The Dev Show

37: We're Kidding

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:00:00 GMT

In this episode, Dan and Jason go over the latest in javascript, vim, python, html5, and more. They also talk about rails being able to scale* and security.

* Spoiler: it can't.

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36: Dan Solo

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Dan discusses the latest news in the world of software development alone, because Jason has the flu.

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35: Craigslist Edition

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:00:00 GMT

In this episode, Dan and Jason bring you a few of the latest links in javascript, lisp, php, and more. They also touch on the age old question: "How do I pronounce SQL?"

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34: All Alone

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:00:00 GMT

Dan Benjamin talks to himself about the latest news in the world of software development.

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33: A Stupendous Tool

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Dan and Jason go over the latest and greatest in the development world. This week they focus on UI and javascript.

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32: Misp-ronunciation

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:30:00 GMT

In this episode, Jason and Dan bring you the latest news from the development world and pronounce practically all of it incorrectly, from mac aus ex to jayvascripts.

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31: The Final Show (of oh-ten)

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:56:00 GMT

In the final episode of The Dev Show for 2010, Dan and Jason go over the latest in Python, NoSQL, and discuss sending email.

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30: Hiatus

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:00:00 GMT

In their long awaited return, Dan and Jason cover the latest programming news and rag on non-ruby languages more than normal. They also announce new plans for the Dev Show.

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29: Outdated

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:35:00 GMT

In this episode, Jason and Dan discuss the latest news on Python, Javascript, Node, and more. They also discuss some relatively but still valuable old software.

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28: Man Secrets (Codename: Eggshell)

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:01:00 GMT

In this episode, Jason and Dan bring you the latest development news with a focus on Javascript, the mobile web, and design. Surprisingly, they even briefly touch on Mongo DB.

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27: Awkward Jokes

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:48:00 GMT

Jason returns! He and Dan talk about the latest and greatest with javascript, Python, Perl, HTML5, MongoDB, and more.

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26: Honeymoon

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:41:00 GMT

While Jason honeymoons, Dan Benjamin flies solo, bringing you the best and most important software development news you'll find anywhere.

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25: Suit Up!

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:12:00 GMT

In this episode, Jason suits up! Also, Jason and Dan go over the latest and greatest from the development world and mention some sinatra clones, mongo db, and more.

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24: Wind Beneath My Wings

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:21:00 GMT

Dan flies solo this week while Jason is out fighting crime in Metropolis. In this episode you get the latest news on html 5, some android information, and a bit on Ruby for PHP developers. Python, sadly, still considers whitespace to be significant.

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23: Jack

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:24:00 GMT

Jason and Dan bring you the latest development news and tell you the keys to getting your article or blog post linked on The Dev Show.

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22: The Screenshots Tell The Story

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:38:00 GMT

In this episode, Jason and Dan bring you all the latest development news touching on jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, Java 7, and Rails 3.

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21: Pronunciation

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:01:00 GMT

In this episode, Jason and Dan bring you the latest development news with more PHP links than usual.

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20: Unreported Exceptions

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:10:00 GMT

In this episode, Dan and Jason go over the latest news and touch on HTML 5, web workers, and server configuration best practices.They also touch on new pronunciations of well known words.

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19: Hug It Out

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:20:00 GMT

Dan and Jason deliver the only development news you need to hear. It's been proven.

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18: Emacs F.U.

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:45:00 GMT

In this episode, Jason and Dan bring you the latest news in the development world and touch on the recent release of Perl 6.

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17: Macaussexx

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:50:00 GMT

In this episode, Jason and Dan bring you the latest and greatest development news.

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16: An Ugly Divorce

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:45:00 GMT

Dan and Jason reveals the secrets all software developers must know to succeed. OK, not really. But they do cover the latest development news.

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15: Development for Designers

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:39:00 GMT

In this episode, Jason and Dan bring you all the latest news and talk about development from a design perspective.

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14: Design for Developers

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:45:00 GMT

In this episode, Jason and Dan bring you all the latest programming and Mongo news, think about old movies, and talk about design and ux from a developer point of view.

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13: Lucky 13

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:25:00 GMT

In this episode of The Dev Show, Jason and Dan talk about the latest news and utilities. There's even a Windows story in this one.

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12: Best Episode Ever

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Jason and Dan go through and bring you the latest news and awkward, uncomfortable humor.

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11: Just The News

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In this episode Jason and Dan go over all the latest dev news. There's no specific discussion topic, but there is a lot of specific awesome.

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10: Safari 5

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:02:00 GMT

In this episode, Jason and Dan go over the recently released Safari 5 and talk about the latest development news.

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9: Security

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:30:00 GMT

In this episode of The Dev Show, Jason and Dan bring you the latest and greatest news and talk a bit about web site security.

Crowd Fusion is hiring developers skilled in object-oriented PHP who have experience building content management systems. View the listing at Genius Pool or browse all jobs.

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8: Cloud Computing

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Fri, 21 May 2010 21:00:00 GMT

In this episode, Jason and Dan explore the different aspects of cloud computing from virtualization to hosted apps.

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7: Wireframing

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:13:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak joins Dan and Jason in this week's Dev Show where they bring you the latest news and links. The topic for this week is wireframing.

You can hear more from Adam at The Changelog and The Web 2.0 Show and find out more about him at his blog or his company, Handcrafted. Don't forget to check out the Changelog interview with Aaron quit of Sammy.js which we talk about in the episode.

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6: A/B Testing

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:45:00 GMT

In this episode, Jason and Dan talk about the latest development news and take you to a dream world full of magic and A/B testing.

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5: SkyNet

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:00:00 GMT

In this episode Jason and Dan cover all the latest news with a little slant towards NoSQL.

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4: My Password Is 12345

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:30:00 GMT

Password edition! We all know that the generally accepted way to store passwords is plain text in the database and the suggested default password is the same as your login with the number "1" at the end of it. However, in this episode, Jason and Dan take a deeper look at passwords, password hashing, and storage. All that, the latest news, and more.

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3: HTML 5 Edition

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:40:00 GMT

In this episode of the dev show, Dan and Jason bring you the latest development news and discuss HTML 5. It's like your bullet proof vest for the week.

Sifter is a hosted bug and issue tracking application focused on making work less tedious. You can signup for a free trial to take it for a test drive or go on a quick tour with screenshots to learn more.

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2: iPad Edition

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:06:00 GMT

In this episode, Dan and Jason bring you the latest news and have developers weigh in on the recently announced iPad.

Show Notes

Developers Weigh In

Peter Cooper of Ruby Inside and Coder.IO
"Migrating iPhone apps to the iPad has been made dead easy, thankfully, so even if the iPad takes a while to become a popular, much loved device, it doesn’t even matter. I think, though, that the iPad will be HUGE in certain niches and there are lots of things that you can build that just wouldn’t work on the iPhone or typical computer form factor. I’m also excited about the webapp opportunities. Forget native apps for a minute – the browser on the iPad is so fast that HTML5 webapps are bound to take off – at last!"

JP Toto at Vice Clown
"I’m excited to see that the iPad has binary compatibility with the iPhone which guarantees that current MonoTouch applications will work out of the box on iPad. At least, according to the team. As a C# developer I’m pretty reliant on the MonoTouch team to maintain their tools with every new Apple product or SDK change. My only qualm with the iPad device itself is that I wish it had multi-tasking support. I could see myself sitting on my couch, reading a book or newspaper, and wanting to have a Twitter application and Pandora running in the background. Hopefully with future revs and software updates we’ll see support added for multi-tasking!"

Al Buchala at Mega Yummo!
The iPad may not be the best device for healthcare. Doctors like to dictate and write and shy away from on-screen keyboards. Mobility is always a big one, the smaller the better. Devices that can fit in your pocket are preferred by doctors. Multitasking is also a must, since doctors are always performing several tasks in their daily routine.

The advantage of the iPad is the screen size, weight and the active internet connection. In my opinion, the iPad was not designed to compete with smart devices (PDAs) and mobile phones. It is a more of a multimedia device that allows the users to browse the internet, read e-books, watch videos, and play movies along with many other possibilities.

Corey Johnson of Probably Interactive
From a developer’s perspective I’m torn because I like the potential of the expanded screen space, but I also worry about having to support a growing number of screen resolutions.

It is also more of a recreational device; so unlike the iPhone, which you carry around with you all the time, you will probably stash the iPad next to your couch. This will make it more difficult to sell gaming/entertainment/utility apps. I doubt people will be so bored they will buy iPad apps instead of watching TV or playing XBox/Playstation/Wii/TurboGrafx-16.

Mike Girouard of Love Mike G
Personally, I think the pad is cool, but it's not for me and certainly not for development. My iPhone is nice enough and I simply don't need a bigger one. It's feature set is too basic and media options are pretty weak too (4x3 screen, adapters galore, etc). Bashing aside, it could be an interesting portable gaming device.

Gaston Mendez of XPander Communications
"We do have plans to support mobile devices, both in web interfaces and native applications. In the case of Apple mobile devices, developing applications specifically for the iPad would be a natural extension of our iPhone app plan."

Erika Greco of Domo Design
"Everything we create is always 1024 safe anyway, unless the client specifically requests otherwise so we’ll just continue to build them as usual. The iPad will not change web design standards. As much as Apple wishes it is a “game changer” like the iPhone, it is not."

1: Awesome.new

Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:57:00 GMT

Episode 1: Awesome.new.

Show Notes

Go
9 Most Common IE Bugs and How to Fix Them
Faster Loading Through Eval()
Python Moratorium
Top Up
jQuery 1.4 Released
jQuery version 1.4 has been released!
35 Excellent Ecommerce User Interface Designs
Mongo DB
MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database.
280 North's Atlas goes in to beta
5 Damn Easy Ways To Improve User Experience
Think of emails as views delivered through SMTP
10 Useful Tools for Finding the Perfect Domain Name
Firebug 1.5.0 Released
Cross Site HTTP Requests in Firefox