Comments on: Techzing 46 – Vampire Universe

By: Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh

Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:25:59 +0000

Tech Files works for me!

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:23:31 +0000

@Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh Yeah, no shit! ;) Or, maybe ... The Tech Files.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:22:11 +0000

@Ayoub MAZA That's very cool. I printed out some stuff about the project, but I didn't have a chance to read it before this weekend's podcast. I'll try to bring it up in next week's show.

By: Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh

Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:27:36 +0000

STARTUPS AND ALIENS

By: Ayoub MAZA

Ayoub MAZA — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:03:38 +0000

Jason check out project hoshimi, which is part of imagine cup. in this competition you create your ai algorithm and submit it and it will compete against other people algorithms.

By: Taylor Norrish

Taylor Norrish — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:17:51 +0000

I’m a design/css guy and I just learned how to use Git (yeah for me!). I feel that’s somewhat of an accomplishment for a non-programmer.

Before that, I would edit the html/css/images, send the files to the programer, who would put in repository and deploy. Very inefficient.

I’m wondering how other design/programmers work together. Does your designer use Git/Subversion? If not, what’s your process?

By: Taylor Norrish

Taylor Norrish — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:48:27 +0000

OMG for a show segment sounds awesome. You gotta do it 😀

By: Emrah

Emrah — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:19:46 +0000

Call it TechXing 😛

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:38:13 +0000

Techzing = The New Xfiles

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:26:10 +0000

@Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh
@Alex Gemmell

By the way, here’s a great Richard Dolan video. Skip ahead to 12:15 – the guy takes forever introducing him. Tell me it wouldn’t be awesome to have him on as a guest! 😉

* XCon 2005 – Richard Dolan – How UFO Secrecy Has Damaged American Society
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9175247719246424483#

By: Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh

Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:37:37 +0000

From the wikipedia: When Aldrin appeared on The Howard Stern Show on August 15, 2007, Stern asked him about the supposed UFO sighting. Aldrin confirmed that there was no such sighting of anything deemed extraterrestrial, and said they were and are “99.9 percent” sure that the object was the detached panel.

Too bad 🙂

By: Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh

Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:13:23 +0000

I like to replace statements about UFOs with statements about God to see if they can pass the smell test. Many people believe in God so you have to see if their belief in UFOs is similar. Like Carl Sagan said in Demon Haunted World. (he didn’t believe in UFOs)

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:52:31 +0000

@Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh
@Alex Gemmell

Here are three more videos of astronauts discussing the subject:

* NASA Astronaut Edgar Mitchell on UFOs at Press Conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO66afmxWKA&feature=fvw

* NASA Astronaut Joseph Walker on UFO Sighting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8deyx3xlXCY

* Aliens Exist says NASA Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpfvhdmhQy4&feature=related

By: Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh

Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:22:10 +0000

@Alex Gemmell
@Jason
Gordon Cooper, astronaut, test pilot on an armada of UFOs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPR8T1o3Dc

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:13:20 +0000

@Alex Gemmell Cool! I can't wait to check it out. Thanks for the link.

By: Alex Gemmell

Alex Gemmell — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:12:08 +0000

@Jason, you’re going to love this: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/stanton-friedman-a-scientist-searches-for-the-truth-of-ufos/19503350?sms_ss=digg

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:01:13 +0000

@Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh You do know that's not quite what I meant, right? ;) I just meant that a formal version control system hasn't been absolutely required in my case since I would make a back-up copy of the source directory every day. It's not that I'm advocating that anyone do it that way, it's just me being honest about my own laziness. ;) That said, I'm really liking Subversion. Now as far as Mercurial goes, I think I need to just take it one step at a time and get used to using Subversion first doing anything crazy. Moving to a distributed version control system at this point would probably be too much change in too short a period of time. I'd probably end up giving myself the bends! ;) Anyway, I always look forward to your comments, BAMS. ;)

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:51:56 +0000

@Ecaradec You're very welcome! We love doing the show and hearing that people actually enjoy listening makes even more fun.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:49:15 +0000

@Neville Thanks so much for the awesome blog post! I guess I should get an email collector up on the AppIgnite home page in case people drop by to check it out. ;)

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:17:26 +0000

@Ecaradec – Thanks for the kudos! 🙂

By: Neville

Neville — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:32:33 +0000

Just blogged about AppIgnite and I haven’t even seen it yet …Premature? Perhaps. …Excited? Definitely! Plus a nice plug for Techzing. Let’s get on with the next round of AppIgnite Alpha testing! http://bit.ly/bhL0a3

By: breeve

breeve — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:59:50 +0000

2nd Mercurial.

By: Ecaradec

Ecaradec — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:34:15 +0000

Thank you Jason and Justin, you are the sunshine of my feed reader. I just love when it show up as I have a great show to listen while commuting.

By: Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh

Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:50:59 +0000

Ok, done spamming.

By: Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh

Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:49:56 +0000

AHHHHHHHHH SOURCE CONTROL IS NOT JUST FOR TEAMS!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. FAINTING FROM SHOCK

By: Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh

Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:47:33 +0000

Hey Jason, you should really consider Mercurial. 100% of the workflow of subversion you want is the same but you can work offline.

By: Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh

Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:43:58 +0000

1% growth per month is 12% a year man! That’s an extra $1200/yr for being lazy and sleeping in on Sunday! It’s Europe, without the crushing debt!