Mevio Developer Community

Want to Work for Mevio?

theFerf — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:19:35 +0000

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

REST, SOAP or JSON?

theFerf — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:35:19 +0000

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.

Hello, an Introduction, What’s Going On?

theFerf — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:40:25 +0000

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.

Channels API

theFerf — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:10:39 +0000

coming soon.

Resources

theFerf — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:20:05 +0000

Busy Day at PodShow

aegrumet — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:11:57 +0000

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

RoR Chat

aegrumet — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:56:38 +0000

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.

PuTTYCS - PuTTY Command Sender 1.6

aegrumet — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:02:36 +0000

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

Mac-safe API

aegrumet — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:05:05 +0000

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

Shownotes in Full

aegrumet — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:02:19 +0000

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?

Javascript Boot Camp Tutorial

aegrumet — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:52:51 +0000

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

aegrumet — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:52:45 +0000

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

Heads up: debugging API endpoint

aegrumet — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:57:44 +0000

Hey just a quick heads up to folks working on support for the authoring api. We hit a bug, and are working on it now. Until it’s fixed you may see some errors. I’ll update the blog when we’re back up.

Update 13:50 PDT: We’re back up.

Podcasts for a Thursday

aegrumet — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:33:41 +0000

Benjamen Walker on the canonization of Philip K Dick.

C.C. Chapman on the goodness of Kevin Smith.

Authoring API Released for Comment

aegrumet — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:20:30 +0000

It’s a big day today on developer.podshow.com. We’ve posted a draft of the Authoring API. Its purpose is to allow third-party tools to upload content into the network. It’s based on the metaWeblog API, a standard from the blogging world that a number of pre-existing tools already implement. The API has been live in production for a few months, with members of the PodShow network posting their content through CastBlaster. We’ve also tested the API against one blog tool, Ecto, with success. I suspect and hope that the API will work out of the box with other tools we haven’t checked yet (please do let me know!).

Now we’d like to invite tool developers in to review the documentation and provide feedback, help us find and fix passages that are unclear, let us know about other tools that work with the API, and provide general feedback. Are we missing any key calls? Did we goof up the arguments somewhere? Etc etc.

I’d also like to say a big thanks to Dave Winer, the author of the metaWeblog API, for reviewing a draft of the documentation and uncovering a couple of bugs, now fixed, in our implementation.

Please use the comment thread on this post for feedback. Thanks!!!

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