5: My wife is getting really into whiskey

Ben Orenstein is joined by “Cowboy” Ben Alman, JavaScript open source developer and Director of Pluginization at Bocoup. They discuss how Ben Alman got started with programming and his crazy projects, the open web, favorite tools, and one of his latest projects, Grunt. They also discuss CoffeeScript, and why Ben Alman’s not using it yet, speaking at conferences and how Ben Alman got more comfortable in front of crowds, whether its important to understand straight JavaScript, or just jQuery, and more! Also, Whiskey.

• "Cowboy" Ben Alman
• Bocoup
• Ben Alman's enormous project listing
• Bocoup
• Sublime Text 2
• M+ monospace font
• Ben Alman's dotfiles and gpr
• Grunt on github, Grunt introduction
• jake
• JSHint
• npm
• CoffeeScript
• ES.next
• Variadic function
• YUI Compressor
• Bulleit Bourbon
• The Macallan
• Big Ben Hillman @ The Big Easy

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