Ruby Rogues

MRS 036: Ben Orenstein


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Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Ben Orenstein

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Ben Orenstein. Ben recently just got a new job refactoring Rails apps, runs a podcast, called The Art of Product, and just finished up The Code Quality Challenge. He first got into programming when he was a Senior in high school and took a computing class at the local college where they taught him C, and he really fell in love with programming. He is really proud of his contribution to the education side of the programming world and enjoys being able to teach really complicated concepts.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

  • The Art of Product Podcast
  • The Code Quality Challenge
  • How did you first get into to programming?
  • Gorilla.bas
  • Cue Basic
  • First taught C
  • How did you get into programming with Ruby?
  • Studied Computer Science in college
  • IT consulting
  • Worked with Ruby at Dana Farber Cancer Institute
  • Ruby Pragmatic Programmers book
  • What have you done with Ruby that you’re proud of?
  • Rails apps
  • Thought Bot
  • Really enjoys teaching programming
  • Giant Robots Podcast
  • What are you working on now?
  • Refractory Rails Course
  • Mackey
  • Haskell
  • His newsletter
  • You learn so much when you watch someone work and see the process live
  • And much, much more!
  • Links:

    • The Art of Product Podcast
    • The Code Quality Challenge
    • Dana Farber Cancer Institute
    • Ruby
    • Ruby Pragmatic Programmers Book
    • Rails
    • Thought bot
    • Giant Robots Podcast
    • Refactoring Rails Course
    • Mackey
    • Haskell
    • Ben’s Newsletter
    • @R00K
    • Picks:

      Charles

      • Creating a Blockchain with JavaScript
      • Stimulus
      • Dave Thomas Elixir Course
      • Ben

        • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
        • An Outsider's Guide to Statically Typed Functional Programming by Bryan Marick
        • ...more
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