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Ben is joined by Alex & Jatin, recent graduates of the first thoughtbot / Metis Ruby on Rails Bootcamp, to talk about the process, experience and feedback on their path to becoming junior developers. Ruby on Rails Bootcamp Alex on Twitter Jatin on Twitter

On our special 100th episode Aaron Patterson joins Ben from RailsConf to talk AdequateRecord, frustrations in software, bulk meat discounts, the finer nuances of cat-naming and the importance of scientific thinking in web development. AdequateRecord Chicken Scheme Aaron's RailsConf Closing Keynote Aaron on Twitter

From RailsConf, Ben & Greg Baugues of Twilio discuss how mental illness affects the development community and the importance of, as well as resources to, proper treatment. Business of Software Video Developers and Depression book Devpressed Forum Open Sourcing Mental Illness prompt Campaign Greg on Twitter

From RailsConf, Ben talks to Chris Hunt of Github about techniques for enhancing spacial memory, competitive personalities, the coffee infamy of the Pacific Northwest and Clojure testing. Dominic O'Brien Bibliography World Memory Championships Chris on Twitter

Live from RailsConf Ben & Ernie Miller explore his "Curmudgeon" talk, modules and the importance of nuance. TDD is Dead Appriss: VINE Ernie on Twitter

Live from RailsConf, Ben talks to Executive Director of The Turing School Jeff Casimir on Conf-stress, the lack of jobs in open source and the challenges of learning to run a business. Turing School of Software & Design Heartbleed Bug The E-Myth Revisited

This week Ben sits down with Chas Emerick to discuss his latest venture, The Quilt Project, start up philosophies and the importance of balanced time management. 100% Time Clojure Programming: Practical Lisp for the Java World The Quilt Project PDF TextStream Rich Hickey's Ant Simulator Von Neumann architecture heaven forfend

Ben is joined by Diana & Jessie of thoughtbot San Francisco to discuss their latest book, iOS on Rails, the concept of releasing a book in Beta and the importance of apprenticeships to emerging junior developers. iOS on Rails Roy Fielding Ray Wenderlich iPhone Tutorials Flinto Diana on Twitter Jessie on Twitter

On this weeks show Ben talks to David Nolen, Rails & JavaScript developer for the NY Times, about being a steward of ClojureScript, functional programming, the advantages of immutable values and Om. David Nolen ClojureScript React Kitchen Table Coders: The Immutable Stack David on Twitter iOS on Rails (Beta)

Ben and Ryan Hoover, co-creator of Product Hunt, talk revenue models, the value of blogging, diversification of skills, and tiny steps towards major change. Tradecraft: Training people to succeed in traction roles at high-growth startups Product Hunt: A daily leaderboard of the best new products Knowing When It's Time To Move On Don't Learn To Code BJ Fogg- Tiny Habits method Ryan on Twitter

This week on Giant Robots, Ben talks to Rich Thornett, Co-Founder of Dribbble, about the formation and criticisms of the company, the role of product design and remote team management. dribbble Rich on Twitter

Ben talks to George Brocklehurst & Mike Burns of thoughtbot's Stockholm office on creating and distributing gitsh, an interactive shell for Git, and why it shouldn't be a Ruby gem. Get Gitsh Stockholm Vim Haskell Stockholm Classical Code Reading Group

This week on Giant Robots, Mahmoud Abdelkader of Balanced joins Ben to talk the priorities in ones career trajectory, the role of a successful CTO, and the benefits of radically open transparency. Balanced What Does Balanced Do? Balanced Github Balanced Cookbooks Mahmoud on Twitter

This week Ben Talks with Kyle Bragger of Elepath, Inc on the nature of online community building, advertising vs subscription revenue models and the importance of continued creative output (and actually releasing it to the world). Elepath, Inc Exposure Mauerpark Karaoke Forrst Drew Wilson

This week on Giant Robots, Ben chats with Tony DiPasquale on utilizing Arduino engineering to solve 0th world problems. Arduino Home Page Original Bathroom Occupancy Proof of Concept Breakdown Full Low Power Custom Arduino Sensor Board Instructions!

In this week's episode, we're joined by Peter Reinhardt, Co-founder and CEO of Segment.io. Ben and Peter discuss the product, their tech stack, the companies big pivot to Segment.io, their growth and future plans. They also discuss leaving MIT to start a company, getting along with your co-founders, nuclear reactors, hiking, and much more. Segment.io node.js Express.js Thorium reactors Molten salt...

This week, Ben is joined by Max Temkin, creator of Cards Against Humanity and Humans vs. Zombies. Max talks about his success with Cards Against Humanity and his feelings of impostor syndrome. He talks about some of his other projects including his first indie game, Humans vs. Zombies. Most recently Max had a multiplayer PC game published called Samurai Gunn. Max talks about the "open source" natu...

On this week's episode, Ben talks with Harper Reed, former CTO of Threadless, former CTO of Obama for America, and currently CEO of Modest. Harper talks about management and his "cabal" of people that he likes to work with. He also discusses his experience on the campaign, healthcare.gov, and procurement laws. When asked about his playbook for success, Harper talks about networking strategies, the...

On this week's special episode, Chad Pytel turns the tables and interviews host Ben Orenstein. They discuss the process of running the podcast and Ben's roots in programming and computer science. Ben talks about his Vim mastery, how he got into public speaking, and his experiences speaking at RailsConf. This year Ben is organizing the live coding track at RailConf. Ben describes his strategies for...

This week's episode features Matt Knox of Twitter. Matt is a part of Twitter's university team which teaches new Twitter recruits about the company. He works as an engineer as well in order to stay current. Matt discusses his background as an engineer, and how he got into teaching. He discusses using Storm, essentially a real-time Hadoop, for Twitter. Ben and Matt talk about the importance of keep...

In this week's episode, Ben Orenstein is joined by best selling author, Seth Godin. Seth describes himself as an entrepreneur, a blogger, and an agent of change. They discuss art, frustration, and the endless pursuit of perfection as an artist. In his newest book, The Icarus Deception, Seth discusses seeking art in your work and looking beyond standards and production. They talk about the importan...

This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein chats with Josh Pigford about time management, entrepreneurship and farming Josh Pigford's Website Josh Pigford's Twitter Tiny Farmstead Baremetrics Popsurvey Temper

This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein talks with Uncle Bob Martin about functional programming, ethics, and writing. Bob Martin's Twitter Clean Coder Bob Martin's Blog

This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein talks with Chris Lindland, CEO of Betabrand.com about online fashion, self-generating product and dress-pant-sweatpants. Chris Lindland's Twitte Betabrand

This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein speaks with Harold Giménez, Heroku postgres leader, about postgres, data management, and beer brewing. Harold's Twitter Harold's Blog Heroku