Ruby Rogues

On today’s episode, Charles Max Wood and Jerome Hardaway discuss Packaging Ruby with Nell Shamrell-Harrington. Nell is an expert Software Development Engineer at Chef Software. Tune in to learn how you can provide viable packaging solutions! Special Guest: Nell Shamrell-Harrington. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a sup...

1:25 - Is a bootcamp the best way for someone to enter programming?7:25 - Learning social skills for working with development teams How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People by Stephen R. Covey Corporate Confidential by Cynthia Shapiro 9:25 - Getting a well-rounded education20:00 - Learning how to find a job and have a career27:20 - The respo...

00:30 - Introducing Brandon Hilkert Build a Ruby Gem  25% off for Ruby Rogues’ listeners! Twitter Github Blog/Website 3:55 - Building gems and the community 8:30 - Brandon’s process for creating gems (for beginners) 14:45 - Testing gems 17:00 - Writing the whole system into a gem vs breaking it up 26:15 - Why build  Suckerpunch ? Blog post 33:50 - What does it take to publish a gem? Ruby Gems 35:4...

00:45 - What deployments have we used?3:22 - Heroku 5:10 - Dev/prod parity10:30 - Deployment stories11:50 - Continuous deployment CircleCI SnapCI 15:55 - Working with clients that are anti-testing and writing tests28:50 - Server setup Docker Chef 34:05 - Nginx and Passenger 39:35 - Handling caching issues and increasing server space44:25 - Methods for deploying46:30 - Team size and deployment Capi...

00:25 - Introducing Jay McGavren Head First Ruby Github 1:20 - Teaching style and joining Treehouse 4:35 - Head First Ruby’s ideal audience8:00 - Challenges with teaching11:30 - Writing Head First Ruby 12:50 - Doing research Efficiency in Learning: Evidence-Based Guidelines to Manage Cognitive Load by Ruth Clark 15:20 - Reader feedback16:05 - Hangups when learning Ruby20:45 - Searching for error m...

00:45 - Introducing the Wood brothers and their work Upgrade Rails Hint.io Ben’s Twitter Joshua’s Twitter 3:05 - Upgrading Rails without breaking it6:25 - Working with clients with technical debt12:20 - Frequently seen projects and clients14:45 - Upgrading clients from older versions of Rails22:50 - Why do clients push off upgrading?28:10 - How do you know when it’s time to upgrade?34:35 - Finding...

00:40 - Introducing Cameron Dutro Lumosity Cameron’s talk at Rails Remote Conf Github Twitter 2:15 - What is the Asset Pipeline?5:35 - Problems and limitations of the Asset Pipeline8:10 - Cameron’s biggest frustration with the Asset Pipeline14:45 - Doing it the Rails way, the Angular way, or the React way20:25 - Keeping your Webpack and Asset Pipeline separate: Working with Javascript and Rails Br...

00:35 - Introducing Sam Joseph Agile Ventures Github Twitter 2:15 - All about Agile Ventures6:25 - Social innovations9:30 - Common needs of charity organizations15:15 - Origins and growth of Agile Ventures19:19 - Website One22:00 - Goals for the future of Agile Ventures24:40 - Getting involved sam@agileventures.org AG sign up 29:00 - Finding motivated team members and using MOOC32:40 - Connecting...

00:15 - Fabio’s experience writing the first Portuguese Ruby on Rails book Fabio’s blog Twitter Facebook 7:35 - Effect on Fabio’s career9:10 - Sharing your knowledge without being an expert11:30 - Is Ruby still exciting? Should you learn a new language?18:50 - Using a different language and returning to Ruby22:30 - Learning Crystal 24:20 - Building a new project and choosing a technology32:20 - Re...

00:55 - Why study React on Rails? Justin Gordon’s Youtube 04:30 - Redux07:40 - Using React on parts of an app and not the whole11:05 - Jsx, Webpack, and Hot Module Reloading React-webpack-rails-tutorial 16:05 - Integrating React with Ruby on Rails19:55 -  Libraries25:05 - Is React on Rails automatic? React on Rails Website 28:30 - Server rendering30:55 - Gaps between server rendering and page load...

00:25 -  Why Ruby is still relevant06:30 - How we got started with Ruby08:20 - Why are people saying Ruby is dying?13:00 - The Ruby community15:00 - Debating the “waste of time” argument20:05 - Learning other languages23:50 - The “pie”27:05 - Revitalizing Ruby38:15 - Advice for the worrierPicks: Angular for Rails Developers by Jason Swett (Jerome) Vets Who Code (Jason) The Rise of Theodore Rooseve...

00:42 - Introducing Jason Swett Angular on Rails Use the code “rubyrogues” to get $10 off your purchase Twitter Email: jason@angularonrails.com 2:20 - Angular or Rails?4:40 - Real-time data modeling9:00 - Angular CLI11:15 - Structuring Angular and Rails apps16:50 - Should beginners learn Angular or Rails first?19:50 - Building apps and tying Angular and Rails together Tour of Heroes Tutorial Jason...

00:30 - Introducing Noel Rappin Take My Money: Accepting Payments on the Web by Noel Rappin (Ebook only) Take My Money: Accepting Payments on the Web by Noel Rappin , (physical copy pre-order link) Website Twitter 1:00 - Paid gateways for apps6:05 - Why write Take My Money?8:45 - Getting tripped up on simple arithmetic11:55 - Troubleshooting gateway system failures Runscope 21:45 - Managing admini...

1:00 - Addressing the Ruby Rogues rumors3:10 - History of the show6:30 - Why Charles Max Wood does the podcast10:40 - Listener emails13:50 - Moving forward with Ruby Rogues18:30 - Answering questions from the chat  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues...

00:45 - Introducing Jerome Hardaway and Vets Who Code Website Twitter 3:40 - All about Vets Who Code 8:00 - Special considerations for the Veteran community Smashing Magazine 13:10 - Coding and social/life skills Interview Cake 21:45 - Veteran lingo and coding26:45 - Transitioning into the civilian workplace30:50 - Vets Who Code gender breakdown35:20 - Connecting with Vets in the tech world The Mu...

0:45 - Introducing Carina C. Zona Website Personal Twitter Callback Women We So Crafty 2:10 - Coding consequences RubyConf 2015 Keynote: “Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm” Slides Code Newbies discussion 6:00 - Examples of consequences Flickr Deep Learning Google Photo 10:50 - Data quality theories14:05 - Preventable Mistakes and Algorithmic Transparency17:30 - Predictive Policing and Biased...

00:30 Introducing Andy Hunt Website Twitter The Pragmatic Bookshelf GROWS Method 5:25 - GROWS Method Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition 13:20 - How GROWS solves Agile’s shortcomings19:50 - GROWS for executives22:50 - Marketing Ruby Faker Gems Fakercompany.bs 25:30 - GROWS and laying framework for change29:00 - How empirical is GROWS?33:35 - How expectations from the Agile Manifesto have changed36:...

1:15 - Introducing Kenzi Connor Cloud City Cloud City Twitter Kenzi Connor’s Twitter Email: kenzi@cloudcity.io 4:15 - Senior developer vs Junior developer: Sustainability and hiring8:25 -  Examining the “senior-obsessed field”10:00 - Importance of sustainability12:35 - Lottery-ticket thinking13:35 - Solutions to the junior vs senior dilemma21:10 - Diversity and productivity23:50 - Effective manage...

Rails Remote Conference 1:20 - Introducing James Shore Github Flow for Javascript Screen cast Email: jshore@jamesshore.com 1:40 - Freelancing and Consulting5:20- Co-opting Agile and the movement away from technology/software Agile Alliance Technical Conference Agile Fluency Model 16:20- Evolutionary Design in Agile Ron Jeffries Sudoku Think Like A Git code visualization built with Gource 24:15 - E...

Rails Remote Conference 1:25 Introducing Josh Doody Twitter Fearless Salary Negotiation by Josh Doody Take his (free!) crash course in getting promotions 2:50 - Making salary negotiations when you’re your own boss4:22 - Asking an employer to “give where it hurts”6:20- Minimum Acceptable Salary / B.A.T. N. A.10:45 - Leaving a new job for a better offer13:47 - Job happiness versus job salary15:55 -...

01:11 - Aurynn Shaw Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Eiara 01:56 - Contempt Culture Aurynn Shaw: Contempt Culture Impostor Syndrome 07:32 - “But PHP is objectively bad….”; True Objectivity PHP: a fractal of bad design 10:35 - The History of The Contempt Culture in Tech Spaces12:40 - Reinventing Tools15:00 - “Intent is not magic.” Shakesville: Harmful Communication, Part 1: Intent Is Magic 20:09 -...

01:42 - Amir Rajan Twitter GitHub Blog A Noble Circle Surviving The App Store: How to Make It as an Indie Game Developer by Amir Rajan 02:24 - A Dark Room (ADR); Revenue and Downloads Revenue Updates for A Dark Room et al 09:16 - Quality, Heart and Soul, and Putting Yourself Into a Product iPhreaks Show Episode #161: Successful Indie iOS Game Development with Amir Rajan 14:31 - Choosing RubyMotion...

Rails Remote Conf  01:14 - Justin Weiss Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Avvo   Practicing Rails: Learn Rails Without Being Overwhelmed by Justin Weiss 02:15 - “Learning Rails Without Getting Overwhelmed”? Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson, with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, and Andreas Schwarz 02:34 - Problems New Devel...

All Remote Conferences  02:01 - Lauren Voswinkel Introduction Twitter GitHub New Relic 02:39 - May 1st: International Workers’ Day Lauren Voswinkel: #talkpay and the Importance of Collective Action Taft–Hartley Act (The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947) 06:11 - #talkpay Information Asymmetry 10:22 - Fair Trade of Value; Companies and Salaries Kelley Blue Book 19:37 - Salary Maximization and...

Rails Remote Conf  02:07 - Testing07:28 - Adding Tests Later; When is the test useful? TDD (Test-driven Development) 14:35 - Testing the Happy Path16:48 - Writing Tests First18:53 - Sharing Code Larry Wall: Three Virtues 27:34 - Testing Error Messages29:04 - External vs Mocking/Stubbing34:11 - Exploratory Tests and Characterization Tests Sunk Cost Fallacy Katrina Owen: Therapeutic Refactoring 39:0...