Category: Podcasting

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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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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Discussion with Richard Campbell from DotNetRocks and Dino Gambone about technical bigotry. Initially kicked off with comment from Dino about lack of respect for dot net developers, but it touched on the wider topic of tribalism, bigotry and condescension between developer camps. Hopefully you’ll find the discussion as interesting as I did.

• http://dotnetrocks.com :: Richard's DotNet podcast
• http://linearsoftwaresolutions.com/ :: Dino's home on the web

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Lots of small bits in this one – a lot of vulnerabilities on my mind this month – links in the show notes. Some are platform specific, some are just general "good practices", but all are still problems in 2012. Jetbrains has products on sale for 30% off until April 16 – PHPStorm, Intellij, RedMine, and more. Yahoo open sources Mojito, and the Beach Boys are back together! Name the song at the end of the podcast and win a JSMag PDF of your choice! Email your guess to michael@jsmag.com

• Rails mass assignment :: Explanation of the Rails mass assignment issue
• Yahoo Mojito :: Mojito open sourced
• PHP Storm :: PHP Storm 30% off until April 16!
• ASP.NET vulnerabilities :: Explanation of ASP.NET config vulnerabilities
• IE gains market share :: IE gains marketshare – even IE6!
• Apple Java exploit delayed fix :: Why did Apple take so long to fix a Java exploit?

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Couple of group announcements. If you’re a freelancer looking to join a web freelancer support group, visit http://webdevradio.com/freelance. PHP 5.4 was released with some cool new features. I’m travelling some more, but will be back sooner than last time! 🙂

• Web freelancer support group :: Web freelancer support group
• Join my freelance job list :: Join my freelance job list and I'll fwd jobs that might fit you.
• PHP 5.4! :: PHP 5.4 released!
• Grails 2.0 :: Grails 2.0 released!

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