WebDevRadio

There’s been a whole lot of interesting things happening in the webdev world the past couple months, and this is a quick catch up on just a few of the highlights. Podcast covers MS Silverlight project, codemash conference, codetolive webcast, simunication prototyping tool, yui compressor, zotero research tool and the hibernate/lucene search project.

I got to speak with author and speaker Jason Rudolph about the Grails project, the Ruby Streamlined project, and the No Fluff Just Stuff touring conference. (monday morning v2 – fixed an earlier editing flub from Saturday!)

I interview Keith Murphy about his daily work as a MySQL DBA, including the challenges of clustering, RAID configurations, and more. We also talk about his new MySQL magazine effort and what readers can expect from that publication.

The majority of this episode is a webdev discussion with James Ward (Adobe) and Andy Oliver (buni.org). There’s a short recap here about my travails with ValueWeb’s horrible migration disaster, a partial OSCON wrapup, mention of the Windmill testing project, and a promise of 4-5 more presentation recordings from OSCON.

This is a repost of a missing episode due to valueweb’s extremely poor server migration (read: meltdown). I can’t recall the specifics of this episode, but I did mention my (then) upcoming OSCON presentation on SOLR and the OurSQL podcast.

I’ve got some info on an upcoming southeast Ruby conference, looking for MySQL DBAs, a book on web site security, new open source application from MIT and more…

This is a recent interview I had with Erik Hatcher from the SOLR project.

I’m interviewing Erik Hatcher from the SOLR project – get your questions to me in the next few days! Also, have a look at regexbuddy.com if you deal with regular expressions.

Just a quick catch up on some news items from the past few weeks – Adobe’s Flex push, Yahoo’s YUI hosting, Firebug 1.0 released, an upcoming PHP job book and a few other tidbits.

I get to sit down (virtually) with Jim Holmes and James Avery to discuss their book “Windows Developer Power Tools”. The book covers over 170 open source tools to help improve your Windows development experience, from simple time-saving utilities to larger apps and tools which may make you rethink how you approach development.

I had the opportunity to talk at length about the DotNetNuke project with Joe Brinkman while attending the CodeMash conference in Ohio. This conversation runs about 45 minutes. If you’ve wondered what DNN was all about, have a listen as Joe talks about the project’s history, goals, future plans, and community process. P.S. The audio is a bit ‘airy’ – I did my best to clean it up.

Noted javascript guru Christian Heilman joins us today for a conversation about his new book, “Beginning Javascript with DOM Scripting and AJAX”. Along the way we discuss the state of Javascript toolkits, including the Yahoo UI toolkit. Additionally, the upcoming codemash conference is mentioned.

Mention of Jack Slocum’s innovative wordpress interface, Adobe’s open sourcing of ActionScript, and a call for some help. Note – the audio quality isn’t great in this one, but it’s only 4 minutes, so please bear with me.

Some thoughts on Yahoo developer center offerings, Yahoo maps license changes, heads up on two upcoming interviews, and an outline of some javascript toolkits I’ll be exploring more in the coming weeks.

I recorded this latest podcast out on a walk in the wilds of North Carolina near my home. Topics include a recap of the PHP Appalachia un-conference, Yahoo’s BBAuth system, Aptana and a homegrown heatmap system for tracking your user’s clicks.