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By Michael Kimsal
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Podcast Description
Topics, tools and tips for web application developers, including testing strategies, upcoming conferences, interviews with developers, seo techniques, optimization tip and more.
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Episode 95: Jeff Carouth at ZendCon 2011 | Sorry to be so late posting this. I chatted with Jeff Carouth about his day to day worklife as a PHP guy (among other things) at Texas A and M. Learn the A and M mascot name, Jeff's favorite design pattern, and more :) | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 94: Keith Casey Interview from Zendcon 2011 | I got a chance to sit down with (the legend) Keith Casey. Keith's well known in the PHP community with his web2project project (among other things) and is now poised to be a greater force in the worlds of Twilio and the Austin tech scene. Volume is a little quiet here, so turn it up to hear Keith's words of wisdom :) | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 93: Brian Hitney - The Cloud and Beyond | Got a chance to catch up with Brian Hitney. We've met up a few times over the last couple of years, but I think this is only our second interview. Brian's focusing on cloud computing efforts (MS Azure, etc) these days, so we pivoted around that for some time. | 11/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 91: Zendcon 2011 - Jeff Kibler interview | Had a chance to sit down with Jeff Kibler of Infobright to talk about their column-oriented database offering, and how it can improve data reporting efforts. | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 90: White Russian | Heading off to Moscow in a bit, but wanted to touch base with you all before I get on the plane :) The Twitter Bootstrap project looks pretty cool, HP's Touchpad died an untimely death, and I need a bit of help with some charting. Thanks to ComponentOne for being an indieconf sponsor! :) | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 89: MVC directory madness, day camp for developers | Slight rant on what's been bothering me with MVC directory structures, and a plug for Cal Evans' Day Camp For Developers in October. indieconf discounts for listeners, and I'll be in Moscow in September - let me know if you'd like to meet up. | 8/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 88 - mid summer catch up - avoid fixed bid projects | Quick advice - avoid fixed bid projects. Some day I'll learn my lesson! :) A couple of neat javascript projects have crossed my desk recently, and I'd invite you to vote in our indieconf presentation selection process. NOTE - bit.ly link in podcast is wrong - see show notes on webdevradio.com instead. | 7/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 87: Chronon for Java | This episode is a conversation with Prashant Deva about the new Chronon flight data recorder for Java applications and debugging. we dig in to the history of the project, some implementation details, future plans, and some of the issues around dynamic languages on the JVM. | 5/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 86: Catch up, estimating and Azure | Just a quick update on what's been going on with me, some thoughts on estimating, and a new game system for getting started with Azure. | 4/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 85 - Michelangelo van Dam at ZendCon | This is a little late, but I had an interesting chat with Michelangelo van Dam - @dragonbe on twitter - at the 2010 ZendCon. | 3/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 84: Travis Swicegood | I had a great time chatting with Travis about git, php, languages and much more at ZendCon 2010. Enjoy! | 2/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 83 - goodbye 2010 | Farewell 2010 - it was a great run! A quick update and a few interesting new projects I've come across - new interviews in 2011! | 12/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 82: Various security topics | Some musings on recent security exploits with ASP.NET, Twitter, Diaspora and more. | 10/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 81: indieconf, client-side image resizing, moral dilemmas | Quick update about progress on indieconf, a client-side image resizing javascript project I put together, some news about recent project releases in the web community, and a bit of a moral dilemma I faced with respect to reporting a security hole. | 9/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 80 - Quickfuseapps and conference announcement | Last episode I talked about twilio, and this episode I wanted to introduce you to quickfuseapps, and also bring you the announcement I couldn't quite make last episode. Indieconf is a conference for freelance and independent web professionals, to be held in Raleigh, NC in November. Visit indieconf.com for more, and use coupon code WDR to receive a webdevradio listener discount! | 7/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 79: July catchup | Just a quick episode catching you up on some of the things I've been up to recently, as well as a few recent tidbits of interest. | 7/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 78: Bob Silverberg on ColdFusion, ORM, testing and more | I caught up with Bob Silverberg shortly after his ORM presentation at NCDevCon and we rapped on the new CF9 ORM layer, testing and other goodness. Enjoy! | 6/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 77: Matt and Sean from MuraCMS | I got to chat with Matt Levine and Sean Schroeder from MuraCMS about, well, all sorts of stuff - a bit of CF historical stuff, the state of open source in the CF community, oh, and a bit of MuraCMS, the open source CMS built on ColdFusion. | 5/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 76: Lithium Framework for PHP | I had a great chinwag with Nate Abele and Garrett Woodworth of the Lithium project - a new framework for PHP 5.3. Try as I might to inject Groovy and Grails in to the conversation, we kept coming back to PHP :) Curious about Lithium? Take a listen to see if their philosophy is for you. | 4/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 75 - Palm, Gosling and PHP | Lots of small tidbits all cropped up around the same time. Palm (with its great webOS) looks to be trying to sell itself off. James Gosling, the father of Java, moves on to pastures greener (or just different). Opera Mini is now on the iPhone (and pretty fast too), and I rant a bit about my recent PHP experiences. | 4/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 74: IE9, visitor recording, conferences and more | IE9 developer preview is out - are you testing with it yet? I recently found UserFly.com as a great tool to track and record your visitors' sessions, then found an older set of example code called MoveLogger if you're inclined to try to build the same thing from scratch. ClickHeat is a tool I've used to track where people are clicking on sites, giving you a pretty good idea of how visitors are engaging with your site. Some interesting conferences coming up over next few months - JSConf in DC, TXJS in Austin and NCDevCon in Raleigh. Know of any more? | 3/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 73: Podcast Child... Slight Return | Mostly a quick catch up letting you know what I've been up to, some new technologies I've found that might be of interest to you (Twilio and Titanium), where I'll be in the upcoming months, and an open invitation for your feedback. Also, a quick update on GroovyMag and JSMag - use coupon code "oneyearold" at http://jsmag.com to select a free issue. Email michael@webdevradio.com with your feedback, comments and questions. | 3/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 72: Groovy Grails Griffon Greatness at CodeMash | I got a chance to catch up with some legendary names from the GR8 community while at CodeMash. Andres Almiray, Dave Klein, Chris Judd and Jim Shingler all gave me a few minutes of their time to talk about the Groovy year behind us and the GR8 year ahead of us. | 1/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 71: Frank Zammetti on webOS | We last left Frank back in 2006(!) with the publication of his (then) first book. I caught up with him to talk about his latest book (#6!) - Practical Palm Pre webOS Projects (we eventually get the title right!). Frank talks about the good, the bad and the ugly in the Palm Pre development world. | 12/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 70: Brian Hitney of Microsoft | I got a chance to talk about web development stuff with Brian Hitney, Developer Evangelist with Microsoft. We talked about WebsiteSpark, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, touched on cloud computing and I kept forgetting the name of a podcast (it was the Startup Success podcast from Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley!). | 12/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 69: Curtis Mitchell on Spark with ASP.NET MVC | I had a chance to sit down with Curtis Mitchell at the Raleigh Code Camp to talk about the Spark view engine for ASP.NET MVC. | 9/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 68: Frank Wierzbicki on Python, Jython, Java and more | I had a chance to catch up with local Jython hero and project lead (I get corrected early on!) Frank Wierzbicki. We cover some of the history, Jython players, web frameworks like Django, Pylons, TurboGears, future of Jython, and more. Frank takes *no* bait, despite my varied attempts at inciting a bit of friendly rivalry between the Jython/Python community and various frameworks. | 8/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 67: MySQL with Keith Murphy | I did another catch-up show, this time with Keith Murphy (last chatted with in August 2007). Keith talks a bit about his new book, the MySQL Administrator's Bible, his new Open Source Database Magazine (coming out soon) and some of the new developments in the MySQL camp. | 6/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 66: Robert Fischer on Groovy, Grails, GORM and more | I got a chance to chat with Robert Fischer, well known in the Groovy/Grails space for his work on Groovy plugins and recent GORM book. Robert and I chatted about dynamic languages on the JVM, his upcoming presentations on Agile and other NFJS talks, his GORM book and a new Polyglot Programming book he's working on for Manning. | 6/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 65: Kyle Simpson's SWFObject presentation from JSConf | This episode is solely a recording of Kyle Simpson's discussion of SWFObject - how it works, recent changes, common problems people have using it, and more. | 5/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 64: CouchDB with Jan Lenhardt and Chris Anderson | I caught up with Jan and Chris at the JSConf in DC last weekend. We went over a bit of the couchdb background, what it's good for, what they're up with with couch.io, and some more goodies. Enjoy! | 5/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 63: Talking YUI3 with Satyen Desai from Yahoo! | I had a chance to sit down for a few minutes with Satyen Desai from Yahoo to talk about YUI3. There's numerous architectural changes coming, and Satyen had presented a few of the major ones in his presentation at JSConf 2009. | 4/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 62: Talking SEO and local web promotion with Ashley Berman Hale | I got a chance to spend some time with Ashley Berman Hale to discuss steps for local businesses to take when getting in to SEO and web promotion. | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 61: Catching up with Joe Fiorini | At the 2008 CodeMash I interviewed Joe Fiorini. Joe was a .Net developer doing ASP.Net work with some side interest in Ruby on Rails. A lot has happened to Joe (and the web world) over the last year, and I talk with Joe about some of those changes, including ASP.Net MVC, the upcoming Rails/Merb merge, and more. | 1/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 60: Interview with Rails Rumble winners | I had a chance to sit down with the winners of the Rails Rumble challenge while I was at CodeMash last week. This is a chat with Josh, Joe and John (Andy couldn't be there due to some weather issues) about the ups and downs of the challenge, sleeping arrangements, monetization, Rails/Merb mering, and more. Enjoy! | 1/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 59: Jobs, Javascript and Happy Holidays | Medium sized update. Some of my thoughts on things people can do in this economic climate for jobs, jsbin.com, a javascript magazine in the planning, Google's Chrome out of beta, and a few more tidbits. | 12/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 58: Raleigh Code Camp reflections, Chrome wins speed tests, GroovyMag | I attended the Raleigh Code Camp last week and had a blast meeting some awesome people (but of course there's never enough time to meet everyone you'd like to!). Some great sessions I attended covered the MS MVC platform and an introduction to MS DLR, both of which I discuss here in a bit more detail. Also, following up last podcast's ramblings on Javascript speed tests, there's a story today about how Chrome has beat out other browsers in a Javascript benchmark. Additionally, I chat about my new magazine project, GroovyMag. | 11/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 57: Quick catch up | Just a few musings on the state of Javascript, OpenID, and Yahoo's recent 'open strategy' announcement. Also, a brief note: GroovyMag.com - a magazine focused on Groovy and Grails - will launch next week. | 10/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 56: Recent experiences with Adobe AIR and the job market | No, those aren't related, but I've got a couple small rants about Adobe's Flex/AIR video system, why I moved back to Windows Media, and (separately) a small but insightful(!) take on the current state of job boards and how job seekers and employers find each other (hint - it stinks right now). | 9/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 55: Widgenie interview | I had the opportunity to meet with some of the team from LogiXML to discuss their new product Widgenie. Widgenie enables easy publishing and sharing of data with a point and click web interface, saving hours of development time. | 8/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 54 | Recap of the Raleigh Startup weekend, plus some news on happenings in PHP, .NET, Java, Ruby and more. | 7/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 53: Crawlable Flash, Concurrent Python, Smart Robots.txt and more | Mixed topics today Adobe works with Google, Yahoo and others to make Flash apps crawlable. Reddit.com open sources their codebase "Smart" robots.txt files - do you use them? Bruce Eckel article on concurrent Python with Twisted Railo - open source ColdFusion Cognifty - new PHP framework Upcoming conferences - Ruby Hoedown, CodeStock, PHPWorks Follow WebDevRadio on twitter (http://twitter.com/webdevradio) Visit http://www.webdevjobs.com for web development job listings | 7/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 52: Randal Schwartz on Seaside (among other things) | This episode is a conversation with Randal Schwartz about Seaside, a Smalltalk-based web application framework. His passion for Seaside and some of the unique features it brings to web development comes through loud and clear here. I hope you enjoy our discussion. | 6/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 51: Martha Rotter on Silverlight | I (finally!) got a chance to speak with Martha Rotter from Microsoft Ireland. Martha has been involved in the Silverlight project on multiple fronts, and took time to answer some questions recently. We covered a bit of what Silverlight is all about, where Silverlight is heading, competition with Adobe Flash, and more. | 6/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 50: Live and late - Flash opens up, CSS cleaner, MySQL conf recap | Just a quick recap of some news and tools I've found recently, including the Adobe Flash Open Screen Project announcement. Also, the new job board http://Jobs.WebDevRadio.com is announced. | 5/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 49: Brian Moon at the MySQL User Conference | Brian was kind enough to review both of his presentations which go in to great detail about the scaling issues he's faced both with DealNews.com and the Phorum forum software project (which recently turned 10 years old!) | 5/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 48: SilverStripe CMS at MySQL User Conference | Got a chance to talk to Sigurd Magnusson from the SilverStripe CMS project last week. Sigurd was kind enough to answer some questions about the project's history, current status as an open source project and some upcoming features. We touched a bit on code testing and some other stuff towards the end as well. | 4/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 47: SnapLogic at the MySQL User Conference | I got a chance to get a quick demo of SnapLogic, and open source application to make mashing up your internal data easier. Think of it like an open source Yahoo! Pipes. It's more than that, but that's a quick idea of what it can do. From their site: "SnapLogic makes it easy to access, transform and integrate all kinds of data wherever it may be: databases, hosted applications, Web pages, SOA Web services, flat files, RSS feeds, XML documents and more." The guys gave me some background on the project, what it's capable of, and where it's heading. | 4/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 46: MojoPortal at the MySQL User Conference | I met Joe Audette of the MojoPortal project out at the MySQL User Conference last week and took a few minutes to give us some background on the project and where it's going. If you're looking for a portal project built on ASP.NET (and it also runs on Mono!) check it out! | 4/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 45: Symfony Project at MySQL User Conference | I had a chance to catch up with the Symfony guys at the MySQL User Conference a few days ago. We get some background on the Symfony project, and a glimpse as to where things are going in the near future. This was my first 'from the floor' recording - I think the levels are *OK*, but please bear with me - Fabien sounded better in person :) I think I got a small 'exclusive/breaking news' at the time, but I wasn't able to get the podcast up until now. | 4/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 50 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Great content
Lots of great content delivered in a very professional way. Thanks for taking the time to do the podcast.
not for me
I only listened to the 14 August 2011 episode, so perhaps he was having an off day, but the host of this podcast comes across as cynical and, how should I put this, curmudgeonly. The episode was mainly a rant about Rails and how he is having trouble keeping up with changes in technology; nothing constructive was really said at all. I listen to tech podcasts so that i can learn and get excited about new technology -- it motivates me. But this podcast, I'm afraid, only accomplished the opposite.
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