Ghostalk
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 10 years ago -A podcast about Ghost, node.js and everything in between.
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021: with Francis Gulotta
July 17, 2014 22:04 - 1 hour - 79.9 KBIn this episode we had Francis Gulotta as our guest, who was on stage of jQuery 2014 talking about nodebots and demoing a nodecopter controlled by a hoodie. We talked about nodebots, how to get started and teaching coding. Show notes: On nodebots nodebots Chris Williams Chris Williams's blog (runs on Ghost :) ) SaferAging johnny-five nodecopter On hardware https://pinocc.io/ http://www.arduino.cc/ parrot drone mesh network spark core Arduino UNO R3 Adafruit Ras...
020: with John O'Nolan
July 08, 2014 17:19 - 1 hour - 89.8 KBFor episode 20, we had the pleasure of welcoming the Man himself, John O'Nolan. If you need to be told who he is, you may stop reading now. John is the co-founder of the Ghost Foundation, and he's responsible for the direction and the design of the entire project. We talked to him about the origins of Ghost, the direction it's heading and the future of it. Show notes The original article: http://john.onolan.org/project-ghost/ Info on 501c3 The Future of WordPress Richard Stallman inter...
019: with Isaac Schlueter
June 30, 2014 20:32 - 1 hour - 78.6 KBIsaac Schlueter is best known for creating npm, the package manager everyone uses for node. We talked about the origins of node itself (it's older than I thought!), the history of npm, and some really good tools at the end! Show notes: Unveiling nodejs in 2009 by Ryan Dahl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeYvFl7li9E Bit of node.js history netscape liveserver aptana jacksor .net jscript asp jscript JavaScript as a JVM language Spidermonkey v8 spiderape serverjs (now commonjs) co...
018: with Jan Lehnardt
June 25, 2014 11:32 - 1 hour - 75.6 KBThis week we had Jan Lehnardt, who works on Hood.ie, CouchDB, and he's organising JSconf.eu. We talked about what goes into organising a conference, what Hoodie is and why you should (or should not) be using CouchDB. Show notes: On JavaScript, JSConf.eu: superhappydevhouse Chris Williams - @voodootikigod JavaScript Jabber ieee numbers in javascript Nicole Sullivan Kristina Schneider Mike West - XSS (No, the other 'S') - CSSConf EU 2013 On CouchDB pouchdb touchdb couchbase light ...
017: With Steve Klabnik
June 16, 2014 11:32 - 1 hour - 68.3 KBSteve Klabnik is one of the co-creators of the JSON API, a Ruby committer, RUST advocate, and all around nice person. We talked to him about the background of JSON API, RUST (the language, not the game), and a bit of philosophy. Show notes: Rust for Rubyists book Rust language reference Mozilla's servo engine Go language reference JSON API site Dan Gebhardt HAL - Hypertext Application Language Balanced payments Collection+ format Gluglug X60 - laptop certified by the Fr...
016: With Sebastian Gierlinger
June 11, 2014 16:41 - 1 hour - 59.2 KBThis week we talked to Sebastian Gierlinger. He's a Ghost Foundation employee, and one of the two people who have merge rights to the Ghost repository. We talked about how he got to be a Ghost, his programming and startup career prior to that, taking on monster issues. Our #pro moment this week: Gabor's audio track got corrupted, and he had to re-record his replies, thus he might sound a bit out of place. Apologies for that. - G Show notes: devstrom (now acquired) Sebastian's Crunchbase ...
015: With Matthew Creager
June 02, 2014 10:10 - 1 hour - 72.6 KBWe talked with Ouija creator Matthew Creager about what Ouija is, gulpjs, client side security and Ghost. Show notes: goangular Backend as a service Firebase McHacks hackathon Leadsift The epic discussion that turned Matt into a convert react.js Ouija on Wikipedia Ouija on github bash-it gulp js grunt js browsersync JWT (JSON Web Token) exacttarget gulp-dalek Matt, Nick and Colin: Matt on Twitter Matt on Github Colin Macdonald Nick Tassone
014: With Christopher Giffard
May 26, 2014 20:10 - 1 hour - 58 KBWe talked with Christopher Giffard, who is the author of the SteamShovel code coverage and profiling library, and is one of the olden developers of Ghost. We touch on working with node, staying motivated, his project: Behaviour Assertion Sheets and a few puns. Show notes: Memory Profiling SteamShovel Istanbul Esprima Behaviour Assertion Sheets Chris' talk on Behaviour Assertion Sheets Official page for BAS grep visual diffing Chris's workflow Chocolate app Moom (for window arran...
013: With Raquel Vélez
May 19, 2014 20:10 - 1 hour - 86.4 KBFor this episode we spoke with Raquel Vélez about nodebots, nodecopters and learning languages. If you manage not to want to build robots with node afterwards - tell us why! Show Notes Intro Duolingo Raquel’s Resume Nodebots Nodebots johnny-five Raspberry Pi JSConf RobotsConf NodeBots Day Nodecopter SLAM - Simultaneous localization and mapping Kano NPM Inc. npmjs Raquel: Raquel’s Ghost Blog @rockbot
012: With Josh Kalderimis
May 12, 2014 11:32 - 1 hour - 68.9 KBThis week we had a lot of fun talking to Josh, co-founder and CEO of Travis CI. Ghost's code is being checked multiple times a day on Travis, as well as a large number of other open source and closed source projects. Josh gave us some insight into how Travis came to be, why Travis is called Travis, what's next for it, and a boatload of technical details! Show notes Instance automation tools chef (machine management) docker (machine management) Vagrant (machine management) kerl (you nee...
011: With Hannah Wolfe
May 05, 2014 00:15 - 1 hour - 72.2 KBWe had the absolute pleasure of having Hannah Wolfe behind the mic for a truly epic episode of Ghosting. We talked about stories and challenges that Ghost faces and building gaming PCs. Show notes: Revised roadmap API issues Ember.js issues Ghost dev blog Hannah on Github (note her streak count!!) Hannah on Twitter Hannah's blog
010: Node.js and Open Source with Matthew Harrison-Jones
April 27, 2014 16:01 - 1 hour - 66 KBThis week we talked to ex-Ghost Matthew Harrison-Jones about Node.js and Open Source development. Show Notes: Dev Notes JSON-API Error Format Discussion (https://github.com/json-api/json-api/pull/208) Indicating Problems in HTTP APIs by Mark Nottingham With Matthew Clock Introduction to Docker, Dokku, node.js: To the future Docker Docpad DigitalOcean Linode & The new Linode cloud Robin Hawkes Leaving the Ghost Foundation @matt_hojo matthojo.co.uk
009: bookshelf and knex with Tim Griesser
April 20, 2014 13:42 - 1 hour - 55.7 KBWe had the pleasure of welcoming Tim Griesser on the show this week. We talked about bookshelf.js and knex.js, the things that connect the database to Ghost. Show notes Dev catchup The new roadmap. TL;DR version: API -> Ember.js -> new release -> multi-user -> apps master branch is no longer stable. There's a stable branch now or use a tagged version or Ghost on npm or the .zip file With Tim bookshelf.js knex.js Laravel websql browserify UBER, noflo Activerecord (not Microsoft re...
008: Ghost and Ember with Harry Wolff
April 13, 2014 21:42 - 1 hour - 60.3 KBThis week we talked with Harry Wolff about the Ember migration and his experience with frontend frameworks. Show notes: Dev catchup: JSON API Standard Standard Spec for JSON API RSS Example App With Harry Chartbeat Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale at FluentJS Ember Guides ECMAScript 6 features Koa.js Ember.js milestone Emberjs HH: Ghost Hacker with Harry Wolff @hswolff hswolff.com
007: Front End Development with Paul Davis
April 06, 2014 12:42 - 1 hour - 63.5 KBIn this episode we talked to Paul Davis, who recently joined the Ghost Foundation as their front-end architect about remote work, tooling and general development. Show notes: Dev catchup Logs for the meeting Dev article about themes for 0.4.2 Ember.js issues left API issues left With Paul Paul's site Kodery Sketch Gabor's sketching Book: Remote Yahoo!'s remote work ban letter Turkey vs YouTube (has links to Turkey vs Twitter too) pubsubhubbub macaw @pauladamdavis
006: NodeBB with Julian Lam
March 30, 2014 12:42 - 1 hour - 61.7 KBWe talked about plugin architecture, internationalization and theming with Julian Lam, co-founder of NodeBB. Show notes: Issues / Development Update JSON API Standard Paul Adam Davis is a Ghost New Ghost download page Ghost 0.4.2 release post Using Ghost as an npm module Open Ember.js issues regarding Modals and Notifications Discussion about components in Ghost UI vs. Ember Apps: Filter RSS Feeds Toronto Node.js - Great meetup if you're in the Toronto area History.js NodeBB lan...
005: Community and Support with Andy Boutte and David Balderston
March 23, 2014 10:42 - 1 hour - 71.5 KBWe talked about documentation and support on allaboutghost.com and howtoinstallghost.com with the creators: Andy Boutte (who also did QA testing in early days for Ghost) and David Balderston. We touched on building and maintaining a community, their book they wrote with Kezz Bracey and their new site: allghostthemes.com. Show notes: Issues #2312: Whether to fork showdown / or fix it up. Most probably a fork, some fixes, replacing it later #2148: Adding RPC pings for better SEO #2149: Ta...
004: Ghost Book and Themes with Kezz Bracey
March 18, 2014 10:58 - 1 hour - 65.1 KBWe talked with Kezz Bracey (@KezzBracey, polygonix) about her new book on Ghost she wrote with Andy and David of allaboutghost.com, that will be published by Packt publishing soon, theming, moving from WordPress and open source contribution. Show Notes: Twitter account (@ghostalk_) Kezz's tuts plus profile http://hub.tutsplus.com/authors/kezz-bracey Hosted solution is called Ghost(Pro) from now on Ghost 0.4.2 is about to ship (link to milestone) Issues Extending JSON API (2346)
003: Ember with Taras Mankovski
March 09, 2014 19:58 - 54 minutes - 49.8 KBWe discussed advances in the admin UI. Hannah went on a merge-roll, jslint got replaced with jshint and apps are advancing nicely. We had Taras Mankovski, aka EmberSherpa on air. Show notes: EmberSherpa Issues 2333 - The future of Ghost mobile How The Guardian handles mobile site development Tweet about Ghost's response time Bustle.com BBC TideSDK Ember Data Atom Slack npm Trademark issue
002: Ghost Meet Ember
March 02, 2014 15:08 - 45 minutes - 41.3 KBWe discussed the decision to use Ember for the admin UI, mentioned a new label for beginners for issues for getting started with contributing, and talked about the new UI framework. Show Notes: node-sass Issues: 2083 - Apps initial lifecycle and setting screen UI 2081 - Add package.json support for Themes 2115 - The {{#has}} block helper 2138 - Model & Data API extension for apps 2144 - The future of Ghost's admin UI Ember.js Want to get started with Ghost development? Check out th...
001: Let's do it
February 25, 2014 17:25 - 59 minutes - 54.9 KBIn this episode we talked about the current status of Ghost 0.5 development and Ghost Apps. Show notes: Ghost Kickstarter Public Dev Meeting 18th Feb Discussed Issues #2065: Code up the new App UIs (HTML & Sass) #2083: Apps initial lifecycle and setting screen UI #2139: App Settings: ability to define default settings #2144: Discussion: The future of Ghost's admin UI Piwik GoSquared