129 RR Sharpening Tools with Ben Orenstein

01:29 – Ben Orenstein Introduction

• Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots
• thoughtbot
• thoughtbot Learn

04:23 – Tool Sharpening

• Play by Play: Refactoring with Ben Orenstein
• Ben's GoGaRuCo Talk

07:16 – Coding Environment

• Remaps and Shortcuts
• Learning New Commands
• Disabling Commands

20:06 – Prioritizing Things

21:08 – Tool Sharpening Activities

22:55 – Sharpening Skills

26:26 – Tool Sharpening with Teams and Organizations

• Changing Policies and Procedures
• Big vs Small Company Resistance
• Making Improvements

35:52 – Operating System Sharpening

• Alfred App
• SizeUp
• Vimium
• LaunchBar

39:32 – Hardware & Other Physical Tools

• Kinesis Advantage Ergonomic Keyboard
• GeekDesk
• A standing desk for $22
• VIVOBAREFOOT
• Ruby Rogues Episode 074: Developer Environments

48:37 – Favorite Remap

• Dash

53:33 – Upcoming Appearances

• RubyConf
• Garden City Ruby

Book Club

Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer by Brian Marick! We will be interviewing Brian on December 18th, and the show will air on Christmas Day. Oh! And here's a $5.00 off code to get the book: please_remember_the_starving_artist So, well, Merry Christmas!

Next Week

Data Visualization with Aja Hammerly