A blog by Ben Orenstein

How To Prepare For A Call With A VIP October 2018
The Checklist I Use To Start My Day November 2016
A Recent Email Exchange November 2016
Actual Size February 2016
A Querulous Query February 2016
Personal ROI—Business ROI February 2016
Missing the Boat February 2016
A Beautiful Way to Describe Programming February 2015
Surviving Your First Week In Vim January 2015
Your First vimrc Should Be Nearly Empty January 2015
Clear Your Mental Cache December 2014
Using Social Proof to Get Your Talk Accepted December 2014
Dear Twitter November 2014
40-Minute Talk Slots are Unnecessarily Challenging to Speakers August 2013
A Short Guide to Landing Your First Rails Job August 2013
Simple Rules for New Programmers August 2013
Code Commenting Guidelines for Beginners and Beyond August 2013
How much should global variables cost? August 2013
How to Improve as a Programmer August 2013
Thoughts After Coaching 12 Rails Developers July 2013
How I'd Improve The CFP Process May 2013
A criticism of DHH's post on Dependency Injection January 2013
Depend Upon Abstractions July 2012
Just closed more funding? My condolences. October 2011
Don't get blocked September 2011
Programmer Resumes are Deprecated June 2011
Let's read some Rails code: with_options June 2011
Video: write code faster -- expert-level vim May 2011
Let's read some Rails code: OrderedOptions May 2011
2011 Boston Rails Developer Salary Survey April 2011
Bundler's got bash-fu March 2011
Jumping Long Distances in Vim February 2011
A handy vim macro for RSpec users February 2011
Screencast: Watch Me Patch Some Rails Code February 2011
How to Land Your First Rails Patch (Screencast) February 2011
How to Recruit Me February 2011
How to land your first patch in Rails February 2011
A handy ruby trick: Class.new February 2011
How to use Rails routes in feature specs November 2010
How to teach programmers October 2010
Show respect for your users. Let them skip the easy stuff. August 2010
Mistakes A Noob Makes In Vim June 2010
Too Many Software Updates on OS X? June 2010
How To Land a Rails Job with No Experience June 2010
Two Halves of Apple April 2010
A thought on public speaking April 2010
How to Sell a Hundred Screencasts March 2010
Installing fuzzyfinder_textmate: Textmate's Cmd+T in Vim February 2010
Making Github's Code Readable November 2009
Making OpenID Usable September 2009
Ruby Best Practices: A Review July 2009
Good and Not So Good Rails Code June 2009
Obama's New Robots.txt January 2009
How Unit Testing Could Have Saved Lives January 2009
Damn Useful: When You Forget to type Sudo December 2008
Damn Useful Tips December 2008
One-to-many: Twitter's Edge. December 2008
Lazy Evaluation For The Win August 2008
The Power of Proper Practice August 2008
The Best Unit Testing Resources: Beginner to Expert February 2008
Switching editors is just as hard as switching languages February 2008
User registration pages suck January 2008
Reddit is broken redux December 2007
Fucking programming December 2007
On the fundamentals of programming December 2007
Why Reddit is broken, and how to fix it December 2007