Adam, Drew and Jared are joined by special guest Sam Soffes of Nothing Magical and previously Hipstamatic fame – we catch up on tons of topics from The Industry, Adobe turning away from Flash to embrace HTML5, CSS3 and web standards, HTML5Rocks Live, Drew shares lots of Dialoggs invites and Sam shares juicy details about making Cheddar – plus so much more!

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Show Notes:

• Sam Soffes (@samsoffes) is on the show. Used to be the lead iOS engineer at Hipstamatic and is now doing his own thing, Nothing Magical.
• Tried not to mention Dialoggs. That didn’t work.
• Dialoggs makes it easy to have and facilitate a conversation that Twitter and Tumblr leaves out.
• Big topic in the news is Adobe.
• Finally makes sense for Adobe to work on HTML5 and CSS3. We’re proud of them!
• Drew talks about how he now only uses Photoshop and Illustrator and not paying the monthly price through Creative Cloud is not worth it.
• Adam talks about Ryan Carson and his 4.7 million working 4 days a week for Treehouse.
• Ryan Carson on Founders Talk back in late 2010.
• Drew actually tried to raise money for Dialoggs through Kickstarter. Just a push start.
• Visit Adobe’s GitHub.
• “Everything you need to create an amazing website.” That’s Squarespace. Get 10% off your website with offer code ‘theindustry5′.
• Squarespace 6 looks “drop dead gorgeous” says Jared.
• Design Your How: Charge What You’re Worth
• Sam believes you should be charging more than what you’re charging right now. More money also gets better (more respecting) clients.
• Sam is living on his Apple stock gains and contracting.
• Gary Vaynerchuk talking about Apple being a company that give America a lot of pride.
• Apple’s current stock price: 594
• Sam has been to WWDC every year since iOS came out and highly recommends going.
• The next iPhone will just be called iPhone. This is what we believe.
• Gifture launched and already made it to the ‘New & Noteworthy’ section of the App Store.
• We interviewed James McDonald, the guy behind Gifture.
• Sam’s to-do app is coming soon and he promises it’s not lame. It’s called Cheddar.
• Sam is making Cheddar because he wants a to-do app that can be used on any device, always in sync with push, and is actually easy to use. Will be launching in a couple weeks.
• Cheddar: Pusheris the push service and the back-end is on Rails.
• Teehan+Lax (sponsor) has goodies. They’re GUI PSD files all for you to use.
• Check out Teehan+Lax’s 35 MB Retina iPad GUI Photoshop file!
• LayerVault 2 is out with three key new features along with an entire redesign.
• “We put a ton of time into stripping the interface down to its essentials.” — Allan, founder of LayerVault. This is important.
• Be sure to check out SoftFacade.
• Inspired by and reflect the ultimate goal of The Industry: The Kern and Burn 100s of Design Entreprenuarship.
• Drew poses the question: “how can you work for someone’s company and be called an entrepreneur?” You probably have a spirit. Also brings back his voice.
• Dribbbleboard is cool. Basically a different interface of Dribbble.
• By the way Dribbble made $80,000 from their job posting board in one quarter.
• Next sponsor: Less Money Conference. “A 2-day event where 50 people come together to learn & discuss how to become a more profitable, less stressful business owner or freelancer.” Use the coupon code ‘theindustry10′ to get 10% off.
• If you’re not following Jared. Follow him @jarederondu.
• This Square Register Stand for the iPad is worth checking out. It’s made by Tinkering Monkey. They also make a brandable Moleskine.
• Sam is selling most of items except for the main essentials to declutter his life and support his well-being while doing his own thing.
• Interested in stay up-to-date with the open source world. Visit The Changelog.
• Fire.app was talked about.
• 40% of Cheddar is built with Coffeescript. Sam strongly dislikes Javascript.
• Also check out dotfiles on Github.
• Paul Irish posted on Google+ talking about Google Dev tools, HTML5, and some scroll effects.
• Be sure to visit Hakim’s blog, the guy behind all of these experiments.
• Sam makes music.
• We love Soundcloud!
• Speed Tracer, part of the Google Web Toolkit
• Dialoggs was an idea back in December of 2010 and is now rendered mostly in CSS and Drew has personally coded over 8,000 lines.
• Convert Javascript to Coffescript or vise versa with js2coffee – it was also featured on The Changelog.
• Go ahead and visit Sam’s hire page.
• Also follow Sam on Github.