I've been thinking about the podcast and realized that I haven't told my story. So, I'm going to talk about how I got into programming and technology. It's a story that started early in my life and leads through my college years and into my career.

I love programming and helping people and I would love to have more time to do that, but that means that I need to build a business that lets me do that. I'm not begging for money. But I would like your input.

BTW- Sorry for the scraping noise. I didn't realize my mic was picking up my mouse scraping across the table.

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Eric has his own company at elucidsoft.com. He's a freelancer and is developing a new product called Agile Dash.

Eric is bootstrapping his company. Some of his inspiration comes from Peldi from Balsamiq Mockups and Joel Spolsky.

Eric does his prospecting through LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter for his freelance business.

Here are some books recommended in this episode (affiliate links):

On Business:

On Programming:

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This is a discussion of the practice of Continuous Integration or Continuous Builds. Continuous Integration is a very important part of insuring that your code is of the highest quality. It runs tasks against your code that provide you information like whether your tests pass or your code compiles.

The services I've used to do this are:

You can use Continuous Integration to do the following:

Things mentioned in this podcast with links:

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This was a fun interview with Bryan Liles. Bryan is a very expressive guy. He's noted in the Ruby on Rails community for TATFT (Test all the f*ing time) and his blog at smartic.us.

In this discussion, we talk about TDD (Test Driven Design), TATFT, Lifehacking, leaving the mouse behind, and opinions on software.

Some things mentioned in the podcast:

You can check out his blog and follow him on twitter.

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