TechZing

Justin and Jason interview Jason's older brother Jay, a nuclear engineer in an previous lifetime, about the situation with Japan's nuclear reactors, his experience with Japanese culture (his wife is Japanese and he spends half his time in Japan), his thoughts on Drupal and open source software, and why his social media startup is targeting the .gov market.

Justin and Jason interview Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network, about how he got started as a coder and his passion for programming and mentoring, how he and Joel Spolsky came up with the idea for Stack Overflow, his belief in free software and the Open ID initiative, the process of raising venture capital for Stack Exchange and his views of entrepreneurship, why he and Joel stopped doing the Stack Overflow podcast and whether they might start up again, and the hardest step when scaling a web app.

Justin and Jason discuss one of Pluggio's new features and Justin's estimate of Pluggio's growth rate, Twitter's recent change to their developer ecosystem guidelines and the inherent risk of developing on the Twitter and Facebook platforms, the variety of SEO strategies available to startups, data driven vs visionary driven development, the status of Appignite and Jason's development and product strategy, Jason's upcoming blog post about Facebook, an awesome new DIY pulse laser, the 25 steps to installing and running Diaspora, the best approach for implementing an enumerated type in a database and Justin's idea for generating a configuration file.

Justin & Jason talk to Amy Hoy of Freckle, and Patrick McKenzie of Bingo Card Creator about finding an audience and making money from it, what is SEO and how to do it, how important is design?, Jason's inability to have a boss, and what Amy and Patrick are up to these days.

Justin and Jason speak with guest James Altucher about his surprising experiences as a programmer, author, journalist, entrepreneur, trader, financial pundit, venture capitalist, angel investor and blogger.

Justin and Jason discuss getting into Forrst, why arguments tend to escalate when conducted via text, Justin's struggle with his Man on a Wire post, the dynamics of CEO compensation, using form tokens to prevent CSRF attacks, the possibility of moving Pluggio to the enterprise, Justin's surprising experience with Facebook adds, whether Jason should get an iPhone or an Android phone, spooky experiments that see the future, the impact of technology on political freedom, how Jason is teaching his 6-year old son HTML, server and client-side HTML rendering, migrating off Google App Engine and building a workflow engine in Appignite.

Justin and Jason talk to Kyle Bragger, founder of the developer and design community Forrst, about what sparked the idea and how he launched it as a side project, how he selected the technology stack and how it's evolved, how they've dealt with scaling and security, his thoughts on coding frameworks and development methodologies, why and how they created a user-linked karma system and his vision for Forrst's future growth as an angel funded business.

Justin and Jason discuss the specific methods that Anonymous used to hack HBGary, how social media power tools like Pluggio could be used for ill in the wrong hands, more about when to abstract and where to store images, Jason's idea for a two-way linked karma system, the skill required to articulate complex ideas, how Jason gave an ownership stake in Appignite to a previous investor, how Uber raised 11 million in VC funding, Justin's idea for a "no investment" movement and the secrets of freemium pricing.

Justin and Jason discuss WordPress backup site BlogVault, the backlash on the Skype 5 UI and the possibility for a Skype competitor, the guerrilla tactics behind bootstrapping a startup, methods of sending email through code, Anonymous and the Wikileaks controversy, why Jason is irritated by Justin's iPhone email trailer, securing images on a web server, why arguing is pointless, Justin's eager vs Jason's lazy approach to abstracting code, why Jason feels that switching to Subversion has been a waste of his time and understanding the motivation equation.

Justin and Jason discuss the concept of the Infinity Inbox, point inflation on Hacker News, the latest with Appignite and Pluggio, how to build authority on the web, how Jason took on too many projects and how he's rectifying the situation, why Stargate Universe was canceled, why Justin was in and out of school as a kid and the cost-benefit analysis of learning a second language if your first language is English.