As a podcatcher (among other things), iTunes sucks. Badly. iPodder is nicer, mainly because I can keep my follow list in the cloud at PodNova. However, it (or the combination with podnova) often ends up downloading gigs of old stuff, on some particular feeds. Worse, it consumes obscene quantities of memory and CPU, with its [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Podcast'
BashPodder mod – add podcasts to iTunes
December 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments · SoftwareDev
Tags: Bash·bashpodder·itunes·Podcast·Podcasting·shell·Unix
All my p0dc@st are Belong to Me!!!
February 5th, 2008 · No Comments · SoftwareDev
Hosting, Podcast
In the past day, I've pulled down all my podcast mp3 files from libsyn and updated all the posts to point to my domain instead of libsyn. Hence the major feed refresh on the blog and podcast, sorry if that hit you subscribers. (Is anyone still subscribed to the podcast?)
This is a big relief.
Having [...]
Podcast: Metaphors and Analogy in Software
May 30th, 2007 · No Comments · HumansAndTech, Podcast, SoftwareDev
It started with this Code Craft blog post on the Code Garden - an analogy that sucked less. It got me thinking and ranting about metaphors in software and metaphors of software. Designing your technical architecture with software, the XP "Metaphor" practice, metaphors for HCI, metaphors like those used in the Head First series and [...]
Podcast: Thoughts on Patterns
March 8th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Podcast, SoftwareDev
Stream-of-consciousness thoughts on patterns - where we're at in 2007. Not a tutorial. Definitely not a tutorial.
Where did patterns come from? Not GoF, not Alexander. Alexander, patterns, and architecture. Patterns in the organisation - how can a pattern language pervade an organisation and help workers carry out its mission statement and operating principles? Different high level patterns [...]
Ajax Functionality and Usability Patterns – Podcast 3 of 4: Visual Effects
July 31st, 2006 · No Comments · Links, Podcast, SoftwareDev
This is the third in the four-part series on Ajax functionality and usability patterns (Book: Part 4, pp 327-530). An audio discussion of visual effects is ideally short and sweet, so this podcast is but 13 minutes long.
This 13-minute podcast covers ten patterns of Ajax Architecture (Book: Chapter 16, pp 445-472):
One-Second Spotlight One-Second Mutation One-Second Motion Highlight
Tags: AjaxPatterns·DHTML·Drag-And-Drop·Javascript·Links·Podcast·Portlet·Software·Tutorial·Web·Web 2.0·Widgets
Ajax Functionality and Usability Patterns – Podcast 2 of 4: Ajax Page Architecture
July 25th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Links, Podcast, SoftwareDev
This is the second in the four-part series on Ajax functionality and usability patterns (Book: Part 4, pp 327-530).
The guest for this week is Dave Johnson of Nitobi (the Ajax component developers formerly known as E-Business Applications), widget guru and author of the upcoming Enterprise Ajax book. Dave helps me walk through the patterns and [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·DHTML·Drag-And-Drop·Javascript·Links·Podcast·Portlet·Software·Tutorial·Web·Web2.0·Widgets
Ajax Functionality and Usability Patterns – Podcast 1 of 4: Widgets of the Web
July 15th, 2006 · No Comments · Links, Podcast
And so, a new series begins, based on the Ajax functionality and usability patterns (Book: Part 4, pp 327-530). We've already looked at the technical details, now we're looking at what Ajax can do for users and how to implement these features.
I'm asking guests to join me for most of the remaining Ajax Pattern podcasts. [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·Data Grid·DHTML·Javascript·Links·Podcast·Progress Indicator·Rich Text Editor·Search·Slider·Software·Suggestion·Tutorial·Web·Web 2.0·Widgets
Ajax Programming Patterns – Podcast 4 of 4: Performance Optimisation Patterns
July 8th, 2006 · No Comments · Links, Podcast, SoftwareDev
The fourth and final podcast in this series of Ajax Programming Patterns. As always, the patterns are online at AjaxPatterns.org and covered in the book too, now available at Amazon. This 33-minute podcast covers seven patterns of Performance Optimisation:
Browser-Side Cache Maintain a local cache of information. Guesstimate Instead of grabbing real data from the [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·DHTML·Javascript·Links·Optimisation·Optimization·Performance·Podcast·Software·Tutorial·Web·Web 2.0
Ajax Programming Patterns – Podcast 3 of 4: “DOM Population” and “Code Generation and Reuse” Patterns
June 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Links, Podcast, SoftwareDev
The third podcast in this series of Ajax Programming Patterns. The 29-minute podcast covers five patterns. As with the previous podcast, there is reason for concern about the audio quality herein. Firstly, three patterns on DOM population - taking server response data and displaying it or storing it in the DOM:
XML Data Island Retain [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·Cross-Browser·Data Island·DHTML·DOM·Javascript·Links·Maintainable·Podcast·Portable·Software·Tutorial·Web·Web2.0·XML·XSLT
Ajax Programming Patterns – Podcast 2 of 4: Browser-Server Dialogue Patterns
June 20th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Links, Podcast, SoftwareDev
Continuing from the previous podcast (*cough* 12 weeks ago), more programming patterns. Unfortunately, this recording (and the next one) went pear-shaped. Sorry. I do, however, recommend them to those of you who've been wondering what an Ajax talk would have sounded like in crackly 1930s recording technology, and one in which the speaker has a [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·Cross-Domain·DHTML·Javascript·Links·Podcast·Polling·Proxy·Software·Throttling·Tutorial·Web·Web2.0·XML
