Topic: Podcasts
It's our first test of a live podcast! In case you missed it, we streamed this week's podcast live during the taping. It's something we're playing with and may continue to do in the future if it is popular. You can tune in to the live tapings Tuesdays @ 4 PM Eastern / 1 PM Pacific -- check Joel and Jeff's Twitter feeds for the location.
The podcast is on the road again this week, with Jeff and Joel coming to you live from Jeff's living room in El Cerrito, CA. They're also joined by Josh Heyer (akaShog9) who calls in from Colorado. This is actually the second time we've done a podcast from Jeff's house, the first time being Episode #51 of the Stack Overflow Podcast.
This week, the Stack Exchange podcast travels to England, where Jeff and Joel are joined by Stack Overflow legend Jon Skeet (and son!) along with Marc Gravell.
Jeff and Joel are joined this week by Scott Hanselmen - developer and commenter extraordinaire. Their wide ranging conversation covers everything from the MIX11 conference to the varying quality of salads at Jack in the Bpx - check it out!
We're back for week two of the re-launched Stack Exchange Podcast! Joel and Jeff get right back into the old swing of things and dive into some of the recent site launches, valuable tools for remembering the history of the internet and questions for our listeners on directions we should take. Check it out!
Welcome back to the first episode of the new Stack Exchange Podcast redux - picking up right where we left off with the Stack Overflow Podcast! Come jump right back in with us to get caught up on everything we've been doing to build the brand new Stack Exchange community.
A breakthrough for global health: double fortified salt has been recognized as a social innovation that delivers small but crucial daily amounts of iodine and iron to individuals at a very low cost. In this audio interview, Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Sheela Sethuraman talks with Venkatesh Mannar, 2010 Tech Award winner in Health, as he shares his process of bringing this innovation from lab to market, with the potential to reach billions of people worldwide.
Google has crawled over 3 billion lines of computer code, revealing some surprising trends. "The way people code is very interesting," says Chris DiBona, Google's open source programs manager. He shares insights from the "Google Code" project, and closes by identifying "the most important coder in the world, who will be shaping computer science for decades to come."
From podcast to hardcover bestseller. Scott Sigler surprised the publishing world in 2007 when his book, Ancestor, released by small publisher Dragon Moon Press, appeared on the Amazon bestseller list. It was already available on line as a free serialized podcast, where it had gained 10,000 fans. In fact, all of his work is available free, but fans still buy. In this talk, he chronicles the publishing of his fourth book, The Rookie, a sci-fi football story, and the possibilities for authors who maintain an on-line following.
Website performance is second only to security in user expectations, claims Joshua Bixby, president of Strangeloop Networks. He suggests that web page rendering must be kept under two seconds to retain user loyalty. Website acceleration directly impacts a company's business metrics and KPIs. Bixby presents his team's latest findings about the relationship between web performance and business benefits.
