Need something else (besides the Rails Envy Podcast #77) to listen to while you’re riding home, or maybe while you travel to Railsconf? I’ve been meaning to write a blog post for a while going over some of the best Podcasts on the internet. You know, the stuff that inspires me to create better audio content.

If you haven’t listened to some of these, I highly recommend you take the time.

RadioLab is by far the best science related podcast on the net, breaking new ground when it comes to audio and education. Jason and I took a great deal of inspiration from this when creating the Rails Envy Podcast. HomePage | Subscribe on iTunes

Warning: On the itunes feed you will find both the RadioLab podcasts and the hour long shows. I recommend you listen to all the hour long shows before bothering with the podcasts between the stories.

The Moth Podcast

True stories told live, on stage, without notes. The Moth is an organization that does story competitions and teaches good storytelling. Give it a try, and you’ll get hooked. HomePage | Subscribe on iTunes

Crescent Station

The first Podiobook I’m going to recommend you listen to if you like Sci-Fi (if you’d prefer Horror, see below). Phil Rossi writes, performs, and even composes the sound track to my favorite book on audio. “Think of HP Lovecraft, in space, knocking boots with the slutty love child of Phillip K. Dick and Anne Rice. That’s Crescent.” (Scott Sigler) Homepage | iTunes Feed

Phil also just finished a short story called Eden, which is also amazing.

Anything by Scott Sigler

Scott Sigler is a legend in the Podiobooks world. His writing, acting, and technical prowess over his art form is nothing short of brilliant. In case you haven’t got it yet, this is NOT JUST someone reading their book on audio, this is the author doing all the voices, adding sound effects, and music. It’s like a good book, you won’t be able to stop listening.

Check out:

The Rookie, is awesome if you enjoy watching Football.

Earthcore is great Sci-Fi/Action/Horror.

Nocturnal is a great Horror/Thriller set in present day San Francisco.

Lastly, if you’re into Lost I hope you listen to the Transmission (iTunes).

That’s all for now, although there’s a few other goodies in my collection. If you listen to any of these and love them as much as I do, I’d love to hear from you (or talk to you at Railsconf). Also if you know of any great podcasts please post a comment, I’m always looking for more.

Episode 77.

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• Rack 1.0, a modular Ruby webserver interface
• Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20090421
• Phusion Passenger 2.2.2
• D2S3 - Direct to S3 upload form Rails helper
• Getting S3 and SWFUpload to Cooperate in Rails
• Domain Specific Languages in Ruby
How to add simple Permissions into your Simple App

• How to Add Simple Permissions into Your Simple App.
• be9's acl9 - Roles Authorization Library
• Handsoap - Library for creating SOAP clients in Ruby
• ParseTree is dead on Ruby 1.9
Clearance is a Rails engine

• Clearance is a Rails engine
• Tips for writing your own Rails engine
• Dataflow: Thread-safety in Ruby
• Ruby Date Class Slows you Down? Rewrite it in C!
• Install Ruby Rails on Ubuntu 9.04 (with Nginx/Passenger)
• Rails Sever Setup + App Deployment Using Moonshine
• Garb: Access Google Analytics with Ruby
• Diamondback Ruby (DRuby)
• CruiseControl + git + xcode built

Episode 76. You'll say wow every time!

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The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by Integrum. Integrum is a team of dedicated Rails developers who emphasize business value, speed to market, and open communitcation to build remarkable Rails applications. They build software that you've been told is impossible.

The Rails Envy podcast is also brought to you this week by NewRelic. NewRelic provides RPM which is a plugin for rails that allows you to monitor and quickly diagnose problems with your Rails application in real time. They also recently produced Rails Lab, which gives you expert advice on tuning and optimizing your Rails app.

• Phusion’s One Year Anniversary Gift: Phusion Passenger 2.2.0 « Phusion Corporate Blog
• jnstq's rails-nginx-passenger-ubuntu at master - GitHub
• Rails 2.3.2 upgrade gotchas — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
• Introducing Strongbox » Stuff… And Things…
• EdgeCase Show Off Your Mockups
• SapphireSteel :: Book of Ruby Completed: 425 pages, 300+ Sample Programs, FREE!
• Ruby tips from me, your idol - Binary Logic
• Envy Casts - Screencasts to make your friends envious
• Ruby 1.9 compatibility: a three step ladder to bliss [Article] « elc technologies
• oldmoe: Object#extend leaks memory on Ruby 1.9.1
• Progressive Caching « culann.com
• Ruby Proxies for Scale and Monitoring - igvita.com
• Rail Spikes: Benchmarking your Rails tests (updated)
• Ruby Review
• Startpage | RailsWayCon
• Multiple Attachments with Validations In Rails with Paperclip - Cordinc Blog
• AmberBit :: Ruby FLV pseudostreaming implemented using Sinatra and Rack::Evil (useful for Rails too!) :: unique web & mobile applications
• peeping into memcached :: snax
• So Dreamy | blogt✪sk1
• GitHub Issue Tracker! - GitHub
• has_many :info—canned information overload for the Ruby heads

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Episode 75. Burninator edition.

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The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by Integrum. Integrum is a team of dedicated Rails developers who emphasize business value, speed to market, and open communitcation to build remarkable Rails applications. They build software that you've been told is impossible.

The Rails Envy podcast is also brought to you this week by NewRelic. NewRelic provides RPM which is a plugin for rails that allows you to monitor and quickly diagnose problems with your Rails application in real time. They also recently produced Rails Lab, which gives you expert advice on tuning and optimizing your Rails app.

• JRuby on Rails on Google App Engine | Ola Bini: Programming Language Synchronicity
• Aissac Blog » Member Extension
• ruby gc tuning :: snax
• dude :composed_of => [:software, :music, :stuff]: Vim Eye for the Rails Guy - Cheatsheet
• Ruby mocking, stubbing, and more with rr at technical.pickles
• Unlimited Novelty: Twitter: blaming Ruby for their mistakes?
• 5 Things You Don’t Know About User IDs That Will Destroy You at time to bleed by Joe Damato
• swift
• Robby on Rails : 20 articles on Cucumber and a free beverage recipe!
• Bigcurl: Running Sinatra apps on Google AppEngine (Java)
• Using Rails Metal to decouple upload from your Rails app - hacksignal ..
• Astrails Simple backups can be simple!
• Amazon.com: Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers: Antonio Cangiano: Books
• exceptional confusion - Technomancy
• has_many :through - The Week Of

Episode 74. We take a controversial side and give you the whole scoop on the Ruby vs Scala debate.*

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The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by Integrum. Integrum is a team of dedicated Rails developers who emphasize business value, speed to market, and open communitcation to build remarkable Rails applications. They build software that you've been told is impossible.

The Rails Envy podcast is also brought to you this week by NewRelic. NewRelic provides RPM which is a plugin for rails that allows you to monitor and quickly diagnose problems with your Rails application in real time. They also recently produced Rails Lab, which gives you expert advice on tuning and optimizing your Rails app.

• ChadFowler.com 20 Rails Development No-No's
• Rails framework upgrades with git-bisect
• What's an example of Ruby code that's "too clever"? - Stack Overflow
• 2009 Rubyist's guide to a Mac OS X development environment
• Deploy Tracking Added to Hoptoad
• How To: Setup RSpec, Cucumber, Webrat, RCov and Autotest on Leopard
• without_scope Flexible ActiveRecord Versioning with ActsAsRevisable
• RailsLab .:. The State of the Stack: A Ruby on Rails Benchmarking Report
• The case of ActiveRecord vs. CouchDB
• How JRuby Makes Ruby Fast
• Enumerable#every
• Deep_merge: Ruby Recursive Merging for Hashes
• 10h24min by José Valim
• Rack Screencasts: if you don't know Rack yet, you should!
• Introduction to Rack middleware :: unique web & mobile applications
• Crack, The Easiest Way to Parse XML and JSON
• Introducing Micronaut, a Lightweight BDD Framework (Or, Reinventing the Bestest Wheel Yet)
• Micronaut: Innovation Under the Hood
• Babylo for XMPP
• RubyMine Features :: Ruby on Rails IDE. Code editing, code completion, refactoring, ruby debugger. Best HTML, CSS and JavaScript editing support
• Add Optional SEO-Friendliness to link_to_remote
• 32 Rack Resources to Get You Started
• Rails Envy: Philly Emerging Tech Video

* No, we don't.

Last week Jason and I were invited to speak at Philly Emerging Tech. I was impressed with their speaker line up last year, so I was honored to be a part of it this year, and they even had me produce a conference video for them. The video contains some familiar faces including David Black, Nick Sieger, Ezra Zygmuntowicz, David Chelimsky, and John Resig (if you're a jQuery fan).

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Episode 73. is subtitled "Somewhere over the Rainbow", but you'll have to listen to find out why. This episode Jason and I are in the same room! As you might expect, much hilarity ensues.

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The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by Integrum. Integrum is a team of dedicated Rails developers who emphasize business value, speed to market, and open communitcation to build remarkable Rails applications. They build software that you've been told is impossible.

The Rails Envy podcast is also brought to you this week by NewRelic. NewRelic provides RPM which is a plugin for rails that allows you to monitor and quickly diagnose problems with your Rails application in real time. They also recently produced Rails Lab, which gives you expert advice on tuning and optimizing your Rails app.

• 10 Cool Things in Rails 2.3
• Haddock Gem - Secure Passwords
• Scrap - Rails memory logging middleware
• Rake db rollback to common
• Scaling Rails in the Cloud SXSW Talk
• Using Git Submodules for Shared Rails Components
• Push and Pull Databases using the Taps Gem
• tekniqal Ruby Screencasts
• ck_fu environment bar
• Testing outbound emails with Cucumber
• harsh syntax highlighter for Rails
• auto_html rails plugin
• Ruby script to generate weekly Twitter links
• Ruby 1.9's String support
• Help Gregory Brown build RubyBestPractices.com
• Rails Searchable API Doc
• Ruby 1.9 or Bust
• Authlogic 2.0 with OpenID goodness