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Ben Orenstein interviews Josh Clayton and Laila Winner on their book, Geocoding on Rails. Geocoding on Rails Josh Clayton's Twitter Laila Winner's Github

Ben Orenstein and Paul Farnell, CEO of Litmus, talk about starting up, business practices, and Litmus. Paul Farnell's Twitter Litmus

Ben Orenstein and Hilary Mason, Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, talk about Data Science, Bitly and Cheeseburgers. rt.ly search engine OkCupid Blog hackNY DataGotham NYC Resister Hilary Mason's Personal Website Hilary Mason on Twitter

Ben talks with Anthony Eden about DNSimple, programming languages and code retreats. dnsimple Anthony Eden's Twitter

On this episode Ben talks with Chris Savage and Brendan Schwartz about Wistia Wistia Chris Savage's Twitter Brendan Schwartz's Twitter

In this episode of Giant Robots Ben talks with Des Traynor about intercom, concise communication. blogging and customer outreach. Intercom Inside Intercom Blog Des Traynor's Twitter

Ben and Chad discuss mentoring, job hunting tips and FAQ thoughtbot Code Review Guide Pair With Me Sandi Metz Rules

In this of episode of Giant Robots, Ben speaks with Natalie Nagele and Ilya Sabanin about Wildbit, Beanstalk, and work flow. Wildbit Beanstalk Ilya Sabanin's Twitter Natalie Nagele's Twitter

In this episode Paul and Ben talk about tito, funconf, and organizing conferences. Paul Campbell's Twitter Pabcas Hypertiny Tito

In this week's episode Ben discusses effective business practices and advice for optimal page design with special guest Patrick McKenzie. Learn Prime Bingo Card Creator Paul Gram (Do Things That Don't Scale) Double your Freelancing Rate Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @patio11 on twitter.

In this episode, Ben Orenstein speaks with thoughtbot CTO Joe Ferris about the technical interview process at thoughtbot, and more. Flog tool complexity Flay duplication tool Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @joeferris on twitter.

This week Ben Orenstein, Pat Brisbin, and Mike Burns talk about Haskell, Linux, functional and dynamic programming, Conway's Game of Life, and much more. Real World Haskell Hackage Conways Game of LIfe Learn You A Haskell Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, @patbrisbin and @mikeburns on twitter.

In this episode, Ben Orenstein is joined by Michael Klett, Co-founder and tech lead of Chargify. Ben and Michael discuss the evolution of Chargify and bumps along the way, underwear subscriptions, Michael’s transition from hardware to software, negativity in the Rails community, slow tests, and much more. Chargify Manpacks Bryan Helmcamp’s blog on 7 ways to refactor Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs @tenderlove’s keynote at railsconf Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @moklett on twitter.

]In this episode Ben Orenstein is joined by Alex MacCaw, creator of Spine, formerly of Twitter, and now a developer at Stripe. Ben and Alex talk about travel, writing, code, and couch surfing. Alex's Personal Website Alex's Blog Alex's World Travel Blog Post Alex's Github Spine Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @maccaw on twitter.

In this episode Ben Orenstein speaks with designer and founder of Authentic Jobs, Cameron Moll, about Authentic Jobs, design, the value of flow and family, and much, much more. Authentic Jobs Cameron's personal website Podcast: Hired Cameron's Future Insights Live Keynote Hire with your head – Lou Adler Ebay CEO Interview Charlie Rose Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign Rails Conf 2013 How to Talk to Developers by Ben Orenstein Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @cameronmoll on twitter.

In this episode, Ben Orenstein is joined by 17 year old Jack Kaufman, author of The Found a Business Book. Ben and Jack discuss Jack's inspiration for the book and how he got all his interviews, the other opportunities it's led too, the common themes he uncovered in his interviews, the differences between those who got funding and bootstrappers, working on the book while in highschool, marketing he's doing, his plans for the future, the issue with college computer science programs, his fears about the future, and much more. The Found a Business Book mixergy.com The Side Project Book Jack's guest post for Forbes.com Haverford College pillsoftware.com Michael Hartl's Rails Totorial Learn Prime apprentice.io Dev Bootcamp Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @kaufman_jack on twitter.

In this episode Ben Orenstein is joined by Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale from Tilde. They discuss bootstrapping a business and the model behind Tilde, their breakdown of product development and consulting, and how they all met. They also talk about designing APIs and frameworks that people actually want to use, how teaching helps them be better framework developers, how they can beat the competition, how supporting multiple languages and frameworks can ruin your app's experience, the big surprises as they've launched, Ember.js' push to 1.0 and beyond, the difference between Ember.js and Backbone.js and why JavaScript matters, and much more. Tilde Skylight Ember.js Ember Data The conceptual ladder W3C TC39 Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, @tomdale, and @wycats on twitter.

In this special episode, number 52, and our 1 year anniversary episode, recorded at RailsConf 2013, Ben Orenstein is joined by Ruby and Rails core team member Aaron Patterson, thoughtbot CTO Joe Ferris, and a live studio audience. The trio discuss Rails 4, observers, callbacks, dubstep, namespaces, Scheme, functional programming, thread safety in Rails, what it would take to remove callbacks from Rails and why you would want to do it, what should be in our anniversary episode, dealing with Rails security issues, why Aaron likes to work on Rails, meeting people's expectations, Vim, intuitive software, and so much more. Array#forty_two ChickenScheme The Racket language Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) Metacircular interpreter Play by Play: Aaron Patterson Heroku fucking console Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, @tenderlove, and @joeferris on twitter.

On this week's show, recorded at RailsConf 2013, Ben Orenstein is joined by Sandi Metz, developer, author, podcaster, and recent Ruby Hero award winner. Ben and Sandi discuss winning awards, writing, whether notoriety changes who you are, what Sandi is proud of, the bad code she's writing and why, what she's doing now, getting real feedback on your work, that it's OK not to know everything, and much, much more. Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby Rails Conf 2013 The Magic Tricks of Testing by Sandi Metz Lanyrd Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @sandimetz on twitter.

In this week's episode, recorded at RailsConf 2013, Ben Orenstein is joined by Jeff Casimir and Katrina Owen from Jumpstart Lab and gSchool to discuss performing, speaking, and imposter syndrome, preparing for your talk, and what makes a good talk and how to give one. The also discuss gSchool, the way the program works and they way it's guaranteed, teaching, admitting ignorance, how good practice should be harder than the real thing, and why Jeff didn't like studying Computer Science and why he didn't enjoy programming and how Rails reignited his passion for creating things, and much more. Peepcode gSchool Jumpstart Lab Code Academy galvanize Go Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, @j3 and @kytrinyx on twitter.