Comments on: 233: TZ Discussion – My Algorithm Thinks You Look Hot!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:52:56 +0000

@Gazi Alankus – The PHP framework is called Laravel – http://laravel.com. Everyone I’ve talked to who’s used it has had very positive things to say about it, so it’s definitely worth a look.

Laravel + Titanium would be a nice stack. Please let us know how it goes!

By: Gazi Alankus

Gazi Alankus — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:21:52 +0000

Hi guys, long time listener here. Love the show.

I think in this episode you praised a PHP framework that was based on symfony maybe? If you recall that, could you remind me which framework you talked about?

I’m looking into starting a Titanium app based on your previous suggestions and would like to start the server side on the right foot as well.

Cheers!

By: Alex Gemmell

Alex Gemmell — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:43:37 +0000

@John T. Rollins – I have no idea what you are talking about. What is so terrifying about it?

By: Marcos

Marcos — Sun, 12 May 2013 15:11:22 +0000

Hey Justin, I don’t know if you’ve seen this yet: http://avichal.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/why-education-startups-do-not-succeed/

It basically says that education startups shouldn’t focus on quality, but then again, that’s from 2011, his experience is with higher education, and sometimes early==wrong.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:15:00 +0000

@Eliot Sykes – Welcome aboard!

As it turns out, I listened to an episode of The Walking Dead ‘Cast recently where they were interviewing Jay and Jack of The Lost Podcast, and apparently they did a 24-hour show at one point. I think they said it just about killed them.

Maybe we could try doing an ultra-long show first – like maybe 3 or 4 hours and see how that works out. Kind of do a prototype. 😉

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:03:46 +0000

@Danilo Celic – Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed the show. 😉

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:01:47 +0000

@Ben Boyter – Yeah, TSLA is kind of working out so far. 😉 It went as high at $71 in aftermarket trading yesterday, which is kind of amazing. Obviously, I believed the company would do well over the long term, but I really didn’t anticipate the stock price to rise this high, this quickly. Crazy.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:05:29 +0000

@Eliot: https://twitter.com/exojason 🙂

By: Eliot Sykes

Eliot Sykes — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:02:06 +0000

Very happy to have just discovered Techzing via Startups for the rest of us. This was the first episode I’ve had the pleasure to listen to and now I’m starting to work my way through the back catalogue.

Did a quick search but couldn’t find anything definitive about the world record for the longest podcast. There was some talk on TWiT of Leo trying to do a 24h+ podcast on New Years 2014, but I can’t recall if they thought that’d be a world record.

Found Justin’s twitter account, but I couldn’t find Jason’s. Any clues?

By: Danilo Celic

Danilo Celic — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:33:38 +0000

Loved the discussion on pattern matching on superficiality. I’m looking forward to hearing more about both of your journeys in understanding.

By: Ben Boyter

Ben Boyter — Thu, 09 May 2013 01:16:16 +0000

Good call on Tesla Jason, http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-q1-earnings-2013-5

that news should put a smile on your dial 🙂

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:50:57 +0000

@Tom

Doh! I guess there are digedu competitors lurking in the TZ shadows. My bad, Justin. 😉

Yep, that’s a good idea to “add a search field on the home page and track what expertise people are looking for” and it’s something we’ve had in the back of our minds for a long time. Like Justin said, AnyFu might be the little engine that could. One expert at a time … 😉

Also, thanks so much for the positive feedback!

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:45:55 +0000

@Ciarán – Thanks! We’re glad you liked it. 😉

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:45:23 +0000

@Aaron – It was great meeting you as well! We will definitely be in touch, whether or not Justin needs some smoke and mirrors. 😉

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:43:51 +0000

@Doug Martin – Congratulations! That’s simply amazing.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:40:28 +0000

@Dave Marshall – Yeah, that sounds kind of crazy, but I like it! It gives me an idea … 😉 Anyway, we’ll talk about it on the show.

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By: John T. Rollins

John T. Rollins — Wed, 08 May 2013 09:41:56 +0000

@Alex Gemmell, You make a strong case for software regulation. This developer pop culture crap is terrifying.

By: Dave Marshall

Dave Marshall — Wed, 08 May 2013 09:05:34 +0000

While not really sensible, it is totally possible to replicate the node, redis and socket.io stack with PHP, via reactphp, ratchet and predis-async. The code even looks pretty reasonable. Here’s an example for pushing redis pub/sub through websockets https://gist.github.com/jmoz/4594162.

There are lots of reactor pattern implementations out there, node.js just came along and made it really accessible and really fast, so it just took off like crazy.

By: Alex Gemmell

Alex Gemmell — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:31:33 +0000

I’ve not heard the show yet but I’m interested to hear what you guys think of Node.js, Socket.io & Redis. I think it’s the best thing since sliced bread! I’ve added it to my Varnish + Nginx + PHP-FPM + Percona Server stack for the best gosh-darn stack I’ve ever had the pleasure of using.

W00t!

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:47:19 +0000

I hesitate to leave this comment because I’m still extremely interested in Digedu and Justin’s work there but I’m an avid TechZing listener who works for an education competitor – I promise I’ll keep the tech details to myself 🙂

On the AnyFu front, I went and checked out the site after the show and its come a long way since I checked it last! I love the idea of bumping in-demand experts to the front of the line. Maybe you can add a search field on the home page and track what expertise people are looking for.

Love the show – thanks for all the hard work!

By: Ciarán

Ciarán — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:20:51 +0000

Another great show guys, thanks

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 03 May 2013 21:24:38 +0000

Pretty cool to hear my name on the techzing podcast! Great meeting you both at MicroConf, hope to stay in touch.

Justin, if you need some DigEdu smoke and mirrors let me know 😉

By: Doug Martin

Doug Martin — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:43:13 +0000

Thanks for the mention. The final Kickstarter amount was $1,908,155. Crazy.

Here is a link to the Map Maker – http://www.dwarvenforge.com/mapmaker

It’s all HTML5 – using Kinect.js (http://kineticjs.com/)