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While at SXSW Interactive, Adam and Wynn got to attend the Data Cluster Meetup hosted by Rackspace and Infochimps. Things got a bit rowdy when the panel debated features of Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB and Amazon SimpleDB and started throwing dirt at everybody else’s favorite NoSQL databases.

Adam and Wynn caught up with Geoffrey Grosenbach, Brandon Mathis, and Tim Caswell to talk about publishing with open source tools, open blogging, and the back-to-the-future world of static site generators and database-less blogs.

Adam and Wynn caught up with Ruben Daniels and Rik Arends from Ajax.org and talked about APF and O3, their frameworks for both browser and server based JavaScript applications.

Adam and Wynn caught up with Leah Culver and talked about startups, APIs, and her open source work on OAuth, oEmbed, Hurl.it, Baconfile, and more.

Adam and Wynn caught up with Andy Gross from Basho and Sean Cribbs, a freelance Ruby developer, to discuss Riak, the new Erlang-based NoSQL store and Ripple, Sean’s new Ruby wrapper for Riak.

Adam and Wynn caught up with Luigi Montanez and Jeremy Carbaugh from Sunlight Labs and discussed their Python and Ruby projects, government transparency, and civic hacking - open source contributions as activism.

Adam and Wynn continued chatting with John Nunemaker about recent featured projects on the blog — including Gordon, Showoff, jQuery Lint, JSpec, congomongo and more.

John Nunemaker joined the show to talk about open source, improving your craft, building a business, and how MongoDB has changed his life.

Chris Wanstrath joined the show to talk about the past, present, and future of GitHub.

Marshall Culpepper Appcelerator is back and we go through the news together.

Marshall Culpepper joined the show to talk about Appcelerator's Titanium Desktop and Titanium Mobile.

Mike Dirolf joined the show to talk about how MongoDB came about, design decisions, and the future of this cool NoSQL server.

Friend of the show, Steven Bristol from LessEverything join us to discuss the latest in open source.

Jeremy Ashkenas is the Lead Developer at DocumentCloud about their effort to revolutionize the way media organizations gather news. Jeremy discusses their open source projects CloudCrowd, Underscore.js, and JAMMIT that they've released along the way.

In this show we're still trying to find our footing with this podcast stuff. Seriously, we get better at this.

Rob Pike is a Principal Engineer at Google and Tech Lead for Google's Go team. Rob is also a co-creator of the Go programming language. We talked with Rob about Go — Google’s new open source programing language!

This goes WAAAAY back in the archive of The Changelog. So far back, that our audio was down-right horrible and you can tell we were nervous to even be recording. We were green and wet behind the ears when it came to producing a podcast (we had no clue).

Natalie Weizenbaum and Chris Eppstein joined the show today to discuss Haml, Sass, and Compass.