Summary: Episode 179 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week we have 3/4 of the panel, Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) and Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves). Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #179: Mining the Database (MP3, 30:17, 29.1MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary The panel discuss topics such as a new paid social network, user testing and several typography related topics! googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Paypal President Marcus Vows Change at Payments Giant – Tricia Duryee – Commerce – AllThingsD and PayPal president makes house-call (or email) to smooth over customer dispute Download Digg Archives via Essentials of the Online Business.com – Chris Trynkiewicz PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 9.2 released Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/179. Host Spotlights Patrick: Amazon.com: Hyperkin SUPABOY Portable Pocket SNES Console Louis: Amazon.com: Year Zero: A Novel (9780345534415): Rob Reid: Books Stephan: BBC News – Jazz junctions – riding New York’s A Train Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to the Site Point podcast. We’re back with the panel show this week to discuss some new stories and events from around the world of web design and development. With me on the show today are Patrick and Steven. Hi guys. Stephan: Yep, how are you? Patrick: Hey, how’s it going? Louis: Kevin Dees could not make it this week but we will carry on in his absence. Patrick: Yes, Kevin was actually showing me around Minecraft the other day. Louis: Oh, all right. Are you dead to the world now? Patrick: He got lost. I threw you guys right off the bat with that one. Yeah we did a screen share on Skype and he was showing me his server he had set up for Minecraft. It’s pretty cool. My little brother’s playing it on his iPod, and it’s like a pretty neat thing. It reminded me of some things that I played in the past. I’m not an old man per se. Louis: You’re such an old man Patrick. Patrick: But I am older than Kevin. And it reminded me of Runescape in some elements. Even Sim City to some extent. But it’s a pretty cool game. I don’t know if you guys have played around with it at all. Louis: Yeah, I did very briefly. I only played locally, not on a server and at that, only for a few hours. I kind of put it aside and never got back to it. But it was definitely interesting and it’s captivated a lot of people’s imaginations, so it’s an interesting development in gaming. I like the fact that it’s just a purely open world kind of thing and really focuses on letting you just build whatever you want to build. Patrick: You know it’s funny, to give you an inside into my mindset. One of the questions I’m asking him when he starts showing me and he’s on this server he has with a friend and I’m well can the other person destroy what you built? He’s like yeah. That’s like one of my first questions. And he’s like, yeah they can but that’s why I have my own server with my friend. We built things and we built all these little traps and stuff, and yeah it’s pretty cool. But that’s my mindset. It’s wait a minute, can this person come to what I just built and change it? So, I’m very protective. Louis: All right, on that note. I don’t have a segue, unfortunately Kevin, the master of the segues isn’t with us [...]
