In this episode we discussed: MongoDB Standardization of NoSQL databases Portability between non-relational databases CouchDB PostgreSQL AGPL license PostgreSQL license (like the BSD license) MySQL is GPLv2 Drizzle has rewritten their MySQL driver so it’s not GPL Oracle’s behavior toward products they own that compete InnoDB MySQL engine Microsoft SQL – The price hike and bug report…

Here’s a list of several of the things we discussed: How PostgreSQL got started Ingres The Apache Foundation The PostgreSQL core team and it’s role. Data Warehousing It’s community property like Linux The SQL Query Language The C Programming Language gcc Standardization Google Summer of Code XML Indexing XPath Support ISN/ISBN Data Type Array Data…

In the Pragmatic Programmer it talks about your knowledge portfolio and recommend that you invest in it regularly. In fact, it draws the analogy of a stock or financial investor and how they invest. I discuss my experience in investing and my thoughts on the content of the Pragmatic Programmers book. The only major difference…

One of my clients had Pivotal Labs build them a website. After Pivotal Labs finished the project, they helped them find a developer to maintain it for them. I took over from him. This last week, I had to dig deeply into the javascript code to make a piece of functionality I was modifying conform to what…

I’ve had two people ask me about freelancing within 1 day of each other. So, I’m going to give some advice. I also talked about finding freelance clients a few weeks ago in this episode. Talk to other freelancers to see if they know people looking for work. It’s a great way to get advice as…

Gregory Brown is a longtime member of the Ruby community. His contributions to the community include his recent involvement in the RubyGems discussions, Ruby Best Practices, the Prawn library, and Ruby Mendicant University. Ruby Mendicant University is a free online school for software developers. It’s a blended teaching and mentoring program that helps people improve their coding skills. It’s aimed…

Ryan Smith is an engineer at Heroku.com. He wrote the queue_classic library in Ruby. He was a speaker at RailsConf talking about the Worker Pattern. He blogs at http://ryandotsmith.heroku.com/ and tweets at http://twitter.com/ryandotsmith We talked about several things, including: Heroku (the company and the service) Salesforce's acquisition of Heroku queue classic postgresql the Worker Pattern He also mentioned these things…

Gary is well known for a few things including destroyallsoftware.com, Ruby vs. Python: A battle to the death, and his discussions on tools, process, and programming practices. We had a great discussion regarding learning to use your text editor, learning tools like git, and overall ways to improve your skill and efficiency when programming.

Over the last few weeks I've been using macvim and janus to write code. The more I learn about VIM, the more I love it. It's not so much that VIM does things that I find particularly natural or “better”, but rather it's that it's extremely powerful for opening, managing, and editing files. Each little trick I get brings…

There's a lot more to the ABC iPad app than just the iOS components. There's a HTTP Live Streaming level to this that manages all of the content for the application and streams it to the devices. Tyler explains the history of Protoven, Uplynk, and a lot of technical details behind how the ABC iPad app hangs…

Jamis Buck is a Ruby on Rails developer working at 37signals. He was part of the Rails Core Team, created the SQLite driver for Ruby, and created the Capistrano library for deploying applications in Ruby. We talked about several things including: the Maze algorithms he's been working on on his blog Capistrano Ruby on Rails 37signals…

Tom Preston-Werner is one of the founders of Github.com. He's a Ruby programmer who has successfully launched a business used by hundreds of thousands of programmers all over the world to host their programming projects. He is also the original developer behind Gravatar. We discussed how Github.com got started. Tom also mentioned Gravatar, god, and Jekyll. We also discussed open…