SitePoint Podcast＃100：我们的现场周年纪念秀

Episode 100 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe (@iFroggy), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), and Kevin Yank (@sentience).

SitePoint Podcast的第100集现已发布！本周的主持人是Patrick O'Keefe( @iFroggy )，Stephan Segraves( @ssegraves )和Kevin Yank( @sentience )。

They are joined by special guests Miles Burke (Bam Creative, The Principles of Successful Freelancing), Alex Payne (BankSimple, Twitter), Jina Bolton (Engine Yard, The Art & Science of CSS), Jeffrey Veen (Typekit), Matt Mullenweg (WordPress), and Chris Wilson (Google TV, Internet Explorer).

特别嘉宾Miles Burke( Bam Creative ，成功的自由职业原则 )，Alex Payne( BankSimple ， Twitter )，Jina Bolton( Engine Yard ， CSS Art＆Science )，Jeffrey Veen( Typekit )，Matt Mullenweg( WordPress )和Chris Wilson( Google TV ， Internet Explorer )。

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下载此剧集 (Download This Episode)

You can also download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link:

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SitePoint Podcast #100: Our Live Anniversary Show (MP3, 118MB, 2:08:52)

SitePoint播客＃100：我们的周年纪念秀(MP3，118MB，2:08:52)

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SitePoint播客在iTunes上！将SitePoint播客添加到iTunes播放器。或者，如果您不使用iTunes，则可以直接订阅Feed 。

剧集摘要 (Episode Summary)

Here are the topics covered in this episode:

以下是本集中介绍的主题：

WordPress’s victory over Movable TypeWordPress胜过Movable Type
Facebook’s new page design and featuresFacebook的新页面设计和功能
How The Huffington Post works《赫芬顿邮报》的工作方式
The evils of Hashbang URLsHashbang URL的弊端

Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/100.

浏览http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/100上显示的参考链接的完整列表。

主持人聚光灯 (Host Spotlights)

Stephan: Google for Weddings

斯蒂芬：婚礼用Google
Patrick: Call of Duty Black Ops: Death by Crate

帕特里克：《使命召唤：黑色行动》：板条箱杀死
Brad: YKombinator

布拉德： YKombinator
Kevin: Reeder for Mac 1.0 beta

凯文： Reeder for Mac 1.0测试版

显示成绩单 (Show Transcript)

Kevin: February 18th, 2011. We take the Podcast live to celebrate 100 amazing shows, with a parade of guests from podcasts past. I’m Kevin Yank and this is the SitePoint Podcast #100: Our Live Anniversary Show!

凯文(Kevin)： 2011年2月18日。我们将播客直播以庆祝100场精彩节目，并邀请了过去的播客来此游行。我是Kevin Yank，这是SitePoint播客＃100：我们的现场周年纪念秀！

And welcome everyone to SitePoint Podcast #100 broadcasting live! Wow, this feels so weird guys, we’ve got 41 people in the chat room as I record this, listening along with us, welcome everyone from the chat room and welcome back you guys. Congratulations on #100!

欢迎大家参加现场直播的SitePoint Podcast＃100！哇，你们真是太不可思议了，我记录下来的时候，聊天室里有41个人，我们一起听着，欢迎大家离开聊天室，欢迎大家回来。恭喜＃100！

Patrick: Congratulations to you guys as well.

帕特里克：也恭喜你们。

Kevin: We are up right now on a service called Tinychat which means we can all see each other’s faces for the first time recording a podcast remotely, and yeah we’ve got an audience. We also have a packed schedule of guests, we went back through the archives of the SitePoint Podcast and looked at all of our favorite guests and who we wanted to get on and there were just too darn many, so the reality is rather than get people on that we just had two weeks ago on the show I went right back to the beginning and sort of picked the first 25 episodes and invited just about everyone from that list. So we’ve got a whole bunch of SitePoint old-time podcast guests, many favorites, I don’t think I’ll spoil the surprise just now, but plenty to look forward to. But in the meantime we’ve got a little time to talk about the news, I’m sure you guys have brought some stories, I have too, so who wants to start us off with a news story here?

凯文：我们现在正在使用名为Tinychat的服务，这意味着我们第一次可以看到彼此的面Kong，远程录制播客，是的，我们吸引了观众。我们也有很多客人，我们回顾了SitePoint Podcast的档案，查看了所有我们最喜欢的客人以及我们想要继续前进的人，太多了，所以现实是，而不是吸引人们关于这个问题，我们刚好在两周前的节目中，我又回到了开始，并挑选了前25集，并邀请了名单中的所有人。因此，我们有大量的SitePoint老式播客，其中有很多是我的最爱，我想我暂时不会惊讶，但值得期待。但是与此同时，我们还有一点时间来谈论新闻，我敢肯定你们带来了一些故事，我也有，所以谁愿意在这里以新闻故事作为起点？

Brad: Yeah, so there’s a pretty interesting article that was posted by a gentleman by the name of, and I’m sure I’m gonna butcher it like I do with everybody’s name, Byrne Reese, who was a former project manager of MovableType and TypePad and worked at Six Apart for about four years, and the article is essentially titled How Did WordPress Win?, and it stirred up a lot of conversation because it’s not someone on the WordPress side that wrote this article it’s somebody on the other side of the fence and I think that’s what made it most interesting is he actually went into quite a bit of detail on why he thought that WordPress, it feels that WordPress kind of won the battle if there was a battle between the two blogging platforms, and he points out some different reasons why he thought that WordPress has ultimately won that battle, and I think a lot of people might agree with him. A few of those items were, the biggest one is the licensing issue, in 2004 Movable Type changed up their licensing so you could have a free blog but there were limitations to it, I think you could only have three free blogs with a single author and anything above that cost money, so that immediately turned off a lot of their users and a lot of them went over to WordPress, which at the time was a fairly new blogging platform, I think it had only been around for about a year, maybe a little bit more, so I don’t know, I don’t go that far back in the WordPress community, most people know I’m pretty involved in WordPress, but I got started around 2006 so it was after all the dust had settled from this, but going back and reading some of the articles and some of the people’s different viewpoints, I mean this was definitely a major shift in what people were using for the publishing platform, this is what ultimately gave WordPress that huge boost into the spotlight and it’s just kept growing every since, so it’s an interesting article, did you guys have a chance to read it?

布拉德：是的，所以有一位先生的名字发表了一篇非常有趣的文章，我敢肯定，我会像每个人的名字一样被屠杀，伯恩·里斯(Byrne Reese)曾经是MovableType的前项目经理和TypePad，并在“六人公寓”工作了大约四年，而这篇文章的标题基本上是WordPress如何赢得胜利？，这引起了很多讨论，因为不是WordPress方面写这篇文章的人，而是围墙的另一边的人，我认为最有趣的是，他实际上对为什么他认为WordPress，如果两个博客平台之间存在争斗，那感觉WordPress就是赢了。他指出了一些不同的原因，为什么他认为WordPress最终赢得了这场争斗，我认为很多人们可能会同意他的看法。其中一些是最大的问题，其中一项是许可问题，2004年Movable Type改变了他们的许可，因此您可以拥有一个免费博客，但是有其局限性，我想您只有一个作者才能拥有三个免费博客以及超过该费用的所有内容，因此立即关闭了许多用户，许多人转到了WordPress，这在当时是一个相当新的博客平台，我认为它才存在大约一年，也许还有更多，所以我不知道，我在WordPress社区中走的并不远，大多数人都知道我很喜欢WordPress，但是我大约在2006年才开始工作，所以毕竟是尘土飞扬已经解决了这个问题，但是回头阅读一些文章和人们的不同观点，我的意思是，这绝对是人们使用发布平台的一个重大转变，这最终使WordPress有了巨大的发展聚光灯，它一直在增长e 从那以后，这是一篇有趣的文章，你们有机会阅读吗？

Kevin: Yeah, I did. I was surprised at the bottom to, well, I was wondering the whole way through because I don’t keep that much track of Movable Type at the moment, but all the way through I was kind of in suspense over what this guy’s current state of employment is because at the start of the story he kind of gives a little bracketing, he says, look, back when I used to work at Six Apart you couldn’t really just go and post something that had to do with Movable Type online without running it past the marketing department and this person and that person, but what the heck I’m gonna do it now, which gave the impression that he still worked at Six Apart and he was flaunting the authority of his superiors by posting this. But it turns out he is still in the Moveable Type business, at the bottom he’s working these days for a consulting company that consults primarily on Movable Type, which I found interesting because one of the points that he made in his article was that one of the big missteps he thinks that Six Apart made was acquiring the major Movable Type consulting business out there and bringing it in-house and therefore killing off this ecosystem of support companies, giving the impression that no one was in the Movable Type business. I know that would hurt you, Brad, if for example— well, you know, it might not hurt you if Automattic went and acquired WebDev Studios, but if Automattic were to acquire a major WordPress development house and started offering WordPress ad hoc WordPress development services to anyone that would be tough for you to compete with.

凯文：是的，我做到了。我从底部感到惊讶，嗯，我一直想知道整个过程，因为目前我并没有对Movable Type保持足够的了解，但是一直以来，我一直对该人的当前状态有些怀疑。他说，就业是因为在故事开始时他给了一点点包围，回想一下，当我以前在“六人公寓”工作时，你不能真的只是去网上发布与Movable Type有关的内容而不需要经过市场部和这个人以及那个人，但是我现在要怎么做，给人的印象是他仍然在Six Apart工作，他通过张贴这个来炫耀上司的权威。但是事实证明，他仍然从事Moveable Type业务，如今他在一家公司的最底层工作，该公司主要就Movable Type进行咨询，我发现这很有趣，因为他在文章中提出的观点之一是他认为，Six Apart所犯的重大失误就是收购了一家主要的Movable Type咨询公司，并将其引入内部，从而扼杀了这种支持公司生态系统，给人的印象是没有人从事Movable Type业务。我知道这会伤害您，布拉德，例如-好吧，您知道，如果Automattic收购了WebDev Studios，但是如果Automattic想要收购一家主要的WordPress开发公司并开始提供WordPress临时WordPress开发，那可能不会伤害您向任何难以与您竞争的人提供服务。

Brad: Yeah, I mean definitely. And you certainly wouldn’t want someone from that shop going and publishing an article like this which like you said is kind of interesting, but no you’re right, it would be tough to compete with that, and who’s to say it won’t happen, I have no idea, but it is interesting it went that route. He also works with Melody, I believe that’s how it’s pronounced, which is a fork of Movable Type platform, I don’t know that much about it.

布拉德：是的，我的意思是肯定的。而且，您当然不希望那家商店的某人去发布这样的文章，就像您说的那样有趣，但不，您说的对，要与之抗衡就很难了，谁能说它不会不会发生，我不知道，但有趣的是，那条路走了。他还与Melody合作，我相信这就是它的发音，它是Movable Type平台的一个分支，我对此并不了解。

Kevin: That’s how WordPress got its start, right; it was a Fork of B2 wasn’t it?

凯文：这就是WordPress的起步方式，对吗？是B2的货叉吗？

Brad: Right, yeah, it was a fork of B2, and because of that B2 was licensed under the GPL Open Source license, and so WordPress inherited that because it was a fork, so since the beginning WordPress has been Open Source freely available. And then like I said back in 2004 when Movable Type switched their license they were no longer free, and so that caused this big rift in this big migration over to WordPress.

布拉德：对，是的，它是B2的一个分支，并且因为该B2是在GPL开放源代码许可证下许可的，所以WordPress继承了它，因为它是一个分支，因此自开始以来WordPress就可以免费使用。然后就像我在2004年说的那样，当Movable Type切换其许可证时，它们不再是免费的，这在向WordPress的大规模迁移中引起了很大的分歧。

Kevin: It’s an interesting story, he has a few choice words for the boffins at Automattic for how they supposedly won this war and the fact that their community is not as positive or fostering of positive discussion about competitors as it could be. We’ve got a guest on a little bit later who is going to talk about WordPress with us and I look forward to chatting with him about this story. But we’ve got a couple of other stories to get through before our first guest, Patrick, what did you bring?

凯文：这是一个有趣的故事，他为Automattic的棺材打了几句话，以示他们应该如何赢得这场战争，以及他们的社区没有像竞争对手那样积极或积极地讨论竞争对手。稍后，我们将邀请一位来宾与我们讨论WordPress，我很期待与他聊天。但是在我们的第一个客人Patrick之前，我们还有其他几个故事要讲解，您带来了什么？

Patrick: Well, I brought a story about the new Facebook page updates that came online a few days ago. Facebook pages if you are a business or if you have a website, SitePoint has a Facebook page, facebook.com/sitepoint, and it’s really the only main way to promote your business or your website or your non-human identity on Facebook, so Facebook launched a series of changes that are noteworthy and very useful to people who manage pages, and I’ll summarize a few of them here, but one thing you can do now is you can log in as a page so what you can do is you can switch from your personal account to actually being a page and that allows you to interact with other pages as that page, so for example you can go to another page and not comment as Kevin Yank, for example, but comment as SitePoint, that page on this other page you can’t comment on any personal profiles that are not enabled to allow everyone to comment, but it does allow you to better interact with other pages through comments, through liking pages, and gives you a better way of highlighting your other pages, so if you have multiple websites or related products then you could better highlight those now. Another change is that you can notify or have yourself be notified whenever there is a new like or new comments on your page, so now you can be notified of specific mentions or specific posts on your page, not just the summary that you would receive weekly as I receive as some of the managers of our pages I just get an email that says, oh, 47 likes this week, well now you can be notified when that stuff actually happens. Another noteworthy thing is better moderation tools really, like a block list of vulgarity or profanity that you can enable on three different strength levels, and also a block list that you can yourself set to block certain terms from the pages. So that’s just a couple of the main things and there are some articles on SitePoint that will be in the show notes as well that will detail some of these changes.

帕特里克：嗯，我带来了一个有关几天前在线发布的新Facebook页面更新的故事。如果您是公司或网站，则为Facebook页面，SitePoint拥有一个Facebook页面， facebook.com / sitepoint，这实际上是在Facebook上推广您的公司或网站或非人身身份的唯一主要方法，因此Facebook发起了一系列值得注意的变更，这些变更对于管理页面的人非常有用，在这里我将总结其中的一些内容，但是您现在可以做的一件事就是可以以页面身份登录，因此您可以做的是您可以从您的个人帐户切换为实际的页面，并允许您与该页面进行其他页面的交互，例如，您可以转到另一个页面，而不是以Kevin Yank的身份发表评论，而以SitePoint的形式发表评论，您无法在其他页面上的任何页面上发表评论，但不能对任何未允许所有人发表评论的个人资料发表评论，但它确实允许您通过评论，喜欢的页面与其他页面更好地互动，并为您提供了一种更好的突出显示方式您的其他页面，如果您有兴趣 iple网站或相关产品，那么您最好现在就突出显示这些内容。另一个变化是，您可以在页面上有新的点赞或新评论时通知或通知自己，因此现在您可以在页面上收到特定提及或特定帖子的通知，而不仅仅是每周收到的摘要当我收到一些页面管理人员的信息时，我仅收到一封电子邮件，说，哦，本周有47个喜欢，好吧，现在您可以在实际发生这种情况时收到通知。另一个值得注意的事情实际上是更好的审核工具，例如您可以在三个不同的强度级别上启用的粗俗或亵渎的阻止列表，以及可以自己设置为阻止页面中某些术语的阻止列表。因此，这只是几件主要的事情，在SitePoint上也有一些文章也将出现在展示笔记中，其中将详细介绍其中的一些更改。

Stephan: Is this just for the administration of pages?

斯蒂芬：这仅仅是为了页面的管理吗？

Patrick: Yep.

帕特里克：是的 。

Stephan: But I notice some things changed too with just the user interface too, like now if you hit the enter key on a comment it leaves the comment, right, so if you wanted to leave a multi-line comment now you have to do shift-return which is kind of annoying to me.

史蒂芬：但是我注意到用户界面也发生了一些变化，例如现在，如果您在评论上按回车键，它将留下评论，对了，因此，如果您想现在留下多行评论，则必须换班换班令我很烦。

Patrick: Yeah, that’s interesting, I actually noticed that the other day, I don’t know if that’s related to this pages thing, but yeah, it is a little annoying.

帕特里克：是的，这很有趣，实际上我注意到前几天，我不知道这是否与该页面有关，但是，是的，这有点令人讨厌。

Kevin: A lot of these features seem geared toward beefing up the pages to turn them more into a full fledged— adding sort of features you’d expect from a full fledged forum community, would you say that’s right Patrick?

凯文：其中许多功能似乎都旨在增强页面的功能，以使它们更多地成为成熟的功能，增加您希望从成熟的论坛社区获得的功能，您说的对吗，帕特里克？

Patrick: I would say that’s basically more or less right; I think some of these features are things that I really would have really liked to have seen earlier like the block list of words or profanity that you could enable, that’s just kind of I would say not a common sense feature but a feature that does make a lot of sense, and the tools that Facebook allows for moderation right now are really very primitive and not as powerful as one would like to be, not even near forums but just some basic comment moderation where it’s difficult to stop someone from posting this specific term, now at least these tools will help but there still needs to be some changes to the permission system I feel where you can grant people access to manage your page without granting them access to everything, give them the ability to close the page or remove other admins; that’s something really limits my use of Facebook pages where I’d like to have someone else post stories from my site maybe, but I also don’t want to give them the keys to the castle either.

帕特里克：我会说，这基本上是对的；我认为其中一些功能是我真的很希望早日看到的功能，例如可以启用的单词或亵渎的阻止列表，这只是一种常识性功能，但确实可以从很多意义上讲，Facebook现在允许进行审核的工具确实非常原始，不像人们希望的那样强大，甚至不在论坛附近，也只是一些基本的评论审核，很难阻止某人发布此特定内容术语，现在至少这些工具会有所帮助，但权限系统仍需要进行一些更改，我认为您可以在此授予人们访问权限来管理您的页面，而无需授予他们对所有内容的访问权限，让他们能够关闭页面或删除页面其他管理员；那确实限制了我在Facebook页面上的使用，我可能想让其他人从我的网站上发布故事，但是我也不想给他们城堡的钥匙。

Kevin: Stephen you’ve got a couple of stories in your list, what’s your favorite?

凯文：史蒂芬，您的清单中有几个故事，您最喜欢什么？

Stephan: Well, I’ve got this Huffington Post story about what they’re actually doing at the Huffington Post since their AOL acquisition and how it works internally. And I think the way I read the article is they’re kind of admitting to being a content farm— Sorry Patrick! (laughter)

史蒂芬：嗯，我有关于《赫芬顿邮报》的故事，这是关于自从他们收购AOL以来他们在《赫芬顿邮报》中实际从事的工作以及它在内部的运作方式。而且我认为我阅读本文的方式是，他们有点承认自己是内容农场-对不起，帕特里克！ (笑声)

Patrick: Why sorry to me?

帕特里克：为什么对我感到抱歉？

Stephan: Well, because of the story last week.

斯蒂芬：恩，因为上周的故事。

Patrick: Okay, I’m not a content farm. (laughter) Is that what you’re implying?

帕特里克：好的，我不是内容农场。 (笑声)那是你的意思吗？

Kevin: He is! He is a content farm! (Laughter) No, I see what you mean, it’s weird, the author of the story kind of says, look, everyone accuses us of being a content farm and not paying our authors, but the truth is that we do pay some of our authors, those that we expect to be at an office and that we expect to be able to take a phone call and send them out to cover a particular story, but we also create this content in order to create this vibrant space that gets a lot of traffic so that people, anyone can come and write a story for us and not get paid for it.

凯文：他是！他是一个内容农场！ (众笑)不，我明白您的意思，这很奇怪，故事的作者说，看，每个人都指责我们是内容农场，不付钱给作者，但事实是我们确实支付了我们的部分钱作者，我们希望在办公室里并且希望能够接听电话并发送出去报道特定故事的作者，但我们还创建了这些内容，以创建一个充满活力的空间，流量，以便任何人都可以为我们写一个故事而不会为此付费。

I actually don’t mind the story, and I can see why people are kind of going “Aha! We accused you of not paying your authors and this is you admitting it.” But I follow his logic which is that if you’re going to write on Huffington Post and you haven’t been invited to do so, you know, you just want to come and contribute a story, that even if they paid people like that 50 bucks to do it I’m not sure what that would achieve; the reasons for people wanting to contribute to Huffington Post usually they’re worth a lot more than 50 bucks and they aren’t necessarily valued in money, people want to participate to build their profile, to build a portfolio of writing, to, I don’t know, just to get themselves out there as writers, and I think that although they might not have the balance quite right I don’t necessarily think not paying people who they don’t necessarily invite to contribute is a problem.

我实际上不介意这个故事，而且我可以理解为什么人们会喜欢“啊哈！我们指责您没有付钱给作者，这就是您承认的。” 但是我遵循他的逻辑，那就是，如果您打算在《赫芬顿邮报》上写文章，并且没有被邀请这样做，那么，您知道的就是，您只是想发表一个故事，即使他们付钱给那样的人要花50美元，我不确定会实现什么。人们希望为《赫芬顿邮报》做贡献的原因通常是他们的身价超过50美元，而且他们不一定物有所值，人们想参与以建立自己的形象，建立写作档案，以至于我不知道，只是为了使自己成为作家而已，而且我认为尽管他们可能没有足够的平衡，但我不一定认为不付钱给那些不一定邀请他们捐款的人是个问题。

Stephan: The people who are causing a fuss about this aren’t causing a fuss about Newsvine which is mostly user contributed stories.

史蒂芬(Stephan)：对此引起大惊小怪的人们并没有引起对Newsvine的大惊小怪，后者主要是用户贡献的故事。

Kevin: Yeah, it’s the same thing, just less successful, right?

凯文：是的，是同一回事，只是不太成功，对吧？

Stephan: Exactly, it’s not as big and they still have aggregated content but it’s the same thing on its face. So, it’s kind of funny to me that people aren’t causing a stink about that but they want to go after The Huffington Post over the same thing.

斯蒂芬：确实，它不那么大，他们仍然具有聚合的内容，但是表面上却是一样的。因此，对于我来说，人们并没有引起任何反感，但他们想在同一件事上追赶《赫芬顿邮报》，这对我来说是很有趣的。

Patrick: I didn’t read this post at The Huffington Post, so just fair disclosure there, but I have been looking at the stories after the sale regarding people not being paid, and really there are plenty of examples online of communities that are growing, making money, being sold that are largely contributors that do not receive some sort of compensation, but they do receive some benefit; they have some desire to do it or they wouldn’t do it, and I mean I’m totally for looking out for people and making sure that people don’t get taken advantage of, but at the same time people make the decision to write for The Huffington Post or to post in forums or to contribute something online in some way that is on someone else’s website with ads on it, it’s been going on since the beginning of the popular Internet. So to me Huffington Post is not even a bad example of that, it’s an example where you have all these people, these celebrities and different people who go there to get some attention off of The Huffington Post because of their traffic, so I don’t feel there’s anything really wrong being done here.

帕特里克：我没有在《赫芬顿邮报》上读过这篇文章，所以只是在那儿进行了合理的披露，但是我一直在看售后有关人们没有得到报酬的故事，实际上，网上有很多关于社区成长的例子，赚钱，被出售，主要是贡献者，他们没有得到某种补偿，但确实得到了一些好处；他们有做某件事的愿望，或者他们不愿意做，我的意思是我完全是在寻找人，并确保人们不会被利用，但与此同时，人们会做出决定自赫芬顿邮报(Huffington Post)撰写文章或在论坛中发帖，或以某种方式在他人网站上在线发表某些东西，并在上面刊登广告，这种情况自流行的Internet诞生以来就一直在持续。因此，对我来说，《赫芬顿邮报》甚至不是一个坏例子，这是一个示例，其中有所有这些人，这些名人和不同的人，由于他们的访问量而去那里吸引《赫芬顿邮报》的注意，所以我不不会觉得这里做错了什么。

Kevin: And I brought a story as well which has to do with Hashbangs; anyone else been reading about Hashbangs this week?

凯文：我也带来了一个与Hashbangs有关的故事。其他人本周一直在阅读有关Hashbangs的内容吗？

Stephan: A little bit.

史蒂芬：一点点。

Kevin: Hash bangs are these new URLs that are in use on sites like twitter.com and also the whole Gawker Media Network that launched its major redesign in the past week. And the idea is that these sites no longer use URLs that go to an actual web page, all of the URLs on these sites just point to the home page and then have a hash, what would you call it, a fragment identifier that contains the whole rest of the URL. And so what the browser does when it gets one of these URLs is it loads the home page of the site you’ve asked for and then a piece of JavaScript in that page runs to actually load the content using Ajax.

凯文：哈希爆炸是在twitter.com等网站上使用的这些新URL，以及过去一周开始进行重大重新设计的整个Gawker Media Network。想法是，这些站点不再使用转到实际网页的URL，这些站点上的所有URL都仅指向主页，然后具有哈希(您将其称为)，包含标识符的片段标识符。网址的其余部分。因此，浏览器在获得这些URL中的一个时会执行的操作是，它加载了您要访问的网站的主页，然后运行该页面中的一段JavaScript来使用Ajax实际加载内容。

There’s been a lot of talk about how these sites that use these types of URLs are really kind of breaking the Internet, and I kind of have to agree with that perspective, especially since there seems to be no real benefit to using this format of URL over a more robust development methodology. The problem was highlighted when the day that Gawker launched its new site using these types of URLs, a single line of their JavaScript code had a bug in it and it took their entire network of sites down for several hours. For those several hours on their launch day anyone who went to any page on any one of their sites just basically got a blank page because the JavaScript was broken, so this is an argument that I’ve seen people making that if your development methodology leads to a single line of JavaScript taking down not only your homepage, not only your whole site but your entire network of sites, there’s probably something a little wrong with the way you’re doing web development.

关于使用这些类型的URL的这些网站如何真正破坏Internet的讨论很多，我有点同意这种观点，尤其是因为使用这种URL格式似乎没有真正的好处。通过更强大的开发方法。当Gawker使用这些类型的URL启动新网站的那天，他们JavaScript代码的一行出现了一个错误，并且整个网站网络瘫痪了几个小时，这一问题就更加突出了。在发布当天的几个小时内，由于JavaScript损坏，进入其网站上任何页面的人基本上只有一个空白页，因此这是我见过的一个观点，如果您的开发方法能够一行JavaScript不仅会破坏您的首页，还会破坏整个网站，甚至整个网站网络，您进行Web开发的方式可能都有些问题。

There’s been a couple of good stories about this, I’ll post the best one I found from Tim Bray into the chat room here, but I look forward to talking with one of our guests about Hashbangs, any thoughts from you guys?

关于这个有很多好的故事，我会把我从蒂姆·布雷找到的最好的故事发布到这里的聊天室，但是我期待与我们的一位客人谈论Hashbangs，你们有什么想法吗？

Brad: I mean if there’s no benefit then what’s the point? That’s what baffles me; it seems like this is a big red flag for search engines because the whole point is when you land on your site you don’t want to have a redirect happen in any manner even if it’s behind the scenes with Ajax.

布拉德：我的意思是，如果没有好处，那有什么意义？那就是让我感到困惑的东西；对于搜索引擎来说，这似乎是一个很大的危险信号，因为整个问题是，当您登陆自己的网站时，即使Ajax在幕后，您也不希望以任何方式进行重定向。

Kevin: So I guess the only benefit and if I were trying to put myself in their shoes the reason you do this is so that every web page that loads, loads something really quickly, and the cynic in me says maybe that’s an ad, maybe what it loads is a shell of a page and then they have complete control over the order that things are loaded into that page using JavaScript. So the actual HTML that the browser loads initially is super light, comes up super quick and from then their JavaScript takes complete control and they can load the ads first, for example, or if they prefer to optimize for content, which I would hope, they load the content first and then decorate it with the rest of the page; they have more control in that way. But in order to seize that control they really are breaking some parts of the Web.

凯文：所以我想唯一的好处是，如果我试图让自己陷入困境，这样做的原因是，这样每个网页加载，加载都会非常快，而愤世嫉俗的人说这也许是一则广告，也许它加载的是页面的外壳，然后他们可以完全控制使用JavaScript将内容加载到该页面的顺序。因此，浏览器最初加载的实际HTML内容超轻，显示速度非常快，然后他们JavaScript便获得了完全控制，例如，他们可以首先加载广告，或者如果他们更喜欢针对内容进行优化，我希望，他们首先加载内容，然后用页面的其余部分装饰它；他们以这种方式拥有更多的控制权。但是，为了抓住这种控制权，他们确实破坏了Web的某些部分。

You mentioned search engines, Brad, and the way they’re getting around the search engines with this is basically they’ve gotten from Google a concession that Google will recognize these HashBang URLs, these fake URLs, convert them into big, ugly real URLs when it’s indexing the site, so the site that Google indexes is kind of a fake, static version of the site that no one ever sees except Google, and then when Google delivers search results pointing to those pages it automatically converts those fake static URLs into the dynamic HashBang URLs and directs traffic to them. I’m kind of surprised and shocked that Google did this, my only guess is that someone at Google built an app that worked this way and they needed to make it work with their search engine and now the Twitters and the Gawkers of the world are taking advantage of this and it’s really weakening the Web as a platform if you ask me.

您提到了搜索引擎Brad，他们通过这种方式绕过搜索引擎的方式基本上是从Google获得的一种让步，即Google会识别这些HashBang URL，这些虚假URL，并将它们转换为大而丑陋的真实URL在为网站建立索引时，Google索引的网站是一种伪造的静态版本，除了Google之外，其他任何人都看不到。然后，当Google提供指向这些页面的搜索结果时，它会自动将这些伪造的静态URL转换为动态HashBang URL，并将流量定向到它们。我对Google做到这一点感到惊讶和震惊，我唯一的猜测是Google的某位用户构建了以这种方式工作的应用程序，他们需要使其与搜索引擎一起使用，现在全世界的Twitter和Gawkers都在使用充分利用这一点，如果您问我的话，实际上削弱了Web作为平台的地位。

So I think it’s about time to get our first guest on here, guys, we’ll come back to these stories if and when we can make it fit in, but our first guest here today is Miles Burke so let me give him a call here.

因此，我认为现在是时候让我们的第一位客人到这里了，伙计们，我们将在可能的情况下重温这些故事，但是今天我们的第一位客人是Miles Burke，所以让我给他打电话这里。

Miles: Thank you for inviting me!

迈尔斯：谢谢你邀请我！

Kevin: So for our listeners who don’t remember Miles, Miles is the author of the SitePoint book The Principles of Successful Freelancing, and we had him on a while back to discuss that book and freelancing in general, so welcome back to the show, Miles.

凯文：因此，对于那些不记得Miles的听众来说，Miles是SitePoint书《成功的自由职业的原则》的作者，我们让他回头讨论了这本书和一般的自由职业，所以欢迎回到节目中，英里。

Miles: Thank you, Kevin, it was a while back, it was back in December 2008. How time flies.

迈尔斯：谢谢凯文，那是一段时间了，那是在2008年12月。时间过得真快。

Kevin: Oh, geez, did they podcasts back then?

凯文：哦，天哪，那时候他们播客吗？

Brad: That was number five. I think, Miles, you might have been our first interviewee actually.

布拉德：那是第五。我认为，迈尔斯，您实际上可能是我们的第一位受访者。

Kevin: Yes, I think you were our first ever guest on the show.

凯文：是的，我想你是我们演出的第一位客人。

Miles: Yes, and could you guys imagine that we’d be celebrating 100 episodes by now?

迈尔斯：是的，你们能想象我们现在将庆祝100集吗？

Brad: I thought they’d pull us off the air by now.

布拉德：我以为他们现在会让我们停下来。

Patrick: I’m a pretty confident guy, Miles.

帕特里克：我是一个非常自信的人，迈尔斯。

Stephan: I thought they would’ve fired me by now. (laughter)

史蒂芬：我以为他们现在会开除我。 (笑声)

Kevin: So, Miles, the last time we spoke to you, you were kind of wrapping up if memory serves the final stages of converting your freelancing business into a web development … I guess would you call yourself an agency?

凯文：迈尔斯，上一次我们与您交谈时，如果记忆是将自由职业者的业务转换为Web开发的最后阶段，您会感到很困惑……我想您会称自己为代理商吗？

Miles: Yeah, we definitely call ourselves an agency, I think I had pretty well started that before we last spoke, but yeah certainly now we have a team of 15 and I have very little to do with actual on-tool work and I miss the days of Photoshop and Apache but now I’m spending the majority of my day with new business, with clients and managing projects behind the scenes.

迈尔斯：是的，我们绝对称自己为代理商，我想我在上一次发言之前就已经开始了，但是现在我们有一支由15人组成的团队，与实际的工具工作关系不大，我很想念在Photoshop和Apache时代，但现在我将大部分时间都花在了新业务，客户和后台管理项目上。

Kevin: So, Miles, your company is called Bam Creative.

凯文：所以，迈尔斯，您的公司名为Bam Creative 。

Miles: Yes, that’s right.

迈尔斯：是的，没错。

Kevin: And do I remember you chatting to me a few months back and maybe even longer now that you were restructuring a bit to give your fellow Bam Creative staff a little more equity in the company?

凯文：我还记得几个月前和我聊天吗，也许是更长的时间，因为您正在进行一些重组以使您的Bam Creative同事在公司中拥有更多的股权？

Miles: Yeah, that’s right, that’s good memory there, Kevin, that was the beginning of last year so we’ve just experienced our first 12 months, what we did was we went to the current employees at the time and offered them shares in the business, so instead of a traditional here have some shares what they did was they actually purchased shares and became stakeholders and equity owners in the business.

迈尔斯：是的，那是对的记忆，凯文，那是去年初，所以我们刚刚经历了最初的12个月，我们所做的是当时去了现有的员工，并向他们提供了股份。业务，因此这里不是传统的股份，而是实际购买了股份并成为业务的利益相关者和股权所有者。

Kevin: Yeah. So what was the thinking behind that move?

凯文：是的。那么，此举背后的想法是什么？

Miles: It was really driven by a few things. I guess my experience has been that I’ve always wanted to empower everyone that works for me to feel like they actually own a part of the business, and that’s something that I guess I’ve learned over the years in working for other people; I’ve always had that sort of underlying personality trait of feeling like I own any business I’m involved with, which as you can imagine I butted heads a number of times (laughter), but yeah, starting afresh with a new year last year, 2010, it seemed like the perfect time, and the result has been that I now have nine colleagues that are shareholders in the business and not literally just employees.

迈尔斯：确实是受一些因素驱动。我想我的经验是，我一直想让每个能为我工作的人增强能力，让他们觉得自己实际上是公司的一部分，这是我多年来为他人工作所学到的东西。我一直都具有这种潜在的人格特质，就像我拥有自己所从事的任何业务一样，正如您可以想象的那样，我曾多次担任主管(众笑)，但是，是的，从去年新的一年开始在2010年这一年，这似乎是一个完美的时机，其结果是，我现在有9名同事，他们是企业的股东，而不仅仅是员工。

Kevin: Is there a name for this sort of structure? I mean do you call it a co-op or something like that?

凯文：这种结构有名字吗？我的意思是您称它为合作社或类似的东西吗？

Miles: It is very similar to a co-op, there’s a few—

迈尔斯：这与合作社非常相似，其中有一些-

Patrick: Do you trade groceries? (laughter)

帕特里克：您交易杂货吗？ (笑声)

Miles: There’s a few names and few acronyms for it but employee invested organizations tends to be one that’s used as well as an employee-shareholder groups, so it’s worked out fantastically well. We’ve ended up with nine people that are happy to put blood, sweat and tears into the business and feel like they’re reaping the rewards as well.

迈尔斯(Miles)：虽然名称很少，但缩写词很少，但是员工投资的组织和员工－股东团体一样经常被使用，因此效果很好。最终，我们有9个人乐于为企业注入鲜血，汗水和眼泪，并感到他们也正在收获丰厚的回报。

Kevin: So would you say it was a bit of nostalgia for the days when you were working solo and you were responsible for everything? Did you find you wanted to get everyone on the team working with that level of intensity?

凯文：所以您会说，在您独自一人工作并对所有事情负责的日子里有点怀旧吗？您是否发现想要让团队中的每个人都以这种强度工作？

Miles: That’s true. That is I guess a by-product of it was I felt like it was an exciting new business and that I was freelancing again, I just happened to be freelancing along with nine others under the same name, so it’s turned out really well; it’s one of those experiments that I had a number of clients say to me, oh, this is gonna be interesting, assuming the worst, but there touch wood hasn’t been a real argument yet, so it’s all worked out and everybody gets to vote on the direction of the business, what sort of projects that we take, what marketing activities we undertake, yeah, it’s worked out very well.

迈尔斯：是的。我想这是它的副产品，我觉得这是一项令人振奋的新业务，我又在自由职业，我刚好和另外9名同名自由职业，所以事实证明这很好。这是我有很多客户对我说的那些实验之一，哦，假设是最糟糕的情况，这会很有趣，但是触摸木还不是一个真正的论据，因此所有工作都已经完成，每个人都可以对业务的方向进行投票，我们进行什么样的项目，开展什么样的营销活动，是的，效果很好。

Kevin: We’ve got a question in the chat room from mmamedov, one of those difficult to pronounce screen names. mmamedov is asking what your advice for people wanting to start their own agency. Do you think the start as a solo freelancer route is the best way into running your own agency?

凯文：我们在mmamedov的聊天室中有一个问题，这是很难发音的屏幕名称之一。 mmamedov在问您对想要成立自己的代理机构的人有何建议。您是否认为以个人自由职业者路线作为起点是经营自己的经纪公司的最佳途径？

Miles: I believe so, yeah. I guess the difficulty, and this is worthy of a book in its own that we could put together later, but the difficulty is going from a one-man show upwards, so the first step is obviously hiring that first employee, and there’s a lot of work that needs to be involved there, and suddenly you feel that you’re hitting the pavement or working for others as well as yourself because you’re obviously having to keep them fed and clothed and employed. So, that tends to be the big jump going from a zero employee business to having one that you’re hiring, and then obviously the taxation and business structure elements that come with that. But I would thoroughly recommend that you start off freelancing first and see where the business takes you, and the other step there is also you don’t have to think of full time. So when I first started my first employee came on at one day a week, within a month he was two days a week, two months later he was full time, so having people that are flexible in as far as how many hours they can give you is very important at that phase of the business as well.

迈尔斯：我相信，是的。我想这很困难，这值得一本书，我们以后可以放在一起，但是困难是从一个人的表演上来的，所以第一步显然是雇用第一位员工，这有很多需要在那里工作的工作，突然间您会感觉自己正在撞上人行道或为他人以及自己工作，因为显然您必须让他们吃饱，穿衣服和工作。因此，这往往是从零员工业务到要雇用的员工的巨大飞跃，然后显然是随之而来的税收和业务结构元素。但我会彻底建议您先从自由职业开始，看看业务将您带到何处，而另一步，您也不必考虑全职。因此，当我刚开始工作时，我的第一位员工每周有一天上班，一个月之内他每周有两天，两个月后才有全职工作，所以要有足够的灵活性来安排员工您在业务的那个阶段也非常重要。

Kevin: Great. Do you think the Web is getting so complicated that pretty soon a one-man freelance operation is not gonna be practical?

凯文：太好了。您是否认为Web变得如此复杂，以至于单身自由职业者很快将变得不可行？

Miles: To a degree I feel like that way already. I couldn’t imagine starting freelancing again and having to deal with the plethora of different issues that the Web faces now. When I first freelanced back in I think it was 1995 I was it, so I had the relationship with the hosting company, I did the design, I sold the projects to clients, I even made the coffee and vacuumed the office (laughter). And times have changed, the days of a simple sort of approach to SEO there was really no social media in any sense back then, now you’re faced with a million different issues that really you’re looking for specialists in these areas and trying not to be the all rounder for everything.

迈尔斯：在某种程度上，我已经感觉像那样。我无法想象再次开始自由职业并且不得不处理Web现在面临的众多不同问题。当我第一次自由职业时，我想是1995年，所以我与托管公司建立了关系，进行了设计，将项目卖给了客户，甚至还煮了咖啡并打扫了办公室(笑声)。随着时代的变迁，使用SEO的一种简单方法的时代真的没有任何意义上的社交媒体了，现在您面临着数百万种不同的问题，实际上您正在寻找这些领域的专家并尝试不要成为一切的全能者。

Kevin: Great. Well, thanks for answering those questions, we’ve unfortunately got plenty of guests to get through so we’re gonna have to let you go, Miles, but thanks for joining us for #100.

凯文：太好了。好吧，感谢您回答了这些问题，很遗憾，我们已经接待了很多客人，所以我们不得不放开您，Miles，但是感谢您加入我们＃100。

Miles: No problem, guys, and congratulations again on 100 episodes and I’ll be sitting around watching the chat room and keeping involved that way, thank you again.

Miles：没问题，伙计们，再次祝贺100集，我将围坐在看聊天室并保持参与的状态，再次谢谢。

Kevin: Plenty more questions in the chat room for you Miles. If people want to catch up with you on Twitter or elsewhere where can they find you?

凯文：在聊天室中，您还有更多关于Miles的问题。如果人们想在Twitter或其他地方赶上您，他们可以在哪里找到您？

Miles: Yeah, certainly, I’m always interested in chatting with people on Twitter, so my username there is @Milesb.

Miles：是的，当然，我一直很想在Twitter上与人们聊天，所以我的用户名是@Milesb 。

Kevin: Great, well thanks a lot, Miles, we’ll let you go.

凯文：太好了，非常感谢，迈尔斯，我们让你走。

Miles: Thanks guys.

迈尔斯：谢谢大家。

Kevin: Bye, bye.

凯文：再见，再见。

Kevin: Alright, our next guest is Alex Payne who many developers may remember from Twitter, he ran the Twitter API team and these days he’s working at a new startup called BankSimple, let me just get Alex on.

凯文：好的，我们的下一位来宾是Alex Payne，许多开发人员可能在Twitter上还记得他，他管理着Twitter API团队，如今，他正在一家名为BankSimple的新创公司工作，让我来接洽 Alex。

Kevin: Hello Alex!

凯文：你好亚历克斯！

Alex: How are you?

亚历克斯：你好吗？

Kevin: Good. Welcome back to the SitePoint Podcast.

凯文：好。欢迎回到SitePoint播客。

Alex: Thank you for having me.

亚历克斯：谢谢你有我。

Kevin: Alex, I had a good chat with you in the hallways at what was it, Edge of the Web 2009 I think it was.

凯文：亚历克斯，我在走廊上和你聊得很开心，这是我认为是《 Web Edge 2009》。

Alex: Yes, in lovely Perth Australia where I was jetlagged out of my mind.

亚历克斯：是的，在可爱的珀斯澳大利亚，我被我的脑海所震撼。

Kevin: (Laughs) Well, you did well on the Podcast, I remember it being one of my favorite sort of geekiest episodes because you were at that conference sort of chatting about where the Web as a platform was going.

凯文：(笑)好吧，您在Podcast上做的很好，我记得它是我最喜欢的那种怪胎中的一集，因为您在那次会议上谈论的是Web作为平台的发展方向。

Alex: Exactly.

亚历克斯：是的 。

Kevin: Yeah. And since then you have left your work on the Web as a platform at Twitter and have started a new startup called BankSimple.

凯文：是的。从那时起，您就将工作留在Web上作为Twitter的平台，并开始了一个名为BankSimple的新创业公司。

Alex: Yes, yeah, I joined as the third co-founder in mid-2010.

亚历克斯：是的，是的，我于2010年年中加入第三位联合创始人。

Kevin: So tell us a little bit about BankSimple and what was the string that led you from one place to another.

凯文：所以，告诉我们有关BankSimple的一些信息，以及导致您从一个地方到另一个地方的字符串是什么。

Alex: So, BankSimple is trying to be an alternative to retail banks, first in America and maybe eventually elsewhere in the world. And it was started actually by an Australian and an Indian who met at business school at Carnegie Mellon. And they were frustrated at how backwards banking in the U.S. is, we really have a lot of catching up to do particularly to Europe and the rest of the first world; people still use checks, not as much is done electronically as it could be, that sort of thing. So, BankSimple is kind of an experiment in seeing if we can build the next generation banking service for America, and I haven’t abandoned the platform thing entirely because part of what we’re offering will be an API.

亚历克斯：所以，BankSimple试图成为零售银行的替代方案，最早是在美国，也许在世界其他地方。它实际上是由在卡内基梅隆大学商学院相识的澳大利亚人和印度人开始的。他们对美国银行业的倒退感到沮丧，我们确实有很多追赶的机会，尤其是在欧洲和第一世界其他地区。人们仍然使用这种检查，而不是像电子检查那样做。因此，BankSimple只是一种试验，目的在于确定我们是否可以为美国构建下一代银行服务，而我还没有完全放弃该平台，因为我们提供的部分服务将是API。

Kevin: Ah, excellent. I have to say I’m not surprised that an Australian is on the co-founders list because as a native Australian these days myself, well, not native, I’m from Canada, but living here in Australia and banking here in Australia it’s a nightmare as a tech geek.

凯文：嗯，太好了。我必须说，我对澳大利亚人跻身联合创始人名单并不感到惊讶，因为这些天，我本人是澳大利亚本地人，我不是加拿大本地人，而是住在澳大利亚，在澳大利亚银行业，作为技术怪胎的噩梦。

Alex: Yeah, and amazingly Australia is still better off than the U.S., I mean there’s more electronic bill presentment and that sort of thing in Australia from what Josh has told me, but even that still is really underused here.

亚历克斯：是的，而且令人惊讶的是，澳大利亚的经济状况仍要比美国好，我的意思是，乔什告诉我的东西，澳大利亚的电子账单呈现方式更多，在澳大利亚也是如此，但即便如此，在这里仍然没有得到充分利用。

Kevin: Yeah. Well, there are things that I envy about the United States as well, and I think they do fall in the realm of APIs, the stuff that you’re interested in, because you know just the industry standard for allowing your desktop personal finance app to communicate directly with your bank—can you refresh my memory, it’s OFX? Yeah, that’s right.

凯文：是的。好吧，我也对美国感到嫉妒，我认为它们确实属于您感兴趣的API领域，因为您只知道允许您的桌面个人理财应用程序的行业标准。直接与您的银行沟通-您能刷新我的记忆吗，是OFX？是的，没错。

I have roughly every six months I sit down and Google and Google and Google looking for an Australian bank that supports it, and every once in a while I’ll find sort of a headline of a bank saying they’ve announced that they will support it but it hasn’t happened yet.

我大约每六个月就坐下一次，谷歌，谷歌和谷歌都在寻找一家支持它的澳大利亚银行，每隔一段时间，我会发现一些银行的标题说他们已经宣布将支持它，但还没有发生。

Alex: Yeah. Well, and some banks in the U.S. while they’ll provide OFX they’ll charge people a monthly fee for it and then archive any data older than about three months off in their system to where it’s inaccessible to the user. So that’s the sort of thing that we want to change, I mean everyone should have access to their own banking data indefinitely and nobody should be charging for API access to it, that’s ludicrous.

亚历克斯：是的。好吧，在美国的一些银行中，虽然会提供OFX，但会向人们收取月租费，然后将系统中超过三个月的数据存档到用户无法访问的地方。这就是我们要更改的事情，我的意思是每个人都应该无限期地访问自己的银行数据，并且没有人应该为对其进行API访问收取任何费用，这太可笑了。

Kevin: Hmm. So would you say BankSimple is going to be a bank for geeks initially or are you trying to cater to the market as a whole?

凯文：嗯。因此，您是说BankSimple最初将成为极客的银行，还是您打算迎合整个市场？

Alex: We’re looking at the market as a whole and I think our focus is definitely not on geeks initially, although it’s been mostly geeky friends of ours who’ve been interested in the business and have signed up so far, we’ve gotten some good press coverage in more of the mainstream business press and the banking industry press but not so much the mainstream just yet. I think we’re really interested in people who are anywhere from their early 20s to their early 40s, generally a little bit more educated and professional as kind of the initial folks that we try this out with, people who feel like their financial lives are just a little bit too complicated and they’re wondering why banking can’t be more like just an app that you install and you put your money into it and it works on your behalf, that’s sort of the idea.

亚历克斯：我们正在看整个市场，我认为我们最初的重点绝对不是极客，尽管对我们的业务感兴趣的大多数是我们的极客朋友，到目前为止已经签约，我们已经在更多的主流商业媒体和银行业媒体中获得了不错的报道，但到目前为止还没有那么多。我认为我们对20岁到40岁左右的人们真的很感兴趣，这些人通常像我们最初尝试的那样，受过更高的教育和专业，像那些尝试过财务生活的人只是有点太复杂了，他们想知道为什么银行不能像只是您安装的应用程序，而您将钱投入其中并代表您工作的应用程序，就是这种想法。

Patrick: And, you know, Kevin kind of asked something and I was kind of thinking because I looked at the service and it looks really neat so congratulations on that, and I thought this is a service that I, myself, could be interested in. But then I saw the requirement of Smart Phones, and so that made me think that okay is this a service that is more or less aimed at techies, which Kevin asked; I mean if you think about it in this light it’s okay we’ll charge less fees but you have to carry that data plan. So for some people, right, it might not actually save them money because I don’t use a Smart Phone myself, I have a lower technology phone, we’ll say that I pay $10.00 a month for, and save more money then I actually put in the bank, right, I get more money in the bank that way, right, so that’s a good thing, but I can’t use your service. So, I guess I’m curious on two points, first, from a development perspective why was that requirement important, and then second, moving forward how do you see that changing if at all?

帕特里克(Patrick)：而且，凯文(Kevin)提出了一些问题，我的想法是因为我看着服务，它看起来非常整洁，因此对此表示祝贺，我认为这是我本人可能会感兴趣的一项服务但是后来我看到了智能手机的需求，这让我觉得好吧，这项服务或多或少是针对技术人员的，凯文问。我的意思是，如果您以此角度考虑，没关系，我们将收取较少的费用，但您必须执行该数据计划。 So for some people, right, it might not actually save them money because I don't use a Smart Phone myself, I have a lower technology phone, we'll say that I pay $10.00 a month for, and save more money then I actually put in the bank, right, I get more money in the bank that way, right, so that's a good thing, but I can't use your service. So, I guess I'm curious on two points, first, from a development perspective why was that requirement important, and then second, moving forward how do you see that changing if at all?

Alex: Well, sure. So, that’s sort of something we’re planning on doing for the first year or so that we’re in operation, we’re gonna be completely closed, invite only for a good long while, while we gather people’s feedback about the service and kind of change it accordingly. So the Smart Phone requirement hopefully gets us a class of user that’s gonna be more likely to give us feedback and hopefully to get instant notification so that if we’re having issues with the system or we want to alert them early about fraud and that sort of thing, all of those factors that kind of make them lower risk customers and make us a less risky proposition for them, that’s why we want to mandate Smart Phone usage at the beginning. I could see that kind of tapering off over time, although I think by the time we’re ready to open up Bank Simple to more people the average person will probably be carrying a Smart Phone, I mean in the next couple of years Android phones will be so cheap and subsidized in the U.S. that it’ll be difficult not to buy a Smart Phone, so I’m not too worried about that one.

Alex: Well, sure. So, that's sort of something we're planning on doing for the first year or so that we're in operation, we're gonna be completely closed, invite only for a good long while, while we gather people's feedback about the service and kind of change it accordingly. So the Smart Phone requirement hopefully gets us a class of user that's gonna be more likely to give us feedback and hopefully to get instant notification so that if we're having issues with the system or we want to alert them early about fraud and that sort of thing, all of those factors that kind of make them lower risk customers and make us a less risky proposition for them, that's why we want to mandate Smart Phone usage at the beginning. I could see that kind of tapering off over time, although I think by the time we're ready to open up Bank Simple to more people the average person will probably be carrying a Smart Phone, I mean in the next couple of years Android phones will be so cheap and subsidized in the US that it'll be difficult not to buy a Smart Phone, so I'm not too worried about that one.

Kevin: It feels a bit like the days when Apple first launched its iMac with no floppy disk drive and people were up in arms, but they were quite open about the fact that they were building a product that was going to be relevant for 10 years, not for the past three years, you know.

Alex: Exactly. We’re definitely playing the long game with this business, I think all of us imagine that this is what we’re gonna be doing for a good long while, and if it takes a couple of years for more people to get Smart Phones in their pocket we’ve got a couple of years to build a lot of exciting stuff.

Alex: Exactly. We're definitely playing the long game with this business, I think all of us imagine that this is what we're gonna be doing for a good long while, and if it takes a couple of years for more people to get Smart Phones in their pocket we've got a couple of years to build a lot of exciting stuff.

Kevin: You mentioned anti-fraud being sort of one of the drivers of technology in the BankSimple platform, and I have to say if there’s one place where my Australian bank does invest in technology it’s for anti-fraud, things that reduce the risk of fraudulent transactions and effectively save the bank money; I can get SMS alerts confirming ATM transactions and things like that on my phone, that’s stuff that my bank is investing in. How are you going to keep BankSimple’s priorities from veering off in the direction of being in the bank’s interest not the customer’s interest?

Kevin: You mentioned anti-fraud being sort of one of the drivers of technology in the BankSimple platform, and I have to say if there's one place where my Australian bank does invest in technology it's for anti-fraud, things that reduce the risk of fraudulent transactions and effectively save the bank money; I can get SMS alerts confirming ATM transactions and things like that on my phone, that's stuff that my bank is investing in. How are you going to keep BankSimple's priorities from veering off in the direction of being in the bank's interest not the customer's interest?

Alex: Well, the thing that makes us really different is that we’re not a bank ourselves, there’s kind of a different structure that we operate under still very much within the realm of banking regulation, it’s not a new model at all. But we’re not a chartered bank, we don’t manage our own treasury, that kind of thing, we actually partner with multiple backend banks who hold deposits. So we’re in the business of developing technology and getting customers and keeping those customers happy, our partner banks are in the business of managing money, loaning that money out, that kind of thing. So our priorities are very distinct from those of our partners but ideally they’re mutually beneficial.

Alex: Well, the thing that makes us really different is that we're not a bank ourselves, there's kind of a different structure that we operate under still very much within the realm of banking regulation, it's not a new model at all. But we're not a chartered bank, we don't manage our own treasury, that kind of thing, we actually partner with multiple backend banks who hold deposits. So we're in the business of developing technology and getting customers and keeping those customers happy, our partner banks are in the business of managing money, loaning that money out, that kind of thing. So our priorities are very distinct from those of our partners but ideally they're mutually beneficial.

Kevin: Great.

Stephan: Would you say then that you’re kind of the competitor to Mint in some way?

Stephan: Would you say then that you're kind of the competitor to Mint in some way?

Alex: Not really, actually we’ve already exchanged emails with folks at Mint about making sure that we open up our data to them as soon as we launch. I think tools like Mint are great for people who want to get the 10,000 foot view of their finances, the thing that we found frustrating about Mint is that it lets you view a lot of interesting information about your money but it doesn’t really let you take any action on it because they can read from your bank but they don’t have read/write privileges to your bank. So the thing that we’re doing a little bit differently is that we actively manage our customers’ money, and the things that Mint will send you an email about once every few weeks we actually just kind of do for you by default so that you’re not having to worry about that.

Alex: Not really, actually we've already exchanged emails with folks at Mint about making sure that we open up our data to them as soon as we launch. I think tools like Mint are great for people who want to get the 10,000 foot view of their finances, the thing that we found frustrating about Mint is that it lets you view a lot of interesting information about your money but it doesn't really let you take any action on it because they can read from your bank but they don't have read/write privileges to your bank. So the thing that we're doing a little bit differently is that we actively manage our customers' money, and the things that Mint will send you an email about once every few weeks we actually just kind of do for you by default so that you're not having to worry about that.

Stephan: Oh, cool.

Kevin: I was hoping we could shift gears a little bit and talk about a story that we touched on at the start of this broadcast that has to do a bit with your previous employer Twitter. And this is the stuff that’s been going around about Hashbang URLs in the past week. Have you been following that?

Kevin: I was hoping we could shift gears a little bit and talk about a story that we touched on at the start of this broadcast that has to do a bit with your previous employer Twitter. And this is the stuff that's been going around about Hashbang URLs in the past week. Have you been following that?

Alex: I’ve looked at it a little bit. I’m definitely not a front-end technology expert by any stretch, my days of JavaScript are long over and I’ve been working on backend systems for the last few years, but people definitely seem to be in a tizzy about it.

Alex: I've looked at it a little bit. I'm definitely not a front-end technology expert by any stretch, my days of JavaScript are long over and I've been working on backend systems for the last few years, but people definitely seem to be in a tizzy about it.

Kevin: Yeah, so the HashBang URL story has been going a bit nuts; in my imagination when I was reading these stories I was like, wow, so Twitter decided to put Hashbang URLs in, Alex Payne went “I can’t deal with this, I’m outta here, starting my own company!” (Laughter) You say you’re not a front-end guy, do you have a position on this stuff, do you think it’s a good idea or bad idea or is it just people trying stuff with the Web as they always have?

Kevin: Yeah, so the HashBang URL story has been going a bit nuts; in my imagination when I was reading these stories I was like, wow, so Twitter decided to put Hashbang URLs in, Alex Payne went “I can't deal with this, I'm outta here, starting my own company!” (Laughter) You say you're not a front-end guy, do you have a position on this stuff, do you think it's a good idea or bad idea or is it just people trying stuff with the Web as they always have?

Alex: Well, people are trying stuff, that’s fine, I mean I certainly got into arguments about URLs and URL schema design when I was working on Twitter’s API, and I just like a really clean, simple interpretation of kind of the RESTful bible, you know, just what are your resources, what are the sub-resources, what are the actions that you can perform on them. And this seems like it defeats that a little bit by having this meaningless thing, I mean if you look at scripts that have been written to parse Twitter URLs, when Twitter moved over to this convention all of those broke. Like for example the Campfire Group Chat utility that we have been using at work we would frequently paste Tweets in and then a little bit of client side code would say, alright, that’s a Tweet, I’m gonna go out and put together a nice CSS representation of that, and that broke when Twitter moved over to those URLs and people started copying and pasting links out of their browser. That sort of thing is probably an indication that you might want to go back to the drawing board, but I think Twitter has hired an amazing front-end team, they’re all absolute JavaScript experts and browser performance experts, I’m sure that they looked at what was available and decided that they couldn’t accomplish their client side goals any other way right now, but hopefully the HTML5 spec will shift a little bit to accommodate whatever it is that seems to require this from frontend developers.

Alex: Well, people are trying stuff, that's fine, I mean I certainly got into arguments about URLs and URL schema design when I was working on Twitter's API, and I just like a really clean, simple interpretation of kind of the RESTful bible, you know, just what are your resources, what are the sub-resources, what are the actions that you can perform on them. And this seems like it defeats that a little bit by having this meaningless thing, I mean if you look at scripts that have been written to parse Twitter URLs, when Twitter moved over to this convention all of those broke. Like for example the Campfire Group Chat utility that we have been using at work we would frequently paste Tweets in and then a little bit of client side code would say, alright, that's a Tweet, I'm gonna go out and put together a nice CSS representation of that, and that broke when Twitter moved over to those URLs and people started copying and pasting links out of their browser. That sort of thing is probably an indication that you might want to go back to the drawing board, but I think Twitter has hired an amazing front-end team, they're all absolute JavaScript experts and browser performance experts, I'm sure that they looked at what was available and decided that they couldn't accomplish their client side goals any other way right now, but hopefully the HTML5 spec will shift a little bit to accommodate whatever it is that seems to require this from frontend developers.

Kevin: Yeah. Alright, well, it is coming up on quarter to 12:00 so we’ve got a whole lot more guests to get to, Alex; I wish we had more time.

凯文：是的。 Alright, well, it is coming up on quarter to 12:00 so we've got a whole lot more guests to get to, Alex; I wish we had more time.

Alex: Well, no worries at all, I hope the rest of the show goes great and thanks for having me back on.

Kevin: Thank you very much, look forward to having you on for, oh, say #250?

Alex: Sounds good. (laughter)

Alex: Sounds good. (笑声)

Kevin: We’d love to get you on when you’re ready to show off BankSimple to just anyone who wants in.

Kevin: We'd love to get you on when you're ready to show off BankSimple to just anyone who wants in.

Alex: Oh, yeah, that would be great, love to do it. Take care.

Alex: Oh, yeah, that would be great, love to do it. 照顾自己。

Kevin: Alright, bye, bye.

So the thing about HashBang URL’s that really burned me, like I was kind of thinking alright, maybe it’s not the best choice but I got to congratulate them for trying stuff, but then I read and experimented and verified that one big thing that it breaks, and to me this isn’t getting enough airplay, is referrers. You know when you look at your Google Analytics stats and they tell you where people are arriving at your site from, that’s the HTTP Referer header that is providing that information, and it is completely missing form sites that are using these Hashbang URLs; if someone mentions your site on Twitter and people click through from the Twitter website all your stats will say is that they arrived from the homepage of Twitter, they don’t tell you which particular Tweet.

So the thing about HashBang URL's that really burned me, like I was kind of thinking alright, maybe it's not the best choice but I got to congratulate them for trying stuff, but then I read and experimented and verified that one big thing that it breaks, and to me this isn't getting enough airplay, is referrers. You know when you look at your Google Analytics stats and they tell you where people are arriving at your site from, that's the HTTP Referer header that is providing that information, and it is completely missing form sites that are using these Hashbang URLs; if someone mentions your site on Twitter and people click through from the Twitter website all your stats will say is that they arrived from the homepage of Twitter, they don't tell you which particular Tweet.

Stephan: I noticed that because I was looking at Google Analytics stats and I noticed that, it’s useless to me, you know, was it a specific Tweet or what did I do?

Stephan: I noticed that because I was looking at Google Analytics stats and I noticed that, it's useless to me, you know, was it a specific Tweet or what did I do?

Kevin: Yeah. Alright, well, our next guest is Jina Bolton, let me get Jina on.

凯文：是的。 Alright, well, our next guest is Jina Bolton, let me get Jina on.

Jina: Hi.

Kevin: Hello Jina!

Jina: How are you guys?

Kevin: Very good, thank you. Good to hear from you. Alright, just Tweeting that you’re on with us here.

Kevin: Very good, thank you. 很高兴听到你的消息。 Alright, just Tweeting that you're on with us here.

Brad: Can I just say that I love your website URL sushiandrobots.com.

Brad: Can I just say that I love your website URL sushiandrobots.com .

Jina: Thanks (laughs).

Brad: That’s a great domain name.

Brad: That's a great domain name.

Jina: Thank you.

Kevin: Alright, well, Jina last time we had you on it was kind of a double feature, we had you and Elliot Jay Stalks on to talk about design, and I’d say if there’s one part of the web development universe that we don’t talk enough about on this podcast it is design, so it’s great to have you back on.

Kevin: Alright, well, Jina last time we had you on it was kind of a double feature, we had you and Elliot Jay Stalks on to talk about design, and I'd say if there's one part of the web development universe that we don't talk enough about on this podcast it is design, so it's great to have you back on.

Jina: Yeah, definitely. I think we were talking about the 40-something shades of blue or something.

Kevin: Yeah, we were talking about Google’s 43 shades of blue.

Kevin: Yeah, we were talking about Google's 43 shades of blue.

Jina: Yeah.

Kevin: Has Google improved its design much since we last chatted?

Jina: You know, I don’t really use a whole lot of Google products, but Gmail’s definitely gotten a lot better.

Jina: You know, I don't really use a whole lot of Google products, but Gmail's definitely gotten a lot better.

Kevin: Yeah. I know the skins for example are a big change, it seems like everyone I know has a different Google— Gmail skin these days. My girlfriend Jess likes the little ninja one.

凯文：是的。 I know the skins for example are a big change, it seems like everyone I know has a different Google— Gmail skin these days. My girlfriend Jess likes the little ninja one.

Jina: (Laughs)

Kevin: So, Jina, you’re a hard person to keep track of. It seems like every time I look in your direction you’re doing something different, you were at Crush + Lovely the last time we spoke having moved there from Apple, and now you’re where?

Kevin: So, Jina, you're a hard person to keep track of. It seems like every time I look in your direction you're doing something different, you were at Crush + Lovely the last time we spoke having moved there from Apple, and now you're where?

Jina: I’m at Engine Yard.

Jina: I'm at Engine Yard .

Kevin: What is Engine Yard?

Jina: So, Engine Yard is basically a, they call it platform as a service, it’s kind of like a hosting company but it’s still in The Cloud, and it’s focused on Ruby so if you have a Ruby application you would put it on Engine Yard.

Jina: So, Engine Yard is basically a, they call it platform as a service, it's kind of like a hosting company but it's still in The Cloud, and it's focused on Ruby so if you have a Ruby application you would put it on Engine Yard.

Kevin: So Heroku being the big player in that space, but they got gobbled up, so are you the heir apparent?

Jina: Well, you know, we’re targeting different markets I think. I think Engine Yard’s kind of going after the bigger companies; Heroku kind of has like small companies that use them a lot.

Jina: Well, you know, we're targeting different markets I think. I think Engine Yard's kind of going after the bigger companies; Heroku kind of has like small companies that use them a lot.

Kevin: Alright. So as the UX designer at a hosting company what exactly do you do? I don’t think of my web host as providing a lot of design to me.

Kevin: Alright. So as the UX designer at a hosting company what exactly do you do? I don't think of my web host as providing a lot of design to me.

Jina: (Laughs) Yeah, I work on the product itself so it’s basically like if you were to login and manage your applications through the dashboard that’s basically what I work on, I’m a team of — it’s basically a team of two, there’s another really talented guy I work with named Andrew and we work iteratively to make sure the product is more and more awesome everyday.

Jina: (Laughs) Yeah, I work on the product itself so it's basically like if you were to login and manage your applications through the dashboard that's basically what I work on, I'm a team of — it's basically a team of two, there's another really talented guy I work with named Andrew and we work iteratively to make sure the product is more and more awesome everyday.

Kevin: So I guess it’s the interfaces that people are using to fire up their sites on Engine Yard, that’s what you’re trying to make as smooth and easy to use an experience as possible?

Kevin: So I guess it's the interfaces that people are using to fire up their sites on Engine Yard, that's what you're trying to make as smooth and easy to use an experience as possible?

Jina: Yeah, basically.

Kevin: So what drew you to that?

Jina: Well, I’ve worked on projects that were on Rails before so I was looking around for jobs in San Francisco because as much as I really loved Crush + Lovely they are in New York and I live in San Francisco, and I came across them on, well, I had seen them before but GitHub had just launched a jobs page, so I was checking out some of the jobs listings and it just all kind of was good timing, they were hiring about the same time I was looking and I really liked the culture there and the people that I work with so it worked out really well.

Jina: Well, I've worked on projects that were on Rails before so I was looking around for jobs in San Francisco because as much as I really loved Crush + Lovely they are in New York and I live in San Francisco, and I came across them on, well, I had seen them before but GitHub had just launched a jobs page , so I was checking out some of the jobs listings and it just all kind of was good timing, they were hiring about the same time I was looking and I really liked the culture there and the people that I work with so it worked out really well.

Kevin: That’s wonderful. So it must be a big shift from working on a lot of different projects as you did at Crush + Lovely to really focusing on polishing the same app as much as possible over a long period of time. Is that a fair characterization of what you’re doing?

Kevin: That's wonderful. So it must be a big shift from working on a lot of different projects as you did at Crush + Lovely to really focusing on polishing the same app as much as possible over a long period of time. Is that a fair characterization of what you're doing?

Jina: Pretty much, yeah, I’ve kind of bounced back and forth between the agency environment where I’m working on multiple client projects to working in-house like I did when I was at Apple. And I guess I see benefits to both sides, there is a lot of nice variety you get when you’re working on client projects, but then you’re dealing with clients so (laughs) I do like being able to iterate and constantly improve a product, so right now that’s definitely what I’m more interested in.

Jina: Pretty much, yeah, I've kind of bounced back and forth between the agency environment where I'm working on multiple client projects to working in-house like I did when I was at Apple. And I guess I see benefits to both sides, there is a lot of nice variety you get when you're working on client projects, but then you're dealing with clients so (laughs) I do like being able to iterate and constantly improve a product, so right now that's definitely what I'm more interested in.

Kevin: Alright. Now you’ve gone back to school at the same time as all this.

Kevin: Alright. Now you've gone back to school at the same time as all this.

Jina: Yeah, I’m pretty busy. (laughter)

Jina: Yeah, I'm pretty busy. (笑声)

Kevin: Yeah, it’s weird, I don’t have a lot of people in my Tweet stream who are Tweeting about the day-to-day work of web development and also Tweeting about the stuff they’re studying for at school, so why that mix, obviously you’re an accomplished web designer, you’ve got a bright career ahead of you already, how does school fit in the mix?

Kevin: Yeah, it's weird, I don't have a lot of people in my Tweet stream who are Tweeting about the day-to-day work of web development and also Tweeting about the stuff they're studying for at school, so why that mix, obviously you're an accomplished web designer, you've got a bright career ahead of you already, how does school fit in the mix?

Jina: Well, basically the number one reason I went back to school was because I want to teach, and a lot of American Universities, I’m not sure how it is outside of the U.S., but a lot of them require Masters Degrees so I had a Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design and Web Design, but I wanted to go ahead and get the Master’s Degree now before I end up settling down into something where I can’t, like maybe a job elsewhere or marriage or any of those factors. So, yeah, I decided to do a Master’s program and I do night classes because I work full time during the day, so yeah, I’m pretty busy most of the time.

Jina: Well, basically the number one reason I went back to school was because I want to teach, and a lot of American Universities, I'm not sure how it is outside of the US, but a lot of them require Masters Degrees so I had a Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design and Web Design, but I wanted to go ahead and get the Master's Degree now before I end up settling down into something where I can't, like maybe a job elsewhere or marriage or any of those factors. So, yeah, I decided to do a Master's program and I do night classes because I work full time during the day, so yeah, I'm pretty busy most of the time.

Stephan: You’ve got a full plate, geez.

Stephan: You've got a full plate, geez.

Jina: Yeah (laughter).

Patrick: Simuk in the chat says that he or she just realized that your book The Art & Science of CSS was the first SitePoint print book that he or she bought and that’s how they find out about SitePoint, so that’s pretty cool. Thanks for that.

Patrick: Simuk in the chat says that he or she just realized that your book The Art & Science of CSS was the first SitePoint print book that he or she bought and that's how they find out about SitePoint, so that's pretty cool. 感谢那。

So thanks for that. I just went a totally different direction, but what do you think of the HTML5 logo?

Jina: You know, I don’t mind the logo that much; I don’t know that I would ever use it on anything but—

Jina: You know, I don't mind the logo that much; I don't know that I would ever use it on anything but—

Patrick: I don’t mind it but I would not be caught dead in it is basically what that amounts to, right?

Patrick: I don't mind it but I would not be caught dead in it is basically what that amounts to, right?

Jina: (Laughs) Um, no, I actually think it’s kind of— It looks cool I just— I was surprised that they did it, I didn’t know a markup language needed a logo, but I think it looks alright, like it’s great on a t-shirt.

Jina: (Laughs) Um, no, I actually think it's kind of— It looks cool I just— I was surprised that they did it, I didn't know a markup language needed a logo, but I think it looks alright, like it's great on a t-shirt.

Patrick: It’s cute and adorable but just in a way kind of stand over there away from me sort of way. (laughter)

Patrick: It's cute and adorable but just in a way kind of stand over there away from me sort of way. (笑声)

Kevin: So it’s an elitist logo is what you’re saying.

Kevin: So it's an elitist logo is what you're saying.

Jina: Uh, you’re putting words in my mouth now. (laughter)

Jina: Uh, you're putting words in my mouth now. (笑声)

Kevin: I’m putting words in Patrick’s mouth technically. So, Jina, something I’ve always wanted to ask you but have never really had the courage, you used to work at Apple and I think there’s this mystique about Apple, it’s a secretive place, I’ve always wanted to ask you and I figure now live on the air is the best possible time, what is it like to work at Apple?

Kevin: I'm putting words in Patrick's mouth technically. So, Jina, something I've always wanted to ask you but have never really had the courage, you used to work at Apple and I think there's this mystique about Apple, it's a secretive place, I've always wanted to ask you and I figure now live on the air is the best possible time, what is it like to work at Apple?

Patrick: We can’t edit this, now, we can’t edit this. So be careful … and go!

Patrick: We can't edit this, now, we can't edit this. So be careful … and go!

Jina: I think it’s awesome and I do hope to one day go back.

Jina: I think it's awesome and I do hope to one day go back.

Kevin: Okay. Because I assumed if you left it was because it was no fun to work there.

凯文：好的。 Because I assumed if you left it was because it was no fun to work there.

Jina: No, if you’re interested in speaking at conferences and writing books it’s not really the place for you unless you’re super, super high up the chain and you go through a bunch of PR hoops, but if you’re into that maybe it’s not the best place to work, but otherwise it’s fantastic.

Jina: No, if you're interested in speaking at conferences and writing books it's not really the place for you unless you're super, super high up the chain and you go through a bunch of PR hoops, but if you're into that maybe it's not the best place to work, but otherwise it's fantastic.

Kevin: So you have to spend your time making awesome things and you’re not allowed talking about the awesome things you make, is that a good summary?

Kevin: So you have to spend your time making awesome things and you're not allowed talking about the awesome things you make, is that a good summary?

Jina: Like I think we talked about before, there is this mystique to Apple and they like to keep it that way, so they’re very protective of their brand and they’re very successful because they’re protective of their brand, and some people are okay with that. I want to talk about what I do, so, yeah.

Jina: Like I think we talked about before, there is this mystique to Apple and they like to keep it that way, so they're very protective of their brand and they're very successful because they're protective of their brand, and some people are okay with that. I want to talk about what I do, so, yeah.

Patrick: You can get a start there; you can go out, leave, make a name for yourself then come back later and be a higher up. That’s how it works.

Patrick: You can get a start there; you can go out, leave, make a name for yourself then come back later and be a higher up. That's how it works.

Jina: Yeah, maybe, we’ll see if that ever happens but I do hope to one day go back when I’m kind of done doing the speaking thing.

Jina: Yeah, maybe, we'll see if that ever happens but I do hope to one day go back when I'm kind of done doing the speaking thing.

Kevin: Great. Speaking about the speaking thing, the stuff you’ve been going around to conferences speaking about lately has been very much in the CSS arena.

Kevin: Great. Speaking about the speaking thing, the stuff you've been going around to conferences speaking about lately has been very much in the CSS arena.

Jina: Yeah, you know I have to be honest I was getting a little burned out talking about CSS because obviously I prefer design and my passion is in design, however, the last few talks I did were a little more in line with what I like to talk about and that’s workflow with CSS because I think there are a lot of people already out there talking about CSS3 and different techniques and things, and I don’t know how much more I have to contribute to that aspect of things, but when it comes to actual workflow and productivity I think that that’s something that needs to be talked about more.

Jina: Yeah, you know I have to be honest I was getting a little burned out talking about CSS because obviously I prefer design and my passion is in design, however, the last few talks I did were a little more in line with what I like to talk about and that's workflow with CSS because I think there are a lot of people already out there talking about CSS3 and different techniques and things, and I don't know how much more I have to contribute to that aspect of things, but when it comes to actual workflow and productivity I think that that's something that needs to be talked about more.

Kevin: Right. So I would say I like to describe a person’s journey with CSS in terms of stages, you know, there’s this stage where you understand the syntax but you’ve got more features then you can keep track of and you can’t figure out how to use them together to do anything useful. Then you start to understand how features like floats can be used to produce page layouts and you get your head around that and you start to wield CSS in anger, and then you get to this stage where every site you work on becomes 5,000 lines of CSS and you can’t remember which parts of it still are needed and belong on the site and you can’t find anything in all this code, and I suppose that’s where the workflow becomes important, right?

凯文：对。 So I would say I like to describe a person's journey with CSS in terms of stages, you know, there's this stage where you understand the syntax but you've got more features then you can keep track of and you can't figure out how to use them together to do anything useful. Then you start to understand how features like floats can be used to produce page layouts and you get your head around that and you start to wield CSS in anger, and then you get to this stage where every site you work on becomes 5,000 lines of CSS and you can't remember which parts of it still are needed and belong on the site and you can't find anything in all this code, and I suppose that's where the workflow becomes important, right?

Jina: Definitely. And having, well, going back and forth between large companies and small companies you definitely start to learn where to create your own patterns and things to help make things faster and more efficient. Like right now at Engine Yard we actually use SASS which is amazing, if you’re interested in variables and mixins and I used to want to, I don’t know, I was kind of reluctant to use SASS at first because I was very picky and wanted to write my own CSS the exact way I wanted to write it, but I’m really embracing variables and I was super excited to see that that’s something that’s being talked about again in the CSS 3 world.

Jina: Definitely. And having, well, going back and forth between large companies and small companies you definitely start to learn where to create your own patterns and things to help make things faster and more efficient. Like right now at Engine Yard we actually use SASS which is amazing, if you're interested in variables and mixins and I used to want to, I don't know, I was kind of reluctant to use SASS at first because I was very picky and wanted to write my own CSS the exact way I wanted to write it, but I'm really embracing variables and I was super excited to see that that's something that's being talked about again in the CSS 3 world.

Kevin: Yeah. So SASS is this sort of language on top of CSS that lets you — it gives you a whole bunch more powerful language features and then you point this compiler at it and it turns it into CSS the browser can understand, right?

凯文：是的。 So SASS is this sort of language on top of CSS that lets you — it gives you a whole bunch more powerful language features and then you point this compiler at it and it turns it into CSS the browser can understand, right?

Jina: Pretty much, yeah.

Kevin: So what’s your workflow with all that if you can take us through it like one minute or less?

Kevin: So what's your workflow with all that if you can take us through it like one minute or less?

Jina: Well, one of the things I worked on when I first came over to Engine Yard was sort of clean-up I guess, and there was a lot of repetition and things so I was trying to find areas in the UI where I can create patterns or variables that could be reused, and I actually just wrote a blog post at the Engine Yard blog about how you can actually use that to do an online style guide, it’s been super helpful because you can use the very variables that you’re using within your style guide and it will generate the visual design that you need for like color palettes, buttons, all those things. So, yeah, I kind of sweep through looking for things that are used over and over again and turn those into either variables that makes sense so I can use those whenever I need it and then I update the style guide so that the developers I work with can also use those same variables.

Jina: Well, one of the things I worked on when I first came over to Engine Yard was sort of clean-up I guess, and there was a lot of repetition and things so I was trying to find areas in the UI where I can create patterns or variables that could be reused, and I actually just wrote a blog post at the Engine Yard blog about how you can actually use that to do an online style guide, it's been super helpful because you can use the very variables that you're using within your style guide and it will generate the visual design that you need for like color palettes, buttons, all those things. So, yeah, I kind of sweep through looking for things that are used over and over again and turn those into either variables that makes sense so I can use those whenever I need it and then I update the style guide so that the developers I work with can also use those same variables.

Kevin: Do you find this sort of workflow is something that everyone on the team has to be doing for it to work? Because I know once or twice I’ve been working on a team of developers and I’ve broken ground on the UI and started this style guide, but to get the whole team into the discipline of updating the style guide with any new user interface elements it wasn’t practical for me; how do you tackle that?

Kevin: Do you find this sort of workflow is something that everyone on the team has to be doing for it to work? Because I know once or twice I've been working on a team of developers and I've broken ground on the UI and started this style guide, but to get the whole team into the discipline of updating the style guide with any new user interface elements it wasn't practical for me; how do you tackle that?

Jina: Well, you know, it’s definitely something the men and women that I work with have to get used to because they may have had their own way of doing things before Andrew and I came on board, but we’ve kind of taken the approach of bringing it up every time we can, and it’s like when they ask us questions like hey we need to do this it’s like, well, did you check the style guide, maybe it’s already there. (laughs) And I hate to use the world police but occasionally we kind of joke around about being like the design police, and just as they would make sure that we’re writing quality template code in the Ruby application we would do the same with them if they ever touch CSS, we would just bring it up and say hey please make sure you do this next time; you know you can only be called out so many times before you kind of start to remember the patterns and things.

Jina: Well, you know, it's definitely something the men and women that I work with have to get used to because they may have had their own way of doing things before Andrew and I came on board, but we've kind of taken the approach of bringing it up every time we can, and it's like when they ask us questions like hey we need to do this it's like, well, did you check the style guide, maybe it's already there. (laughs) And I hate to use the world police but occasionally we kind of joke around about being like the design police, and just as they would make sure that we're writing quality template code in the Ruby application we would do the same with them if they ever touch CSS, we would just bring it up and say hey please make sure you do this next time; you know you can only be called out so many times before you kind of start to remember the patterns and things.

Kevin: So it helps if your job description makes you the one in charge of this stuff.

Jina: Yeah, and it’s kind of — I kind of like that that’s sort of become the case where anytime there’s markup or CSS now that needs to be written if the developers are writing it we have to kind of look at it first. And some people may not like that responsibility but I think it’s good because I can be a control freak especially for CSS, so as long as I get to look at it before you deploy it I’m happy. (laughs)

Jina: Yeah, and it's kind of — I kind of like that that's sort of become the case where anytime there's markup or CSS now that needs to be written if the developers are writing it we have to kind of look at it first. And some people may not like that responsibility but I think it's good because I can be a control freak especially for CSS, so as long as I get to look at it before you deploy it I'm happy. (笑)

Brad: I have a quick question regarding the design trend that I’ve been noticing a lot lately, in fact, a lot of our host spotlights recently have been sites that have done this technique and I was just curious to get your thoughts on it. And I’m not sure of the official term on it but it’s basically where the website is one page and when you click on a menu item it scrolls down further on the page to that section that talks about whatever it was you clicked on. I’ve been seeing this a lot lately, in fact, Alex Payne’s new company BankSimple their homepage does the exact same thing so I’m curious to get your thoughts on, one, do you like that, have you noticed that as well, is that something you were starting to use or how do you think that looks, works?

Brad: I have a quick question regarding the design trend that I've been noticing a lot lately, in fact, a lot of our host spotlights recently have been sites that have done this technique and I was just curious to get your thoughts on it. And I'm not sure of the official term on it but it's basically where the website is one page and when you click on a menu item it scrolls down further on the page to that section that talks about whatever it was you clicked on. I've been seeing this a lot lately, in fact, Alex Payne's new company BankSimple their homepage does the exact same thing so I'm curious to get your thoughts on, one, do you like that, have you noticed that as well, is that something you were starting to use or how do you think that looks, works?

Jina: The Crush + Lovely website is like that with an exception to the blog and the portfolio which kind of click off into their own domains, but the rest of the site is a one-page scrolling site. And I think for certain aspects it can be really cool like announcement websites or small promotional websites, but as long as it’s developed in a smart way because what we found when we were working out the prototype for Crush + Lovely’s website it can be slow to load especially when you have a ton of content, and so there’s a couple different techniques I guess you could try like, what do they call it, infinite scrolling techniques or things like that. Yeah, I like them for the most part, I guess I found a couple times where I didn’t see any benefit to it and it just made the site load really slow, but for the most part depending on as long as the content is minimal I’m pretty fine with it.

Jina: The Crush + Lovely website is like that with an exception to the blog and the portfolio which kind of click off into their own domains, but the rest of the site is a one-page scrolling site. And I think for certain aspects it can be really cool like announcement websites or small promotional websites, but as long as it's developed in a smart way because what we found when we were working out the prototype for Crush + Lovely's website it can be slow to load especially when you have a ton of content, and so there's a couple different techniques I guess you could try like, what do they call it, infinite scrolling techniques or things like that. Yeah, I like them for the most part, I guess I found a couple times where I didn't see any benefit to it and it just made the site load really slow, but for the most part depending on as long as the content is minimal I'm pretty fine with it.

Brad: If done properly then it could be a nice technique.

Jina: Yeah, yeah.

Kevin: Alright, well thanks for joining us for #100, Jina.

Jina: Thanks for having me back.

Brad: Thanks Jina.

Kevin: Talk to you again soon.

Jina: Alright, bye.

Kevin: Bye, bye. Alright, always nice to get a designer’s voice on the Podcast.

Kevin: Bye, bye. Alright, always nice to get a designer's voice on the Podcast.

Brad: We need more designers.

Kevin: Yeah, the world needs more designers.

Patrick: And a woman’s voice also, we need some diversity in this thing.

Patrick: And a woman's voice also, we need some diversity in this thing.

Kevin: Good point, good point. Alright, I’ll just get our next guest on here. You probably know him from Typekit but he’s been on the Web for a long time, our next guest is Jeffrey Veen.

Kevin: Good point, good point. Alright, I'll just get our next guest on here. You probably know him from Typekit but he's been on the Web for a long time, our next guest is Jeffrey Veen.

Jeff: Hello, hello.

Kevin: Hi Jeff!

Jeff: How’s it going?

Jeff: How's it going?

Kevin: Great! Welcome to the SitePoint Podcast.

Jeff: Thanks. Happy birthday, anniversary, how are you guys marking this event?

Kevin: (Laughs) We’re spending two hours chatting to people like you, it’s exhausting!

Kevin: (Laughs) We're spending two hours chatting to people like you, it's exhausting!

Jeff: I can only imagine. That’s awesome and you’re doing this all live which I think is pretty impressive.

Jeff: I can only imagine. That's awesome and you're doing this all live which I think is pretty impressive.

Kevin: Yeah, we sure are.

Jeff: Fantastic.

Kevin: Well, welcome to the show, I think last time we spoke to you it was in the early days of Typekit, I’m not even sure you’d launched yet.

Kevin: Well, welcome to the show, I think last time we spoke to you it was in the early days of Typekit, I'm not even sure you'd launched yet.

Jeff: No, I don’t think so, it seems like forever ago. Well, we’ve launched. (laughter)

Jeff: No, I don't think so, it seems like forever ago. Well, we've launched. (笑声)

Kevin: I’ll say. You guys have made a big splash and Typekit I’d say is looking pretty mature at the moment, meaning that in all the best ways.

Kevin: I'll say. You guys have made a big splash and Typekit I'd say is looking pretty mature at the moment, meaning that in all the best ways.

Jeff: Yeah, well thank you, I think so. We have been working on it as a project for about two years now, and I guess we launched, well, let’s see, we launched three days before my son was born so that’d be 18 months ago, and that was in fact a busy week for me. But, yeah, I mean in this time sure Typekit has certainly grown a lot, but I think also any speculation that fonts and typography were gonna come to the Web in a big way and be supported by all the browsers and be embraced by designers, I think that point has been made, like in the last year and a half just everywhere fonts, you see fonts, and that makes me really, really happy.

Jeff: Yeah, well thank you, I think so. We have been working on it as a project for about two years now, and I guess we launched, well, let's see, we launched three days before my son was born so that'd be 18 months ago, and that was in fact a busy week for me. But, yeah, I mean in this time sure Typekit has certainly grown a lot, but I think also any speculation that fonts and typography were gonna come to the Web in a big way and be supported by all the browsers and be embraced by designers, I think that point has been made, like in the last year and a half just everywhere fonts, you see fonts, and that makes me really, really happy.

Kevin: There’s no question. So, what I’m thinking, what I wanted to ask you about first is when we first talked about Typekit you started a new company to launch Typekit and it was called Small Batch, is that right? So it seems to me the idea there is Small Batch would be going on to do more things like Typekit. Sitting where you are now roughly a year into Typekit’s life, and Typekit has exploded and is hugely successful, you, Jeffrey Veen, are you on to the next thing at this point or has Typekit become this swirling vortex that has sucked all of your time and there’s no getting out of it?

Kevin: There's no question. So, what I'm thinking, what I wanted to ask you about first is when we first talked about Typekit you started a new company to launch Typekit and it was called Small Batch, is that right? So it seems to me the idea there is Small Batch would be going on to do more things like Typekit. Sitting where you are now roughly a year into Typekit's life, and Typekit has exploded and is hugely successful, you, Jeffrey Veen, are you on to the next thing at this point or has Typekit become this swirling vortex that has sucked all of your time and there's no getting out of it?

Jeff: (Laughs) Oh my God, no, we’re not doing anything else. In fact, now the company is called Typekit Incorporated, we’ve totally changed over to that and focused to Typekit 100%, in fact, we have 15 people, or 16 actually now, working full time on Typekit so, yeah, it is all of our attention. I wouldn’t so much call it a vortex that sucks my time so much as a thing that I could not be happier devoting all of my energy into, right, like it just— and honestly it is so rewarding because we have not only a fantastic kind of set of customers but a community has been forming sort of around our blog and around our Tweeting and all that kind of stuff, and around the gallery and the sites that we showcase; it barely feels like work. I mean it’s a tremendous amount of work but it’s just incredibly fun, we’re having a blast.

Jeff: (Laughs) Oh my God, no, we're not doing anything else. In fact, now the company is called Typekit Incorporated, we've totally changed over to that and focused to Typekit 100%, in fact, we have 15 people, or 16 actually now, working full time on Typekit so, yeah, it is all of our attention. I wouldn't so much call it a vortex that sucks my time so much as a thing that I could not be happier devoting all of my energy into, right, like it just— and honestly it is so rewarding because we have not only a fantastic kind of set of customers but a community has been forming sort of around our blog and around our Tweeting and all that kind of stuff, and around the gallery and the sites that we showcase; it barely feels like work. I mean it's a tremendous amount of work but it's just incredibly fun, we're having a blast.

Patrick: Sounds like a child, right, a child doesn’t suck up your time it’s just a delight.

Patrick: Sounds like a child, right, a child doesn't suck up your time it's just a delight.

Jeff: That’s right. Actually both of those things are totally true, you have no time for anything else and it’s absolutely delightful so, yeah, it’s great.

Jeff: That's right. Actually both of those things are totally true, you have no time for anything else and it's absolutely delightful so, yeah, it's great.

Patrick: So, we had a couple of questions in the chat room here on the live show, and one of them comes from Mohammed and he asks, I guess referencing Google Web Fonts and the launch of that, how did that affect Typekit in any way and how do you see it as competition?

Jeff: We actually coordinated the launch of Google, the Google font API, along with our own Open Source project that we collaborated with those guys on, it was called the Web Font Loader, it’s an Open Source way that allows anybody to use kind of any service or even hosting their own fonts on their own server but with a sort of consistent name space and a consistent set of methods and JavaScript events and font events and things like that. And so we work with them really closely, like we talk to them all the time, not just about the Web Font Loader but also all of the fonts that are in the Google font API are also available on Typekit. And it has been actually a really great collaboration for us. As you guys probably know, the core team that’s building Typekit was at Google two years ago, right, we were part of an acquisition, we did the redesign of Google Analytics, we did a bunch of things over at Google, and then we left Google to start our own thing and that’s been Typekit. So we have a ton of friends and colleagues over at Google and we work with them all the time. So what makes me really, really happy about what Google is doing is that they’re investing in Open Source fonts, and Open Source fonts I think just make so much sense because you can have an individual designer that solves a particular problem for a particular character set and then open it up to anybody to help contribute additional glyphs or to help with currenting or to help with hinting, and people can sort or collaborate I mean kind of like any other Open Source project, right; the more hands you get on there the more shallow the problems seem to be. And that’s where Google has really invested and I am very, very pleased with that.

Jeff: We actually coordinated the launch of Google, the Google font API , along with our own Open Source project that we collaborated with those guys on, it was called the Web Font Loader , it's an Open Source way that allows anybody to use kind of any service or even hosting their own fonts on their own server but with a sort of consistent name space and a consistent set of methods and JavaScript events and font events and things like that. And so we work with them really closely, like we talk to them all the time, not just about the Web Font Loader but also all of the fonts that are in the Google font API are also available on Typekit. And it has been actually a really great collaboration for us. As you guys probably know, the core team that's building Typekit was at Google two years ago, right, we were part of an acquisition, we did the redesign of Google Analytics, we did a bunch of things over at Google, and then we left Google to start our own thing and that's been Typekit. So we have a ton of friends and colleagues over at Google and we work with them all the time. So what makes me really, really happy about what Google is doing is that they're investing in Open Source fonts, and Open Source fonts I think just make so much sense because you can have an individual designer that solves a particular problem for a particular character set and then open it up to anybody to help contribute additional glyphs or to help with currenting or to help with hinting, and people can sort or collaborate I mean kind of like any other Open Source project, right; the more hands you get on there the more shallow the problems seem to be. And that's where Google has really invested and I am very, very pleased with that.

Kevin: So is the idea that the Open Source technology enables very specific fonts solving very specific problems but companies like Typekit make money out of the generalized fonts?

Jeff: Well, sure, it’s a little bit. The analogy doesn’t hold perfectly but think about it a little bit like how — like what GitHub has done, right, that’s Open Source software freely available but they’ve turned it into a service so that all of the sort of difficult parts, running your own server and keeping permissions up and keeping the latest build installed and all that, like they do all of that, they build on top of Open Source software, and so in some ways that’s similar to parts of our business as well, and that’s a business model that I think is interesting and more and more prevalent as Open Source software becomes more robust.

Jeff: Well, sure, it's a little bit. The analogy doesn't hold perfectly but think about it a little bit like how — like what GitHub has done, right, that's Open Source software freely available but they've turned it into a service so that all of the sort of difficult parts, running your own server and keeping permissions up and keeping the latest build installed and all that, like they do all of that, they build on top of Open Source software, and so in some ways that's similar to parts of our business as well, and that's a business model that I think is interesting and more and more prevalent as Open Source software becomes more robust.

Brad: We got a question from the chat room, user name BWformula would like to know how many fonts are you up to now.

Jeff: Thousands!

Brad: It looks like it’s growing.

Brad: It looks like it's growing.

Patrick: We want an exact count so find the number and come back (laughter), just kidding.

Jeff: I need to login to the database a minute, I’ll be right back. It’s well over 4,000 now, I don’t think we’ve hit 5,000 now. I mean that number to me is less important as the user experience of finding the exact font that you want, right, so we could have another 200 handwriting fonts but at some point they start to get — it starts to get more of the same, right, so what we’re trying to do is find the best fonts for the Web which is significantly different than the fonts that have been out there for the print world forever. They perform differently, there’s different use cases, and all of that kind of stuff leads me to believe that it’s not the size of the library that matters so much as the quality of the fonts that people are really selecting. And as you can imagine, like if we go look at our own analytics and how fonts are being used and the traffic that those fonts see, it’s that power curve there, there’s a core set of fonts that everybody loves that works really well in browsers and then this long tail for very specific instances where people need something that’s a little outside of the norm.

Jeff: I need to login to the database a minute, I'll be right back. It's well over 4,000 now, I don't think we've hit 5,000 now. I mean that number to me is less important as the user experience of finding the exact font that you want, right, so we could have another 200 handwriting fonts but at some point they start to get — it starts to get more of the same, right, so what we're trying to do is find the best fonts for the Web which is significantly different than the fonts that have been out there for the print world forever. They perform differently, there's different use cases, and all of that kind of stuff leads me to believe that it's not the size of the library that matters so much as the quality of the fonts that people are really selecting. And as you can imagine, like if we go look at our own analytics and how fonts are being used and the traffic that those fonts see, it's that power curve there, there's a core set of fonts that everybody loves that works really well in browsers and then this long tail for very specific instances where people need something that's a little outside of the norm.

Kevin: Now in retrospect how prepared would you say you were for the world of web fonts going into this? Were there a lot of surprises for you along the way? I guess was Typekit harder to build than you were expecting or easier?

Jeff: Uh, well, I will say that it is a truism that if an entrepreneur knew what they were getting into we would never have any entrepreneurs, like if you had any idea, like you never know, but that’s actually part of the thrill of it is that a year or two years ago we clearly saw like web fonts is gonna happen finally, the browsers are there, we started talking to foundries, they were starting to get excited, and we were like we can put this together and this is totally gonna work. Having no idea what the problems would be, I mean we knew it would be a lot of work, we just didn’t know exactly what the problems would be and now those have really become evident and it’s been — it has been a ton of work; I don’t know if it’s more work than we thought, it’s just it’s different work than we thought. Nobody really understood the degree to which fonts would render very, very differently in different browsers, in different operating systems, in different versions of operating systems, and I think that has to do with the fact that lots of designers have always worked on a Mac and fonts have always just kind of looked good on screen on a Mac, and there weren’t a lot of settings, right, where you can turn aliasing on and off or only use grayscale aliasing or ClearType instead or any of that kind of stuff that is common in the Windows world. So you would think, right, like we thought two years ago well of course you would put a font on the Web and you’d link it up via CSS and it would show up in the browser, and it turns out there are probably 32 different ways that it can possibly render and so we need different font formats and different hinting styles and all that kind of stuff just to get some level of consistency and rendering across all these browsers. So it’s a little bit like when we first started with remember dynamic HTML back in the 90s, right, like we thought this is gonna be amazing! And we start working with it and go it works differently everywhere and there’s bugs everywhere and oh my, God, like you know 60% of our time ends up debugging and doing all the different versions for the 40% of creative energy that we put in, and that’s certainly been the case with rendering for fonts as well.

Jeff: Uh, well, I will say that it is a truism that if an entrepreneur knew what they were getting into we would never have any entrepreneurs, like if you had any idea, like you never know, but that's actually part of the thrill of it is that a year or two years ago we clearly saw like web fonts is gonna happen finally, the browsers are there, we started talking to foundries, they were starting to get excited, and we were like we can put this together and this is totally gonna work. Having no idea what the problems would be, I mean we knew it would be a lot of work, we just didn't know exactly what the problems would be and now those have really become evident and it's been — it has been a ton of work; I don't know if it's more work than we thought, it's just it's different work than we thought. Nobody really understood the degree to which fonts would render very, very differently in different browsers, in different operating systems, in different versions of operating systems, and I think that has to do with the fact that lots of designers have always worked on a Mac and fonts have always just kind of looked good on screen on a Mac, and there weren't a lot of settings, right, where you can turn aliasing on and off or only use grayscale aliasing or ClearType instead or any of that kind of stuff that is common in the Windows world. So you would think, right, like we thought two years ago well of course you would put a font on the Web and you'd link it up via CSS and it would show up in the browser, and it turns out there are probably 32 different ways that it can possibly render and so we need different font formats and different hinting styles and all that kind of stuff just to get some level of consistency and rendering across all these browsers. So it's a little bit like when we first started with remember dynamic HTML back in the 90s, right, like we thought this is gonna be amazing! And we start working with it and go it works differently everywhere and there's bugs everywhere and oh my, God, like you know 60% of our time ends up debugging and doing all the different versions for the 40% of creative energy that we put in, and that's certainly been the case with rendering for fonts as well.

Kevin: And how successful do you say you are on the current browser technology, do things mostly look the same after you put all your work in or is it a best effort still?

Jeff: It is really a best effort, and one of the things I’ve learned that really resonates is that the fonts actually don’t need to look the same in every browser to the designer working on the website, even though you would think that would be the case, right, the reality is the fonts need to be what your end users expect to see. So if they’re expecting to see things that only antialiased in grayscale, suddenly seeing things shift into ClearType is sort of disorienting for people who especially considering we’re working with text and paragraphs and like reading and legibility and readability, and that kind of stuff is incredibly important to people. So I would say there is no solution, there is no end state where everything works perfectly, and I don’t think there will be until everybody has a retina display on every device, right, like on your laptop and your desktop and your every phone and tablet and everything, because at that point then you have enough resolution so that it kind of looks like print, right.

Jeff: It is really a best effort, and one of the things I've learned that really resonates is that the fonts actually don't need to look the same in every browser to the designer working on the website, even though you would think that would be the case, right, the reality is the fonts need to be what your end users expect to see. So if they're expecting to see things that only antialiased in grayscale, suddenly seeing things shift into ClearType is sort of disorienting for people who especially considering we're working with text and paragraphs and like reading and legibility and readability, and that kind of stuff is incredibly important to people. So I would say there is no solution, there is no end state where everything works perfectly, and I don't think there will be until everybody has a retina display on every device, right, like on your laptop and your desktop and your every phone and tablet and everything, because at that point then you have enough resolution so that it kind of looks like print, right.

Kevin: I don’t care what it costs I’m first in line for that when it comes out.

Kevin: I don't care what it costs I'm first in line for that when it comes out.

Jeff: When there’s a retina display everywhere.

Jeff: When there's a retina display everywhere.

Kevin: A desktop retina display.

Jeff: Yeah, yeah. And we’ll get there, right, and just like we’ve done with processor speed and RAM and broadband and every other technology that sort of follows these curves of adoption.

Jeff: Yeah, yeah. And we'll get there, right, and just like we've done with processor speed and RAM and broadband and every other technology that sort of follows these curves of adoption.

Kevin: So when we last spoke the biggest question in my mind was whether you guys were going to be able to successfully wrangle or get the signoff of the people actually making fonts, that was the big question, licensing; would the people making the fonts hand over the key and trust you with distributing their product online. Is that battle fought and won now or is that something you’re still dealing with day in and day out?

Jeff: There’s still plenty of opportunity that’s out there, but I think having some of the really big names behind Typekit now and working with us and being really good partners has proven that we sort of proved the model, right, so we’ve FontShop and we’ve got Adobe and we’ve got Type Together and Process Type Foundry and all these amazing people doing fantastic work while at the same time we’ve seen a lot of competitors spring up which we expected to see and realized that that would be the case, so Monotype and that whole collection of fonts is doing their own font service and I think that’s fantastic, it keeps the momentum going when there’s healthy competition in place.

Jeff: There's still plenty of opportunity that's out there, but I think having some of the really big names behind Typekit now and working with us and being really good partners has proven that we sort of proved the model, right, so we've FontShop and we've got Adobe and we've got Type Together and Process Type Foundry and all these amazing people doing fantastic work while at the same time we've seen a lot of competitors spring up which we expected to see and realized that that would be the case, so Monotype and that whole collection of fonts is doing their own font service and I think that's fantastic, it keeps the momentum going when there's healthy competition in place.

Kevin: Alright, Jeff, well it has been all too brief but we’re gonna have to let you go.

Kevin: Alright, Jeff, well it has been all too brief but we're gonna have to let you go.

Jeff: Well this has been wonderful.

Kevin: Thank you. Do you want to let you know where to follow you these days?

凯文：谢谢。 Do you want to let you know where to follow you these days?

Jeff: Oh, you know, you can follow us on Twitter, we’re @Typekit, and at typekit.com you can check out all the web fonts and see everything we’re doing over there.

Jeff: Oh, you know, you can follow us on Twitter, we're @Typekit , and at typekit.com you can check out all the web fonts and see everything we're doing over there.

Kevin: Alright, well thanks again, Jeff, look forward to speaking again soon.

Jeff: I hope so, thanks guys.

Kevin: Bye, bye.

Patrick: Thanks, Jeff.

Kevin: Gosh it was great to hear from Jeff again. I’ll just get to work on getting our next guest on; Brad, this one I expect you’re a little excited about, we’ve got Matt Mullenweg from WordPress on next.

Kevin: Gosh it was great to hear from Jeff again. I'll just get to work on getting our next guest on; Brad, this one I expect you're a little excited about, we've got Matt Mullenweg from WordPress on next.

Brad: Yeah, definitely, it’s always fun to talk with Matt and see what fun things they have going on.

Brad: Yeah, definitely, it's always fun to talk with Matt and see what fun things they have going on.

Kevin: Hello Matt!

Matt: Hi.

Kevin: Welcome to the SitePoint Podcast or welcome back I should say. Great to have you on again. And for those who don’t know him, the man who I doubt needs much introduction in these circles, but Matt why don’t you introduce yourself.

Kevin: Welcome to the SitePoint Podcast or welcome back I should say. Great to have you on again. And for those who don't know him, the man who I doubt needs much introduction in these circles, but Matt why don't you introduce yourself.

Matt: Sure, my name is Matt Mullenweg and I’m co-founder of WordPress which is blogging and CMS software, and about five years ago I founded a company called Automattic which runs WordPress.com, Akismet, PollDaddy and a few other things.

Matt: Sure, my name is Matt Mullenweg and I'm co-founder of WordPress which is blogging and CMS software, and about five years ago I founded a company called Automattic which runs WordPress.com, Akismet, PollDaddy and a few other things.

Kevin: So, last time we talked about WordPress I can’t remember, Brad do you remember if 3.0 had come out yet?

Kevin: So, last time we talked about WordPress I can't remember, Brad do you remember if 3.0 had come out yet?

Brad: Well, when we initially did the interview it was back in August of 2009 so, no, 3.0 was definitely not out, I think we were right around 2.8, Matt might know better; it’s been a while since we’ve chatted.

Brad: Well, when we initially did the interview it was back in August of 2009 so, no, 3.0 was definitely not out, I think we were right around 2.8, Matt might know better; it's been a while since we've chatted.

Kevin: So, Matt, for me looking in the rearview mirror at the WordPress landscape 3.0 is still the biggest milestone that I can think of, and that’s from like a developer perspective, that for me signals the biggest shift in the platform. For you looking from the inside at how WordPress is used on the Web was 3.0 as big a deal as we developers think it was?

Kevin: So, Matt, for me looking in the rearview mirror at the WordPress landscape 3.0 is still the biggest milestone that I can think of, and that's from like a developer perspective, that for me signals the biggest shift in the platform. For you looking from the inside at how WordPress is used on the Web was 3.0 as big a deal as we developers think it was?

Matt: I think 3.0 was really a signal to folks that we were becoming more serious about WordPress as a CMS, so a lot of the infrastructure and code for the things that we talked about in 3.0 has been there for four or five years, it was really the first time we built the APIs around it that made it easier for people to use.

Kevin: Yeah, and it seems like for me the reason 3.0 was such a big deal was the shift from WordPress is focused on blogs as a blogging platform to WordPress is now being designed as a generalized content management system and a blog is just one of those configurations.

Matt: Yeah, I think what we saw is just we’re continually amazed by what people do with WordPress, and just calling it a blogging system really doesn’t do justice to the amazing things people are building with the software.

Matt: Yeah, I think what we saw is just we're continually amazed by what people do with WordPress, and just calling it a blogging system really doesn't do justice to the amazing things people are building with the software.

Kevin: Well, Brad, you’re our resident WordPress expert, do you want to field some— or, uh, serve a few questions Matt’s way?

Kevin: Well, Brad, you're our resident WordPress expert, do you want to field some— or, uh, serve a few questions Matt's way?

Patrick: Or if Matt wants to ask Brad some things, he’s welcome to as well! (laughter)

Patrick: Or if Matt wants to ask Brad some things, he's welcome to as well! (笑声)

Brad: Yeah, I definitely have some questions. I’m sure you saw the study that came out that essentially said WordPress powers is about 13% of the top million sites which is an insanely impressive stat, so my question would be knowing that WordPress holds that large of a chunk of those large sites how can WordPress keep it going five years from now, what’s going to keep WordPress on top, it’s already I think most people would say it’s at the top now as far as publishing platforms go, it’s one of the most widely used; how can it stay there, how can it keep growing?

Brad: Yeah, I definitely have some questions. I'm sure you saw the study that came out that essentially said WordPress powers is about 13% of the top million sites which is an insanely impressive stat, so my question would be knowing that WordPress holds that large of a chunk of those large sites how can WordPress keep it going five years from now, what's going to keep WordPress on top, it's already I think most people would say it's at the top now as far as publishing platforms go, it's one of the most widely used; how can it stay there, how can it keep growing?

Matt: My first thought when I saw that number is that we have 88% to go. (laughter)

Matt: My first thought when I saw that number is that we have 88% to go. (笑声)

Brad: That’s a good way of looking at it.

Brad: That's a good way of looking at it.

Matt: I think the way to look at it is it’s a natural trend of what we’ve been doing already is WordPress as a platform, you see things that are being built on top of WordPress, and they almost just use it as a development framework. They sort of bootstrap the user and content management stuff and then build something completely else on it from ecommerce to real estate management to almost anything, and WordPress can become a very efficient distribution mechanism for that. So the beautiful thing about that is that people don’t have to keep reinventing the wheel especially with regard to GPL, PHP software, you get so much for free inside of WordPress, the update system and the frameworks for everything, the user management, that you can just include it essentially just like you would one of these—the Zend framework or something like that—have a really neat app that people will already know how to use if you follow WordPress’ design and user interface conventions. So we’ve definitely got maybe like another 10 or 15% to go of the Web from the CMS point of view, but beyond that I think you really start to get into these other applications, other things that people make websites for.

Matt: I think the way to look at it is it's a natural trend of what we've been doing already is WordPress as a platform, you see things that are being built on top of WordPress, and they almost just use it as a development framework. They sort of bootstrap the user and content management stuff and then build something completely else on it from ecommerce to real estate management to almost anything, and WordPress can become a very efficient distribution mechanism for that. So the beautiful thing about that is that people don't have to keep reinventing the wheel especially with regard to GPL, PHP software, you get so much for free inside of WordPress, the update system and the frameworks for everything, the user management, that you can just include it essentially just like you would one of these—the Zend framework or something like that—have a really neat app that people will already know how to use if you follow WordPress' design and user interface conventions. So we've definitely got maybe like another 10 or 15% to go of the Web from the CMS point of view, but beyond that I think you really start to get into these other applications, other things that people make websites for.

Kevin: What are your thoughts on developers who are starting up and considering sort of it seems like as a web developer once upon a time the first thing you learned once you wanted to go past front-end development was PHP, and these days there seems to be this new path that people can learn WordPress first and then learn PHP from WordPress out, did that surprise you that WordPress became so successful that developers were starting their careers on WordPress and in some cases you can have a years-long career as a web developer without ever working on anything except WordPress.

Matt: Actually I’m surprised so many people are able to do it because our documentation is so bad and it has so far to go with regards to the documentation and everything.

Matt: Actually I'm surprised so many people are able to do it because our documentation is so bad and it has so far to go with regards to the documentation and everything.

Brad: There are some good books out there.

Matt: They’re starting to be but, for example, there’s plenty out there of good Open Source books, how come there’s nothing under the same license of WordPress itself…

Matt: They're starting to be but, for example, there's plenty out there of good Open Source books, how come there's nothing under the same license of WordPress itself…

Kevin: Yeah.

凯文：是的。

Matt: …that we can point to, that people could still sell…

Patrick: Ouch, ouch.

Matt: …but this is something we’re thinking about. And as we grow I think it’ll be interesting to see will the same sort of incentive structure and sort of methods that have allowed the ecosystem for WordPress to become so big with the core and with … (inaudible) … will also be able to apply to the things around it, like services, documentation and books … (inaudible) … that’s still pretty much an open question.

Matt: …but this is something we're thinking about. And as we grow I think it'll be interesting to see will the same sort of incentive structure and sort of methods that have allowed the ecosystem for WordPress to become so big with the core and with … (inaudible) … will also be able to apply to the things around it, like services, documentation and books … (inaudible) … that's still pretty much an open question.

Kevin: Yeah, definitely. Speaking of the ecosystem of WordPress, one of the news stories we touched on at the top of this program was the blog post by the ex-member of Six Apart, and he talked a bit about how one of the reasons he felt WordPress had triumphed, if you will, in the blog platform race was that WordPress’s community, its—I suppose community is as good a word as any—it’s ecosystem was really focused around promoting WordPress as the best solution to the detriment of its competitors, what would you say to that?

凯文：是的，当然。 Speaking of the ecosystem of WordPress, one of the news stories we touched on at the top of this program was the blog post by the ex-member of Six Apart, and he talked a bit about how one of the reasons he felt WordPress had triumphed, if you will, in the blog platform race was that WordPress's community, its—I suppose community is as good a word as any—it's ecosystem was really focused around promoting WordPress as the best solution to the detriment of its competitors, what would you say to that?

Matt: Well, I don’t know if I agree because if you go back eight years when WordPress was just starting I mean Movable Type had a much, much, much, much better community, it had plugins, themes, a number of the things that make WordPress popular weren’t even around. I think part of it comes down to the tenor of the community, so— Actually, I don’t even know if it’s that; it’s very hard to look in hindsight and see why one thing did well and why something else did well. If I had to look at what we did well then I would love to continue, it’s really being responsive to our users and talking to users as well as listening to as many people as possible and trying to keep the software one step ahead.

Matt: Well, I don't know if I agree because if you go back eight years when WordPress was just starting I mean Movable Type had a much, much, much, much better community, it had plugins, themes, a number of the things that make WordPress popular weren't even around. I think part of it comes down to the tenor of the community, so— Actually, I don't even know if it's that; it's very hard to look in hindsight and see why one thing did well and why something else did well. If I had to look at what we did well then I would love to continue, it's really being responsive to our users and talking to users as well as listening to as many people as possible and trying to keep the software one step ahead.

Brad: Would you agree that the licensing that Movable Type implemented probably had a negative effect on their growth and ultimately led to a lot of users coming over to WordPress?

Matt: I mean maybe but they went Open Source a few years ago, so a lot of these things that you could point to it’s hard to say this is the definitive one. If I had to pick one thing above all others I would probably say that, it was maybe a matter of focus or at Six Apart they had a lot of brilliant engineers and designers and everything, but it seems like their focus was sometimes divided between their many platforms, between our general type ad box and Movable Type, and probably particularly Box; it seemed like Movable Type wasn’t getting as much attention within the company which is pretty hard, 150 to 200 people, as everything else and so users can kind of tell that.

Matt: I mean maybe but they went Open Source a few years ago, so a lot of these things that you could point to it's hard to say this is the definitive one. If I had to pick one thing above all others I would probably say that, it was maybe a matter of focus or at Six Apart they had a lot of brilliant engineers and designers and everything, but it seems like their focus was sometimes divided between their many platforms, between our general type ad box and Movable Type, and probably particularly Box; it seemed like Movable Type wasn't getting as much attention within the company which is pretty hard, 150 to 200 people, as everything else and so users can kind of tell that.

Kevin: Yeah, is that something that you’d say you’ve had to be very deliberate about at Automattic, is maintaining that focus? I’m thinking of things like merging WordPress MU back into WordPress Core, that has neatly avoided that split focus between those two products. Have you had to avoid the temptation to work on new things when the other choice is to reinvest in WordPress, which is this project that you’ve had going for years now?

Kevin: Yeah, is that something that you'd say you've had to be very deliberate about at Automattic, is maintaining that focus? I'm thinking of things like merging WordPress MU back into WordPress Core, that has neatly avoided that split focus between those two products. Have you had to avoid the temptation to work on new things when the other choice is to reinvest in WordPress, which is this project that you've had going for years now?

Matt: That’s a good question. I should also say in my last answer I have no inside information about what happened there or even if that’s the thing that really matters, but for us I think that it’s partly just that we’re definitely if you go to automtattic.com the homepage, they have a lot of different products, but we only have one that does blogging. (laughter) So although we’ll have like PollDaddy and Akismet and VaultPress and a few other things, they tend to be very, very complementary to WordPress as a core platform so everything we do is built around WordPress. And a really key decision early on, even prior to the merge of MU and everything, was that WordPress.com would run the same code that you could download off the website on WordPress.org, and that’s been a little more work but I think that alignment of the platform, the technical alignment, has meant that every additional engineer of Automattic and all the investment we put into the platform really all goes back to the Open Source. And, combined with really focusing on growing the Open Source community as well, so making it more open, bringing in more developers from the outside, making more of the decision making processes community driven as opposed to just being me, these sorts of things are tough and sometimes it bugs me a little that I can’t just go in and change anything I want in WordPress like I used to, but it also makes it a lot more robust because there’s a lot more people getting involved in the creation of WordPress and that really have ownership about it beyond me, beyond even Automattic, beyond even just the people getting paid for it; you have a really large community around WordPress that’s very invested in the development and it’s really smart folks too, I enjoy every single WordCamp, every single Meetup, meeting these people.

Matt: That's a good question. I should also say in my last answer I have no inside information about what happened there or even if that's the thing that really matters, but for us I think that it's partly just that we're definitely if you go to automtattic.com the homepage, they have a lot of different products, but we only have one that does blogging. (laughter) So although we'll have like PollDaddy and Akismet and VaultPress and a few other things, they tend to be very, very complementary to WordPress as a core platform so everything we do is built around WordPress. And a really key decision early on, even prior to the merge of MU and everything, was that WordPress.com would run the same code that you could download off the website on WordPress.org, and that's been a little more work but I think that alignment of the platform, the technical alignment, has meant that every additional engineer of Automattic and all the investment we put into the platform really all goes back to the Open Source. And, combined with really focusing on growing the Open Source community as well, so making it more open, bringing in more developers from the outside, making more of the decision making processes community driven as opposed to just being me, these sorts of things are tough and sometimes it bugs me a little that I can't just go in and change anything I want in WordPress like I used to, but it also makes it a lot more robust because there's a lot more people getting involved in the creation of WordPress and that really have ownership about it beyond me, beyond even Automattic, beyond even just the people getting paid for it; you have a really large community around WordPress that's very invested in the development and it's really smart folks too, I enjoy every single WordCamp, every single Meetup, meeting these people.

Patrick: Well, speaking of other things, I wanted to ask you a little bit about bbPress because online community is sort of my thing, I’ve been managing online communities for 10 years as an area of interest for me, and when people ask me about forum software options, and I’m of the opinion that we have a lot of great options out there, and one of the options I include sometimes when people ask is bbPress, and once in a while someone will respond and say well that’s not being developed or nothing’s happening there, so I was kind of curious what your thoughts were on kind of the future of bbPress from this point.

Patrick: Well, speaking of other things, I wanted to ask you a little bit about bbPress because online community is sort of my thing, I've been managing online communities for 10 years as an area of interest for me, and when people ask me about forum software options, and I'm of the opinion that we have a lot of great options out there, and one of the options I include sometimes when people ask is bbPress, and once in a while someone will respond and say well that's not being developed or nothing's happening there, so I was kind of curious what your thoughts were on kind of the future of bbPress from this point.

Matt: So, bbPress used to be its own distinct platform, in fact if you download it from the site today it is. The downside is that that platform is like 80% code copied from WordPress so we were having to maintain it in two places. So we sort of came to a juncture much like the merging of MU in WordPress into the multi-site feature where it’s like this doesn’t really make sense as a stand alone thing.

Matt: So, bbPress used to be its own distinct platform, in fact if you download it from the site today it is. The downside is that that platform is like 80% code copied from WordPress so we were having to maintain it in two places. So we sort of came to a juncture much like the merging of MU in WordPress into the multi-site feature where it's like this doesn't really make sense as a stand alone thing.

Kevin: You broke up there for a little bit, Matt, were you saying that the vision is to hopefully turn bbPress into a plugin or a set of plugins for the core WordPress?

Matt: Exactly, that’s what we’re working on. So it would maintain all the features and there’d be a data migration process and everything but it became a plugin for WordPress using WordPress as a platform, much like I said earlier. We have probably 30 or 40 different bbPress installs that we run ourselves with millions of millions of hosts and users between them, so bbPress is really important even just for our own use. And I think once it becomes a plugin we’ll start to see a lot wider adoption from everywhere because if you look at it you never have a forum on its own. I mean at SitePoint the forums are such a huge part of the community but there’s also an amazing website; if you run WordPress with a website then you’ll have something to integrates with the user system everything else, as just a drop-in for the community aspect.

Matt: Exactly, that's what we're working on. So it would maintain all the features and there'd be a data migration process and everything but it became a plugin for WordPress using WordPress as a platform, much like I said earlier. We have probably 30 or 40 different bbPress installs that we run ourselves with millions of millions of hosts and users between them, so bbPress is really important even just for our own use. And I think once it becomes a plugin we'll start to see a lot wider adoption from everywhere because if you look at it you never have a forum on its own. I mean at SitePoint the forums are such a huge part of the community but there's also an amazing website; if you run WordPress with a website then you'll have something to integrates with the user system everything else, as just a drop-in for the community aspect.

Kevin: Alright, well thank you very much for making time for us today Matt.

Brad: Thanks Matt.

Matt: My pleasure. And I also really appreciate how SitePoint has been developing, you’re just doing more around WordPress; I love it when you guys— I love to see you guys around the community so keep up the good work.

Matt: My pleasure. And I also really appreciate how SitePoint has been developing, you're just doing more around WordPress; I love it when you guys— I love to see you guys around the community so keep up the good work.

Kevin: Great, thank you very much! Bye, bye.

Matt: Bye, bye.

Kevin: Alright, great to hear from Matt, he made time for us, he was coming to us from the road, I think he was using Skype on his mobile phone there, so a couple of dropouts here or there but it’s marvelous that he could be on for us at all, so just thanks again Matt Mullenweg for joining us.

Kevin: Alright, great to hear from Matt, he made time for us, he was coming to us from the road, I think he was using Skype on his mobile phone there, so a couple of dropouts here or there but it's marvelous that he could be on for us at all, so just thanks again Matt Mullenweg for joining us.

We have one more guest here today, and I can’t wait to get him on, he’s been on a couple of times if not even three on the SitePoint Podcast. We’ll have our regular wrap-up afterward, we’ve got host spotlights and a bit of reflection on the past for you here, but up next is Chris Wilson, so let me give Chris a call. Hello Chris.

We have one more guest here today, and I can't wait to get him on, he's been on a couple of times if not even three on the SitePoint Podcast. We'll have our regular wrap-up afterward, we've got host spotlights and a bit of reflection on the past for you here, but up next is Chris Wilson, so let me give Chris a call. Hello Chris.

Chris: Hey.

Kevin: Welcome back to the SitePoint Podcast! I would have to check my records but I would say you would be tied for first place for a person who’s been on our show the most often so it’s great to get you on again. So Chris you come to us from a different part of California today than you would have last time.

Kevin: Welcome back to the SitePoint Podcast! I would have to check my records but I would say you would be tied for first place for a person who's been on our show the most often so it's great to get you on again. So Chris you come to us from a different part of California today than you would have last time.

Chris: Well, actually I didn’t move so I’m still up in Seattle, but I definitely do have a different employer.

Chris: Well, actually I didn't move so I'm still up in Seattle, but I definitely do have a different employer.

Kevin: Oh, wow, okay. So why don’t you break the news.

Kevin: Oh, wow, okay. So why don't you break the news.

Chris: Sure. So back in September I left Microsoft, I’d been there for about 15 years and it was kind of time to try something different, took a little bit of time off and then I started working for Google and my current project is Google TV.

Chris: Sure. So back in September I left Microsoft, I'd been there for about 15 years and it was kind of time to try something different, took a little bit of time off and then I started working for Google and my current project is Google TV.

Kevin: Wow, okay, so that was a huge move for you because you have been at Microsoft for as long as Internet Explorer has existed if not before.

Chris: Almost, yeah, I actually started and started working on the IE team on IE 2.0, so I actually think I did one check-in in IE 2.0 but definitely had been there a long time, had seen a lot of changes and a lot of— gone through a lot of cycles particularly with Internet Explorer.

Kevin: So we have plenty to chat about but let’s start with Internet Explorer. We’re looking at just this past week, Internet Explorer 9’s release candidate came out and I think you’ll agree it’s looking pretty great.

Kevin: So we have plenty to chat about but let's start with Internet Explorer. We're looking at just this past week, Internet Explorer 9's release candidate came out and I think you'll agree it's looking pretty great.

Chris: Yeah, actually there are a couple of surprises in there even for me, I was happy to see geolocation made it in because that’s something I’ve felt kind of passionately about in IE for quite a while.

Chris: Yeah, actually there are a couple of surprises in there even for me, I was happy to see geolocation made it in because that's something I've felt kind of passionately about in IE for quite a while.

Kevin: Right. So how much did you have to do with Internet Explorer 9, was it well under way before you left?

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Chris: Well, so I actually for about the last year and a half or so of my time at Microsoft I was over working on the JavaScript Engine team, so I was actually lead PM for the JavaScript Engine, really focused on the runtime, not even the Document Object Model as much although the interfacing there of course was a big work item for us so we spent a lot of time working together on that, but I spent a lot of time just working on the core runtime, learning tons of stuff frankly about the internals of JavaScript and how it works that I just had no idea about before which was kind of cool. So, you know, IE 9 was definitely well under way during that time, I moved over to the JavaScript Engine team right after we shipped IE 8.0 so it was kind of I moved over, kind of helped participate in the planning but mostly from the JavaScript side.

Kevin: And refresh my memory, is the JavaScript Engine technically a part of the Windows platform or the IE platform?

Chris: Well, so Windows and IE are kind of in the same area, but the JavaScript Engine Team at least during my entire tenure at Microsoft I think was over in the developer division because dev-div really experienced with building runtimes, you know that’s where the CLR is built and various other runtimes have been built historically, so a lot of the hardcore language guys are over in that division.

Chris: Well, so Windows and IE are kind of in the same area, but the JavaScript Engine Team at least during my entire tenure at Microsoft I think was over in the developer division because dev-div really experienced with building runtimes, you know that's where the CLR is built and various other runtimes have been built historically, so a lot of the hardcore language guys are over in that division.

Kevin: So the other thing you were working on around that same time was the HTML 5 Working Group. And you were co-chair of that working group.

Chris: I was co-chair of that working group for quite a long time, and I guess it was summer before last so just about a year and a half ago I passed that off to a couple of people actually, I’d been co-chairing with Sam Ruby who I think is still co-chairing, and Paul Cotton from Microsoft a guy who’s been around the standards world and Microsoft for a very long time, super smart, very motivated, and he took up the co-chairship as did Macie from Apple.

Chris: I was co-chair of that working group for quite a long time, and I guess it was summer before last so just about a year and a half ago I passed that off to a couple of people actually, I'd been co-chairing with Sam Ruby who I think is still co-chairing, and Paul Cotton from Microsoft a guy who's been around the standards world and Microsoft for a very long time, super smart, very motivated, and he took up the co-chairship as did Macie from Apple.

Kevin: Alright. So now that you’re no longer involved day-to-day in that standardization process I was wondering if I could pick your brain on your thoughts on sort of that process as it exists because when we last spoke you— There was some stress in your voice when we talked about this stuff, put it that way.

Kevin: Alright. So now that you're no longer involved day-to-day in that standardization process I was wondering if I could pick your brain on your thoughts on sort of that process as it exists because when we last spoke you— There was some stress in your voice when we talked about this stuff, put it that way.

Chris: (Laughs) I can imagine, yeah. You know HTML is a pretty tough thing to standardize, frankly, because there’s always been a very strong tension between the need to actually get stuff built, get it delivered and just work together and crank it out as quickly as possible, and of course actually having a standard that is very, very meticulously designed and has tests for everything so it can actually show whether you’re doing it right or not. And I think the current way of building that has been, well, I mean a lot of HTML5 was really take what’s already out there that all the browser implementers have had to go reverse engineer what the behavior is anyways and figure out how to exactly specify that behavior so that the next person who comes along to build a browser engine doesn’t have to start by reverse engineering, they can actually say I’m just gonna go read the spec and the spec will tell me everything I need to know. But for the new features and the new functionality that’s in there you know anytime you move really fast of course you end up with some interoperability issues and you have to resolve those over time, you know the current thinking on that at least from the WHAT Working Group perspective is kind of we’ll just keep refining the spec as we go and it’ll be this living standard and change over time, and to some degree that’s very attractive, that’s in a lot of ways you do need to make sure that your standard isn’t in stasis, right, that it does change over time and it does improve and it does— it is actively being developed. But at the same time that’s really hard to target in a market where web developers need to build content and have that just work at point A in time, and point A plus two years it probably still better work and hopefully without more intervention or the customers and clients are gonna get kind of upset.

Chris: (Laughs) I can imagine, yeah. You know HTML is a pretty tough thing to standardize, frankly, because there's always been a very strong tension between the need to actually get stuff built, get it delivered and just work together and crank it out as quickly as possible, and of course actually having a standard that is very, very meticulously designed and has tests for everything so it can actually show whether you're doing it right or not. And I think the current way of building that has been, well, I mean a lot of HTML5 was really take what's already out there that all the browser implementers have had to go reverse engineer what the behavior is anyways and figure out how to exactly specify that behavior so that the next person who comes along to build a browser engine doesn't have to start by reverse engineering, they can actually say I'm just gonna go read the spec and the spec will tell me everything I need to know. But for the new features and the new functionality that's in there you know anytime you move really fast of course you end up with some interoperability issues and you have to resolve those over time, you know the current thinking on that at least from the WHAT Working Group perspective is kind of we'll just keep refining the spec as we go and it'll be this living standard and change over time, and to some degree that's very attractive, that's in a lot of ways you do need to make sure that your standard isn't in stasis, right, that it does change over time and it does improve and it does— it is actively being developed. But at the same time that's really hard to target in a market where web developers need to build content and have that just work at point A in time, and point A plus two years it probably still better work and hopefully without more intervention or the customers and clients are gonna get kind of upset.

Kevin: Yeah, it’s a weird sort of blip in the standards landscape that we exist in at the moment where the best standard for someone building a browser to consult today is also the standard that contains the most experimental sections as well, the sections that as a browser developer you would probably want to stay away from for the moment.

Kevin: Yeah, it's a weird sort of blip in the standards landscape that we exist in at the moment where the best standard for someone building a browser to consult today is also the standard that contains the most experimental sections as well, the sections that as a browser developer you would probably want to stay away from for the moment.

Chris: That’s probably true. I mean one of the challenges of course with standardization has always been you can’t really declare something done and right as a standard until you’ve tested it, right, and by testing it I mean you have to build implementations, multiple implementations, not one, not two, three or more preferably, and then you have to deliver it out into the wild and you have to get people to use it and you have to get them to pound on it for a while and see if it’s actually working for them, like if it’s the best way to design that functionality, and of course that’s really hard to do because nobody wants to be just the experimental browser builder, like you actually do want a real user market, and of course developers don’t really develop for the experimental browser anyways, right, they want an actual consumer browser that people are using in the real world to build really cool stuff on.

Chris: That's probably true. I mean one of the challenges of course with standardization has always been you can't really declare something done and right as a standard until you've tested it, right, and by testing it I mean you have to build implementations, multiple implementations, not one, not two, three or more preferably, and then you have to deliver it out into the wild and you have to get people to use it and you have to get them to pound on it for a while and see if it's actually working for them, like if it's the best way to design that functionality, and of course that's really hard to do because nobody wants to be just the experimental browser builder, like you actually do want a real user market, and of course developers don't really develop for the experimental browser anyways, right, they want an actual consumer browser that people are using in the real world to build really cool stuff on.

Kevin: The standards body itself, The Working Group, the public mailing list as it became, it’s a noisy place and the impression from someone who’s given up on monitoring it, speaking for myself, is that it’s a noisy place of big egos attacking each other but hopefully that ends up producing a reasonably good end product, although anyone who’d been involved in it would feel like they’d gone to war. Do you think that’s the only way to do it?

Kevin: The standards body itself, The Working Group, the public mailing list as it became, it's a noisy place and the impression from someone who's given up on monitoring it, speaking for myself, is that it's a noisy place of big egos attacking each other but hopefully that ends up producing a reasonably good end product, although anyone who'd been involved in it would feel like they'd gone to war. Do you think that's the only way to do it?

Chris: Well, I mean I think that when we got into, when we sort of revived the HTML Working Group we had a very, very big challenge which was there was this view of HTML at the W3C as very ivory tower, right, that it was all on XHTML 2.0 and it was really not focused on the real world of what browsers wanted, what web developers wanted, what engine people out there wanted, and the best thing that we could think of to do at the time of course to attract those people back in to try to build it under the very important, by the way, patent policy of the W3C was to open up The Working Group as much as possible and to make it very easy to join and very low-cost to join, low-cost meaning like it didn’t take you a ton of time, you didn’t have to sign up to travel to a Working Group meeting once a quarter or anything like that. And the challenge with opening it up for anyone to join of course is that anyone can join and there are tons and tons of people who are interested in HTML, lots of people who are getting their opinion out there, and I think the challenge with anything like that is you can either build a standard with a very small set of people in the room and maybe you don’t have enough people in the room, maybe you don’t have the right set of people in the room, or you can actually open it up to everyone and then try to deal with how you drink from that fire hose of talk and chatter on The Working Group list. And you know in retrospect I’m not sure if there’s something that I would change about that particular aspect, I think it’s pretty hard to, you know, it was very hard to try to keep on top of everything that was going on in that working group and do would be several other jobs, my day job, but it’s pretty important I think to be open in that respect; I think most of the working groups it was interesting for a while not working for Microsoft or Google because I took about six weeks off between my jobs, and looking at those conversations not just the HTML working group but the other working groups and seeing what I could still look at and what I couldn’t because I wasn’t a member because of Microsoft and I wasn’t a member because of Google, so what conversations could I still watch and how did that make me feel about standard development.

Chris: Well, I mean I think that when we got into, when we sort of revived the HTML Working Group we had a very, very big challenge which was there was this view of HTML at the W3C as very ivory tower, right, that it was all on XHTML 2.0 and it was really not focused on the real world of what browsers wanted, what web developers wanted, what engine people out there wanted, and the best thing that we could think of to do at the time of course to attract those people back in to try to build it under the very important, by the way, patent policy of the W3C was to open up The Working Group as much as possible and to make it very easy to join and very low-cost to join, low-cost meaning like it didn't take you a ton of time, you didn't have to sign up to travel to a Working Group meeting once a quarter or anything like that. And the challenge with opening it up for anyone to join of course is that anyone can join and there are tons and tons of people who are interested in HTML, lots of people who are getting their opinion out there, and I think the challenge with anything like that is you can either build a standard with a very small set of people in the room and maybe you don't have enough people in the room, maybe you don't have the right set of people in the room, or you can actually open it up to everyone and then try to deal with how you drink from that fire hose of talk and chatter on The Working Group list. And you know in retrospect I'm not sure if there's something that I would change about that particular aspect, I think it's pretty hard to, you know, it was very hard to try to keep on top of everything that was going on in that working group and do would be several other jobs, my day job, but it's pretty important I think to be open in that respect; I think most of the working groups it was interesting for a while not working for Microsoft or Google because I took about six weeks off between my jobs, and looking at those conversations not just the HTML working group but the other working groups and seeing what I could still look at and what I couldn't because I wasn't a member because of Microsoft and I wasn't a member because of Google, so what conversations could I still watch and how did that make me feel about standard development.

Kevin: Boy oh boy, if I had six weeks off between working at Microsoft and Google I probably wouldn’t spend it reading standards conversations I have to say (laughter), that is dedication my friend.

Kevin: Boy oh boy, if I had six weeks off between working at Microsoft and Google I probably wouldn't spend it reading standards conversations I have to say (laughter), that is dedication my friend.

Chris: Well, it certainly wasn’t all of my break.

Chris: Well, it certainly wasn't all of my break.

Kevin: So speaking of Google, you work on the Google TV team now.

Chris: I do.

Kevin: So that’s a big move for someone who’s been at Microsoft for as long as he has, would you say that move had more to do with what you were looking forward to working on or more about you felt like you’d done everything you could at Microsoft in your time there?

Kevin: So that's a big move for someone who's been at Microsoft for as long as he has, would you say that move had more to do with what you were looking forward to working on or more about you felt like you'd done everything you could at Microsoft in your time there?

Chris: You know, a little bit of both. I spent a long time at Microsoft and I certainly, I never expected myself to be at Microsoft as long as I was, I never expected to be anywhere that long, and there are a lot of things about Microsoft that are very attractive as a company to work for, I think they treat their employees pretty well, they have some really good internal systems that help kind of manage people and manage things that you have to do there and it’s very well supported in that respect. I think that there’s a tremendous opportunity for Microsoft to affect people because they do tend to have huge, huge user markets, I mean the hardest part about leaving Microsoft was thinking about the fact that Internet Explorer has like three-quarters of a billion users, and I’m giving up the opportunity to work with those three-quarter of a billion users and maybe will build that into whatever products I work on in the future, maybe we won’t, but that was always a big attraction was affecting that many people’s lives and how they could use computers. At the same time I kind of felt like the things that I’d been championing at Microsoft and in Internet Explorer particularly you know they were kind of, they were coming back around, I think IE9 sort of proves that they’ve got a lot of skin in that game, they’ve built some really impressive stuff, and I think that it was sort of time for me to think about what I wanted to affect next and where I wanted to go next.

Chris: You know, a little bit of both. I spent a long time at Microsoft and I certainly, I never expected myself to be at Microsoft as long as I was, I never expected to be anywhere that long, and there are a lot of things about Microsoft that are very attractive as a company to work for, I think they treat their employees pretty well, they have some really good internal systems that help kind of manage people and manage things that you have to do there and it's very well supported in that respect. I think that there's a tremendous opportunity for Microsoft to affect people because they do tend to have huge, huge user markets, I mean the hardest part about leaving Microsoft was thinking about the fact that Internet Explorer has like three-quarters of a billion users, and I'm giving up the opportunity to work with those three-quarter of a billion users and maybe will build that into whatever products I work on in the future, maybe we won't, but that was always a big attraction was affecting that many people's lives and how they could use computers. At the same time I kind of felt like the things that I'd been championing at Microsoft and in Internet Explorer particularly you know they were kind of, they were coming back around, I think IE9 sort of proves that they've got a lot of skin in that game, they've built some really impressive stuff, and I think that it was sort of time for me to think about what I wanted to affect next and where I wanted to go next.

Brad: I’ll ask the obvious question here, when you made the move to Google I guess the obvious department for you to be a part of would be the Chrome section; was that ever discussed or was it when you went over to Google TV was what you were going to Google to work on?

Brad: I'll ask the obvious question here, when you made the move to Google I guess the obvious department for you to be a part of would be the Chrome section; was that ever discussed or was it when you went over to Google TV was what you were going to Google to work on?

Chris: Well, I mean the interesting thing about Google is that more than any other company I’ve worked for before they tend to hire people, and the way that they set up their internal structures I mean everyone’s heard of Google’s 20% time, and really that’s about a way to get people to build cross pollinating projects that are maybe riskier than you would normally get into. And just the idea of the set of people that I would go to work with because obviously I know a ton of people who work at Google, I’ve worked with a bunch of people who work for Google now, a bunch of people in the Seattle office actually are people that I used to work with or for at Microsoft in the past, so it was really compelling to know I was gonna go to this place where there were tons of super bright people and they have this way of kind of encouraging people to take on different roles and different projects at the same time.

Chris: Well, I mean the interesting thing about Google is that more than any other company I've worked for before they tend to hire people, and the way that they set up their internal structures I mean everyone's heard of Google's 20% time, and really that's about a way to get people to build cross pollinating projects that are maybe riskier than you would normally get into. And just the idea of the set of people that I would go to work with because obviously I know a ton of people who work at Google, I've worked with a bunch of people who work for Google now, a bunch of people in the Seattle office actually are people that I used to work with or for at Microsoft in the past, so it was really compelling to know I was gonna go to this place where there were tons of super bright people and they have this way of kind of encouraging people to take on different roles and different projects at the same time.

Now, as for going to Google TV versus Chrome versus something else, I mean getting right back into something that I just did didn’t seem like a really great idea for a variety of reasons, and the interesting thing about Google TV to me was really that it’s kind of a catalytic project, like the idea of Google TV is not “Hey let’s go build this device that everyone is gonna go want to buy immediately,” it’s really you know right now all of the televisions and Blu-ray players and everything else they’re all getting into this “connected TV” thing, right, they’re all getting Smart TV, Connected TV, Internet TV, IPTV, whatever they want to call it, but the problem is a lot of these are using platforms that aren’t consistent, and when you look at somebody like Netflix, for example, who’s been tremendously successful in deploying to a large number of those devices, they have to build an implementation of their code for each one of those devices and ship it. And Google TV was really into the idea of saying hey number one, well, let’s build a device based on Android because just like Android is doing in the mobile phone space where it’s unifying a bunch of platforms that were previously built, it can do that for the TV space and on top of that as well, of course, hey let’s make the Web the platform, right; if you go and look at Google TV as it is today a lot of the applications that we put on Google TV, that we put in our spotlight which is what we call kind of the, well, the spotlight, right, the set of things that we push to people on a regular basis, users, on a regular basis, those things are built on a web platform, like that’s the easiest and to some degree right now certainly the best way to deliver new applications to people is build a web application, make sure that it’s optimized for the TV space but go push that to people. And one of the super attractive things to me about that was the web platform on Google TV is just the web platform; like when I go and work with third parties to get them to optimize their sites or applications for Google TV it’s really not optimizing for Google TV, it’s optimizing for TV, right, it’s optimizing for the user is ten feet away from their screen, they’re not two feet away from their screen. They probably don’t have a mouse or they don’t want to use it, they want to use a directional pad to navigate around, you know, don’t put small hit targets all over the screen, make sure text is pretty big, your resolution is gonna be 1080p or 720p, and oh TV’s tend to over-saturate colors so try to stay away from pure white on pure black kind of thing.

Now, as for going to Google TV versus Chrome versus something else, I mean getting right back into something that I just did didn't seem like a really great idea for a variety of reasons, and the interesting thing about Google TV to me was really that it's kind of a catalytic project, like the idea of Google TV is not “Hey let's go build this device that everyone is gonna go want to buy immediately,” it's really you know right now all of the televisions and Blu-ray players and everything else they're all getting into this “connected TV” thing, right, they're all getting Smart TV, Connected TV, Internet TV, IPTV, whatever they want to call it, but the problem is a lot of these are using platforms that aren't consistent, and when you look at somebody like Netflix, for example, who's been tremendously successful in deploying to a large number of those devices, they have to build an implementation of their code for each one of those devices and ship it. And Google TV was really into the idea of saying hey number one, well, let's build a device based on Android because just like Android is doing in the mobile phone space where it's unifying a bunch of platforms that were previously built, it can do that for the TV space and on top of that as well, of course, hey let's make the Web the platform, right; if you go and look at Google TV as it is today a lot of the applications that we put on Google TV, that we put in our spotlight which is what we call kind of the, well, the spotlight, right, the set of things that we push to people on a regular basis, users, on a regular basis, those things are built on a web platform, like that's the easiest and to some degree right now certainly the best way to deliver new applications to people is build a web application, make sure that it's optimized for the TV space but go push that to people. And one of the super attractive things to me about that was the web platform on Google TV is just the web platform; like when I go and work with third parties to get them to optimize their sites or applications for Google TV it's really not optimizing for Google TV, it's optimizing for TV, right, it's optimizing for the user is ten feet away from their screen, they're not two feet away from their screen. They probably don't have a mouse or they don't want to use it, they want to use a directional pad to navigate around, you know, don't put small hit targets all over the screen, make sure text is pretty big, your resolution is gonna be 1080p or 720p, and oh TV's tend to over-saturate colors so try to stay away from pure white on pure black kind of thing.

Kevin: So it’s a repeat of the process we’ve seen with Smart Phones, where people need to—

Kevin: So it's a repeat of the process we've seen with Smart Phones, where people need to—

Chris: It is exactly that, yes. It’s exactly that idea, and this is something that I’ve felt strongly about for a long time is that the web platform has had this ability to sort of be applicable to multiple media spaces for many years, right, I mean like we designed this in CSS a super long time ago, and most people haven’t really used that until the sort of onslaught of mobile devices accessing the Web and using the Web platform, because prior to that you could pretty much presume, oh, people had a 1024 x 768 window so use that and size things to that and they’re gonna be able to use scroll bars and all the rest of it, and now some of those rules are changing both for the mobile space and I think in the near future for the TV space.

Chris: It is exactly that, yes. It's exactly that idea, and this is something that I've felt strongly about for a long time is that the web platform has had this ability to sort of be applicable to multiple media spaces for many years, right, I mean like we designed this in CSS a super long time ago, and most people haven't really used that until the sort of onslaught of mobile devices accessing the Web and using the Web platform, because prior to that you could pretty much presume, oh, people had a 1024 x 768 window so use that and size things to that and they're gonna be able to use scroll bars and all the rest of it, and now some of those rules are changing both for the mobile space and I think in the near future for the TV space.

Kevin: So in a way you can say that Chris Wilson has not left the Web behind in his role at Google TV you’re just bringing the Web to a new screen.

Kevin: So in a way you can say that Chris Wilson has not left the Web behind in his role at Google TV you're just bringing the Web to a new screen.

Chris: Oh, absolutely. Yeah, I mean I don’t think I could actually leave the Web behind in my professional life, it’s something that I’m extremely passionate about and don’t see that passion going away anytime soon.

Chris: Oh, absolutely. Yeah, I mean I don't think I could actually leave the Web behind in my professional life, it's something that I'm extremely passionate about and don't see that passion going away anytime soon.

Kevin: Great. Well, we have to let you go again, Chris, I’ve been saying this to every guest, it’s a pleasure to chat and I’m sorry we didn’t have more time for you today.

Kevin: Great. Well, we have to let you go again, Chris, I've been saying this to every guest, it's a pleasure to chat and I'm sorry we didn't have more time for you today.

Chris: It was always a pleasure to talk with you and to be on the Podcast so thanks.

Kevin: Alright. We’ll let you go, bye, bye Chris.

Kevin: Alright. We'll let you go, bye, bye Chris.

Patrick: Thanks, Chris.

Brad: Thanks, Chris.

Kevin: And if you’d like to follow Chris and his movements you can follow him on Twitter @cwilso, and you can follow him on just about any other web community at that same name. If you want to get the story behind that name you’ll have to go back and listen to previous episodes of the SitePoint Podcast where he was a guest. And that is it for our parade of big names from the past of the SitePoint Podcast. Wow guys, I am overwhelmed and at the same time I wish we had a full hour with each of those voices.

Kevin: And if you'd like to follow Chris and his movements you can follow him on Twitter @cwilso , and you can follow him on just about any other web community at that same name. If you want to get the story behind that name you'll have to go back and listen to previous episodes of the SitePoint Podcast where he was a guest. And that is it for our parade of big names from the past of the SitePoint Podcast. Wow guys, I am overwhelmed and at the same time I wish we had a full hour with each of those voices.

Brad: We pretty much pulled those all from the first 25 so imagine if we grabbed every interviewee we ever did, we’d be here all night.

Brad: We pretty much pulled those all from the first 25 so imagine if we grabbed every interviewee we ever did, we'd be here all night.

Kevin: We’ll have to an eight-hour episode for #250.

Kevin: We'll have to an eight-hour episode for #250.

Brad: A 24-hour marathon. (laughter)

Brad: A 24-hour marathon. (笑声)

Kevin: Guys, what do you remember of #1 and everything that went into making that happen, our very first episode, or I should say your very first episode?

Patrick: I remember that Brad was sort of the kind of the lead on it—

Kevin: Brad was the lead host.

Brad: Yeah, I went back because it’s been a while since I’d seen when exactly we started, when the conversation got started, and the original post was on June 27, 2007 and this was on the admin side of SitePoint, this wasn’t a public post this was a kind of internal discussion on hey what do you think about podcasts and it actually all stemmed from Sarah who interviewed Matt and Mark who were the co-founders of SitePoint, which I listened to and really enjoyed, I was like why don’t we do this every week so it kind of went from that. But I think the first episode came out November 10, 2008, so over a year since the conversation had started to get episode one out the door.

Brad: Yeah, I went back because it's been a while since I'd seen when exactly we started, when the conversation got started, and the original post was on June 27, 2007 and this was on the admin side of SitePoint, this wasn't a public post this was a kind of internal discussion on hey what do you think about podcasts and it actually all stemmed from Sarah who interviewed Matt and Mark who were the co-founders of SitePoint, which I listened to and really enjoyed, I was like why don't we do this every week so it kind of went from that. But I think the first episode came out November 10, 2008, so over a year since the conversation had started to get episode one out the door.

Kevin: It was a year of people going oh we should have a podcast; yeah we should definitely have a podcast, let’s do something about having a podcast, and then three weeks of silence.

Kevin: It was a year of people going oh we should have a podcast; yeah we should definitely have a podcast, let's do something about having a podcast, and then three weeks of silence.

Patrick: And then Brad to his credit kind of took the initial kind of thing there because I remember I said, and this is what I said, I’m on two podcasts and this is what I said to both, I said I will show up and I will be prepared and I will talk but I will not edit anything, so I’m like I will be there but I’m just not gonna edit anything, so you know that was not necessarily the boldest of commitments but I think Stephan maybe made a similar comment and we got it together and once everybody proved they were — Kevin waited until everyone was like we’re gonna do this and then okay now I can jump on board there.

Patrick: And then Brad to his credit kind of took the initial kind of thing there because I remember I said, and this is what I said, I'm on two podcasts and this is what I said to both, I said I will show up and I will be prepared and I will talk but I will not edit anything, so I'm like I will be there but I'm just not gonna edit anything, so you know that was not necessarily the boldest of commitments but I think Stephan maybe made a similar comment and we got it together and once everybody proved they were — Kevin waited until everyone was like we're gonna do this and then okay now I can jump on board there.

Kevin: If you think you guys were talking about it for a long time let me tell you here at SitePoint Headquarters we were talking about it for years and years, and it was very similar that we thought it was a good idea but I wasn’t gonna make it happen by myself, so I owe a great debt to our man Brad Williams for actually making something happen and giving me no choice but to sign on or have it happen without me.

Kevin: If you think you guys were talking about it for a long time let me tell you here at SitePoint Headquarters we were talking about it for years and years, and it was very similar that we thought it was a good idea but I wasn't gonna make it happen by myself, so I owe a great debt to our man Brad Williams for actually making something happen and giving me no choice but to sign on or have it happen without me.

Brad: It’s funny because when you listen to a podcast you’re like hey this isn’t — this sounds like it would be pretty easy to do, get a couple people together that enjoy a topic and just talk, well it’s really not quite that easy, like you get on there and it’s very easy, and I’m sure if you go back to our first handful of podcasts and listen there’s probably a lot of um’s and ands and silent awkward pauses which, you know, Karn and Carl are great at chopping those out so they may not be as obvious, but we’ve obviously gotten better over time just getting to know each other, getting more comfortable around each other and then really realizing what all does go into a podcast. I mean obviously it’s much easier for us now, but back when we first started I mean it was every episode was a lot of preparation.

Brad: It's funny because when you listen to a podcast you're like hey this isn't — this sounds like it would be pretty easy to do, get a couple people together that enjoy a topic and just talk, well it's really not quite that easy, like you get on there and it's very easy, and I'm sure if you go back to our first handful of podcasts and listen there's probably a lot of um's and ands and silent awkward pauses which, you know, Karn and Carl are great at chopping those out so they may not be as obvious, but we've obviously gotten better over time just getting to know each other, getting more comfortable around each other and then really realizing what all does go into a podcast. I mean obviously it's much easier for us now, but back when we first started I mean it was every episode was a lot of preparation.

Patrick: Yeah, and it’s worth noting that it’s a volunteer team of six behind this not just the faces, so to speak, Kevin, myself, Brad and Stephan, but also Carl Longnecker and Karn Broad, our editors and producers, and they edit the show every week so they alternate, they trade off.

Patrick: Yeah, and it's worth noting that it's a volunteer team of six behind this not just the faces, so to speak, Kevin, myself, Brad and Stephan, but also Carl Longnecker and Karn Broad, our editors and producers, and they edit the show every week so they alternate, they trade off.

Brad: They do a great job.

Patrick: And they invest probably about as much time as any of us invest in it to put it up there and make it sound right, and then we have a transcriptionist on top of that.

Kevin: Kelley Johnson.

Patrick: But that person’s not volunteer, so not in the volunteer team, but it’s a seven person outfit.

Patrick: But that person's not volunteer, so not in the volunteer team, but it's a seven person outfit.

Kevin: Stephan, we haven’t heard a lot from you here today, but I would say that is typical of your contribution to the SitePoint Podcast. I remember having a talk with Shayne our marketing manager at the time, and he was in the chat room a little bit earlier, and Shayne said you know that guy Stephan, make sure he doesn’t get away because he doesn’t say a lot but when he says something it is gold.

Kevin: Stephan, we haven't heard a lot from you here today, but I would say that is typical of your contribution to the SitePoint Podcast. I remember having a talk with Shayne our marketing manager at the time, and he was in the chat room a little bit earlier, and Shayne said you know that guy Stephan, make sure he doesn't get away because he doesn't say a lot but when he says something it is gold.

Stephan: (Laughs)

斯蒂芬：(笑)

Stephan: I keep little notes of when I’m gonna jump in and say something funny (laughter), no, I’m just kidding. I like to listen because I learn a lot from a lot of our guests and when we interview people, and I learn a lot from Brad and Kevin and Patrick, I learn a lot about communities from you, so I like to jump in when I know something and I don’t know a lot, so (laughs).

Stephan: I keep little notes of when I'm gonna jump in and say something funny (laughter), no, I'm just kidding. I like to listen because I learn a lot from a lot of our guests and when we interview people, and I learn a lot from Brad and Kevin and Patrick, I learn a lot about communities from you, so I like to jump in when I know something and I don't know a lot, so (laughs).

Kevin: So the best way to listen to the SitePoint Podcast is to get yourself a front row seat as a co-host.

Stephan: There you go, yeah, exactly.

Brad: You get it a couple days early!

Patrick: I think one of the great things about the show for me has been getting to know you guys better, I knew Brad a fair amount, Stephan pretty well, I knew Stephan really well, and just getting to know Brad and especially Kevin, I got to know Kevin better which is one of the highlights of being a part of this whole thing for me because it’s funny because I was at SitePoint for like eight years before we started this, I was on the staff, forum staff, and I really couldn’t tell you much about Kevin; that’s not anybody’s fault it’s just that we’re different circles, right, Kevin is technical officer, writer, does all this other stuff, he’s not really in the forums in the staff area, all that much is not his responsibility. So, yeah, it’s been a lot of fun I think and, you know, it’s an eclectic group.

Patrick: I think one of the great things about the show for me has been getting to know you guys better, I knew Brad a fair amount, Stephan pretty well, I knew Stephan really well, and just getting to know Brad and especially Kevin, I got to know Kevin better which is one of the highlights of being a part of this whole thing for me because it's funny because I was at SitePoint for like eight years before we started this, I was on the staff, forum staff, and I really couldn't tell you much about Kevin; that's not anybody's fault it's just that we're different circles, right, Kevin is technical officer, writer, does all this other stuff, he's not really in the forums in the staff area, all that much is not his responsibility. So, yeah, it's been a lot of fun I think and, you know, it's an eclectic group.

Kevin: So I don’t know, has it been everything you hoped it would be going in, I know it has been for me.

Kevin: So I don't know, has it been everything you hoped it would be going in, I know it has been for me.

Stephan: Yeah, the bar was low for me.

Patrick: I had low expectations so (laughter).

Kevin: It’ll never last. It’ll never last.

Kevin: It'll never last. It'll never last.

Brad: I’ve enjoyed it a lot too. I mean it kind of goes back to what Stephan said, like we don’t know everything about all the topics but generally at least one of us knows something, hi Andrew. But it’s great when we get somebody on that I don’t know anything about, or much, and then I come out of there actually knowing quite a bit or even being excited about a topic that I really had no idea about, so we learn as much from doing this show I think as our listeners do so that’s why I think it’s gone on as long as it has, and I hope it goes on just, you know, I hope we’re doing episode 200 in a couple years.

Brad: I've enjoyed it a lot too. I mean it kind of goes back to what Stephan said, like we don't know everything about all the topics but generally at least one of us knows something, hi Andrew. But it's great when we get somebody on that I don't know anything about, or much, and then I come out of there actually knowing quite a bit or even being excited about a topic that I really had no idea about, so we learn as much from doing this show I think as our listeners do so that's why I think it's gone on as long as it has, and I hope it goes on just, you know, I hope we're doing episode 200 in a couple years.

Kevin: So, yeah, what’s been the highlight, let’s go down the line, what’s been the highlight for you in our 100 episodes?

Kevin: So, yeah, what's been the highlight, let's go down the line, what's been the highlight for you in our 100 episodes?

Stephan: All of them. I really enjoyed doing the show at BlogWorld Expo, I thought that was cool getting to do a bunch of shows and sitting around and talking and getting to know each because we’d never met in person all of us in the same area, so that was fun. That was a highlight for me. As far as regular shows, man, I got a bad memory, I can’t remember last week!

Stephan: All of them. I really enjoyed doing the show at BlogWorld Expo, I thought that was cool getting to do a bunch of shows and sitting around and talking and getting to know each because we'd never met in person all of us in the same area, so that was fun. That was a highlight for me. As far as regular shows, man, I got a bad memory, I can't remember last week!

Kevin: BlogWorld Expo is a great highlight, I think you may have stolen Patrick’s; Patrick what’s yours?

Kevin: BlogWorld Expo is a great highlight, I think you may have stolen Patrick's; Patrick what's yours?

Patrick: I enjoy our news shows every other week, I think it’s a fun thing that we do, it’s not totally work, it’s spending a fun hour or two talking about the news and it helps me stay updated and informed. Highlight-wise, I think that BlogWorld Expo obviously stands out just because it’s the first time we all four met in person so I think that’s meaningful but that’s kind of the copout answer, right, because that should be a highlight. WordCamp Raleigh doing the first live show was fun, Kevin wasn’t there so it wasn’t a total highlight. As far as my guests, Gary Vaynerchuck, Paul Boag, Derek Powazek, kind of three interviews that stand out to me that were really good and really fun to talk to and very informative.

Patrick: I enjoy our news shows every other week, I think it's a fun thing that we do, it's not totally work, it's spending a fun hour or two talking about the news and it helps me stay updated and informed. Highlight-wise, I think that BlogWorld Expo obviously stands out just because it's the first time we all four met in person so I think that's meaningful but that's kind of the copout answer, right, because that should be a highlight. WordCamp Raleigh doing the first live show was fun, Kevin wasn't there so it wasn't a total highlight. As far as my guests, Gary Vaynerchuck, Paul Boag, Derek Powazek, kind of three interviews that stand out to me that were really good and really fun to talk to and very informative.

Kevin: Brad?

Brad: Yeah, BlogWorld, is that what we’re all saying? (Laughter) No, that was definitely a good one. I think I definitely enjoy doing the shows, for me probably one of the highlights is doing some of the one-on-one interviews I’ve done, and nothing against you guys, but before the Podcast I’d never done a podcast interview or a radio interview, nothing like one-on-one where I was the interviewer. In fact, Matt Mullenweg was the first interview I ever did, I don’t even think he knows that, but so it’s fun doing it because to prep doing a one-on-one interview is completely different than a group chat or a group interview because when you do a group interview you can expect your co-hosts to kind of also have a lot of questions and bail you out if there’s some awkward silence, but when it’s one-on-one it’s all on you, so I’ve had a lot of fun doing those and I hope to start doing a lot more throughout this year and next year, so it’s been fun for me.

Brad: Yeah, BlogWorld, is that what we're all saying? (Laughter) No, that was definitely a good one. I think I definitely enjoy doing the shows, for me probably one of the highlights is doing some of the one-on-one interviews I've done, and nothing against you guys, but before the Podcast I'd never done a podcast interview or a radio interview, nothing like one-on-one where I was the interviewer. In fact, Matt Mullenweg was the first interview I ever did, I don't even think he knows that, but so it's fun doing it because to prep doing a one-on-one interview is completely different than a group chat or a group interview because when you do a group interview you can expect your co-hosts to kind of also have a lot of questions and bail you out if there's some awkward silence, but when it's one-on-one it's all on you, so I've had a lot of fun doing those and I hope to start doing a lot more throughout this year and next year, so it's been fun for me.

Kevin: My highlight has been all of those moments where we’ve gone off script. For those who don’t know, we prepare sort of a rundown of the news stories and the major links that we’re gonna talk about in each episode, we usually do that in the 24 to 48 hours before we actually record. But every once in a while either there hasn’t been a lot of news that week and that script is looking a bit thin or one of us just hasn’t had the time to get on top of doing that, and we end up just getting together and chatting about whatever’s on our mind that particular day, that particular hour, and that to me has led to some of the most spontaneous and fun and exciting moments that I’ve ever had in all my time working on the Web, so thank you guys for that. I’d have to agree, Brad, though that some of our one-on-one interviews also are a big highlight for me; it never ceases to amaze me how much people like Chris Wilson and Jeff Veen and Matt Mullenweg and Jina Bolton and all of the people we’ve spoken with today and in the past hundred episodes are willing to say yes when you just drop them an email and say hey would you be on my podcast that you may or may not have ever heard of. That people like that are so giving of their time is such a big reason for why I continue to enjoy working on the Web, and yeah, I just want to thank everyone who’s ever been on this show whether as a co-host or as a guest.

Kevin: My highlight has been all of those moments where we've gone off script. For those who don't know, we prepare sort of a rundown of the news stories and the major links that we're gonna talk about in each episode, we usually do that in the 24 to 48 hours before we actually record. But every once in a while either there hasn't been a lot of news that week and that script is looking a bit thin or one of us just hasn't had the time to get on top of doing that, and we end up just getting together and chatting about whatever's on our mind that particular day, that particular hour, and that to me has led to some of the most spontaneous and fun and exciting moments that I've ever had in all my time working on the Web, so thank you guys for that. I'd have to agree, Brad, though that some of our one-on-one interviews also are a big highlight for me; it never ceases to amaze me how much people like Chris Wilson and Jeff Veen and Matt Mullenweg and Jina Bolton and all of the people we've spoken with today and in the past hundred episodes are willing to say yes when you just drop them an email and say hey would you be on my podcast that you may or may not have ever heard of. That people like that are so giving of their time is such a big reason for why I continue to enjoy working on the Web, and yeah, I just want to thank everyone who's ever been on this show whether as a co-host or as a guest.

Stephan: We can’t forget the .net Awards.

Stephan: We can't forget the .net Awards.

Kevin: The .net Awards! Yes.

Kevin: The .net Awards! 是。

Patrick: Oh, my gosh! Do you have it nearby, we’ve never seen it?

Patrick: Oh, my gosh! Do you have it nearby, we've never seen it?

Kevin: Speak amongst yourselves; I’m gonna go get the trophy (laughter).

Kevin: Speak amongst yourselves; I'm gonna go get the trophy (laughter).

Patrick: We’ve got a couple chat room questions here; first, how many episodes did it take before you finally felt relaxed about doing them? Stephan in the chat answered “I’m still not relaxed.” You look relaxed.

Patrick: We've got a couple chat room questions here; first, how many episodes did it take before you finally felt relaxed about doing them? Stephan in the chat answered “I'm still not relaxed.” You look relaxed.

Ten episodes? For me anyway, five, ten.

Brad: If you go back and listen to the first few they were stiff, so yeah, I would say like five to ten episodes.

There it is.

在那里。

Kevin: Okay, I’m back. Here it is the .net Awards trophy.

Kevin: Okay, I'm back. Here it is the .net Awards trophy.

Patrick: Wow. Is it wood?

帕特里克：哇。 Is it wood?

Kevin: It is plastic, it is black shiny plastic, I’m sure there’s a technical name for it.

Kevin: It is plastic, it is black shiny plastic, I'm sure there's a technical name for it.

Patrick: Now out of curiosity where was it sitting?

Kevin: It was sitting pride of place on the countertop at the front door of SitePoint. So you walk in to SitePoint, you arrive at reception and sitting right between you and the person who welcomes people to SitePoint was this monolith.

Brad: Pretty prominent position.

Patrick: But it wasn’t alarmed in any way or there’s no GPS tag on that thing, you can just run in and grab that like a football?

Patrick: But it wasn't alarmed in any way or there's no GPS tag on that thing, you can just run in and grab that like a football?

Kevin: I’m not really sure, yeah; I may have set off an alarm.

Kevin: I'm not really sure, yeah; I may have set off an alarm.

Yes, it is very pointy, I was worried getting it back from London when I flew back, I thought maybe airport security would confiscate it as a deadly weapon because it’s very heavy and very pointy. They had to confiscate my nail clippers but left me with this; it says a world about the state of airport security at the moment. (laughter)

Yes, it is very pointy, I was worried getting it back from London when I flew back, I thought maybe airport security would confiscate it as a deadly weapon because it's very heavy and very pointy. They had to confiscate my nail clippers but left me with this; it says a world about the state of airport security at the moment. (笑声)

So, I think we need to wrap this up with our host spotlights as usual, this is #100, it only happens once guys, so let’s start with Stephan and work our way down.

So, I think we need to wrap this up with our host spotlights as usual, this is #100, it only happens once guys, so let's start with Stephan and work our way down.

Stephan: So mine’s kind of goofy but my wife helped me pick this one out, she came across Google’s wedding planning software that they just came out with, it’s Google.com/weddings and it basically is a bunch of tools to plan your wedding when you’re getting ready to get married, and we don’t have any use for it, we’re already married, but just looking at it, it would’ve been really helpful because you have things like Google Docs document formats for like collecting addresses, for your budget, for your Picasa web albums, for your website, I mean it’s pretty neat and it’s all wrapped into one little package, and it’s free from what I can tell, pretty sweet.

Stephan: So mine's kind of goofy but my wife helped me pick this one out, she came across Google's wedding planning software that they just came out with, it's Google.com/weddings and it basically is a bunch of tools to plan your wedding when you're getting ready to get married, and we don't have any use for it, we're already married, but just looking at it, it would've been really helpful because you have things like Google Docs document formats for like collecting addresses, for your budget, for your Picasa web albums, for your website, I mean it's pretty neat and it's all wrapped into one little package, and it's free from what I can tell, pretty sweet.

Brad: It’s so cute that your wife picked out your spotlight.

Brad: It's so cute that your wife picked out your spotlight.

Stephan: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Patrick: How long has that been happening? (Laughter)

Patrick: How long has that been happening? (笑声)

Stephan: She’s the brains behind the operation.

Stephan: She's the brains behind the operation.

Kevin: Well, yeah, it seems like a left-field move for Google, but I kind of understand it; ever since I read a blog post by Alex Russell who worked for a long time on the Dojo Toolkit, I forget where he is at the moment, but a big guy in the JavaScript arena. He got married and wrote it was either one massive blog post or a series of posts about the process of planning that wedding, and he had harsh words for the wedding industry, he said basically the wedding industry when you go searching for this stuff online you will find nothing basically, and the wedding industry likes it that way; they like you to have to call a planner who will get you in a room and can pressure sell you on every little step of the process and extract as much money from a couple as possible. Would that echo your experience Stephan?

Kevin: Well, yeah, it seems like a left-field move for Google, but I kind of understand it; ever since I read a blog post by Alex Russell who worked for a long time on the Dojo Toolkit, I forget where he is at the moment, but a big guy in the JavaScript arena. He got married and wrote it was either one massive blog post or a series of posts about the process of planning that wedding , and he had harsh words for the wedding industry, he said basically the wedding industry when you go searching for this stuff online you will find nothing basically, and the wedding industry likes it that way; they like you to have to call a planner who will get you in a room and can pressure sell you on every little step of the process and extract as much money from a couple as possible. Would that echo your experience Stephan?

Stephan: Yeah, you know, a lot of when we looked at our wedding planning a lot of our stuff we just said forget it we’re not gonna hire anybody we’re just gonna do it all ourselves, so I had a Google Docs set up anyway that we shared, I had a bunch of stuff set up, I did the website myself, so it was a lot of work and it would’ve been nice to have some kind of central, and there’s all these websites out there that they say they do nice services, I don’t find it to be all that nice and it’s kind of ugly. I mean I have a Flickr album so why can’t I just use the pictures I have on Flickr, and that was part of it, and so now if I had Google Picnik and all that stuff I could do it all in one place, and no I’m not getting married again. (Laughter)

Stephan: Yeah, you know, a lot of when we looked at our wedding planning a lot of our stuff we just said forget it we're not gonna hire anybody we're just gonna do it all ourselves, so I had a Google Docs set up anyway that we shared, I had a bunch of stuff set up, I did the website myself, so it was a lot of work and it would've been nice to have some kind of central, and there's all these websites out there that they say they do nice services, I don't find it to be all that nice and it's kind of ugly. I mean I have a Flickr album so why can't I just use the pictures I have on Flickr, and that was part of it, and so now if I had Google Picnik and all that stuff I could do it all in one place, and no I'm not getting married again. (笑声)

Kevin: I think the secret nightmare of a lot of startups is for Google to go oh yeah we’re gonna do something like that too, and Google sucks all the air out of the room. I would say as someone who has no stake in the wedding industry this seems like a really good thing that there is potentially no industry more set for disruption than the wedding industry, but if I were a part of that tightly wound machine I might be pretty worried, shocked and worried, that Google is moving into this space.

Kevin: I think the secret nightmare of a lot of startups is for Google to go oh yeah we're gonna do something like that too, and Google sucks all the air out of the room. I would say as someone who has no stake in the wedding industry this seems like a really good thing that there is potentially no industry more set for disruption than the wedding industry, but if I were a part of that tightly wound machine I might be pretty worried, shocked and worried, that Google is moving into this space.

Stephan: And don’t forget Google just bought ITA not that long ago.

Stephan: And don't forget Google just bought ITA not that long ago.

Kevin: The Travel Authority, yeah.

Stephan: Yeah, the travel website, so there’s a lot of issues with that because I’m big into ITA and there’s a lot of issues, now Google they’ve silently got their fingers in a lot of stuff so it’s interesting.

Stephan: Yeah, the travel website, so there's a lot of issues with that because I'm big into ITA and there's a lot of issues, now Google they've silently got their fingers in a lot of stuff so it's interesting.

Patrick: Yeah, and let this be a lesson, if you make it difficult to interact with your industry Google will come in and take your industry. And I think this is really smart because this is basically a way to get people hooked on their products more or less, it’s wrapped in a fancy wedding package but this is pushing you towards Google sites, Picnik, Google Docs, Picasa, versus Flickr or other competing products, so it’s all in this tight package and if you get married with this stuff chances are you might stick around.

Patrick: Yeah, and let this be a lesson, if you make it difficult to interact with your industry Google will come in and take your industry. And I think this is really smart because this is basically a way to get people hooked on their products more or less, it's wrapped in a fancy wedding package but this is pushing you towards Google sites, Picnik, Google Docs, Picasa, versus Flickr or other competing products, so it's all in this tight package and if you get married with this stuff chances are you might stick around.

Kevin: Plus you get Google Analytics from everyone of your guests at the ceremony. Patrick, what is your spotlight?

Patrick: Okay, so in my kind of quintessential style I guess is my off-topic fun spotlight, and what it is, is you need to look carefully at this, okay, it’s a specific link to a portion of a video, the last 20 seconds of a Call of Duty Black Ops game clip. It was posted by actually a SitePoint user, username Crowe, real name Crispian, and in the clip he’s playing Call of Duty Black Ops and something funny happens. If you play the game you’ll think it’s really funny, and I guess I’ll describe it, it’s funnier to watch; basically a crate kills his brother more or less in the game, and it doesn’t sound as funny but if you watch the clip and you look at that close, everyone spend the 20 seconds, it’s hilarious.

Patrick: Okay, so in my kind of quintessential style I guess is my off-topic fun spotlight, and what it is, is you need to look carefully at this, okay, it's a specific link to a portion of a video, the last 20 seconds of a Call of Duty Black Ops game clip . It was posted by actually a SitePoint user, username Crowe, real name Crispian, and in the clip he's playing Call of Duty Black Ops and something funny happens. If you play the game you'll think it's really funny, and I guess I'll describe it, it's funnier to watch; basically a crate kills his brother more or less in the game, and it doesn't sound as funny but if you watch the clip and you look at that close, everyone spend the 20 seconds, it's hilarious.

Kevin: It’s the in-game equivalent of a piano falling on someone’s head in a movie that has nothing to do with pianos or people dying; it’s just in the blink of a moment it’s just like—

Kevin: It's the in-game equivalent of a piano falling on someone's head in a movie that has nothing to do with pianos or people dying; it's just in the blink of a moment it's just like—

Patrick: It’s just splat!

Patrick: It's just splat!

Kevin: (Laughs) Yeah. I had to watch it a couple of times to see what I was looking for, so yes Patrick I do appreciate the spoiler, I think it will help a lot of people spot the funny moment in that clip. Brad, what is your spotlight?

Brad: My spotlight is a funny little site called YKombinator, and that’s with a K, and basically what it does is generates a random startup for you, so if you want to make a web startup go to this site and it will generate a name for you and a nice little pitch on what your startup is going to do, and then you can enter in your email and subscribe to it. So it’s actually released by YCombinator which is the startup funding company, or I don’t know if they’re a company or they’re a service, but it’s a fun way to kind of show off what they’re doing, so they fund a bunch of small startups and then coach them into becoming a product and pitching to investors, so it’s kind of a fun way to auto-generate a web startup, and honestly the site looks like a lot of kind of web startup sites, you know, the coming soon pages, it definitely has that look and feel.

Brad: My spotlight is a funny little site called YKombinator , and that's with a K, and basically what it does is generates a random startup for you, so if you want to make a web startup go to this site and it will generate a name for you and a nice little pitch on what your startup is going to do, and then you can enter in your email and subscribe to it. So it's actually released by YCombinator which is the startup funding company, or I don't know if they're a company or they're a service, but it's a fun way to kind of show off what they're doing, so they fund a bunch of small startups and then coach them into becoming a product and pitching to investors, so it's kind of a fun way to auto-generate a web startup, and honestly the site looks like a lot of kind of web startup sites, you know, the coming soon pages, it definitely has that look and feel.

Kevin: See when I first saw this I thought it was a parody poking fun at YCombinator by someone else, but YCombinator themselves did this, well, it speaks of a great sense of humor, it also speaks of a little bit too much time to waste between you and me, ha-ha-ha. Which one did you get? I got NetCloud, a vibrant performance oriented travel Wiki.

Brad: I have PingSense, a unique way of buying staplers and other office supplies.

Kevin: (Laughs) Staplers. Respect to whoever put staplers into their random startup generator, that was great. My spotlight is one that I have— The best spotlights are the ones you forget to put on because they become such a daily part of your life that you forget it’s something that everyone isn’t using. So mine is Reeder for Mac 1.0 beta. I have mentioned in passing previously on this podcast that I had moved my feed reading on my iPad and my iPhone to a product called Reeder, and since that mention Reeder has now created a desktop version, it is in beta but between you and me it is super stable, the only reason it’s in beta is because the developer wants to add a few extra features before he releases it as a paid product. So if you head to the website http://madeatgloria.com/brewery/silvio/reeder, which is with three E’s, I’m posting that in the chat room now for the benefit of those watching. It is kind of a semi-hidden link, if you go to the official Reeder website there is no real easy to find link to this beta because the developer really wants to kind of keep it under wraps until it’s ready for the world at large, but between you and me this is the best desktop feed reader around. What it lacks in features it makes up for in polish for what it does do, and for my money what it does do is everything you need for day-to-day feed reading. It sync with Google Reader so all of your subscriptions and all of your read and unread stories reside in your Google Reader account but you access all of that content through this desktop app Reeder. What it’s missing is organization and subscribing and unsubscribing from feeds, so when you find a new feed that you want to subscribe to you’ll have to go to Google Reader to do that, and I do that with Google Reader’s nice and easy subscribe bookmarklet, but when you want to sit down and actually read some content this is the way you want to do it; Reeder for Mac is excellent, it integrates with all the services you’d expect, be that Delicious or Pinboard, be that Instapaper or Read It Later, all of these different services, Twitter, Facebook, all of these things are built right in and you can pick which ones you actually use and the rest of those buttons disappear from the interface. It’s really slick, really great and I can’t recommend it highly enough even though it is still in beta.

Kevin: (Laughs) Staplers. Respect to whoever put staplers into their random startup generator, that was great. My spotlight is one that I have— The best spotlights are the ones you forget to put on because they become such a daily part of your life that you forget it's something that everyone isn't using. So mine is Reeder for Mac 1.0 beta . I have mentioned in passing previously on this podcast that I had moved my feed reading on my iPad and my iPhone to a product called Reeder, and since that mention Reeder has now created a desktop version, it is in beta but between you and me it is super stable, the only reason it's in beta is because the developer wants to add a few extra features before he releases it as a paid product. So if you head to the website http://madeatgloria.com/brewery/silvio/reeder, which is with three E's, I'm posting that in the chat room now for the benefit of those watching. It is kind of a semi-hidden link, if you go to the official Reeder website there is no real easy to find link to this beta because the developer really wants to kind of keep it under wraps until it's ready for the world at large, but between you and me this is the best desktop feed reader around. What it lacks in features it makes up for in polish for what it does do, and for my money what it does do is everything you need for day-to-day feed reading. It sync with Google Reader so all of your subscriptions and all of your read and unread stories reside in your Google Reader account but you access all of that content through this desktop app Reeder. What it's missing is organization and subscribing and unsubscribing from feeds, so when you find a new feed that you want to subscribe to you'll have to go to Google Reader to do that, and I do that with Google Reader's nice and easy subscribe bookmarklet, but when you want to sit down and actually read some content this is the way you want to do it; Reeder for Mac is excellent, it integrates with all the services you'd expect, be that Delicious or Pinboard, be that Instapaper or Read It Later, all of these different services, Twitter, Facebook, all of these things are built right in and you can pick which ones you actually use and the rest of those buttons disappear from the interface. It's really slick, really great and I can't recommend it highly enough even though it is still in beta.

So that is my #100 spotlight, thank you guys for your #100 spotlights. It is quarter past 1:00, we’ve gone 15 minutes long which to me is a remarkable achievement given how much we had to get through, how many guests we had on; congratulations, guys, we did it.

So that is my #100 spotlight, thank you guys for your #100 spotlights. It is quarter past 1:00, we've gone 15 minutes long which to me is a remarkable achievement given how much we had to get through, how many guests we had on; congratulations, guys, we did it.

Brad: Yeah, congrats.

Patrick: Thank you and congratulations to you guys as well.

Brad: We’re gonna have to do the live stuff a little more often.

Brad: We're gonna have to do the live stuff a little more often.

Kevin: Yeah, yeah. It’s not bad if we can figure out how to keep the spammers out of the chat room I think we’ll be on to something here.

凯文：是的，是的。 It's not bad if we can figure out how to keep the spammers out of the chat room I think we'll be on to something here.

Who’s cracked a drink, I see Stephan is saluting the camera with his beverage of choice. We’ve got Coca Cola from Patrick; we’ve got, wow, what is that?

Who's cracked a drink, I see Stephan is saluting the camera with his beverage of choice. We've got Coca Cola from Patrick; we've got, wow, what is that?

Stephan: It’s a mineral water from Mexico.

Stephan: It's a mineral water from Mexico.

Kevin: It looks like beer, what a letdown.

Stephan: No, this is the beer.

Kevin: Oh, you’ve also got the beer (laughs)!

Kevin: Oh, you've also got the beer (laughs)!

Patrick: So you’ve got beer, you’ve got soda, you’ve got a mature mug of tea, and then you’ve got frat boy cup.

Patrick: So you've got beer, you've got soda, you've got a mature mug of tea, and then you've got frat boy cup.

Kevin: Yeah, the frat boy cup from Brad.

Brad: I’ve got a kegger over here, I don’t know what you guys are doing (laughter). Playing beer pong in between guests (laughter).

Brad: I've got a kegger over here, I don't know what you guys are doing (laughter). Playing beer pong in between guests (laughter).

Kevin: Alright, well once more guys let’s go around the table from right to left, Stephan?

Kevin: Alright, well once more guys let's go around the table from right to left, Stephan?

Stephan: I’m Stephan Segraves, you can find me online, Badice.com, and my Twitter handle is @ssegraves.

Stephan: I'm Stephan Segraves, you can find me online, Badice.com , and my Twitter handle is @ssegraves .

Patrick: I’m Patrick O’Keefe of the iFroggy Network, ifroggy.com, on Twitter @iFroggy.

Patrick: I'm Patrick O'Keefe of the iFroggy Network, ifroggy.com , on Twitter @iFroggy .

Brad: Brad Williams, webdevstudios.com and I’m on Twitter @williamsba.

Brad: Brad Williams, webdevstudios.com and I'm on Twitter @williamsba .

Kevin: And you can follow SitePoint on Twitter @sitepointdotcom, and follow me on Twitter @sentience.

Kevin: And you can follow SitePoint on Twitter @sitepointdotcom , and follow me on Twitter @sentience .

I want to thank everyone once again for joining us in the live chat for our 100th episode, and thanks as well to everyone listening at home. I hope this show turns out great in editing and a special thanks to our editor, our producer Carl Longnecker, who will have to deal with this two-hour episode. It’s been great and we look forward to number 101 next week. Once again I’m Kevin Yank, thanks for listening, bye, bye.

I want to thank everyone once again for joining us in the live chat for our 100th episode, and thanks as well to everyone listening at home. I hope this show turns out great in editing and a special thanks to our editor, our producer Carl Longnecker, who will have to deal with this two-hour episode. It's been great and we look forward to number 101 next week. Once again I'm Kevin Yank, thanks for listening, bye, bye.

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