The ATX Web Show!: Recent Episodes
The ATX Web Show!
This week, Andy is joined by Travis and Sam at Happy Cog Austin for Episode 72. Thanks Happy Cog! Show Notes 1:05 HOUSE OF CARDS! 3:00 Spiceworks raises another round of $57m 3:15 Capital Factory + Floodgate + Silverton = $150,000... Read the Rest »
In 2014, we’re recording every 2nd and 4th Friday. Last week was our second show but we flubbed the release of the January 17 recording so we rolled that content into last week’s episode. Andy and Travis spend episode 71 recapping... Read the Rest »
In an effort to get one more show out the door before 2014, Dave and Andy recap Austin’s Startup Weekend that took place November 22-24 at Tech Ranch. Show Notes Austin Startup Weekend - 13 teams presented at the end of the... Read the Rest »
This week, intern Michael Way recaps everything that went down at Austin Startup Week. He is joined by Andy, Sam, and new dad Dave! Show Notes 3:27 Latest News: ATX Startup Crawl 9:17 Startup Crawl App 10:41 Some pictures from ATX... Read the Rest »
This week we have a covert chat with Josh Baer about the third annual Austin Startup Week. Listen to find out what his “God button” is and who his favorite Austin startups are. Interview Notes Intro to the Austin Startup Scene slides form... Read the Rest »
We gathered the crew before the last Refresh to catch up on Austin’s latest happenings. Dave introduces a new segment, “Austin vs The World” and we fire another intern. Recorded live on August 13, 2013. Shout out to our audio surgeon,... Read the Rest »
We finally got the whole team together at the Refresh Austin: Summer Party. Recorded live on July 30, 2013. Dave announces his mayorship of Curaçao, Sam’s homeland, and sings the new national anthem. The Gowalla exodus from Facebook to Dropbox Torchy’s... Read the Rest »
Travis, Sam, and Dave catch up on presidents and hackathons that have swept through town recently. President Obama visits Capital Factory Coca-Cola: Why Austin sits atop the next wave of startup hubs Hackathons TechCrunch Meetup Angel Hack ATX ATX Hackathon for... Read the Rest »
This week Travis sits down with Sam Kapila, teacher of Responsive Web Design and Typography at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. That’s just south of Austin for you out-of-towners. They talk about the modern web, new Adobe software, and... Read the Rest »
Another Catchupisode™. Reigning victorious over Houston, yet again, Travis and Dave kick off this show apologizing to a few other cities and then recap some of the conferences and big events that have rolled through town recently with a heavy focus... Read the Rest »
This week Travis and Dave drink and do a live a show at the Ginger Man, Austin’s Tech Hub. Exciting news since the last episode, Kim Jong Un wants to nuke Austin and we get Google Fiber. The News: Kim Jong... Read the Rest »
This week we discuss the recent Pando Daily article which critiques Austin’s “intensity” and vis á vis why we’ll never be successful as a startup town. We’re also joined by former webshow intern Michael Way from the Taecho Group. Pando Daily:... Read the Rest »
Back with a groggy post-SXSW episode. We spend this episode recounting the best of SXSW 2013 from our limited, but professional, perspective. TX Drought Jokes! TexasTribune.org Reservoir Tracker 1st Annual Post-SXSW Awards Ceremony! Non-badged Awards Lots of awesome social events ATX Startup... Read the Rest »
This week we’re joined again by Andy Keil to catch up on what got finished at the successful FinishUp Weekend. We also mentally prepare for the SXSW behemoth. People who finished: Colin Young (Polymathic) – Zipper Snapper John Kestner (Supermechanical) – Productivity... Read the Rest »
In Control Conference Environment for Humans Ben Brown Web Dev and Product Designer Founder of XOXCO Deep Leap http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kunpve8-h-U Consumating.com Make Pixel Art http://makepixelart.com/ Breakpoints https://github.com/xoxco/breakpoints Aware.js https://github.com/xoxco/awarejs Your Back Catalog: http://notes.xoxco.com/post/44067502454/your-back-catalog Packa.gr http://xoxco.com/packagr/ BBQ Drama!! @sparkycollier @jsm_meat @louiemuellerbbq We can... Read the Rest »
Travis sits down with Joe McCann, who is currently Mobile Architect at Bazaarvoice and on the board at The Node Firm. Austin JS Open Web SXSW What’s the start of all of these epic parties? Reconstvct.com StayIdle.com Purple Margarita Challenge? Baby... Read the Rest »
Recorded live at the Omni Bar before Refresh Austin. We were joined by Gene Crawford and Giovanni DiFeterici of the South Carolina based Unmatched Style. There were in town to speak at Refresh Austin and scope out the local scene. We... Read the Rest »
This week we’re joined by Andy Keil talking about Finish Up Weekend, a weekend devoted executing and finishing up that side project. We also recap the completely sold out HTML5.tx Conference held here in Austin, TX. Handsome HTML5.tx Backbone is awesome!... Read the Rest »
Excited to have Greg Story, President of Happy Cog, on the show. Happy Cog is one of the world’s premier web design firms and they have established an outfit here in Austin, Texas. We chat with Greg about the history of... Read the Rest »
We’re back for the 25th time! Another unintended hiatus has sparked the need to do another show where we discuss the past 2 months as well as various upcoming events and conferences around town. Startup news! Mass Relevance finally got downtown! Black Locus... Read the Rest »
On Today’s show we get into the heart of the Austin BBQ Scene which in-part is mostly responsible for fueling the Austin economy. We also discuss the first 7 startups that pitched on state at Capital Factory Demo Day 2012.
Travis and Dave talk about a myriad of topics ranging from the Zynga mass-firing, covering a handful of startups from the Capital Factory Demo Day 2012 that got a mention in Venture Beat, to a quick Week-in-Tech conversation.
We sat down with Austin tech titan Joshua Baer to talk about: ATX Startup Week, Demo Day 2012, We Are Austin Tech, Other Inbox, and the startup and social hub that is Capital Factory. On this milestone 50th episode we couldn’t ask for... Read the Rest »
We’re joined by Ryan Irelan, developer at Happy Cog and founder of Mijingo, the web’s best resource for designers or developers looking to learn something new. We talk about the recent Drupal Day Austin CMS Shootout as well as a Freaky Friday... Read the Rest »
We sat down to better-know the talented Central Texas web design agency, the Taecho Group. After their work one the Circuit of the Americas (Austin F1) site, these experts in eCommerce and responsive web design are currently in the process of... Read the Rest »
Travis and Dave get together to talk about everything from breaking a curses using a local wizard to Cap Metro transit politics to our hatred of To-Do list apps. Web related, we discuss: the upcoming ATX Startup Week, Responsive Web Design,... Read the Rest »
We sat down with Austin designer Elyse Holladay to get a short recap of An Event Apart, the world’s premier web conference, that recently rolled through town.
This week Dave, Travis, and new co-pilot Ryan Joy sit down to talk about local news and events. We announce the new ATX Directory now live on the website and discuss the trials and tribulations of meetup event planning.
Travis and Dave sit down to catch up on this past weeks’ events, most notably the lightning talks held at Austin on Rails.
Once again, Travis and Dave meet at the Ginger Man to discuss recent happenings around town from TX.JS, a first class Javascript conference that happens right on our very own doorstep. The rest of the show is dedicated to fact-checking, mental health,... Read the Rest »
Live from The Ginger Man, the tech hub of Austin, Dave and new co-host Travis Swicegood (from Episode 28) reboot the brand new ATX Web Show. We catch up on all the action that’s happened in the 6 month hiatus including:... Read the Rest »
Happy to be celebrating 2 YEARS of the ATX Web Show! On this anniversary episode, we hear from Zach Meyer of Four Kitchens about Drupal Camp Austin 2011 and spend some time talking about a recent company trip to Brooklyn Beta... Read the Rest »
On this week’s episode I sat down with Christopher Schmitt and Kyle Simpson, co-authors of the new HTML5 Cookbook from O’Reilly Publishing. We spend time digging into the book and exploring some of the innards of HTML5.
In this week’s episode we catch up with some in-house news and surprising pivots. We discuss: FitVids – a jQuery plugin for fluid width responsive video embeds, Trent’s article on “Unitasking” to GTD, Facebook poll results for Gowalla’s decision to ditch... Read the Rest »
Stocking, the act of replicating a stock photo and posting it to the internet, is gathering momentum in agencies across the world. We sit down with the Dennis Van Huffel and Jamie Graham, the folks behind the meme “Stocking is the... Read the Rest »
This week we sit down with Ruby Ku and Alex Pappas of Hourschool, a social app that helps you find and create informal classes. The company was born out of their time as the inaugural class of the Austin Center for... Read the Rest »
We sat down with René Pinnell of Hurricane Party to talk about their new app, Forecast – an app that allows you to share where you’re going to be with future checkins on Foursquare. In addition to learning about Forecast, we... Read the Rest »
Do you have the chops to make an app in under 10K? In this episode we talk about the brand new 10K Apart: Responsive Edition being put on by MIX Online and An Event Apart. We also cover our month-long haitus,... Read the Rest »
Today we sit down with Manton Reece, creator of Tweet Library and the Tweetmarks API. We sit down to talk about his apps, developing on the Twitter API, iOS and Mac development and the big question: “Why would you ever price... Read the Rest »
On today’s show we’re joined by none other than Phil Coffman of Method & Craft to get a behind the scenes look at the site that gets behind the scenes. #meta. We get to know Phil as he joins us for... Read the Rest »
The results are in! 100 people responded to the question “How much would it cost to leave Austin?” In this episode we crunch the numbers with our amateur statistician skills. Be sure to check the web show blog post with charts... Read the Rest »
This week’s episode is sure to be a milestone for the ATX Web Show. We invade the Gowalla Headquarters and sit down with the Gowalla Design Team: Keegan Jones, Tim Van Damme, Drew Yeaton, and Adam Michela; to talk about everything... Read the Rest »
Alex Sexton stops by to talk about the upcoming yayQuery-organized TXJS – a quality-curated JavaScript conference right in our own backyard. We also probe Alex’s mind about the top trends/things to pay attention to in the rapidly advancing JS community. Gowalla... Read the Rest »
On today’s show we recap the fun had at the first-ever Austin Dribbble Meetup. It was a grand ol’ time. We also dig into the relatively new web trend, “Responsive Web Design”. We’ll talk about what it is, our changing thoughts... Read the Rest »
Back this week with a little mini-sode feature two brand new groups in town. First up is Mattt Thompson from Austin.RB to talk about the brand new ruby group in town. If you’ve listened to the show for any period of... Read the Rest »
SXSW 2011 has come and gone, ravaged our town and our livers in the process. Trent, Reagan and Dave join together to discuss highlights and lowlights of SXSW; from the poorly-scheduled panels, to the wonderful parties, and Brand® Oversaturation™. Has SXSW gotten too big for its britches? What could they do better?
We're back with another episode! Amidst extreme Texas winter weather we gather to bring you some of the local web news, as well as mini-interviews with Garann Means of Austin All-Girl Hack Nite and Joe McCann of Austin Javascript. As we get back into the swing of things, we also discuss some of our favorite happenings on the internet as of late. It's just like homeroom.
In this episode we sit down with Mark Phillip of AreYouWatchingThis.com. Simply put: “RUWT” is a notification system to let you know when a game in the sport of your choice is getting good. It’s available on a wide variety of... Read the Rest »
The ATX Web Show was invited by GeekAustin & Company to do some man-on-the-scene coverage of the Official WPEngine Launch Party held on November 3rd. It was a high class event and a great opportunity to talk to a lot of different people here in the Austin community all out to support WPEngine. So tune in as we talk to Jason, Aaron, Cullen of WPEngine as well as Lynn Bender of GeekAustin and many more.
This week we speak with Four Kitchens, a local web design and development shop specializing in large websites built on Drupal. We talk about Drupal as a CMS, committing back to open source, and the Austin Drupal Community. We’re also joined... Read the Rest »
On this episode of the ATX Web Show, Reagan and Dave catch up on some announcements, some events, and our football team. We also sit down with Pat Ramsey to hear about WordPress Austin, the growing local WordPress community.
Hide yo' kids, hide yo' wife! We're back after about a month of unexpected inactivity. We're climbing in your windows and catching you people up on what's happened over last month or so including: Capital Factory's Demo Day 2010, IE9's Lost World's Fair and a lot of other stuff.
On this week's episode we talk about Gowalla Highlights, the new Apple products, and listen to some messages from 409-BEEF-CAR.
This week is a bit of a Potpourri episode and we're joined once again by Trent and Reagan from Paravel! We discuss a wide variety of topics including but not limited to: The Many Faces Of... The Goonies (with iPad Game), Dave and Brian Hoff made Rebbbounds (a Dribbble API Tracking Blog) in 24 hours and 6 days later it was featured (as a link) on TechCrunch. We also discuss The 6 Commandments of Gowalla in King James English, the City of Austin Web Portal redesign, Alamo Rolling Roadshow posters, The Incident, and Paul Irish's HTML5 Boilerplate. As you can tell, there's quite a bit to talk about so we hope you enjoy.
This week we feature the Infochimps who are one of the largest and most agile data suppliers in the world but located right here in Austin, TX. I sat down with Dhruv Bansal, Flip Kromer, and Jospeh Kelly and got the... Read the Rest »
We're back with another vacation minisode. This time it's with local Indie Web/iPhone App developer, Chadwick Wood who runs Coffeeshopped, a small one man dev shop. Chadwick balances the line between full time freelance contractor and self-app-generating developer entrepreneur. He's already got a handful of really cool apps to his credit: an augmented reality geolocation game, a time-tracking app for freelancers, and a couple experimental iPhone games that are math based awesomeness.
Today we've got a mini-episode, or "minisode" if you will, with Christopher Schmitt (@teleject) and Zoe Gillenwater (@zomigi) who are both authors of books on CSS. Christopher is helping host CSS Summit, an online conference, with an impressive lineup of speakers. A really great episode with what I found to be a really nice impromptu discussion on CSS. Have a listen and buy their books!
In this episode I'm rejoined by the guys from Paravel and we attempt to settle epic disputes with good old fashioned Page Speed Grudge Maches! Which is better, Star Wars or Star Trek? Tune in to find out. I also sat down with Andrew Donoho to talk about his new iPad app ch@tter, a new, effective way to monitor your tweet stream.
This week I joined a special Cafe Bedouins event at Cospace and sat down with Damon Clinkscales. Damon has played a huge role in the web development community by helping start the monthly Austin on Rails ruby user group as well as a roaming weekly coffee shop hack night called Cafe Bedouins. We talked about his work, his side projects and his idea blog.
This week we caught up with Joe McCann over a few beers at Frank to talk about a wide array of things including his work with frog design, trends he is seeing on the web, javascript, rapid prototyping and the future of web deployment.
We're back with a brand new episode and a brand new brand! Feast your eyes on our new logo! This handiwork was done by none-other than co-host Reagan Ray. Speaking of Reagan, he and Trent join Dave this week and we discuss a "potluck" of things going on around the web including but not limited to: Our Reactionary Web Community, Webkit Bits, Rdio, Pulse RSS Reader App, The Upcoming Refresh Meeting, Gowalla, Facebook, Spiceworks, Refresh Austin and the upcoming TXJS Conference taking place right here in Austin.
On this week’s show I sat down with Glenda Sims to talk about Web Education, or “webucation” as I call it. Right here in Austin we have some of the people who are literally writing The Book on Web Standards. Glenda... Read the Rest »
We made it to Episode 10! Kyle Simpson, @getify, joins the show again to herald a very important message “We told you so!”. You may recall back in Episode 4 Kyle joined us to talk about the rumors that Google is... Read the Rest »
This week we're joined by local author Christopher Schmitt who has written more than a handful of books on CSS, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and more. Christopher is now involved with a company called Environments for Humans who hosts a wide array of One Day Online Educational Summits that are singularly focused on one aspect of web design. We talk about that and his work on the Web Standards Project (WaSP), specifically the Interact Web Curriculum program that is helping provide much needed updates to "webucation" curriculum.
Exciting show this week! I caught up with Hayes and Jennifer Davis of Appozite, creators of Cheap Tweet and Tweet Reach. They have a suite of amazing products that if you’re not using now, you should probably check it out… even... Read the Rest »
We’re back after an extended hiatus. You know the drill… pre-SXSW then post-SXSW… ugh… But here we are with another 40 minutes of quality banter. This show is dedicated to the memories we made at SXSW. The panels, the “bromances”, the... Read the Rest »
Google is creating products that are very similar to products. Steamrolling the competition. We're obviously big fans of Google products but if you take a step back, its something to think about so we included it in the show.
We also talk about an article from Trent Walton called "Divided Attention" that reinforces the mindset that when a customer are using your product, they're probably not just using your product and your product is competing against a variety of other things.
And finally we bring back #TrendingTopics! Tune in.
A brand new jQuery is upon us and luckily we have one of the hosts of the popular yayQuery podcast in our midst. Alex Sexton joins the show to talk with us about the Future Webby Award Winning yayQuery podcast and... Read the Rest »
This is an exciting episode that will no doubt enhance your life. Joining me on the show today is Kyle Simpson AKA @getify. He’s local Austin talent and he’s passionate about Web Performance which makes him a perfect candidate to talk... Read the Rest »
After an unintended hiatus, we’re back! In this episode we’re talking about The Year 2010 and all the treasures it promises. We start the year talking “don’t miss” items from the latter part of 2009. If you missed it, be sure... Read the Rest »
Finally! This week’s episode is robust and crammed pack with heart wrenching inspiration! We start off talking about Trent’s New Mouse. His blog has tips and tricks to put the magic into your Magic Mouse. We learn difficult lessons about critiquing... Read the Rest »
In this, our first Post-Episode “Bonus Content”, Michael Rice (@mwilliamrice), who helps write for Austin Town Hall has graciously lent us his Jeff Foxworthy impression for a spectacular rendition of Trent Walton’s Zombie Designers post. Dave also does a pitiful Ira... Read the Rest »
It’s the first official episode of The ATX Web Show! And we’ve got a little bit of a Halloween Theme (because its the day before). In this episode I’m joined by Trent Walton and we discuss the following topics: A little... Read the Rest »
Here’s a sneak peek at all the crazy antics that you can expect from the ATX Web Show! [insert slide whistle sound effect here]. Trent and I tested out iChat’s record feature today and as you can see, I was having... Read the Rest »