Welcome to Syntax. Today we've got Ben.

We had a crazy week here at Syntax here.

We've got we're going to react Miami in Scott's

line out tomorrow if I'm playing out the day after that so we're just

recording for the week getting ahead of everything and we had a guest cancel

we can't leave you folks without a show. So we did we got you the next best thing Ben Ben is our manager here at

Syntax and he holds everything together and we've had been on the show previously as well before syntax was even part of Century and he told us all about some interesting stuff about how Century has

saves his stuff in the database and the stack there

and his time at Fresh Books and all kinds of interesting stuff.

So we have them on again today to, we're gonna talk about some Cloudflowers. interesting stuff that he's

that he's working on, some really interesting.

A lot of people are really interested in like the new stuff Cloud Flair's

been putting out as well as, we'll talk a little bit about syntax we've been

doing this for one year now and we'll sort of look back on it so welcome Ben

thanks for coming on thanks for saving our butts hey guys this is weird we were

we were just in a slack channel together and now we're recording this

You want to give a quick introduction to who you are what you do? Yeah sure my name is Ben Vinnager I've been working in

software and web development for painfully like 20 years I really don't like how that

number has gotten pretty high lately and I don't know quick bio

trying to retread a little bit of that last episode but you know I got into software to make

video games that was my original career ambition. Didn't really

worked out, got into web development, was an early employee at the startup

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