Ben Scofield

23 Nov 2009

I've given my "Comics" Is Hard talk about five times now, and the feedback consistently fell into one of two buckets: Some people wanted to …

14 Nov 2009

Twitter's lists are a fascinating new feature, and people are using them in a bewildering variety of ways. I think one of the most …

28 Oct 2009

[[posterous-content:vidmnkAIvtEHqHcylwcn]]In case you didn't notice, the CFP for RailsConf 2010 in Baltimore went out yesterday – and along …

26 Oct 2009

[[posterous-content:ICkAFbstaprzDIahdsEp]]We're rapidly approaching November, which means that another NaNoWriMo is almost upon us. NaNo's …

22 Oct 2009

I've seen one particular complaint about Ruby conferences fairly often over the past couple of years – people question why the same speakers …

19 Oct 2009

[[posterous-content:oBGotzwudxstbsyyhfrG]]I recently read Paul Graham's Hackers and Painters (a collection of essays from his site, …

16 Oct 2009

I was listening to a program on NPR recently, and I heard the interviewee say something interesting about discovering the guitar. …

12 Oct 2009

Last weekend, I was out in Boulder, organizing and MCing for our last Developer Day of 2009. It was an exciting conference, bracketed by the …