Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

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Sinopsis

A weekly podcast discussing the design, development, and business of great software. Hosted by thoughtbot CEO, Chad Pytel, and rotating cast of fellow developers, designers, and entrepreneurs, we delve deep behind the scenes of the products and technologies we love.

Episodios

  • 74: Fancy Scala (Sean Griffin)

    11/11/2013 Duración: 32min

    Ben Orenstein speaks with thoughtbot developer Sean Griffin about scala and ruby. Sean Griffin's Twitter Understanding Computation Tom Stuart Scala Website Martin Odersky's Free Class Programming Scala

  • 73: Spooky Robots Haunting other Spooky Robots (Drew Neil)

    04/11/2013 Duración: 33min

    Ben Orenstein speaks with Drew Neil, creator of vimcasts.org about teaching writing and workshopping vim. Vimcasts Practical Vim: Edit at the Speed of Thought Drew Neil's Twitter

  • 72: Up in the Mountains (Nathan Barry)

    28/10/2013 Duración: 32min

    This week on The Giant Robots Podcast, Ben Orenstein chats with Nathan Barry about book writing, teaching and self employment. Nathan's Twitter Nathan's Website The App Design Handbook

  • 71: The Power of the Truth

    21/10/2013 Duración: 39min

    Josh Clayton and Ben Orenstein interview each other about their managing director positions. Ben Orenstein's Twitter Josh Clayton's Twitter

  • 70: Let Your Freak Flag Fly

    14/10/2013 Duración: 40min

    Ben Orenstein speaks with Jeff Atwood about Discourse, forum software, and soylent. Coding Horror StackExchange Discourse.org discourse.soylent.me Jeff Atwood's Twitter

  • 69: Geocoding in the Now

    07/10/2013 Duración: 14min

    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

  • 68: Simplicity and Elegance

    30/09/2013 Duración: 34min

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

  • 67: The Data Optimist

    23/09/2013 Duración: 29min

    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

  • 66: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

    16/09/2013 Duración: 40min

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

  • 65: No! Videos Private!

    09/09/2013 Duración: 38min

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

  • 64: Wistfully Into the Air

    02/09/2013 Duración: 36min

    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

  • 63: Knowledge Bomb!

    26/08/2013 Duración: 48min

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

  • 62: Family Business

    19/08/2013 Duración: 31min

    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

  • 61: Having the Craic with Paul

    12/08/2013 Duración: 34min

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

  • 60: Deep Dive

    05/08/2013 Duración: 34min

    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.

  • 59: Nowhere to Hide

    29/07/2013 Duración: 25min

    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.

  • 58: A Thousand Neckbeards

    22/07/2013 Duración: 31min

    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.

  • 57: Delayed Gratification

    15/07/2013 Duración: 28min

    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.

  • 56: Code in a Bubble Bath

    08/07/2013 Duración: 36min

    ]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.

  • 55: The Value of Flow

    01/07/2013 Duración: 42min

    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.

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