Reboot

Adarsh talks to Jim Perry, a professional poker player who trained as a civil engineer and baseball pitcher, now looking at his next career adventure. * Half Life [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life] * Duke Baseball [http://www.goduke.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPID=1850] * Jim's Blog [http://pokerplayingpitcher.blogspot.com] * Rounders Movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128442] * Magic the Gathering [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering] * Under the Boardwalk - Monopoly Championship [http://www.monopolydocumentary.com] * Two Plus Two Forums [http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com] * Deuces Cracked [http://www.deucescracked.com] * Independent Association of Baseball Leagues [http://www.americanassociationbaseball.com] * Worcester Tornadoes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_Tornadoes] * Ron Guidry, Red Sox Catcher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Guidry] * Black Friday 2011 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg]

Adarsh talks Jessie Young, who started her professional life as a political volunteer, worked in marketing, and became a developer after attending a technical bootcamp. * PDA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant] * Edward "Ted" Kennedy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy] * Brookline, MA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookline,_Massachusetts] * Sermo [http://www.sermo.com] * RailsBridge [http://www.railsbridge.org/] * "Head First HTML with CSS" [http://headfirstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/] by Elisabeth Robson, Eric Freeman (not Kathy Sierra as I had thought) * "Learn to Program" by Chris Pine [https://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/] * Hungry Academy [http://www.hungryacademy.com/] * Dev Bootcamp [http://devbootcamp.com/] * Pivotal Labs [http://pivotallabs.com/]

Adarsh talks with thoughtbot designer Brenda Storer. Brenda started out as a psychology major and waitress in California, moved to New York City right after 9/11, and finally threw away her waitressing shoes to work as web designer. * Bryant Park [http://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/iceskating/3] * Chico State [http://www.csuchico.edu/] * Brenda's Robbie Williams site from 1999 [https://github.com/brendastorer/robbiewilliams99] * David LaChapelle [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_LaChapelle] * Tilde Club [http://tilde.club/] * DreamWeaver [https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html] * BUNAC Study Abroad Program [https://www.bunac.org/] * 3Com Fountain [http://www.imageresourcegroup.com/images/3com_fountain_01-crop-u1025.jpg] * Titanic [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/] * FIT, Fashion Institute of Technology [http://www.fitnyc.edu/] * Quark [http://www.quark.com/Products/QuarkXPress/#1] * Imposter Syndrome [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome] * Girl Develop It [http://www.girldevelopit.com/] * Sara Chipps [http://sarajchipps.com/]

In Episode 0 of Season 1 of Reboot, Chad talks to Adarsh Pandit, thoughtbot SF Managing Director & host of the Reboot podcast, about his personal journey which inspired this, our newest show. This episode originally aired as #125 on the Giant Robots Podcast (http://giantrobots.fm/125) * Reboot [http://rebootshow.fm/] * "The Pickaxe" [http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ruby-Pragmatic-Programmers-Edition/dp/0974514055] * Agile Development with Rails [http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Development-Rails-Third-Edition/dp/1934356166/] * Learn to Program [http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Program-Second-Facets-Ruby/dp/1934356360/] * apprentice.io [http://www.apprentice.io/] * Adarsh on Twitter [http://twitter.com/adarshp]

In episode 1 of the first season of Reboot, Adarsh talks with Gordon Fontenot, an iOS developer at thoughtbot, about his career path, moving from college dropout, to bartender, to film editor and finally iOS developer. * Gordon Fontenot on Twitter [https://twitter.com/gfontenot] * Gordon’s podcast with Mark Adams on iOS development [http://buildphase.fm] * Waltham, Massachusetts [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltham,_Massachusetts] * Avid Video Editor [http://www.avid.com/US/Solutions/byNeed/video-editing.html] * Central Booking [http://www.centralbookingservice.com] * AppleScript [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript] * Pragmatic Programmers [https://pragprog.com] * Stack Overflow Careers [https://careers.stackoverflow.com] * Imposter Syndrome [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome] * Dog typing on computer [http://cdn.mlkshk.com/r/97VP] * thoughtbot [http://thoughtbot.com]