Any fun stories about how it's used that surprised you? Talk a little bit about Untappd and its purpose. Most of everything I have learned about scaling, developing, and running Untappd, I've learned from using open source products and through the web. A developer can start working on a project and have all the great web development tools without paying a penny, and with the knowledge sharing available, can learn a lot. It would also be very hard for new developers to get the tools they need because the cost would be too high. I don't think there would be many mobile web developers out there, because without the free sharing of information, the growth of people's expertise would cease. What would things be like for a web dev in an alternate universe without open source tools? You wrote a book about mobile web development. We also love PhoneGap, as it powered our mobile apps. We use this in our apps and web to deliver awesome templating with logic based on our business requirements. Like many websites, we live and breathe off of jQuery, but recently have really loved the templating flexibility of HandlebarsJS. Are there any specific open source repositories or libraries out there that you couldn't live without? Any library we use, we try to think about how to build it with "openness" in mind, for re-usability by all. We hope that other developers can use these libraries to save some time and help them focus on building great projects. With every library that we develop for use on Untappd, we try to open source it, including our PHP Library For Amazon CloudSearch, UntappdPHP, and MemcacheJS.
It's what powers software evolution, and without it, we would have a hard time developing solutions effectively and efficiently.
We use a lot of open source software within Untappd daily, from MongoDB to jQuery.
How do you use open source in daily practice? Read more in my interview with Greg about his open source journey, his favorite beer, and why check-in apps are still relevant. According to him, if it weren't for open source software, his app-and the projects of many other developers-simply wouldn't exist. He loves coding so much that he wrote a book about mobile web development. He loves beer so much that he made an app, Untappd, where users track their favorite brews.
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