TechZing is an informal bi-weekly chat show aimed at entreprenures and hackers interested in creating their own web app startup. The show is both educational (with practical advice) and conversational.

138: TZ Discussion - R.I.P Nigel Vincent

July 11, 2011 01:36:35 93.48 MB Downloads: 0
Justin and Jason discuss the death of Justin's father, Udi's blog post about Appignite, Uber's technological origins and the new Node.js based dispatch server, rapid UI design using mockups, the core problems that AnyFu needs to solve, using Showcase Lane to get feedback on UI design, a La Critique of The Birdy, an update on Pluggio's growth, whether it's better to use dashes or underscores in SEO slugs, finding a logo design for AnyFu and the importance of good design, Jason's slightly contrarian position on the lean startup model, using MySQL fulltext search vs a search engine like Solr or Sphinx, running server-side Javascript on RingoJS, Justin's strategy for curing himself of diabetes, how Kevin Rose and Evan Williams are both starting incubators, the possibility that Justin will be moving back to Ireland and the idea for an open version of Y-Combinator.