02:36 - Responsibility and Communication Slack “Ask Anything” 12:10 - Onboarding Experience for Remote Employees15:55 - Measuring New Employee Metrics 17:41 - Onboarding Onto a Team vs Onboarding Onto a Project20:51 - What it Means to be a Senior Developer29:20 - First Impressions and Team Member Categories33:26 - How do you decide what you spend time learning?40:57 - Code Reading The Web Platform Podcast Picks Private Internet Access (Avdi) Darkest Dungeon (Avdi) imprint (Coraline) The surprisi...
Nov 11, 2015•56 min
02:20 - Eric Normand Introduction Twitter GitHub Democracy Works LispCast Clojure Gazette PurelyFunctional.tv 03:31 - Old vs Young Programmers Robert C. Martin: My Lawn “Uncle Bob” Martin Speaks at Yale SOM 05:38 - Teaching Fundamentals Kathy Sierra 11:02 - Teaching Backgrounds12:13 - Why is so hard to be a good teacher?15:54 - Teacher Feedback19:46 - Asking Questions25:56 - Community Education28:20 - Order of Operation29:36 - Recognizing Students Understanding of Fundamentals NPR Planet Money: ...
Nov 04, 2015•1 hr 14 min
Go check out Rails Remote Conf! 02:30 - Lee Byron Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Facebook 02:46 - GraphQL [GitHub] graphql Relay 04:16 - GraphQL vs REST09:43 - Endpoints Security 13:33 - How the Stack Works graphql-ruby 19:35 - GraphQL on the Front and Back Ends Type Checking Contracts Versions 36:14 - Calculating Tradeoffs43:38 - Structuring46:17 - Building the Ecosystem48:16 - Use with Other Frameworks JavaScript Jabber Episode #152: GraphQL and Relay with Nick Schrock and Joe Savona 49:50 -...
Oct 28, 2015•1 hr 14 min
Check out and get your ticket for Rails Remote Conf ! 02:00 - Sarah Mei Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Devmynd RailsBridge 06:11 - Why It’s Hard to be “The First Person” Biases Mind the Gap - On the unconscious bias we all carry, and how it applies to hiring Avdi Grimm: What it’s like to come back to a Ruby project after 6 months 13:27 - Transmitting Cultural Values16:01 - What Companies Can Do Dev Team Diversity #Realtalk - On the unprecedented opportunity we have right now to diversify our s...
Oct 21, 2015•1 hr 10 min
When is it worthwhile to introduce a new language, tool, or database? And when will it likely bite you in the rearend?02:43 - Episode Idea Background PolyConf @polyconfhq 04:28 - Implementing Standards and Comparisons Minimize Entry Level / Maximizing Payoff 08:23 - “Dumb Code” and Developer Expectations10:48 - Code Coverage and Regular Expressions Oniguruma Fizz Buzz Ruby Rogues Episode #120: RR Book Club: Understanding Computation with Tom Stuart 12:49 - Risk Impact/Probability Chart , Risk - ...
Oct 14, 2015•1 hr 1 min
02:00 - Luca Guidi Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog 02:35 - The Lotus Framework @lotus_rb Lotus Mailing List A Rails Criticism by Luca Guidi 03:56 - Working Full-time on Open Source04:55 - Flat MVC06:26 - Maintainability07:42 - Entities and Repositories10:42 - Controllers, Views, Conventions, and Templates (Structure)16:41 - Helpers17:56 - The Controller Layer20:12 - Validations23:26 - Testing capybara BDD (Behavior-Driven Design) 29:23 - The API32:37 - Contributing to Lotus Contributor Code of ...
Oct 07, 2015•54 min
Check out Rails Remote Conf ! Submit a CFP!01:53 - Daniel Kehoe Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog 02:07 - Digital Nomad Lifestyle Daniel Kehoe: Why I Left My Heart in San Francisco Nomad List Remote Year 08:45 - RailsApps & Rails Tutorials @rails_apps [GitHub] RailsApps RailsClips #007: Rails Composer Daniel's Kickstarter Project: Rails Composer with Rails Tutorials -- Runs until October 6th, 2015! Michael Hartl's he Ruby on Rails Tutorial Book and Screencast Series Learn Enough Command Line ...
Sep 30, 2015•41 min
02:03 - Laurent Bossavit Twitter GitHub Institut Agile 03:11 - The Leprechauns of Software Engineering by Laurent Bossavit 04:52 - The 10x Programmer Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition by Steve McConnell 13:07 - The Custom Defects Curve15:33 - Leprechauns and Local Truths (Does Needing to Prove Others Wrong = Fear?)22:53 - The Feedback Cycles25:09 - Agile, Waterfall, and The Software Crisis Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman “Bugs in the brain” =...
Sep 23, 2015•1 hr 9 min
02:18 - Ben Browning Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Red Hat JRuby 02:46 - TorqueBox @torquebox 04:05 - Use Cases and Benchmarks TechEmpower's latest round of benchmark results, filtered to just the Ruby servers running Rack/Rails/Sinatra/etc apps and their JSON serialization test 06:32 - The Genesis of TorqueBox Bob McWhirter 07:49 - JBoss WildFly 09:15 - The Name “TorqueBox”10:12 - Adoption12:05 - Documentation DocBook YARD 13:18 - When should/could you use TorqueBox?17:25 - Monolith vs Micro...
Sep 16, 2015•32 min
02:05 - André Arko Introduction + Bundler Twitter GitHub Blog 04:28 - Ruby Together Trade Association Brian Mikulencak 10:52 - Ruby Central 501(c) Organization 14:23 - Ruby Together Timeline16:01 - Open Source People Depend on vs Open Source as a Hobby17:03 - Corporate Member Rights / The Structure of Ruby Together Monthly Contributions 20:19 - How the Board Makes Decisions Slack 23:00 - Membership Numbers24:03 - How Voting Works26:58 - How much work is involved in maintaining these projects?3...
Sep 09, 2015•54 min
02:35 - Yorick Peterse Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Rubinius The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome libxslt 03:07 - oga nokogiri 06:38 - Fixing vs Writing an Alternative Feature lexers Parse Tree 14:01 - Doing a Document Instead of a Programming Language16:01 - Modifying XML Documents17:19 - Inputting in Memory19:09 - Extending oga with C ffi 22:44 - Parsing racc ruby-ll 25:16 - Resources LL Parser 28:57 - Lessons Learned Building oga 30:14 - Writing Parsers in Other Languages31:19 - Getting ...
Sep 02, 2015•51 min
Don’t miss out! Sign up for Angular Remote Conf ! 02:28 - Sean Griffin Introduction Twitter GitHub thoughtbot @thoughtbot 02:53 - Rails 5 Ship Estimate?03:15 - What’s Coming in Rails 5? actioncable turbolinks 3 04:13 - Approachability For New Developers Turing School 05:49 - Making Decisions06:46 - “Syntax”07:40 - Adding or Matthew Draper 09:36 - The Attributes API 12:57 - Serialization & Deserialization21:26 - Feature Proposal & Policies The Rails Core Mailing List The Rails Talk Mailin...
Aug 26, 2015•52 min
Check out Angular Remote Conf and RailsClips ! 03:15 - Mike Perham Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Contributed Systems sidekiq dalli 03:43 - Sidekiq Overview resque JRuby 05:18 - Job Runners vs Queuing Systems, Background Jobs RabbitMQ sneakers 08:47 - Performance celluloid 09:49 - celluloid vs Ruby Threads11:47 - The GIL (Global Interpreter Lock) 12:49 - Passing Data14:01 - Performance Boost From Using JRuby ?15:48 - The Actor Model revactor Rubinius girl_friday 20:39 - Sidekiq Roadmap Statist...
Aug 19, 2015•55 min
Check out RailsClips and Angular Remote Conf ! 02:46 - Leon Gersing Introduction Twitter GitHhub Blog Dev Bootcamp [Talk] Leon Gersing: Keep Software Weird 03:24 - “Augmenting Your Reality”07:06 - Emotional Goals and Quantifying Happiness Hacking Happy by Dusty Phillips 13:49 - Quantification15:32 - Reacting to Data17:49 - Recognizing Patterns and Trends Journaling and Meditation 21:58 - FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) 26:20 - The Software Development Mindset Teams Should Play More Encouraging Easter...
Aug 12, 2015•58 min
02:40 - Justin Collins Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Brakeman @brakeman SurveyMonkey Brakeman Pro @brakemanpro 03:40 - Brakeman & Static Analysis 04:02 - Common Security Vulnerabilities (and Definitions) Cross-site Scripting SQL Injection rails-sqli.org Mass Assignment Open Redirects 08:57 - The Inspiration for Brakeman09:47 - Getting Brakeman Working (Process)10:41 - Learning About Security The Rails Cheat Sheets The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) The OWASP Top Ten 13:01 -...
Aug 05, 2015•59 min
Check out RailsClips ! 02:44 - Alex Wood Introduction Twitter GitHub 03:09 - Trevor Rowe Introduction Twitter GitHub 03:26 - What is offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) ? Elastic Beanstalk OpsWorks Alex's RailsConf 2015 Workshop 06:48 - Setup and Taking Incremental Steps (The Cloud as a Paradigm) Identity and Access Management “Make sure everything works” 12:19 - CloudFormation Tooling aws-sdk-ruby 15:19 - Data-Centric Services (Monitoring, Traceability, Visibility) CloudFormation S3 CloudFront...
Jul 29, 2015•59 min
RailsClips is officially launched!03:11 - Michael Nygard Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Cognitect @cognitect Michael Nygard: Documenting Architecture Decisions 04:36 - Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael T. Nygard The Circuit Breaker Pattern Designing Software to Get Past 1.0 07:15 - Upfront Architecture Agile Software Development What does “good” look like? “Old ideas in new context result in innovation” Michael Nygard: Architecture Without an End State 14:29 -...
Jul 22, 2015•59 min
03:42 - Derek Prior Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog thoughtbot @thoughtbot thoughtbot Code Review Guides The Bike Shed Podcast @_bikeshed 04:01 - Code Reviews Derek Prior: Implementing a Strong Code-Review Culture @ RailsConf 2015 Slides 05:14 - What happens when you don’t do code reviews?06:30 - Not Emphasizing Code Quality, Setting Code Review Up for Failure Edge Cases Diverse Feedback, Team Conflict 10:43 - Code Reviewing Yourself: Answering Your Own Questions12:03 - The Evolution of Code Re...
Jul 15, 2015•1 hr 6 min
02:41 - Sam Aaron Introduction and Background Twitter GitHub Blog 10:53 - Sonic Pi Defined Affordable Creative Coding with Music 13:10 - Live Performance Aspect23:58 - The Learning Curve28:06 - Teaching Kids to Program Through Music Joseph Wilk: Programming as Performance @ Ruby Conf Australia 2015 34:07 - Sonic Pi in the Classroom 36:22 - Threading Cue and Sync 41:18 - Choosing Ruby Over Clojure for Sonic Pi44:13 - Sonic Pi Roadmap: What’s Next?49:22 - Contribute to the sonic-pi Repo! Sonic Pi ...
Jul 08, 2015•1 hr 9 min
02:28 - Ruby in a Polyglot Architecture (Panel Experience)04:21 - Does Ruby do well or not in the microservices area? Is Ruby keeping up?07:30 - What are areas where Ruby still beats other languages? Speed and Momentum Dependency Management CPAN Bundler npm 13:12 - Polyglotting Architecture if Only Using Ruby for Build Tools, Deployment Tools, etc.? “Deployment is part of the code.” Capistrano rake 16:09 - Error Messages 18:20 - Tradeoffs in a Polyglot Architecture (Negatives) Context Switching ...
Jul 01, 2015•44 min
02:25 - Daniel Jacobson Introduction Twitter Blog SlideShare LinkedIn Netflix @netflix Netflix Techblog Netflix GitHub 02:46 - How Netflix Looks at Programming and Development Team Context and Control Freedom and Responsibility Netflix: Freedom & Responsibility Culture (Version 1) Netflix Culture: Freedom & Responsibility (Version 2) Amazon AWS JVM (Java Virtual Machine) “Specialties” 05:03 - Maintaining a Consistent Culture Setting Context 06:37 - Onboarding Process08:15 - Engineering s...
Jun 24, 2015•45 min
Get your Ruby Remote Conf tickets and check out the @rubyremoteconf Twitter feed for exciting updates about the conference. 03:09 - Evan Czaplicki Introduction Twitter GitHub Prezi 03:15 - Richard Feldman Introduction Twitter GitHub NoRedInk 03:42 - Elm @elmlang 04:18 - Elm vs JavaScript dreamwriter 06:52 - Reactivity07:28 - Functional Principles Immutability Union Types 09:42 - “Side Effects” (Reactivity Cont’d) JavaScript Promises Signals React Flux Excel Spreadsheet Comparison Two-way Data Bi...
Jun 17, 2015•1 hr 3 min
02:48 - Jim Gay Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Ruby DSL Handbook 03:43 - Object Design Clean Ruby SOLID Principles 04:39 - DCI (Data, Context, Interaction) Main Resource for DCI (FullOO) 07:20 - What Painpoint DCI Aims to Solve The Gang of Four Book object-composition Mailing List (Google Group) 09:31 - Designing From DCI From the Start (Process) Levels of Use Cases Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistair Cockburn 11:42 - Object Composition Single Responsibility Principle 13:56 - Definitions: ...
Jun 10, 2015•56 min
Sign up for Ruby Remote Conf!! 02:49 - Jeremy Evans Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Sequel Ruby Hero Awards 03:58 - Roda and Routing Trees rum Cuba Ruby Rogues Episode #182: Keeping Libraries and Utilities Small and Simple with Michel Martens Plugins: ClassLevelRouting 08:56 - Roda vs Padrino , Sinatra 10:03 - Nested Routing11:09 - Snipping Routing Trees? MultiRoute 13:19 - Dispatching from One Rack Application to Another13:54 - Rails Integration14:33 - Performance and Benchmarking @tenderlove ...
Jun 03, 2015•1 hr 13 min
02:32 - Julian Cheal Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog 02:49 - Julian’s Background with Robots and Drones Arduino AR.Drone 03:32 - NodeCopter Events 04:31 - Traveling with Robots05:35 - Julian’s Collection and Projects Julian Cheal: Dancing with Robots Raspberry Pi BeagleBone 07:46 - Giving Demos09:12 - What Makes Robots? Sinon.JS MQTT Protocol 10:21 - Where is IoT ( Internet of Things ) Heading? Security 13:11 - Programming Languages NodeBots 14:15 - Tools and Protocols The MIDI Protocol Spark C...
May 27, 2015•49 min
Check out and sign up for https://rubyremoteconf.com/ !02:45 - Francesco Cesarini Introduction - https://twitter.com /francescoc - https://github.com /francescoc - https://www.erlang-solutions.com/ - Books: - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596518189 .do - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920020240.do - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024149.do 03:08 - http://www.erlang.org/ - Multicore - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7005759/erlang-on-multicore-cpu - History - http://www.eric...
May 20, 2015•1 hr 2 min
02:30 - Noah Gibbs Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Ruby Rogues Episode #199: Deployments with Noah Gibbs Rebuilding Rails by Noah Gibbs Rails Deploy In An Hour Class 03:03 - Structure03:44 - Guiding People Through the Magic Special-Purpose Tools: The Good and the Bad 06:55 - The Origins of Rebuilding Rails by Noah Gibbs 07:55 - The Practice of Code Reading09:19 - Getting Started Rebuilding Rails Frameworks Sinatra Cuba Lotus The Core Functionality of Rack CGI = Common Gateway Interface 15:09 - ...
May 13, 2015•54 min
02:53 - Nick Sutterer Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Trailblazer: A New Architecture For Rails by Nick Sutterer 03:31 - Trailblazer [GitHub] trailblazer 04:56 - Form Object “Operation” 07:28 - Validations ActiveModel::Validations lotus/validations Introducing Lotus::Validations 08:47 - Decoupling09:45 - Namespace Reuse Concepts/Concerns 11:50 - Process Method => Procedural Code12:54 - Inheritance13:57 - Contracts14:57 - How is Using Trailblazer Different?18:17 - What Would DHH Think?19:32 -...
May 06, 2015•52 min
02:25 - Piotr Solnica Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Ruby Object Mapper (ROM) virtus 03:04 - Piotr Solnica: 8 Things I Learned During 8 Years of Ruby and Rails 03:45 - Test-Driven Development 06:17 - Building a Stack Roda [YouTube] Jeremy Evans: Better Routing Through Trees (MountainWest RubyConf 2015) 09:56 - (TDD) Test-Driven Development Cont’d15:36 - Immutability ( Immutable Objects ) Command-Query Separation Changing Objects Freezing Objects adamantium Zippers Persistent Data Structures ha...
Apr 29, 2015•1 hr 22 min
02:37 - Dave Thomas Introduction Twitter Blog The Pragmatic Bookshelf 04:17 - How Dave Got Started in Programming06:34 - Tools and Constraints “An Enthusiast’s Problem”? Is the focus on tools a form of cargo culting? Leadism Over Chosen Technologies and Its’ Effect on Innovation Switching Tools and Making Excuses 19:29 - Limerence Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love by Dorothy Tennov Irrational Interest and Defensiveness 28:54 - Ruby = Happiness: Does it Hurt?31:00 - Tools and Fa...
Apr 22, 2015•1 hr 15 min
