Titanium – techzing tech podcast

Techzing 46 – Vampire Universe

Justin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:51:20 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the current status and growth of Pluggio, the failure of the human brain to comprehend the exponential function, word of mouth growth and super spreaders, Jason’s experience using Subversion, TortoiseSVN and Assembla, Justin’s warning about Subversion, performing a full-text seach on a subversion repository using SVNQuery, accidental excellence and it’s relationship to evolutionary theory, Jason’s serendipitous discovery of Titanium, the Mexican designer who was discovered on Hacker News, how Taylor is now doing the design work for Jason’s iPhone project, the possibility of inviting either John C. Dvorak or Richard Dolan to be a guest on the upcoming 50th show, Jason’s dream about how he interrogated some aliens that landed in his back yard, Justin’s theory about how our universe might be able to suck the energy from a parallel universe, Nick Cook – the editor for Jane’s Defense Weekly and his book The Hunt for Zero Point, Craig Venter’s creation of synthetic life, the feasibillity of developing an unbeatable AI algorithm for Swarm, Clark’s three laws, crowdsourcing the development of an AI for Swarm, how Netflix crowd-sourced their recommedation engine, financial vs social incentives in the book Freakonomics, Your World of Text, Cells – a massively multi-agent agorithm game and Jason’s previous description of a similar concept, the authoritarian SimCity experiment, Scott Adams’ blog post about how ideas are worthless and execution is everything, the HTML5 Showcase and the current status of HTML5 support, how Jason’s brother was recommended for the Distiguished Flying Cross, the movie Kickass, Jason’s ideas for some new show segments, Stanton’s law about how the future is not an extrapolation of the past, ways of capturing and tracking ideas, Justin’s use of iNotes, FreeMind and iThoughts HD, mind mapping and how Justin uses it, breadth-first vs depth-first development and how to keep from getting stuck in the weeds on a project.

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 36 – Appcelerator and Titanium

Justin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:53:28 +0000

Justin and Jason chat with Jeff Haynie about his startup Appcelerator and Titanium – an application that gives you the ability to create native Windows, OSX and Linux apps using Javascript, Python, Ruby, and or PHP, and iPhone and Android apps using Javascript. Oh, and it’s free and open source too!

Techzing 35 – Off the Rails

Justin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:33:21 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the launching (or lack thereof) of Jason’s secret project, the science behind the midday nap, Jason’s improved Internet connectivity, the TweetMiner fiasco, Justin’s contracting of a PR person, the unfortunate importance of marketing, how Justin donated $222.22 to the No Agenda podcast, the TV show Lost, Titanium and developing iPhone and Android apps using Javascript, Amy Hoy’s Pimpin’ Software Projects Ain’t Easy, the new show segments – La Critique and Get to Know a Listener, the possibility of doing x-factor episodes, Justin’s interest in 9-11 conspiracies, the weirdness of advanced physics, time travel and yes, even UFOs.