The Binpress Podcast
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Binpress Podcast Episode 20: Keith Blount, creator of Scrivener
This week we talk with Keith Blount of Literature and Latte, the creators of the award-winning writing software Scrivener . Keith covers Scrivener's origins, tapping into the NaNoWriMo community, accidental content marketing and the psychology of disco...
Binpress Podcast Episode 19: Garrett Miller of Mapbox
On this episode we talk with Garret Miller of Mapbox, which creates tools for anyone to design and publish custom maps. Garrett covers Mapbox's flat structure, their product development process, and how they use GitHub for office management. He also di...
Binpress Podcast Episode 18: Louis Suárez-Potts, Age of Peers
On this episode we talk with Louis Suárez-Potts, Open Source Strategist and Co-Founder of Age of Peers, a marketing, community development and media relations consultancy for organizations involved in open source. He's also a Project Management Committe
Binpress Podcast Episode 17: Florian Effenberger of The Document Foundation
On this episode we talk with Florian Effenberger, Executive Director of The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit organization behind the open source office suite LibreOffice. Florian covers why open source projects need marketing, how he keeps thing
Binpress Podcast Episode 16: Shay Banon of Elasticsearch
This week we talk with Shay Banon, co-founder and CTO of Elasticsearch, the open source distributed search engine. Shay covers how a cooking app birthed Elasticsearch, why open source businesses are better based on runtimes than libraries, and much mor...
Binpress Podcast Episode 15: Mike Perham of Contributed Systems
This week we talk with Mike Perham, CEO of Contributed Systems and creator of popular Ruby gems such as Sidekiq and Dalli. Mike covers the zen and art of naming open source projects, what the sweet spot for pricing is and why value lies in the experience
Binpress Podcast Episode 14: Glyph Lefkowitz of Twisted
On this week's episode we talk with Glyph Lefkowitz, creator of Twisted, the incredibly popular event-driven, Python networking engine. Glyph covers why creators have a responsibility to users of their open source projects, why he simultaneously admire..
Binpress Podcast Episode 13: Andi Gutmans of Zend Technologies
This week we chat with Andi Gutmans, co-creator of PHP and CEO of Zend Technologies, the force behind Zend Framework. Andi covers why he doesn't consider himself a good PHP developer, why you should approach venture capital like dating and the importance
Binpress Podcast Episode 12: Christian Heilmann of Mozilla
On this week's show, we talk with Christian Heilmann, Mozilla's Principal Evangelist. Christian covers how Mozilla is the Red Cross for the web, why mobile apps are overrated, what it takes to be a developer evangelist and why you should talk to the qu...
Binpress Podcast Episode 11: Slava Akhmechet of RethinkDB
This week, we chat with Slava Akhmechet, co-founder of RethinkDB, an open-source distributed database taking the development world by storm. Slava discusses why experimental work often doesn't make the cut for commercial codebases, why you should focus on