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This one almost never saw the light of day but it has been resurrected. Not even really sure what is on it aside from Ryan Stewart

After a bit of a hiatus we finally got back to recording some podcast action. We talked about frew things like the upcoming Nitobi rich UI AJAX suite and much more!

I also may have gone on a rant about something or other …

We had a fun time yesterday shooting the shit with Coté discussing what is going on at Nitobi, OpenAjax Alliance happenings, RIA, the state of Ajax (always the innevitable topic) and the old Enterprise Ajax book - which is now ready for pre-sales - amongst several other things.

On another note - that whole JotSpot deal is pretty interesting

This one was supposed to be out a long time ago but Andre tried to pull a fast one on us! We talk about a fiew things like Canadian Thanksgiving, OpenAjax Alliance, AjaxWorld, Testing and Debugging.

There are likely some quality problems and I think that Andre’s recording died before the end so Alexei and I have to pretend like we know stuff.

Get it while it’s hot!

Interesting email came in this morning. The OpenAjax alliance had been invited (to our greatest surprise and dismay) to take part in a podcast series about Ajax with the analyst firm ZapThink. At first thought it seems very reasonable. However, when you actually read the small print (ok it wasn’t that small) they wanted people to pay $5000 for the chance to talk on their podcast! Of course they are gracious enough to give people referred by IBM - who are a driving force behind OpenAjax - a whopping $1000 discount. Well sign me up!

They try to sell the idea to us by saying that they have literally _hundreds_ of downloads per podcast! I mean come on. Even the no good useless pukes that are Dave, Andre and Alexei were able to quickly pass the century download mark with our little audio recording about Ajax.

The real icing on the cake comes when they try to justify the price by saying:

There is a cost involved - in part to defray the costs of producing and distributing the podcast, and in part because as sponsors they get marketing visibility and leads.

Oh that’s right - the large costs associated with podcasting like that $29.95 for the headset and maybe some sort of opensource recording software. If it weren’t for the high cost I am sure that more people would be flocking to podcasts … It reminds me of the talk we had with ZapThink a while back. No wonder so many people are happy to talk to Redmonk. The greatest part about them is that we did a podcast with Cote (granted it was the podcast from hell) and we didn’t have to pay with anything but our time!

I think we will try charging the next people that come on our podcast

technorati tags:ajax, podcast, redmonk, zapthink

Just what everyone has been waiting for - no not the release of Snakes on a Plane - Nitobi podcast #12! Since we have been so busy, we had to skip last weeks episode but we won’t let it happen again. We talked about a few things such as the fun time we had at BarCamp Vancouver, various online apps, and my latest antics with finding food in dumpsters. Get it while it’s hot!

If you haven’t already, then pick up the feed here.

Oh yeah, and thanks for the props on the music Michael - I had to push hard to make that happen

Podcast 11 is up! We talked about a few random things as usual with one or two digressions. Mostly we talked about open source and our Ajax framework. Although I wanted to talk about the latest happenings in Lebanon I tried to stick to the script

Happy listening and as usual feel free to comment here or just email me at dave(youknowwhatgoeshere)nitobi.com.

Pick up the feed or just listen here:

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From Andre’s blog…

Dave and I discuss JavaScript programming techniques and patterns such as inheritance, multiple inheritance, observer patterns and more. We also touch on the nonesense around Ajax security risks. Mentions also of BarCamp Vancouver and we're hiring at Nitobi! Until next week on the same bat channel at the same bat time:)

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Technorati Tags: podcast, ajax, javascript, patterns, barcampvancouver, hiring

Andre and I discussed the new Nitobi name and brand, WebVisions 2006, Ajax Patterns with Michael Mahemoff, Geoweb with Ajax and GIS, Ajaxworld and the 3 pillars of Ajax.

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I didn’t get a chance to post this yesterday, but Michael Mahemoff (one of the of Ajaxians) had me on his latest Ajax functionality and usability podcast about page architecture patterns. We discussed several Ajax patterns including pop-up, virtual workspace and portlet.

Check out the post here.

Technorati Tags: patterns, ajax, podcast