Mevio Developer News

Mevio is actively seeking a number of different people to join the Mevio team … and maybe you are looking for a great opportunity… it’s a perfect match!

Here are the people we are trying to find:

• Senior DBA
• Senior Engineers
• Junior Engineers

On top of working on the Mevio.com website, developers are needed to work on the PodSafe Music Network, Podcast Alley, IndiePodder and with this Developer Network programming widgets and other apps! If this is something that sounds interesting to you, email me! You can find out more information about these positions and job specifications at http://jobcast.mevio.com or you contact me to get more information as well.

Now dust off that resume and send an email to developers@mevio.com!

Tags: listing, jobs

As we start updating and building our new APIs here at PodShow, I have to wonder which format most people prefer. I know internally here at the office, everyone has their own preference and experiences, but what do YOU want? The current Authoring API is built utilizing XMLRPC but we are planning on updating the APIs eventually and creating the new ones in different formats.

So if you have a preference, now is your chance to speak up! Leave a comment in the blog or send audio/video comments to developers@podshow.com and we will work them into a future Devcast and publish them to the site.

I personally like REST, but that is just one mans opinion.

The Introduction
Being that this is my first post to the PodShow developer blog, let me take a second to introduce myself. My name is Chris McIntyre. You may know me from Podcast Alley, the site I developed and still maintain or you may know me from my profile at PodShow (ferf.podshow.com), either way I am excited to be working on the developer community with Andrew and Adam! I have been in the podcasting world since November of 2004 (almost 3 years now, holy cow) and am still loving the changes that podcasters are making in the world and in new media!

What I Do Here
I will be driving the PodShow developer community and have the following goals in mind:

• To help advance the proliferation of podcasting and new media to the world
• To work work along side developers to create cool stuff
• To promote great tools, code, applications and websites that promote podcasting
• To help podcasters find their audience and to engage them
• To make it easy for people to use & update PodShow content from outside the network
• To have fun!

PodShow set out to create a place where there were no barriers to entry for people who were creative and who wanted to get their audio and video work to the world. This is still our mission, and the developer network will continue down that path. Any way we can help people interact with their audience, to find a new audience, to create great content and to have fun doing it… we want to promote that here. With that said, let me recap what we do have already and what is coming up.

What We Have, and What’s Coming Up

• Podcast Publishing API - (documentation)
  Many people don’t know it, but PodShow has an Authoring API that allows you to build applications and services that will publish podcast episodes and related details (title, keywords, descriptions, etc) to PodShow. There are already a few applications that work with it too including: Castblaster, Vidblaster, Ubercaster and Ecto.
• Module Creation SDK - (documentation)
  This one is mostly complete, but not fully implemented yet. We provide an SDK where you can develop your own modules for profiles on the PodShow website. The SDK gives you everything you need to develop and test your modules. Submit them to us and once we review them we can release them for use on the PodShow site.
• Channel API (coming soon)
  Since collecting and sharing content is such a cool feature on PodShow, this will be one of the next areas we focus on. If you have comments on how you think this should work, feel free to email me (info@podcastalley.com) and let me know!
• Lots of RSS & OPML Feeds
  From the PodShow APIs page you can find links to lots of OPML and RSS feeds for Podcast Alley and the PodSafe Music Network. These feeds are updated all of the time and represent a good selection of content from those websites.

I guess that is a good start for now, so let me go ahead and rap this up :) I am excited to be working with you all and to getting a lot of cool new stuff going soon, with your help. As always, if you need help or have suggestions you can email me at developers@podshow.com.

Busy day today at podshow.com. Check out the vids, read more at Curry.Com.

Yesterday I was chatting on Skype with Ray Slakinski about RoR. Of course I’ve known about Ruby forever — our students at ArsDigita University were building Web apps with it back in 2000 — but I have yet to try my hand it at. In the meantime, it looks like Rails has a podcast! Subscribed.

Last week I watched one of our guys use this tool to simultaneously drive ten remote shells. Very cool.

We ran into a few kinks on the server end of the authoring API with an OS X product. I’m pleased to report that we’ve updated the API handler to filter out all that extra stuff that the Mac framework adds to its base64 payload. May a thousand Apple trees bloom ;-)

Bradford Gibson: “Since when is not providing complete descriptions of shows or show notes acceptable?”

Beats me. I double-checked our feeds and we’re sending ‘em 100% full. Check this screen grab. It’s true that the venerable TT himself inserts a fair number of ellipses, with episode titles like “369 Listener email…” and “368 The Illusionist movie review, listener email…”, and he may re-use those titles in the description fields

Bottom line:

• Trucker Tom sometimes uses ellipses.
• iTunes sometimes adds ellipses.
• PodShow doesn’t truncate descriptions in our feeds.

So Brad, what gives?

Four out of five PodShow programmers recommend this Javascript Boot Camp Tutorial. Okay, actually it was just John that recommended it ;) Looks good!

The API endpoint is back up as of 13:50 PDT.