Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ
Acting
Biography
Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ was born and raised in the Silicon Valley. In 1988 he started working with "R&A Professional Consultants", one of the first computer consultation firms in the valley. After undergraduate work at Santa Clara University he entered the "Society of Jesus", a religious order of the Catholic Church also known as "The Jesuits". As a Jesuit, Fr. Robert has worked as a teacher, a software developer, a retreat director, a telecom deployment manager, an associate pastor, and the Director of Vocation Promotion for the Jesuits of North America. In 2001 Fr. Robert started technology-based blogging for "The Tech Stop" which evolved into video views on the "gadget" YouTube channel. Fr. Robert has been a contributor to CSPAN, FOX-5 (DC), BBC World News, NPR and Al Jazeera on topics of technology, religion and society. Prior to moving on to his post at The Vatican, he was a host on This Week in Enterprise Tech, Know How..., Before You Buy, Coding 101, and Padre's Corner. He has been a guest on many other TWiT shows and remains a regular contributor.
Known For
Get the know how to make technology work for you. TWiT shows you tech projects that you can do yourself and explains everything from tech basics to advanced techniques.
Know How...
Magician and scam artist Brian Brushwood teams with Justin Robert Young for a weekly irreverent fun fest featuring unusual guests, bizarre games, and strange and wonderful tales.
NSFW Show
18% science, 27% irreverence, 22% current events, 56% geek life, 13% non-sequiturs and $19 of ranting. That's the formula for Padre's Corner – A show that's not necessarily about tech news, but created by those who love news about tech. Join Padre each week as he picks up the stories that fall through the cracks and geeks out with your favorite folks from around the Interwebz.
Padre's Corner
The New Screen Savers is a variety show for tech. The show stars Leo Laporte and is co-hosted by Megan Morrone, Jason Howell, Fr. Robert Ballecer, and Bryan Burnett. Viewers get live tech help, interesting guests, insights into the latest innovations, products and trends, plus lots of fun things thrown in, too. There will also be special guest co-host appearances from Patrick Norton, Kate Botello, Kevin Rose, Martin Sargent, and more.
The New Screen Savers
Join Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt to get short term, long term, and crazy predictions, as well as the always interesting FourCast Findings and FourCast QuickFire Questions segments. They're a little lazy, so they bring on two guests every episode and make them do the work.
FourCast
Join Father Robert Ballecer and Lou Maresca on Coding 101, a weekly instructional, project-oriented programming show with appeal for beginning to intermediate programmers. Using a combination of classroom-style teaching, guest programmers, and special interest segments, Coding 101 offers beginner, intermediate, and "applied" programming topics within several interchangeable modules. Learn programming languages such as Java, C++, Visual Basic, PHP, Perl, and more!
Coding 101
redditUP features the best that "the front page of the Internet" has to offer. Hosted by Sarah Lane and Chad "OMGchad" Johnson, each episode recaps the week's best stories, memes, AMAs (Ask Me Anythings), and more from the popular social news community.