Episode 109: Typescript and a bit more…

Posted on April 16, 2013 by wdradmin

Heading off to Russia for a bit – if there’s anything you think I should see when I’m there, let me know

Saw a good presentation on TypeScript recently, which has piqued my interest – hopefully it piques yours as well. This blog post from techempower shows the results on testing more than two dozen web framework/configurations – where’s your favorite? Finally, intro.js gives you a quick way to add guided tours to your websites – clean and simple.

Also, Jetbrains has an ‘earth day’ sale this week – get up to 50% off an editor of your choice. And Zend Studio 10 was recently released and is also 50% off its normal price.

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Episode 108: New Ruby, Regex and my Framework Security Rant(tm)

Posted on February 25, 2013 by wdradmin

Ruby 2 was just released, and the new ‘refinements’ feature presents some interesting challenges for JRuby and just about anyone wanting to read Ruby code. Brief chat about the regex security affecting Rails back in January, but more broadly speaking, what does this say about regex in general? Should we embrace it, or find better alternatives? Finally, I’ve got a new blog post up about web framework security – why do (almost) no web frameworks ship with security baked-in?

Links:

http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/why-do-no-almost-no-web-frameworks-come-with-any-authenticationauthorization-functionality/

Ruby stuff:

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/24/ruby-2-0-0-p0-is-released/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5273498

Malloc stuff:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/18zija/github_got_30_better_performance_using_tcmalloc/

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Episode 107: Testing Talk with Paul Merrill

Posted on February 12, 2013 by wdradmin

I got a chance to chat with Paul about some of his experiences as a testing consultant, recommended tools, war stories and more. Have a listen

Paul is with Beaufort Fairmont, a testing consulting firm in North Carolina.

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Episode 106: Freelancing interview with Matchist.com founders

Posted on January 5, 2013 by wdradmin

I got a chance to speak with Stella Feyman and Tim Jahn about their new service Matchist, which serves as a matchmaking service focused on the needs of freelancers. Forgive the slight hiss on my audio – I could not determine the source.

Matchist :: Freelance matchmaking service
FreelancePath :: Community for web freelancers
Web Developer Freelancing Handbook :: Get updates on my book-in-progress

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Episode 105: Font tools, design thoughts, parallel deployment, and my Florida road trip

Posted on December 16, 2012 by wdradmin

Hello all from sunny Florida Recently discovered jquery validation plugin only 6 years too late, and have found some tools that work in conjunction with it, including Pajama, a PHP library. Also have some links to font combination articles and tools, and have recently been using "parallel deployment" in Tomcat 7.

Font Combinator :: Test out font combinations
Alertify.js :: Unobtrusive notification system
Pajama PHP library :: Rules for form validation on server and client side
Font combination 1 :: Examples of good font combinations
Font combination 2 :: More examples of good font combinations
Freelance community :: Join our web freelancing community

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Episode 104: A few infrastructure services and version control

Posted on November 14, 2012 by wdradmin

I’ve found a couple of neat infrastructure services recently and hope you find them interesting and useful. Also… what’s the deal with solo developers not using version control?

freelancepath :: new community for web freelancers
uptano :: hourly virtual hosting
spreedly :: recurring billing
name terrific :: registrar as a service
lean domain search :: find a great domain name
formalize.me :: standardize your forms' look and feel
virusade :: hosted virus scanning service
sitepoint podcast 186 :: Me and Kevin Dees rapping freelance
kevin dees :: Kevin Dees' site
indieconf :: Conference for independent web professionals

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Episode 103: pgmodeler, doppio and some Windows 8 thoughts

Posted on October 12, 2012 by wdradmin

doppio is a JVM written in CoffeeScript. Yes, really. There’s a new PostgreSQL data modeler tool out that looks pretty cool, and I recently attended a developer-focused Windows 8 app writing bootcamp, and have some thoughts on that to share with you. Don’t forget – indieconf is coming up in November – register today!

DoppIO :: JVM in CoffeeScript
BadassJS doppio page :: Article on doppio JVM
Padraic's blog :: Blog proposal on PHP filtering component
PG Data Modeler :: Postgres Data Modeler tool
web freelancer conference :: The web freelancer conference

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Episode 101 – rambling lessons learned

Posted on August 12, 2012 by wdradmin

I had a couple epiphanies recently that I share in this episode, and found a couple new/cool webdev things in the past few weeks.

Browserver :: Run nodejs in your browser
Behat :: PHP BDD testing tool
CSS3 supports :: @supports tag for CSS3
CSS3 support in Firefox :: Firefox nightly has support for @supports
Webdev list :: List of things to know in web development
Indieconf 2012 :: “Really early bird” pricing ends August 15

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Episode 100 – 7 years and counting!

Posted on July 13, 2012 by wdradmin

Happy birthday to wdr! 100 episodes in only 7 years!

Topics include – plivo, a new VOIP/SMS SaaS; some ramblings on PHP framework support for legacy PHP versions, sparked by a recent CakePHP posting; some cool tools/sites I’ve stumbled on recently, and a call for papers for the upcoming indieconf conference for web freelancers.

CakePHP Future :: Future plans for CakePHP 3
DnDUploader :: Resumable file upload via javascript
DnDUploader github :: Github for DnDUploader
Codetique :: Code critique site
Codepen.io :: Interactive JS/CSS/HTML testing and forking and sharing
Plivo :: SMS/Voice API service
Indieconf Call for Speakers :: Call for Speakers for Indieconf 2012
Indieconf Videos :: Videos from indieconf 2011
Freelancer group :: Join our web freelancers group
WebDevRadio group :: Join our podcast mailing list/group

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Episode 99 – codestock, mojolive, catchup, ndas and more

Posted on June 26, 2012 by wdradmin

A couple of catchup notes on my development life, a recent run-in with someone requesting an NDA, and a new mailing group for webdevradio listeners, an exclusive invite code for mojolive.com and more

MojoLive :: Listen to the show for the invite code
Tobin Titus :: Tobin gave a great JS performance talk at codestock
WebDevRadio mailing list :: Google groups mailing list for webdevradio listeners
Indieconf :: Conference for independent software developers
jqBootstrapValidation :: Nice jquery plugin for twitter bootstrap sites

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