Techzing 44 – Black Budgets, Dark Matter And You

Justin — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:42:56 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s new podcasting setup, the current status of Pluggio and Justin’s overhaul of the Pluggio session management system, the need to scratch your creative itches, going on an intellectual sabbatical, why claiming to give more than a 100% effort is stupid, using mock objects for Ajax calls, eliminating coding mistakes via code generation, the importance of maintaining momentum on side projects, wrestling with SQLLite in Titanium, Justin’s frustration with TextMate, how Jason talked Guyon into working on AppIgnite, the basic concept of MashAPI, whether you can get vertigo by staring too long at a monitor, how Guyon is getting a sit/stand desk at work, BackMate – a mobile app for automatically adjusting a sit/stand desk, Jason’s vector-based Javascript graphics library, Jason’s cross-platform messaging library, web workers in HTML5, the net worth of past presidents, Inverted Totalitarianism, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, AntiWar.com, Scott Horton’s interview of Max Keiser, how iPads are selling at 200K per week, Jason’s methodology (or lack thereof) for naming podcast episodes, the power of exponential growth and why you want your numbers to get big earlier, why the No Agenda podcast is like a religion, hosting hackathons as a means of finding top-notch developers, why Justin codes better when he’s drunk, some stories about the Koz, Prolog to the rescue, Google’s new Prediction API, Jason’s idea for web-based business intelligence startup, how the government’s black budget programs are the equivalent to dark matter in the universe, the sudden disappearance of _Why the Lucky Stiff and why visual logic builders have never caught on.

techZING! 8 – Dude, Where’s My Database?!

Justin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:02:35 +0000

Justin & Jason talk to Jonathan Ellis about how Facebook’s open sourced Cassandra Project took lessons learned from Amazon’s Dynamo and Google’s BigTable to tackle the difficult problem of building a highly scalable, always available, distributed data store. We also discuss how to join, get taken seriously and get commit access within an established and large open source project such as Cassandra.

techZING! 7 – Learn How To Code In Only 10,000 Hours

Justin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:43:16 +0000

Michael Jackson & Twitter, Information Overload, Multitasking, Master Anything in 10k Hours, Learning Programming, Writing Open Source Libraries, codepad.org, Rackspace Cloud, Auto Scaling, Semantically Correct Code… or Pragmatism?

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Techzing 44 – Black Budgets, Dark Matter And You

techZING! 8 – Dude, Where’s My Database?!

techZING! 7 – Learn How To Code In Only 10,000 Hours