19: Photography exposed

What is financial planning? This week Abraham Martinez, financial advisor and chief operating officer at Brio Financial, visits the show to explain his role as a financial advisor and some of the tools and strategies he uses to help clients reach their goals.

Functions, processes, supervisors, pipelines, pattern matching, oh my! These are just a few of the cool things that you can play with in Elixir. This week I share my experience with Elixir so far and how it compares to Ruby.

So you just nailed the interview and you're looking at a job offer. What's next? This week we talk about some tools and strategies to make that job offer even better.

We put our music “in the cloud”, we put our documents “in the cloud”, we putour code “in the cloud”, but why don’t we put our development environment inthe cloud?

This week we learn enough about photography to pick up any camera in the world and bend it to our will.

This week I share what’s great and not so great about working on a distributed team and the tricks I use to make the experience even better.

This week Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory and CEO of memrise.com, shares his thoughts on memory training, imagination, perception, and the future of learning.

This week I share how to get project maintainers and co-workers excited about the code you write by building the perfect pull request.

This week Ben Orenstein stops in Portland, Oregon during his 3 month “walkabout” to teach me how to sing a barbershop tag and to share his thoughts on podcasting, conference talks, code review, and a few uncomfortable situations.

This week I share a simple, but powerful, technique I learned from USA memory champion Ron White for quickly memorizing any person’s name.