83: Turning the Tables (Ben Orenstein)

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 learning programming, how he's getting into Clojure, and much more!

An episode of the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast, hosted by thoughtbot, titled "83: Turning the Tables (Ben Orenstein)" was published on January 27, 2014 and runs 53 minutes.

January 27, 2014 ·53m · Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

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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 learning programming, how he's getting into Clojure, and much more! Ben's Blog Ben's Github The Vim Learning Curve is a Myth Chad Fowler on the Giant Robots podcast How to Get Your Conference Talk Accepted How to Talk to Developers (Rails Conf 2013) 4clojure.org WellnessFX Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @cpytel on twitter.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

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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 learning programming, how he's getting into Clojure, and much more!

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