Colby is dying to play Space Engineers

http://www.spaceengineersgame.com

But the problem is that he has a Mac, Space Engineers only runs on Windows and Parallels is giving us problems for some reason. What a pain. Why does nothing ever just work?!

http://www.businessinsider.com/17-year-olds-startup-dispatchio-raises-1-million-2011-10

I guess now it’s dead:

http://dispatch.io

Also, I just emailed Sandy the link to the mobile bidding platform. She’ll likely be involved in fundraising for one non-profit or another sometime next year, so I’m sure she’ll be interested.

@Justin sometimes a hard pill to swallow, but going PSR1, is the right way to go. I have very little feelings with regard to coding style, as long as it’s consistent and PSR1 is just everywhere. Good move upgrading to L4 and getting some tests laid down, I’m one of the maintainers of Mockery, which L4 uses to provide the test doubles for the facades (e.g. Queue::shouldReceive(“push”)->once(), feel free to ping me if you have any questions around it’s use.

But if you’d rather have something homegrown, I think giving it to an intern or new-hire would be a great little project.

I look forward to your podcasts every week! It’s like sitting down and kibbitzing with two old friends.

I’m so glad you’ve returned to a regular delivery schedule.. for a while there I worried you had “jumped the shark” on yourselves.

Cheers!
Spence

So when Jason started talking about the charity event you were at, and the silent auction, I was so hoping it was one of our events. A few months ago I took a job as Lead Web Developer at AuctionsByCellular. What started out as a bootstrapped startup by a friend of mine has turned into a nationwide company that helps charities do fundraising events, mainly with our mobile bidding platform. We are actually doing an event with the LA Kings tomorrow night – http://www.auctionsbycellular.com/blog/la-kings-team-auctionsbycellular/

If Sandy is going to be doing any more charity events with silent auctions, our LA team would love to help! (I’m in Chicago, yeah, I am loving hearing about Justin getting exposed to the full Chicago weather experience!)

As for the times tables going to 12… I have a theory about this. I suspect that it goes back the use of 12 for counting everything, eggs, inches etc…. Hence it made sense to go to 12 since if you are doing inventory etc… Why do we still go to 12? Historical reasons I suspect (teachers tend to be stubborn) and also that any multiple of 12 is easily divisible by 1,2,3,4 and 6 so going up to 12 is still quite useful.

It’s on Netflix, but only on DVD (not streaming). Amazon has it streaming for $22/season. Hulu Plus has it (with commercials). I’m going to be diving into this one, probably with my 7-year old (Fin). There’s no way I can’t revisit it after the memories it brought back hearing Jason talk about it.

Thanks gents!