Our guests Michael Bleigh, Divshot CEO, and Kevin Chau, Director of Business Development at Divshot, talk about the importance of Static Applications, Hosting Static Apps, & Hackathons. Static Showdown is a worldwide 48 hour hackathon featuringstatic web apps. Divshot, a company born of a hackathon, is a leader in Static App Hosting. They are Community Builders and lovers of the web.
 
This year, Divshot brings us it’s 2nd incarnation of the Static Showdown competition that will be held online Jan 24th through Jan 25th. Registered teams will be provided with a private github repo & Divshot Static App hosting for the hackathon. Some prizes include Chrome Books, Moto 360’s, $300 Apple Gift cards, $500 Amazon gift cards, cold hard cash and more.
This Serverless coding event is sponsored by some of the top companies & projects in the web development industry. Past Judges have included Yehuda Katz, Eric Bidelman, Alex McCaw, Mark Otto, Zach Holman, and many others. Sign ups end on Jan 22nd so hurry and  get your team ready ASAP for a solid 48 hours of fun, creativity, & excitement. Register at http://staticshowdown.comnow!
 
 
Hosts:


Erik Isaksen - UX Engineer at3Pillar Global


Christian Smith- Open Source Developer & Startup Enthusiast


Danny Blue - Senior Front End Developer at Deloitte Digital


Nick Niemeir- JavaScript Agent Engineer atNew Relic


 
This episode is also available on our YouTube channel
Links


StaticShowdown 2015 - http://www.staticshowdown.com/


Divshot Static App Hosting - http://divshot.com


ReadTheSource.ioSuperStatic walkthrough with Scott Corgan - http://hangouts.readthesource.io/hangouts/divshot-superstatic/


Divshot’s Blog - https://divshot.com/blog/


ele.io (ellie) Web Components Playground - https://ele.io


Built With Polymer -  http://builtwithpolymer.org/


Web Components LA -  http://www.meetup.com/Web-Components-LA/


Erik’s quick intro to Divshot (15 min) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DXme0_dfK4


Creating Webpages using Bootstrap and Divshot (73 min) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLYZ7ZVwnvk


Static Apps Org - http://www.staticapps.org/