20: I've Always Been Interested in Really Rich Experiences with Robin Ward

DESCRIPTIVE

Show Notes & Links

Henning and Kahlil talk to Robin Ward, the co-founder of Discourse, the creator of Forumwarz and the Evilest Trout of them all. Robin explains how his interest in forums and the software that powers them leads him to a collaboration with Jeff Atwood to create Discourse. And of course we had to ask how his alias "Evil Trout" came to be.

Highlights

  • [00:00:25] Henning welcomes Robin Ward to the show
  • [00:01:20] Introduced to computers via IBM's first PC
  • [00:02:32] Kings Quest
  • [00:06:40] First job as a web developer at $15/h
  • [00:15:16] Discovered Ruby on Rails
  • [00:16:06] Forumwarz
  • [00:32:20] Jeff Atwood talks about Forumwarz ...
  • [00:33:28] Discourse
  • [00:47:20] Ember forums - first user of Discourse
  • [00:53:43] Ember.js mobile performance of Discourse
  • [01:05:44] Gamification/trust levels in Discourse
  • [01:09:42] The "Evil Trout" alias
  • [01:14:02] Picks

Links

  • Robin Ward is @eviltrout on Twitter
  • Forumwarz
  • Discourse
  • Robin's picks:
    • Amy Schumer
    • It follows
    • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
    • MUSIC PICK: In Colour by Jamie XX
  • Henning's picks:
    • The end of Single Page Apps by Chris Tse
    • PHPStorm by JetBRAINS
    • MUSIC PICK: Nelly Furtado - Say it Right
  • Kahlil's picks:
    • Jafar Husain: Async Programming in ES7 | JSConf US 2015
    • RxJS - The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript
    • Reactive Podcast
    • MUSIC PICK: Lethal Bizzle Fester Skank Remix ft Stormzy, Fuse ODG & Wretch 32

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  • Kahlil Lechelt - @distilledhype
  • Henning Glatter-Götz - @hglattergotz

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