What Ben Bleything has done in 2008

Recent stories by and about Ben Bleything

How I met Ben Bleything

We were both in prison at the same place. He got out early for good behavior. It took me a bit longer to get out.

Why I like Ben Bleything

I made a wish list of Ruby coding items, and he’s now hacking a solution to one—thanks!

Why things are awkward between me and Robert Bousquet

See, we were in competing PAC-10 marching bands at the same time… and nobody likes the ‘SC band ;)

The last time I saw Austin Ziegler

we discussed the finer points of why the (L)GPL sucks.

How I met Ben Bleything

I met him when he was working support at LiveJournal. He was Angry Ben then. Now he seems much happier, and only wants to kill people when they write shoddy code and refuse to take patches.

The last time I saw Ben Bleything

He had an ankle injury due to booby-trapped solar powered lights.

A story about Ben Bleything

I’m not quite sure who Ben Bleything is, but I do know that I made him spit out his coffee today after I mentioned on IRC the meeting I had with a little gift left by one of my squirrely friends.

Why I want to meet Ben Bleything

Unlike Robby, he seems to be a Portland Ruby brigader who’s not completely insane.

A story about Ben Bleything

Ben and I talk quite a bit in #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net. Together we built a set of Ruby scripts to do cool things with subversion and our IRC bot. It was a fun coding experience.

How I met Pat Cunningham

Pat and I worked at a cub scout camp together a few years ago. Pat was one of the guys that I knew I could go to when I needed something and it would get done right, the first time.


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