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I was quite chuffed to find that my first freelance piece for The Register was featured on the front page.  The piece is a 17 minute podcast and accompanying intro article that covers the conversation I had with XML co-developer and really smart guy, Tim Bray.

Tim was a great interview.  Not only is he very knowledgeable but he answers questions very lucidly.   Take a listen and see for yourself.

>> Listen (17:24)  mp3 version | ogg version

Why's Tim so jazzed about a 20 year-old Swedish Telco language (other than the cool graphics)?

Some of the topics Tim tackles:

• The state of the web today.
• The evolution of Twitter: Ruby on Rails + Scala + ?
• Dynamic languages that rock Tim’s world:  PHP? Python? Ruby on Rails?  Closure?
• And speaking of dark horses, what about Erlang?  dealing with wider CPUs and concurrency.
• Is Google’s Wave the next Twitter or the next Lotus Notes?
• What’s happening in browser land?  And what about HTML5 (video and canvas)?
• Opera’s recent announcement and the value of web hooks.
• Tim’s been “Kindled.”  What other web business models are working out there?
• What most rock’s Tim’s world: 1) Databases duking it out – what’s the right way to persist data at scale and 2) Mobile platforms: Android, iPhone, Palm Pre — all very different approaches.

Shout outs: To Terri Molini for setting this up and Paul Bonser of X-team for introducing me, over beers, to Erlang.

Pau for now…

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