Discourse and Ruby (Interview)

Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp and Kenneth Reitz talk with Jeff Atwood about Discourse and more.

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Featuring:

• Jeff Atwood – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
• Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

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• We’re joined by Jeff Atwood, from codinghorror.com and stackexchange.com
• Stack Overflow is a community Q&A platform.
• Discourse is an open source discussion platform.
• Wordpress is an open source CMS in PHP.
• Shapado is a Q&A platform in ruby.
• OSQA is an open source Q&A system.
• Reddit is an online community where users vote on content.
• Steve Yegge’s tour de babel is a language roundup from 2006.
• Why Ruby? is a blog post by Jeff about why he did Discourse in ruby.
• mono is an open source .NET development framework.
• Discourse as Your First Rails App is a blog post about setting up the Discourse development environment.
• ember is a JavaScript framework for ambitious web applications.

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