Thu, 28 August 2008
If anyone has been listening since our very first Podcast, we covered flex way back in February with our own Peter Paugh. But when we had an opportunity to talk to James Ward of Adobe, a Flex evangelist and someone passionate about Flex as well as Java development, we jumped at the chance.
James Ward's blog and useful information is located at www.jamesward.com. The Flex Show episode 50 is also a good listen... |
Fri, 22 August 2008
In this third interview about startups and technology, Ken interviews two of the founders of TapInko, a marketplace for buying and selling ads. Ken spoke to Nicolas Warren and John Newell, who architected their application in Microsoft .NET. |
Thu, 21 August 2008
This is the second in a three part series on technologies and startup companies. Ken sat down with the founders of PhrazIt, a social web site focused on short reviews of 30 characters or less. The team originally started, and will continue, a concept called Study Buddy, which would allow college students to find like-minded study mates. |
Wed, 20 August 2008
This is the first in a three-part series of interviews we did at DreamIt, a startup incubator located at Drexel University's science center. DreamIt sponsors 11 different startups, houses them in the incubator, and gives them some nominal funding and education on the startup process. |
Fri, 1 August 2008
This week we feature an interview with Toby DiPasquale of Invite Media. Toby and I discuss the Map-Reduce algorithm, which is the engine that powers Google's indexing and data processing systems. We start off by discussing how Google started indexing pages, using traditional methods such as C/C++ routines. Quickly this became unmanageable, as the amount of data to index outstripped the processing power and traditional data transformation paradigms. |