MongoDB – techzing tech podcast

Techzing 48 – The Depressed Designer

Justin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:48:55 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss multitenant databases, the possibility of using MongoDB as the underlying data store for AppIgnite applications, options for exporting and installing AppIgnite applications, the fundraising strategy for the iPhone app Jason’s been working on, the process of raising money from VCs, whether raising money forces a death date on a project, how nine copies of Swarm were sold on it’s first day of release, how Justin has accepted a full-time position as VP of IT for MyVBO and will have exactly one guy reporting to him (sweet!), how Taylor Norrish is good at both design and UX, PubNub and Comet, the importance of having a collaborator on a project, an idea for a hackathon website, a new show segment called Letters from Guyon, how iPhone and iPad owners have been conditioned to pay for software, building a version of Swarm for the iPhone, how it takes approximately two weeks (or maybe thirty days) to establish a habit (we actually don’t know), automatically processing incoming emails via PHP, Jason’s idea for building an email application wizard and Justin’s idea for generalizing the concept for an email support system, targeting designers with AppIgnite, why it’s important to try to build real applications with AppIgnite, what Justin needs to do to increase the growth rate of Pluggio and what could be done to increase the growth rate of the podcast.

Techzing 39 – MongoDB

Justin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:21:08 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Michael Dirolf, a lead developer at 10gen, about how MongoDB combines the best features of document databases, key-value stores, and relational databases.

Techzing 28 – Exploration vs. Exploitation

Justin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:47:42 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss why Jason hasn’t released his secret project, how coding is a marathon and not a sprint, the pros and cons of the minimum viable product, Tweetminer’s progress and revenue projections, startup advice in exactly three words, MongoDB, the value of market research, whether blogging is really worth the effort, learning from side projects, the status of Justin’s secret project and the productivity hacks of Hemmingway and Seinfeld.