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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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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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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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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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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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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