Episode 43: Open Source Flash/Flex overview, Yahoo’s semantic play, MySQL conference
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Lots of small stuff in here - my view on Yahoo's semantic web announcement, PHPUnit 3.3 TDD functionality, MySQL conference, MySQL dealing with 15 gig of new data per day, and my audiblab service- Audiblab :: Free service to record MP3 from your browser via Flash
- Red5 server :: Red5 is an open source java implementation of the Flash Media Server
- TechCrunch :: TechCrunch's take on the Yahoo Semantic Web announcement
- MySQL User Conference :: The site of the 2008 MySQL User Conference
- Yahoo! Silverlight Dev Center :: Your source for information about using Microsoft Silverlight with Yahoo! Web Services and APIs.
- Microformats.org :: Learn more about microformats
- PHPUnit 3.3 post :: Post describing PHPunit TDD support
- MGKIMSAL Twitter :: Follow me on Twitter!
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Episode 44a - Upcoming interview
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Quick notice that I'll be interviewing Patrick O'Keefe from managingonlineforums.com about his upcoming book. We've got a drawing going on for a copy of the book, and also for a copy of the 'Dreamweaver 8 - Missing Manual' book. Send a question to me for Patrick about online communities via comments@webdevradio.com to be entered in to the drawings. Get your entries in by next Friday morning (April 11, 2008). In this episode I misspoke and referenced Patrick's book as 'Managine Online Communities' - I apologize for the discrepancy.- Managing Online Forums :: New book about online community building
- Michael Kimsal blog :: My blog - post about PDO
- Music from Bob Maus :: Bob Maus music used in this show
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Codemash - Bull session with ideacore and giftsforengineers
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I had a chance to have a fun discussion with Dave Kroondyk, Adam Lumsden and Elizabeth Naramore about web development, ecommerce, project management, content management systems, shark dissection, PHP, Mozilla's Weave project, general Michigan awesomeness and some other topics. I was a bit closer to the mike than I should have been, but worse things have happened. Enjoy the eternal optimism of youth distilled in to 45 minutes of listening pleasure.
- GiftsForEngineers.com :: Gifts For Engineers - shouldn't need any more description!
- IdeaCore.com :: Dave and Adam's generous and benevolent employer.
- Mozilla Labs :: Home of Weave project
- Joomla :: Joomla CMS
- Hanselman.com :: Scott Hanselman gave a Codemash keynote and is awesome (he even told us so himself)
- PHPWomen :: A place for women in the PHP community
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Codemash - overview and admission pass giveaway
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This installment is a conversation with Jim Holmes from the Codemash conference about the conference, what to expect and who will be there.
Codemash has graciously given us a free pass to webdevradio listeners. Listen for the instructions in the interview, then send in your email by December 20. Winner will be drawn Dec 21 and notified before December 31. Transportation and lodging are winner's responsibility.
P. S. His sound is good, mine is not as good (apologies - lot of tech problem on my end).
- Codemash :: Information about the upcoming Codemash conference in Sandusky, Ohio.
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Episode 40: Listener questions
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Original PostHello! We’ve got a winner from our last contest for the Frank Zammetti book, and I put some questions I’ve received out to you, the listening community. We’re looking for some feedback on what webdev technologies you’d point people to who are just looking to get in to the field, and also looking for suggestions for good PHP OO learning resources.
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Episode 39: Interview with Frank Zammetti
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Original PostFrank is a developer in Pennsylvania who has written a couple books on AJAX and the various toolkits available, as well as contributed to and started some open source projects. Listen closely, and email in to win a copy of Frank’s latest book!
- Zammetti's blog :: Frank Zammetti's weblog
- Frank Zammetti's books :: Frank's books for sale at Amazon
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Episode 38: Silverlight, codemash, codetolive and more
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Original PostThere’s been a whole lot of interesting things happening in the webdev world the past couple months, and this is a quick catch up on just a few of the highlights. Podcast covers MS Silverlight project, codemash conference, codetolive webcast, simunication prototyping tool, yui compressor, zotero research tool and the hibernate/lucene search project.
- Silverlight project site :: MS' foray in to rich internet applications
- Code To Live :: On the road project interviewing "real life" developers
- Simunication :: Interesting prototyping/requirements tool
- Zotero :: Firefox plugin for researchers
- YUI compressor :: Compress the heck out of your javascript!
- Hibernate Search project :: Hibernate and Lucene - together at last
- Keith Elder :: Former .net pimp
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Episode 36: MySQL DBA Keith Murphy
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Original PostI interview Keith Murphy about his daily work as a MySQL DBA, including the challenges of clustering, RAID configurations, and more. We also talk about his new MySQL magazine effort and what readers can expect from that publication.
- iContact :: Keith's employer, iContact, provides email marketing and blogging software.
- MySQL Magazine :: Keith's MySQL magazine
- Diamond Notes :: Keith's blog - postings from a regular DBA
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Episode 35: James Ward and Andy Oliver
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Original PostThe majority of this episode is a webdev discussion with James Ward (Adobe) and Andy Oliver (buni.org). There’s a short recap here about my travails with ValueWeb’s horrible migration disaster, a partial OSCON wrapup, mention of the Windmill testing project, and a promise of 4-5 more presentation recordings from OSCON.
- OSCON 2007 presentation files :: Missed an OSCON session, or couldn't make the conference? Grab the presenters' slides here!
- Adobe's Flex community :: Learn all about Flex here!
- BUNI :: Home of the Meldware Communications Suite
- James Ward :: Adobe Flex community leader and evangelist
- ValueWeb's migration disaster :: Community discussion from those hit hardest
- windmill testing project :: OSAF's open source AJAX/browser testing platform
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Episode 34: OSCON, OurSQL and other stuff
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Original PostThis is a repost of a missing episode due to valueweb’s extremely poor server migration (read: meltdown). I can’t recall the specifics of this episode, but I did mention my (then) upcoming OSCON presentation on SOLR and the OurSQL podcast.
- SOLR OSCON FILES :: The pdf and sample code of my SOLR presentation.