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topfunky

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About topfunky

Senior Visionary of Open Source publishing at Pluralsight http://pluralsight.com

Founder of PeepCode screencasts (acquired in July 2013).

Recent public activity

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    Comment #6899257

    Founder Tobias Luettke was the first person I interviewed for the Ruby on Rails podcast back in 2005. Glad to see him doing so well! http://podcast.rubyonrails.org/programs/1/episo…

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    Comment #6645528

    Congrats to Rob! I'm the founder of PeepCode (also acquired by Pluralsight a few months ago). I feel like I've been traded up to an all-star team who is about to win the Super Bowl…

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    Comment #6205612

    I'm the open source curriculum coordinator at Pluralsight. We would love to commission a video to help devops people learn and use Ansible. Email geoffrey@pluralsight.com if you're…

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    Comment #6099502

    Thanks, Peter!

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    Comment #5801338

    This is great timing. We just recorded a two hour Intro to Elixir with its creator Jose Valim. We'll be publishing it in June at https://peepcode.com I think it will be a good comp…

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    Comment #5787539

    Throwing away code should be a regular part of your workflow. The best programmers I know do it often. Programming isn't just about generating more lines of code. It's about unders…

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    Comment #5055508

    Really great article...an instant classic. Shameless plug It's validating that we mentioned over half of these points in an interview with startup founder Eric Lindvall on his Pape…

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    Comment #4225798

    Sponsored by: Clock http://clock.co.uk/ Geekli.st http://geekli.st/community/nodeup PeepCode https://peepcode.com/

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    Comment #3737236

    Bought a copy for my Kindle. Unlike many tech books sold as epub, the code formatting is great. Very readable on a variety of devices. Looking forward to reading it soon.

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    Comment #3132372

    I've found the same thing. Solid colors of a screen capture can easily compress to under 200 MB for 60 minutes of video, but live action (even with only small movements) can double…

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    Comment #148596

    It's often hard to convince people to pay for something that was previously free. So you have fewer options if you start out without a business plan. Additionally, a revenue scheme…