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TechZing 60 – Peter Cooper & Coder I/O

Justin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:10:40 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Peter Cooper about how he started and sold Code Snippets and FeedDigest (now Feed Informer) and what he learned in the process, why he prefers to work on multiple projects and why he’ll give up on a project if it doesn’t show traction early, the story and technology behind Coder I/O and his strategy going forward, why he uses a rules engine for tagging posts and the possibility of augmenting it with a Bayes classifier, how he accumulated over ten-thousand points on Hacker News, why he was approached by Apress to write Beginning Ruby, the reasons for his upcoming tour of California and why he’s starting a video blog.

TechZing 59 – Jasonism

Justin — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:42:53 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss why GIT (the distributed version control system) is cool, the progress of Swarm and the Swarm AI – Cerebro, ideas for the TechZing newsletter, creating wildcard accounts in gmail, an impromptu La Critique of coder.io, the death of Google Wave, an overview of the audio technology used for the production of the podcast, Rob Walling’s book on bootstrapping, why Jason refuses to use blogging software for the new AppIgnite blog, how Rails was under development for a year before it was released, reasons to seek funding or not, when F*** U money can be less valuable than F*** U influence, how to increase your luck surface area, the quote of the week, how your personality defines your path, exploration vs exploitation, the use of Flex and Ajax in myVBO, how regular exercise is good for your brain and why Justin is going caveman, how new ideas can kill a startup, playing small and going big, Jason’s Javascript grid and his Javascript library – j(ason)Query, some responses to listener comments and the guiding principles behind AppIgnite.

TechZing 57 – Justin Wants To Be A Robot

Justin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:55:41 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the status of the Swarm SG AI, ideas for increasing the TechZing listener base and why they’re launching a mailing list, whether or not Jason should buy a Mac, the need to improve the design of the TechZing website, potential names for Jason’s new blog, whether advice offered by 37 Signals is relevant, Jason’s thoughts on applying to TechCrunch Disrupt, coder.io as an alternative to Hacker News, Justin’s desire for telepresence, balancing pragmatism with thinking big, the physical consequences of sitting all day and not getting enough sunlight and whether Justin is replacing fat with muscle or vice versa.