Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Brad Feld on the Rally Cafe. Brad is one of the managing directors of the venture capital group The Foundry Group. In this interview he discusses tons of topics ranging from the common mistakes startups make when approaching VC’s to what he see’s as “hot” in technology today and seemingly everything in between. I hope you enjoy this video interview. Brad is super candid and doesn’t hold any punches.  If you have questions for Brad, email him at b...@feld.com or you can find him on Twitter, he’s bfeld.

New on our DTS Code Dojo: Created as a demonstration integrating Google Maps and the ExtJS Javascript framework, the Wind Energy Explorer is a site for viewing our nation’s wind energy capacity. The initial functionality is focused on loading state polygons into the map via GeoJSON. When the user clicks on a state, the rendering the capacity over last 9 years is shown as a Google Chart. The viewer also makes use of the powerful data grid in ExtJS, which automatically supports custom sorting. We will be adding more functionality to this viewer over the coming months.

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Ok, I don’t know about you but after hearing so much about it, I finally jumped into the Twitter pool.  Only problem is, I’m not sure if I really feel like swimming.  In case you don’t know what Twitter is, here’s the lowdown.  Some call it microblogging, others a social network of sorts.  Essentially, you can say whatever you want in 140 characters or less…and people can follow what you have to say via Twitter clients, RSS, SMS, etc.  Here’s some of the captivating content folks were providing today on Twitter:  Read the rest of this post