80: TZ Discussion – Get That Monkey!
[audio:http://traffic.libsyn.com/techzing/techzing-080.mp3]Justin and Jason discuss the successful start of the donation drive, the show’s grand patron Ben Boyter and executive producer Felix Leong, Rob Walling and the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, why Justin moved Pluggio from Rackspace’s Cloudsites service to a VPS, password hashing and rainbow table attacks, a password strength meter in Javascript, a PHP password hashing framework, developing browser extensions and bookmarklets, the Startup Toolkit, how champions push past the pain, avoiding toxic relationships, the new TechStars book Do More Faster, diffing startup advice and Jason’s idea for doing a startup advice cage match series, TwitterCounter and the growth rate of Justin’s Twitter following, why Jason think’s PHP is to Ruby as SF is to LA and some startup naming suggestions.