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News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com.
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SitePoint Podcast #149: Drinking Cappuccino with Ross Boucher | Episode 149 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Ross Boucher (@boucher), one of the co-creators of the Cappuccino Framework; to talk about his current work on a payment processing service called Stripe, as well as the current state of JavaScript web application 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 #149: Drinking Cappuccino with Ross Boucher (MP3, 31:12, 28.6MB) 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 Louis and Ross cover how the Cappuccino framework came about, what the Stripe team faced as challenges, how they got through those challenges and how javascript debugging in browsers has and continues to move forward. GA_googleFillSlot("InArticle_728x90_1"); Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/149. Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast, my guest on the show today is Ross Boucher; hi, Ross. Ross: Hey. Louis: Ross is a web developer; the co-creator of the popular Cappuccino Framework for creating browser based web applications, and is currently working at Stripe. So, do you want to talk a bit about what you’re currently working on, Ross? Ross: Sure. So I’m working at a company called Stripe, stripe.com, and we are payment processors, so we try to make it easy, as easy as possible to come and signup on our site and be able to start processing credit cards on your own site right away. And at the end of the day like this is kind of similar to what a lot of other people are doing, obviously you can do this with PayPal or a number of other companies, but we think that our software is both better, it’s easier to use than a lot of these other companies, and also we place a lot of importance on eliminating the amount of sort of manual effort involved, making integration as quick and painless as possible, and, as I mentioned, making signup really easy; you can come to our site and fill out the online form in probably just about two minutes and start charging real credit cards right away. Louis: Right. Having recently spent, well, I didn’t personally, but another developer on our team has spent I think more or less the last month trying to get recurring payments working with PayPal; I can say that a one day or even a few hour turnaround sounds very impressive. Ross: Yeah, we’ve heard a lot of similar stories, and a lot of people here come from backgrounds were they were doing other startups or working at other companies and experienced the same problems themselves, so I think a lot of the motivation for Stripe is born out of our own internal frustration. Louis: Right. It’s always interesting to me; I talked with one of the guys from Shopify on the podcast last year. For those of us who develop web applications where we might sell products or just provide an online application for people, it does seem like stepping it up to another level when you’re dealing with credit cards because you have a lot of concerns that maybe other app developers don’t have to worry about so much. Ross: Yeah, I think that’s definitely true. Stripe is even a bit different in that because we are essentially offering a piece of infrastructure for other companies, you know our primary product is our API; we’ve got an even different set of problems to worry about. I think API driven products tend to just have different problems, and, for example, reliability is paramount to us; we don’t want other people to ever have to worry about not [...] | 2/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SitePoint Podcast #148: All Aboard the Facebook Train | Episode 148 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Kevin Dees (@kevindees), 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 #148: All Aboard the Facebook Train (MP3, 50:21, 48.4MB) 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 Here are the main topics covered in this episode: GA_googleFillSlot("InArticle_728x90_1"); Curebit Apologizes for Copying 37Signals: “Stupid, Lazy, and Disrespectful” | TechCrunch The Trouble With “Free” Riding Rails: Rails 3.2.0: Faster dev mode and routing, explain queries, tagged logger, store Facebook is Killing Local Social Networks around the World Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/148. Host Spotlights Patrick: WP Late Night – The Podcast for WordPress Users. Stephan: Convert Bookmarklet to Chrome Extension Louis: Making Love to WebKit — Acko.net Kevin: List.js – Examples of how to use the script Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast. We’ve got a full panel today for the show, Patrick, Stephan and Kevin are all on the line with me, except for one slight difference, we only have two actual phone calls going on because Kevin and Patrick are cuddling (laughter). Patrick: That’s right, getting up close and personal here in Apartment of Kevin Dees. Kevin: I wouldn’t call it cuddling; if I need to grab a pillow and put it here between us, I can do that. Patrick: We’re not really touching, we’re just sitting on a couch podcasting, don’t read anything into that (laughter and train sound). Kevin: And, hey, there goes the train (laughter). Patrick: I’m actually here in person to experience the old 7:15 from Albuquerque. Kevin: That’s right. Is it the 7:15, everyday at 7:15? Patrick: I don’t know, but there it is. Oh, boy. Louis: Awesome (laughter and train sound). That sounds even louder than usual. Stephan: That’s really loud. Louis: Alright. Kevin: Welcome to Orlando. Patrick: Kevin is in downtown Orlando. Louis: Alright, cool. There have been as usual some developments in the Web world of late; who wants to go first with a story? Kevin: Alright, so I have a very controversial story involving 37signals who happens to be also redesigning their main product, Basecamp, which we can’t actually get into today, but today’s subject is the copying of 37signals Highrise application. So a company called Curebit, I guess this is how you would pronounce it, it’s C-u-r-e-bit if you go to their website, I found this article on TechCrunch and basically this company has gone in, and in some cases a designer will go in and find inspiration from a design or they’ll look at some code and take a snippet away, well, this company went in and took everything, images, everything, CSS style sheets, HTML, and 37signals found out about this because they even left like the long destination links inside of what they copied, so 37signals was having files downloaded from like this Curebit’s website. So, basically 37signals comes out and calls them out on it and now it’s on TechCrunch, and so I thought this would be an interesting story to examine, not only from what’s going on here with 37signals, but also to get maybe your opinion on how you feel about inspiration versus copying when it comes to web assets, web designs, and also programming languages, and maybe even content for that matter, like how much can you copy from somebody else, if, [...] | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SitePoint Podcast #147: The CSS Ninja with Ryan Seddon | Episode 147 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Ryan Seddon (@ryanseddon) about his course on Modernizr, his work on fontdragr.com, and his other CSS projects too. 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 #147: The CSS Ninja with Ryan Seddon (MP3, 26:05, 23.9MB) 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 sits down with Bruce Lawson to talk about HTML5 semantics, usage, developed, packs, workarounds, polyfills and everything in between. GA_googleFillSlot("InArticle_728x90_1"); Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/147. Interview Transcript Transcript to Follow. Theme music by Mike Mella. Thanks for listening! Feel free to let us know how we’re doing, or to continue the discussion, using the comments field below. GA_googleFillSlot("Edit_300x100_C"); GA_googleFillSlot("Edit_300x100_D"); | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SitePoint Podcast #146: Patrick Accidentally Installs Chrome | Episode 146 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of 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 #146: Patrick Accidentally Installs Chrome (MP3, 32:29, 31.2MB) 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 Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Scripting News: Could Bing seriously challenge Google? Official Google Blog: Search, plus Your World JQ.Mobi Is A Mobile-Optimized HTML5 Rewrite Of the JQuery Framework jQ.Mobi – Home Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/146. GA_googleFillSlot("InArticle_728x90_1"); Host Spotlights Kevin: visualizing.org – Make Your Data Interesting Patrick: Fotoshop by Adobé on Vimeo Louis: Making Love to WebKit — Acko.net Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast. This week on the panel Stephan is away, but we do have myself, Kevin and Patrick; hi, Kev, hi Patrick. Kevin: Howdy, howdy. Patrick: Hey, guys. Louis: How’s it going? Kevin: It’s going okay. Patrick: Doing good, listening to some Bach (laughter), you know, keeping it real, it’s busy times. Louis: We did some comments from users about the temporary typo in the title of the last post, it was spelled Bachbone.js, and I suggested — we were talking before the show and I suggested that we should — someone should write Bachbone.js just to make that make sense, make it about composing Baroque music in JavaScript, it would be awesome. Anyway, I spent the weekend at Rails Camp out in Adelaide, that was a lot of fun. Patrick: Oh, yeah? Louis: I spent the weekend hacking in a cafeteria full of other nerds, it was lots of fun. Kevin: Cool. Patrick: Very cool, very cool. Did you make any meaningful new connections or meet any new cool people? Louis: Yeah, absolutely, I met a lot of cool people there. I spent the weekend sort of working on — I don’t know if you remember the Google AI challenge, the most recent one with Ants? Patrick: Okay, yeah. Louis: You saw this thing? Yeah, so someone put up a server on the first day, they built this little server in Rails that you could upload a button; they’d play against each other, so a few of us started hacking at that. I started out as being, oh, let me have a quick look at this and see how it works, see how the bots work, and then 16 hours later I hadn’t moved (laughs). Patrick: Wow. Louis: Then I went to bed. So I spent the whole weekend, yeah, pretty much working on getting an ant to be able to find out where it was going. Patrick: Yeah, it sounds like it was quite an event because the website says, “Starts on the afternoon of Friday, January 13th, and runs until midday Monday the 16th,” so it must really have been running constantly and keeping everyone busy. Louis: It pretty much was. Not a lot of us slept very much, let’s just say that. Patrick: Well, I guess depending on how you camp. Louis: Yeah. Patrick: If camping includes sleep for you then it might not have been a camp, but if camp is just constant, you know, slumber party energy and no sleep, then that’s what this one was. Louis: Yeah. So, anyway, if anyone out there is interested in Rails or Ruby and there’s a Rails Camp coming up near you, I strongly recommend it, it was a lot of fun and you get to meet cool people, so check it out. Patrick: Yeah, their website is railscamps.com. Louis: Yep, absolutely. Alright, so with that aside maybe we can dive straight into this [...] | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SitePoint Podcast #145: Backbone.js Fundamentals with Addy Osmani | Episode 145 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Addy Osmani (@addyosmani) about his free online book about the Fundamentals Of Backbone.js and how using javascript frameworks can really help when building a front-end Web app. 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 #145: Bachbone.js Fundamentals with Addy Osmani (MP3, 34:16, 32.9MB) 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 chats to Addy Osmani (@addyosmani) about backbone.js. GA_googleFillSlot("InArticle_728x90_1"); Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/145. Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast. Today on the show my guest is Addy Osmani who is a JavaScript developer at AOL; he speaks at a number of conferences about JavaScript and about developing larger applications in JavaScript and is the author of a few books. Hi, Addy. Addy: Hi, it’s nice to be on your show. Louis: It’s great to have you. So, the reason that prompted me to reach out to you and try and get you to come on the show is you’ve recently put out sort of a free in-progress book about Backbone.js, is that right? Addy: Yeah, that’s right. Louis: So, before we dive into talking about the book and what prompted you to do this sort of project, I’d like to maybe give the listeners some background on Backbone. So do you want to explain a little bit about what Backbone.js is and what problem does it try and solve, and why would people want to use it. Addy: Absolutely. So, the idea behind Backbone Fundamentals is it’s a book that teaches both beginners and advanced developers how to effectively use Backbone to build more structures to applications. Now, what does that all mean? Well, when you start building with App Stack or non-trivial or begin to grow, you learn that unless you have some sort of organization in place you’re going to end up with some problems. What kind of problems? Well, maintaining all of the code through applications, say a file, without using any architectural design patterns can mean that it ends up looking a little bit like spaghetti; it might look good from the outside, it might taste nice, but it’s a mess to clean up. So, when you’re searching for something a little bit more maintainable, a lot of developers find that applying patterns like MVC, which usually stands for Model View Controller, that means something slightly different on the front end and in JavaScript; that can help them keep their code a little bit more organized. Now, Backbone is one of those frameworks that lets you use the flavor of MVC to cleanly separate concern and organize the application. It’s mature, it’s incredibly lightweight given what you get out of it, and it’s great for single page applications and multi-view applications. Now, there are like a ton of other solutions out in the market at the moment which offer, a bit of a variation of what Backbone does. In my opinion it’s one of the more elegant solutions out there right now. Developers that might be looking at it and saying, well, is Backbone good enough to be used in my large enterprise model application? well it’s currently being used by the likes of LinkedIn, Foursquare, Sound Cloud, and a lot of other large companies that build their applications. Now, they’re not small companies and they’re not building small applications, so hopefully if it’s good enough for them it’s hopefully good enough for the rest of us. Louis: [...] | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SitePoint Podcast #144: Freemium Schmeemium | Episode 144 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Kevin Dees (@kevindees), 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 #144: Freemium Schmeemium (MP3, 30:52, 29.6MB) 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 Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Google To Pay Mozilla Almost $300M/Year in Search Deal. Let’s get honest about uptime – (37signals) Keeping up with the 2012 U.S. election with Google.com/Elections Done with the Freemium Business Model Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/144. GA_googleFillSlot("InArticle_728x90_1"); Host Spotlights Kevin: 1000 Doors – Public Art Installation Patrick: Steven Tyler, Alice Cooper, Weird Al – Come Together Stephan: Why Best Buy is Going out of Business…Gradually Louis: Domo Arigato, Mr Roboto – Android’s New Font Interview Transcript SitePoint Podcast #144 Louis: Hello and welcome to the first SitePoint Podcast of the year 2012. We’re back with a panel show covering some of the news that’s happened while we were on break. With me today on the show are Kevin Dees, hi Kevin. Kevin: Howdy, howdy. Louis: Patrick O’Keefe. Patrick: The podcast is back! (Laughter) Louis: And Stephan Segraves. Stephan: Happy New Year guys. Louis: Happy New Year. Kevin: Happy New Year. Louis: It’s good to be back, lots of stuff I guess been going on; you guys all have a good break? Stephan: I had a good one, it was a good break. Patrick: Yes, yeah, definitely had a good break. Time with the family, holidays, New Year’s, yeah, it was going good. Kevin: Busy, busy. Louis: Awesome. Fantastic. So let’s just kick straight into it, who wants to do the first story. Patrick: Before I do the first story I just wanted to throw over a congratulations to Kevin who has joined Ryan Carson’s Treehouse as an expert teacher, right Kevin? Kevin: Yes, that’s correct. Patrick: That’s what happens when you’re down with the SitePoint Podcast. Look, you’re only one episode in and you’re rocking with Mr. Carsonified (laughter). I mean it’s all due to us. Kevin: Yes, you know. Patrick: No, I’m just kidding. Louis: Congratulations Kevin. Patrick: Congratulations. Kevin: Well, thank you, thank you. Patrick: Cool. So last show we talked about — and last show was December 9th because we took that break, and we talked about the Google and Mozilla Firefox search deal and how it was expiring and how Google had accounted for I believe it was approximately 84% of Mozilla’s 2010 revenue, so that was about 100 million dollars of Mozilla’s revenue was reported to have come from this Google search deal, and it was ending. So there were some competing thoughts there: would Google re-up to maintain that search traffic to be the default search engine in Firefox or would they opt out, save the money with Chrome you know now being the second most popular browser in the world, and the answer came just a couple weeks later during our break where it was reported that they signed a new deal with Mozilla to re-up for three more years and that Microsoft and Yahoo were also interested in making the deal, but Google won out thanks to a bid of at least 300 million dollars per year, according to all things d.com and Cara Swisher who says that according to sources that amount which is 900 million over three years was the “minimum revenue guarantee for delivering search queries garnered from consumers using [...] | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SitePoint Podcast #143: Happy HTML5 Holidays with Bruce Lawson | Episode 143 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Bruce Lawson who is a member of the Web Standards Project’s Accessibility Task Force, works at the Opera team and contributes to HTML5 Doctor. 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 #143: Happy HTML5 Holidays with Bruce Lawson (MP3, 37:44, 36.2MB) 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 sits down with Bruce Lawson to talk about HTML5 semantics, usage, developed, packs, workarounds, polyfills and everything in between. GA_googleFillSlot("InArticle_728x90_1"); Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/143. Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint podcast. As it happens it’s the last episode of the SitePoint podcast for 2011, and with me on the show today I’ve got a suitably fantastic guest, Bruce Lawson. Bruce is a member of the Web Standards Project’s Accessibility Task Force, he works on the developer relations team at Opera, he’s a legend really in the fields of accessibility and web standards, an expert on HTML5 and a contributor to HTML5doctor.com. Have I forgotten anything? And hi and welcome to the show, Bruce, while I’m at it. Bruce: Hi Louis, hi everybody, no, you haven’t forgotten anything that summarizes me, although possibly the Wasp Accessibility Task Force, I’m kind of a emeritus member of that, I haven’t done a great deal with that for a while. Louis: Right. So, yeah, I wanted to have you on the show for a number of reasons, there’s all sorts of stuff going on, obviously HTML5 has been a major topic in the web design and web development world for a little while now, and you’ve certainly got a lot to say on that. In fact, the second edition of your book on HTML5 has just been released if I’m not mistaken. Bruce: That’s right, yeah, I think it came out, I don’t know if it hit Australasia yet, it came out in the UK about a month ago I think, it’s quite exciting for Remy and me, so lots of typos and bits of utterly oblique language corrected and opened up and a whole new chapter on how you can actually use this stuff now because that’s why everybody came up; at conferences and things people will sidle up and up and say, “Oh, sounds great, but how can we use it now?” And it occurred to us that we’d very cleverly omitted to mention anything useful like that in the first edition, so it’s in there now. Louis: Yeah, there was certainly a lot of trepidation, I want to come back to this and sort of ask about the new edition because it is, if I’m not mistaken, the first second edition of an HTML5 book, so that’s got to be some kind of landmark for the maturity of the specification of the language. Bruce: It may not be because my chum, Peter Lubbers, and some colleagues of his from Kaazing wrote Pro HTML5 Programming, which may have come into second edition before ours, it’s certainly out as a second edition, I don’t know who was first but we’re not competing. Louis: What I was saying is we’ve reached that point where there are now second edition books about the topic, so that does say something about HTML5 and maybe its staying power and that it hasn’t petered away. Bruce: Well, it may not be indicative of the maturity, it may be indicative of just how much the whole thing is shifting sands and things are being changed from under our noses so we have to go and rewrite stuff, I wouldn’t necessarily say that it’s indicative of [...] | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SitePoint Podcast #142: The Last Panel of 2011 | Episode 142 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of 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 #142: The Last Panel of 2011 (MP3, 38:18, 36.8MB) 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 Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Chrome Becomes the World’s Second Favorite Browser Is Firefox Doomed? inessential.com: The Pummeling Pages JQuery Shutters Plugin Site Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/142. GA_googleFillSlot("InArticle_728x90_1"); Host Spotlights Patrick: SNL Digital Short: Batman Stephan: Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? – NYTimes.com Louis: Knyle Style Sheets — Warpspire Interview Transcript Louis:: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast, we’ve got a panel show this week, Patrick and Stephan are on the line with me, hi, guys. Stephan: Hey, Louis:! Patrick: Hey, Louis:! Louis:: Our newest member of the panel, Kevin, could not make it this week so there are only three, but we’ve got a lot to talk about so I reckon it will be a good show. Patrick: Yeah, we didn’t like him so we kicked him off the show, no, (laughter), just kidding, just kidding. Louis:: That’s not true. Patrick: No, that’s not true. Louis:: Kevin’s great and he’ll be back next panel show which I believe will be in the New Year because next week I’ll be doing an interview and then we’ll be taking two weeks off for the holidays. Patrick: Yes, two weeks vacation that we get every year (laughter). Louis:: Well deserved, it’s been a great year of podcasting. Patrick: Excellent, yes. You joined the team, so. Stephan: It’s hard to believe it’s been a year. Louis:: I don’t even remember when I came, when I started doing the podcast. Patrick: I don’t know, we’ll have to look that up, but – Stephan: We’ll have to look that up, yeah. Patrick: It was in 2011 I’ll tell you that. Stephan: (Laughs) Thanks, Patrick. Louis:: It was #110 on the 1st of May 2011. Patrick: May 1, 2011, excellent. So a good seven months into the show come January 1st. And of course you had been kind of the interview host in some ways; Kevin had secretly snuck you in. Louis:: Yeah, I’d done a couple of shows before that. Patrick: To do some of his work (laughs), and then we brought you on officially, so, excellent! Louis:: So this makes it the last panel show of the year so the pressure’s on, but we gotta kill it. Patrick: Yes, absolutely, let’s kill the show. Louis:: (Laughs) with that in mind I’ll throw it to you, Patrick, for the first story. Patrick: Cool. So my story is about Firefox, and Firefox is my browser, I still have not yet downloaded Chrome. Actually I said on this show that I was going to finally download it, and to test a bug, but the person emailed me back and said the bug has resolved itself (laughter), so I still didn’t need to. But plenty of other people are downloading Chrome because according to Statcounter.com it became in November the second most popular browser in the world, behind IE, and got ahead of Firefox; it has overall the market share of 25.74%, Firefox, both versions 3.7 and 4.0+ are down to 25.24%, so Chrome is up .5%, half a percent, and Firefox lost a full percent of ground, more than a full percent of ground in just one month with Chrome gaining .69, and I guess, finally, it’s been on a steady ascent, achieving that number two browser mark. And I guess one of the things [...] | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SitePoint Podcast #141: Pygg with Andy White | Episode 141 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Andy White (@arcwhite) from startup incubator Pollenizer on their social payment startup, Pygg. 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 #141: Pygg with Andy White (MP3, 27:00, 25.9MB) 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 Andy and Louis discuss the challenges of getting a social payment system up and running technically, and getting people to take it up and use it. GA_googleFillSlot("InArticle_728x90_1"); Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/141. Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast. My guest on the show this week is a web developer from right here in Australia who’s the technical lead on a very cool little web startup called Pygg, that’s p-y-g-g, Andy White. Hi and welcome to the show, Andy. Andy: Hi, Louis, thank you for having me. Louis: How you doing? Andy: Yeah, good, busy as ever. I’m currently migrating the Pygg service to a new Cloud Hosting environment with another local group, Ninefold, so that’s keeping me up until all hours. Louis: Yeah, were you with EC2 previously? Andy: We have been sort of, the company I work for, Pygg, is part of a startup incubator called Pollenizer, and we’ve used AWS and also Rackspace for a number of projects, Rackspace is Cloud, and we’re trying to rationalize around Ninefold because we target Australian audiences typically with our startups first, and just getting that latency down is a big win. Louis: Yeah. So let’s maybe just back peddle a little bit and talk about what Pygg is. So do you want to just give a little bit of background on what this product is and what it does. Andy: Yeah, sure. So I mean the elevator pitch for Pygg is that we’re trying to disrupt social payments, we’re trying to change the way that people pass money around to one another, and the long term goal is to disrupt the way people interact with their money and interact with their banks. Louis: Cool. Let’s take it down from the elevator pitch to maybe the first floor pitch. Andy: Yep. Louis: Which would be how to use it, what do I do with it. Andy: So the current implementation is that if you have a Twitter or an email account you can signup with Pygg and you can send money to anyone else who has a twitter or an email account. At the moment it’s only in Australia but we do have long term plans to go global. Louis: Right. And you say it’s only in Australia because the way you get money out is to an Australian bank account, right? Andy: That’s right. And dealing with international currency conversion turns out to be quite a complex process when you’re talking about if I as a user pay you one U.S. dollar what does that mean when you receive it and how do we actually present that to the user in terms of the interface and the messaging. We tried an early experiment around that and it got very complicated very quickly, so our strategy has been to work on the Australian market first while we’re proving the idea, and once we’ve really got our legs underneath us then we’ll jump off and look at potentially the U.S. market or somewhere else. Louis: Right. So the idea here is I send a tweet to Pygg or do I send a tweet out into the open or to the person I’m sending the money to in theory? Andy: So, we run a Pygg account @pygg, p-y-g-g, and there’s a bit of code that sits there an listens to Twitter on that account, you send a tweet to that [...] | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SitePoint Podcast #140: Web Page Bloat | Episode 140 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Kevin Dees (@kevindees), 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 #140: Web Page Bloat (MP3, 36:42, 35.3MB) 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 Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Royal Pingdom: Web pages are getting more bloated. jQuery Mobile reaches deployment. Foursquare Gets Redesigned Youtube Upgrades HTML5 Video Player Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/140. GA_googleFillSlot("InArticle_728x90_1"); Host Spotlights Kevin: Postmark – Email For Your Web App Patrick: The Final Rap Battle! Stephan: How To Write Unmaintainable Code Louis: Jasmine – BDD For Your Javascript Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast, another panel show this week covering the news and events in the Web and the world of web design and development over the past few weeks. This is a special panel show because we’re welcoming a new member of the panel, Kevin Dees, hi Kevin. Kevin: Thank you for having me and hello. Louis: Absolutely a pleasure. And we’ve also got the two remaining members of our regular panel, Stephan and Patrick. Stephan: Howdy, howdy. Patrick: The last men standing (laughter). Hey Louis; welcome to the show Kevin. Kevin: Thank you, thank you. Louis: So, Kevin, do you want to maybe just introduce yourself for the listeners and then we can dive straight into the stories. Kevin: Sure, I can. So, I am Kevin Dees, that’s my name, I run a website called Kevindees.cc where I do interviews and post about just the random thoughts that I have, so that’s where I’m most known. And I also do another podcast called The Web Weekly where I met Patrick and our relationship started and has gone on from there. So that’s kind of me in a nutshell and, yeah, I’m excited to be on the show, I’m excited to be here and just talk about web and web design and all those wonderful things. Patrick: Kevin was a listener of the SitePoint Podcast on and off, so that’s sort of how we first met, and we’ve hung out at a couple conferences and of course he’s done some interviews on his site, so that’s kind of what led us to invite him to join the show. But also, Kevin, can you tell us a bit about your development background and what makes you a fit for a web development podcast. Kevin: Sure, great. I have been developing websites for some time now, geez, I don’t even know how many years; I made my first website when I was nine if that tells you anything, and I quit for a little while just because I was a kid, but I’m back and I’ve been doing it for, whew, at least six-plus years now. Basically I’m a WordPress developer, PHP developer, and I also deal with front-end code, so CSS, HTML and JavaScript. I’ve made a few WordPress plugins and I’ve made some plugins also for browsers, for example, I’ve made a plugin that helps IE7 specifically support the pseudo elements before and after, so I’ve done a few things like that and I’ve worked for agencies, I’ve freelanced, I’ve run my own businesses, and so I have a little bit of experience, or at least I’d like to think, in the Web community. Patrick: Excellent, excellent. Well, welcome aboard. Kevin: Thank you. Stephan: Welcome aboard. Louis: Yeah, welcome. The first thing that’s worth sort of talking about a little bit this week is — and this happened [...] | 11/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SitePoint Podcast #139: Experimenting With CSS3 with Lea Verou | Episode 139 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Lea Verou (@leaverou) the speaker and web developer who helps us all with her cool CSS3 tools on her site lea.verou.me. 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 #139: Experimenting With CSS3 with Lea Verou (MP3, 44:56, 43.1MB) 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 Louis and Lea discuss the tool out there for using CSS3, her contribution to those and what the current topics are on the conference circuit. GA_googleFillSlot("InArticle_728x90_1"); Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/139. Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast. My guest on the show today is a Web designer and developer who I’ve wanted to have on the show for some time now, it’s finally sort of aligned, you’ve been very busy with conferences, Lea Verou, hi Lea. Lea: Hi Louis, thanks for having me here. Louis: It’s absolutely a pleasure. I’ve been sort of following your work on your website and on Twitter for some time, it’s just sort of all of a sudden I think a couple of months ago just about everyone I followed suddenly started re-Tweeting your stuff and with reason, you’ve done a lot of really cool stuff, so I wanted to have you on the show and talk about that a little bit. Lea: Thank you so much. It’s funny; I keep hearing the same thing from many people that you suddenly started being popular even though I was working on this stuff for like years. Louis: Yeah, I guess it’s just the whimsy of the Internet and social media that all of a sudden if a few people who have a lot of followers who are well known catch on to your work and it explodes all of a sudden. Just an example of that, I think you’re still — you’re a finalist in the .net Magazine Awards in the category of Brilliant Newcomer, am I right? Lea: Yeah, I’m in the three finalists and the results come out in like nine days, so I’m kind of looking forward to what they’ll be. Louis: Yeah, well, congratulations on the nomination and on making it through to the final round. Lea: Thank you. Louis: You’ve been really busy of late, it’s one of the reasons it’s taken a little while to get you on the show is you’ve been traveling a lot and giving talks at conferences. Lea: Well, October and November are usually really busy months conference-wise, there are many, many conferences these months; I’m not sure exactly why. And especially October has been crazy for me, I had like four conferences in a row flying from one country to the other, it was so exhausting, but really it felt good but it was really exhausting. Louis: Yeah, I can imagine. I saw the video of one of your talks. Lea: Which one? Louis: The CSS3 Secrets, I think it was from Fronteers is the one that was — that I saw a video of. Lea: Oh, good. I think that was one of my best. Louis: (Laughs) Well, that’s good. So I’ll talk about that a little bit later, but first, since you’ve been traveling to all these conferences what’s the report from the front-lines, what are the big themes that everyone’s talking about, what’s your take on the vibe at these conferences? Lea: Most talks, well, it seems like the hot topics in our industry right now are CSS3, of course, so a big bunch of talks are about CSS3 or server side JavaScript. I’ve listened to many talks about Node.js or also ECMAScript 6 Harmony that’s coming now and it’s quite hot in the JavaScript [...] | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SitePoint Podcast #138: What’s The Alternative To Google? | Episode 138 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Brad Williams (@williamsba), 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 #138: What’s The Alternative To Google? (MP3, 50:14, 48.2MB) 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 Here are the main topics covered in this episode: GA_googleFillSlot("InArticle_728x90_1"); HTML5 date Time element scrapped. HTML5 date Time element Rienstated. Dodgy Coder: StackOverflow’s Programming Language Bias Official Google Blog: Google+ Pages: connect with all the things you care about Google warns that rate limits, overage fees are coming to Maps API Google Maps in WebGL Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/138. Host Spotlights Brad: Google Gravity Patrick: SitePoint Podcast #1: The Economy Louis: A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design Stephan: Made by Hand Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to yet another episode of the SitePoint Podcast. We’re here this week with a full panel to discuss the past few weeks’ events in the world of the Web, so hi guys. Stephan: Howdy, howdy. Patrick: Hello. Brad: Hey-oh! Louis: So this time is a bit special for a couple reasons, but first up, Brad and Patrick happen to be in the same room as we’re recording this. Patrick: That’s right. Brad: Sadly. Louis: (Laughs) Patrick: Brad is kind enough to have me as a guest in his home. Louis: That’s terrifying (laughter). Patrick: Yes. Brad: Just a bit. Louis: So there’s another reason why today’s show is a bit special, and I guess Brad can fill us in on why that is. Brad: Yeah, so sadly this will actually be my last SitePoint Podcast that I’ll be doing, so I’ll be stepping away from the show. Louis: Noooooooo! Brad: I know. Louis: I was just trying to add some drama, obviously we were aware before the show, but I want to — you know. Stephan: I had no idea; what are you guys talking about? (Laughter) Brad: Surprise! Yes, it’s true. Actually the day after, I’m sorry, the day the show is released will be three years and one day since our first episode, so if you can believe it or not we’ve been doing this for over three years, and I think the time’s come for me to kind of move on and try some different things, and I’ve certainly had a great time and I definitely hope you guys will have me back on, on occasion, if you need to someone to fill a seat or just want to hear my sexy voice I’ll be more than happy to come back on the show. Patrick: Yeah, well, Kevin said the same thing and you see how many times we’ve had him back on (laughter). You know I told Brad he’s going to need to get the tissue box for me here in case I get a little emotional, but – Brad: We can hug it out. Patrick: Yeah, I mean I always want to give a little history lesson for people like Brad was really the person who took the initiative to start the SitePoint Podcast, we have a forum post up in front of us here in the SitePoint Forums in the staff section from June 27, 2007 Brad just basically pushed the idea out there, he says, “I just wanted to get everyone’s thoughts on a SitePoint Podcast. It would take quite a bit of work to get it rolling, but with the knowledge just of the forums staff I’m sure we could make a very interesting show.” And so from that thread spawned months of discussions, and eventually Stephan and myself saying, hey, we’ll speak on this, we’ll participate, we [...] | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SitePoint Podcast #137: Paymo with Jan Lukacs | Episode 137 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Jan Lukacs (@jan_lukacs) the General Mananger of Paymo. 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 #137: Paymo with Jan Lukacs (MP3, 24:58, 24.0MB) 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 Jank discuss how the whole project came about, the pitfalls and experiences of changing from a client project based business to a cloud app service and how you can think about approaching the same move. GA_googleFillSlot("InArticle_728x90_1"); Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/137. Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to the SitePoint Podcast. This week on the show I’m glad to have with me for an interview Jan Lukacs who is the general manager of a company called Paymo which is sort of an online time tracking and invoicing service. Hi, Jan. Jan: Hi Louis. Louis: How are you going? Jan: Thanks for having me. I’m great thank you. Louis: Good, it’s great to have you on. You were recommended to us by Joel Falconer who’s been doing some blogging for the various SitePoint sites, thought it’d be cool to have you on and talk a bit about your product and your experiences freelancing and working with a lot of freelancers with Paymo. Jan: Yeah, I’ll be happy to share any things I’ve learned from our experience. Louis: That’s great. So, before we dive into any of that do you want to talk a bit about your website, about your product, which is called Paymo and it’s at paymo.biz, is that right? Jan: Yeah, paymo.biz, yeah. Louis: Do you want to just tell us a bit about it and tell us what gave you the idea to start it and how it’s been going. Jan: Sure. So, basically Paymo is a time tracking service, an online app, that allows you to manage your team’s time and your own time, it’s also for freelancers with businesses too. At the core it’s a time tracking service but we built a bunch of tools around it like project management and invoicing, so it really helps you manage your business online, especially if you’re working on projects where you need to know how long a task takes and things like this. Louis: Right. So how long have you been running this site? Jan: We started in 2008 and for a year we kept the service for free, so we didn’t have any commercial product so to speak, and in 2009 we redesigned the whole app after we got a lot of feedback from our users, basically that’s the point where it was a product that we started to sell. Louis: Right. So right now is there still a free option on the service, though? Jan: Yeah, of course. From the beginning this was our philosophy. In our careers a lot of tools that we used were open source or free and they helped us a lot, so when we decided to create a premium version of the product we knew that we had to give away for free the core services of the app, so we will always have a free version of our service. Louis: Right. So you mentioned when you were working previous to this before doing Paymo you were just a standard sort of work-for-hire web shop, right? Jan: Yeah. We were a web development agency working on projects for other companies and individuals. Louis: And so is Paymo something you built for use internally and then realized that you had a product that you could sell, or was it something where you knew at the end of the day it was going to be a product that you would try and mass market? Jan: No, we built it for ourselves because at that point we looked at [...] | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SitePoint Podcast #136: A Single Browser Issued by the Government | Episode 136 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Brad Williams (@williamsba) 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 #136: A Single Browser Issued by the Government (MP3, 39:59, 38.4MB) 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 Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Google Encrypts Signed In Search Data Google Chrome Hits 200m users The Next 6 Billion Users Adobe Acquires TypeKit Optimal Link Placement For Clicks Amazon Helps Cement HTML5′s Place in the Future of Publishing Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/136. GA_googleFillSlot("InArticle_728x90_1"); Host Spotlights Patrick #1: Sony Ericsson Xperia PLay Ad #1 – Tsquared Patrick #2: Sony Ericsson Xperia PLay Ad #2 – Build For Kristen Brad: AI Challenge Louis: Browser Logo Inspired Dresses by Moie Preisenberger Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast, we’re back with a panel show this week, one man down. Patrick: Unfortunately. Brad: Stephan! Louis: Yeah, Stephan’s not here, he got caught up with work, is that right? Patrick: Yes, yes that is right. I’m sure he wishes us well (laughter). Brad: Work’s always getting in the way. Louis: I’m not sure I’d jump to those conclusions, Patrick. Patrick: Yeah, I don’t know, well, we’ve got to do this anyway. Louis: Yeah, so how you guys been? Brad: Good. Patrick: Good. I’m good. I’m just working hard getting things done before heading on the road this weekend to go to a wedding, my first actual wedding that I’ve attended. Louis: You haven’t attended a wedding before? Patrick: No, no, I haven’t. I keep meaning to watch The Wedding Crashers to figure out how it all works, so I need to do that before I leave. Louis: (Laughs) Brad: I’ve been to four weddings this year. Patrick: Wow. Brad: So I’m definitely done I think, I hope, for the year anyways. Louis: Yeah, hopefully. Well, I imagine there’s not a lot of winter weddings in the northern hemisphere so you should be safe. Brad: I hope so. Patrick: Yeah, yeah, I’m headed down to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina for my friend Jared Smith’s wedding to his fiancé Stephanie, so looking forward to getting down there, it’s a little south of me but not too far south; I’m North Carolina that’s South Carolina so it’s just a state away. Louis: Yeah, you guys want to dive into stories this week? Patrick: Alright, so I’ll go first, I found an interesting little, very little, study from Dan Zarrella, danzarella.com, he works for HubSpot, he is the Social Media Scientist, self-proclaimed. Louis: Oh, boy. Patrick: He looks at data, large data sites, from sources like Twitter, Bit.ly and whatnot, and then publishes his findings, and I found this link through ReadWriteWeb to his blog, and basically it tells us the CTR, the click-through rate, of links and Tweets based upon where the link is included in the Tweet. And there were 200,000 Tweets at random that were gathered that were analyzed containing Bit.ly links using the Bit.ly API to calculate the click-through rate, and the clicks on a link were divided by the number of followers of the Tweeter. So, and then he took a look at where the link was included in the Tweet and basically displayed this simple heat map, so if you haven’t seen it, I don’t know if you guys have seen it or not, what do you think the best place to insert a link would be? Louis: Well, I’m [...] | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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