies. He is the author of a few books, including “Internet Riches” and “e-Riches 2.0,” but his latest book is “Click Millionaires,” and again, it’s focused on lifestyle entrepreneurship. He also blogs at scottfox.com, and is a podcaster and he’s on social networks and all that good stuff as well. Scott, welcome to the show. Scott: Hey, Patrick. Thanks for having me. It’s great to talk to you. Patrick: It’s great to have you on as well. I’ve known you for a few years now I want to say, and we share a publisher, AMACOM, the American Management Association, and I think that’s all the appropriate disclosure. Scott: Okay. I think we’d talk anyway, even if we didn’t share a disclosure. Patrick: I think you have a really interesting background and I think you’ve made a number of different career changes, changes of course in your life, to do different things that have interested you or that you’ve found and were passionate about. I just wanted to ask you to talk a little bit about your background, starting where you’d like to start and how you got to today. Scott: Okay. Well, I guess today’s the most interesting part, at least to me, because that’s what I’ve been working towards all these years. Today, I’m an author, and like you said, this is my third book, “Click Millionaires,” and it’s really about how to build a lifestyle that at a minimum makes you money, but even more importantly, makes you happy. That’s what I’ve been working towards my whole life as well. I’ve had spurts, as you know, Patrick, but if the audience is interested why I have the credibility to write these books, because I’ve tried a lot of different things. I was a psychology major, undergrad, put myself through college, but then I went to Wall Street and I did very well there and made some money that enabled me to do more things. Then I was a lawyer in the entertainment business. I got into television and radio, and then I got into the Internet and I’ve started a bunch of dot coms and helped celebrities and big companies build their online presence. In all this experimentation, I guess I’ve probably walked away from more interesting and high paying jobs than most people even have. But all of that has led me to [...]

Episode 163 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of 3 of our 4 our regular hosts, Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Kevin Dees (@kevindees) 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 #163: Man Down (MP3, 28:24, 27.3MB) 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 Google’s Chrome briefly taking the number one browser spot, Youtube’s 7th birthday, the thoughts on different possible responsive image standards HTML5 could use and more. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Chrome is the most popular browser in the world, says StatCounter | The Verge ref Usage share of Web Browsers YouTube Blog: It’s YouTube’s 7th birthday… and you’ve outdone yourselves, again Jeremy Keith on possible Responsive Image Future Standards Free Zocial Button Set: Social CSS3 Buttons | Smashing Coding Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/163. Host Spotlights Patrick: PointsHoarder – Building a Better Trip by Hoarding Points Stephan: Panic – Coda – One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X Kevin: WorkFu + Find work opportunities. Discover talent. The opportunity network. Interview Transcript Patrick: Hello and welcome to another edition of the SitePoint Podcast, my name is Patrick O’Keefe and I am filling in today for our usual lead host, Louis Simoneau; kind of an impromptu, unplanned role change as we just found out that Louis was in a bit of a car accident. He was hit by a car on a bicycle of some kind and he fractured both of his arms; he’s alright, but yeah, it’s a little bad news there, and I’m just going to read tweets I received literally minutes ago because he said he fractured both arms and I asked him, I said I’m looking at tweets, I said it looks like you got hit by a car, were you on a bike? And he said, “Yeah, bleep driver wanted that parking spot too badly to bother checking his mirrors and blind spot; fell off and landed on my hands, wrists fine, WTF, but small fractures near my elbow, so they’re pretty much immobilized.” So, Louis is on the mend, and yeah, we hope he heals quickly. Stephan: Yeah, get better soon, Louis. Patrick: Yeah, and if you want to wish Louis well you can leave a comment in the comments at sitepoint.com/podcast, or hit him on Twitter @rssaddict. He seems even with his arms immobilized he’s able to tweet a little bit, so I’m sure he’d appreciate the well wishes. Other than that, news, which is terrible news, how are you guys doing? Kevin: I’m doing well, my arms are fine (laughter). Patrick: Your arms are fine. You know it’s those things you don’t fully appreciate until you break them. Kevin: Right. Patrick: And I’ve been lucky I haven’t broken any bones in my life. Kevin: Knock on wood, Patrick, quickly. Patrick: Yeah, exactly, exactly. So, yeah, even with Louis out the show, well, I guess it must go on, so we’re going to talk about some news stories and have our usual back and forth. Stephan why don’t you get us started. Stephan: Okay, well, the first story is on The Verge, theverge.com, it is about Chrome overtaking Internet Explorer as the most popular browser in the world. Now I know a bunch of people, a bunch of listeners, are going woo-hoo! in their cars or wherever they’re listening to this, but the truth of the matter is it was only for a week, and looking at the [...]