Ben Christen

Blogging Roller: Roller 2.0 ships! Great news! I’ll be installing this at work (tomorrow maybe?) and I’m hoping that we can really take advantage of the group blogging.

Today is my five-year anniversary at my current job. w00000t!

rails_take2_with_sound.mov (video/quicktime Object) I was sold on wanting to try it out within a few seconds of this video. Hopefully more on this later (after I learn it and start using it – that’s the hope).

Let’s say you work at Ford or some major auto manufacturer. You bust your ass designing and building (yeah, I know they’re not hand-built, work with me here) dozens of car models or maybe you work specifically on some internal aspect, maybe the engine itself. And, you are keeping abreast of new developments from your […]

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Here are some resources I highly recommend if you’re in a position to be interviewing candidates for engineering positions. Hiring Technical People is a great blog precisely about this topic. Subscribe to it. Also, read Joel‘s post, The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing. These two resources (plus maybe read How would you move Mt. Fuji) and […]

Interesting, I saw this on Ken Norton‘s blog – This is what being a “media company” means? He comments on this LA Times article, among others commenting on Yahoo! dealing with a Hollywood/Silicon Valley culture clash — mainly manifested in the big egos of hollywood execs. It’s pretty funny. Hard to say how much of […]

Awesome! Google Analytics. Just the other day Shadow was telling me about how awesome Urchin is for site analytics and we were hoping that dreamhost would consider setting it up for shared hosting. Well, no need for that now! (Google bought Urchin and now offers the services for free) Now I just need to sit […]

Awesome! Check out the new help page on del.icio.us. They also added easy and configurable tagrolls and linkrolls (so you can easily have your links or tags on your blog, etc.). Check mine out. del.icio.us ru|3z!

Newsvine and How Big Companies Can Innovate Yup, pretty much sums it up. Great post.