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Ruby Rogues

Charles M Woodtopenddevs.com
Our original panel podcast, Ruby Rogues is a weekly discussion around Ruby, Rails, software development, and the community around Ruby.

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Episodes

RR 471: Sorbet with Ufuk Kayserilioglu

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, we talk with Ufuk about how Shopify made the transition to using Sorbet and about the benefits they felt they received from implementing it. Ufuk also reveals a little bit about how Shopify transitioned to fully remote and about how that will be the default moving forward.Sponsors Audible.com Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial CacheFly Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Ufuk Kayserilioglu Picks Luke Stutters: https://gith...

Sep 22, 202057 min

RR 470: Performance Improvement of Ruby 3.0 JIT with Takashi Kokubun

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists discuss the progress, problems, and strategies for implementing JIT in Ruby for the Ruby 3×3 goal all while being humbled a bit as Takashi improves our understanding around the subject.Sponsors Audible.com CacheFly Panel John Epperson Matt Smith Luke Stutters Guest Takashi Kokubun Links https://github.com/mame/optcarrot medium.com/@k0kubun/jit-development-progress-at-ruby-2-7 Koichi Sasada PicksLuke Stutters: The World of Transcendental Programming (...

Sep 15, 202018 min

RR 469: Refactoring with James Dabbs

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, we talk to James Dabbs as we explore a number of subjects and topics around refactoringSponsor CacheFly Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Matt Smith Luke Stutters Guest James Dabbs Links https://github.com/github/scientist PicksJohn Epperson: Refactoring Cheatseets James Dabbs: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! A tour of Unison Luke Stutters: Meet Author R.A. Salvatore Dave Kimura:: Video Chat with WebRTC DEWALT 20V MAX XR Hammer Drill Matt Smith: Mostly Adequate ...

Sep 01, 20201 hr

RR 468: Diversity Matters: Diversifying Your Applicant Pool with Tricia Ball

Tricia Ball talks to the Rogues about diversity in tech. We discuss the declining numbers of women in tech (and the rest of STEM) since the 1980s, reasons why women are leaving mid-career and how we can help reverse this trend. Tricia gives practical actions that can be taken to improve company culture, recruitment and retention of under-represented groups.Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Scout Want to level up on DevOps? Check out ou...

Aug 18, 20201 hr 5 min

RR 467: Rails at Super Scale with Kyle d'Oliveira

Kyle d'Oliveira (Clio) shares his survival tips for dealing with tens of thousands of commits, massive migrations and the very limits of databases. We discuss the lessons learned from Rails megaprojects and how to use these tips in your own projects to reduce technical debt and tools to keep your monolith majestic when the code won't stop coming.Panel Dave Kimura Luke Stutters Matt Smith Guest Kyle d'Oliveira Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you...

Aug 11, 202056 min

RR 466: Beating Impostor Syndrome with Dylan Andrews

In this episode of Ruby Rogues guest, Dylan Andrews (GoNoodle) shares his journey from pro-drummer to junior developer to successful senior software engineer. Dylan and the rogues talk about on-boarding junior developers and building up confidence.Panel Charles Max Wood John Epperson Matt Smith Luke Stutters Guest Dylan Andrews Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Scout Rails Remote Conf 2020 PicksDylan Andrews: Follow Dylan on Twitter &g...

Aug 04, 202058 min

RR 465: WebAuthn in Ruby with Gonzalo Rodriguez and Braulio Martinez

As the world becomes more security conscious, we need to think about the ways we allow people to authenticate to our applications. WebAuthn is a standard that allows you to accept biometric, device based, and other types of authentication as a second or first factor. Gonzalo and Braulio have published a gem that allows you to add webauthn to your Ruby applications and have joined the Rogues to talk through the implications of using it in your applications.Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura John ...

Jul 28, 20201 hr 24 min

RR 464: PWAs on Rails with John Beatty

John Beatty joins the Rogues to talk about building Progressive Web Applications on Ruby on Rails. He walks the Rogues through the ins and outs of building a PWA and what it’s like adding the features you need to get a PWA set up on Rails. It turns out to be surprisingly straightforward and yet has a ton of potential.Panel John Epperson Matt Smith Charles Max Wood Guest John Beatty Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Scout Rails Remote C...

Jul 21, 202051 min

RR 463: Can We Fix What We Can't See? with James Thompson

Join the 30-DAY CHALLENGE: "You Don't Know JS Yet" In this episode of Ruby Rogues, James Thompson, a Software Architect at Mavenlink, delves into how to address errors in a service-based system and how to prioritize what errors to fix. He goes into how to recognize the errors when they are creeping in and so much more.Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Matt Smith Luke Stutters Guest James Thompson Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Scout R...

Jul 14, 20201 hr 1 min

RR 462: Graphiti, REST, and GraphQL with Lee Richmond

Lee Richmond is one of the primary developers behind the Graphiti library for Ruby. Lee describes Graphiti as the spiritual successor to ActiveResource. It provides a convenient way to provide an API that understands the object graph in your application without needing to resort to GraphQL.Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Matt Smith Guest Lee Richmond Sponsors Resolve Digital Rails Remote Conf 2020 Links Nested Forms from Scratch with StimulusJS | Drifting Ruby Pick...

Jun 30, 20201 hr 9 min

RR 461: Rethinking the View Layer with Components with Joel Hawksley

Joel Hawksley is an engineer at Github who works on some of their Rails architecture. He is one of the authors of the view_component gem. He walks the Rogues through the genesis of the project and the pros and cons of using a library like view_component and how it adds testability and easy management to Rails views.Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Luke Stutters Guest Joel Hawksley Sponsors Resolve Digital "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now avai...

Jun 09, 202041 min

RR 460: How to Brainstorm Introverts with DeeDee Lavinder

Dee Dee Lavinder talks with the Rogues about how we can create space for introverts to participate in discussions, thereby getting their input in situations where we otherwise would not. She provides some tips for extroverts to invite the input, Luke brings his patented sarcasm to the table, we discuss some pitfalls and Dee really brings some fantastic advice to the table for those trying to moderate discussions as well as for those of us having small discussions with our colleagues.Panel John E...

May 19, 20201 hr 10 min

RR 459: Mutation Testing with Dave Aronson

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Dave Aronson joins the Rogues to talk about Mutation Testing in Ruby. The conversation starts with a discussion of what mutation testing is. They discuss the benefits and approaches before diving into implementation details.Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Dave Aronson Sponsors Springboard | $500 Scholarship Available for Candidates who Apply with Code "AISPRINGBOARD" "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding ...

May 12, 20201 hr 8 min

RR 458: Rules of OOP in Pictures with Ivan Nemytchenko

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Ivan Nemytchenko is a freelancer. He's a speaker and conference organizer. Ivan spoke at RailsConf about abstract Object Oriented programming ideas and how they can be expressed with pictures. The discussion goes into learning processes and how to create visual representations that help people understand Ruby, Rails, or other concepts.Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Ivan Nemytchenko Sponsors Springboard | $500 Schol...

May 05, 202049 min

RR 457: Upgrading to Rails 6

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Dave has been upgrading some of his Rails apps. Chuck has gone through several upgrades in his past work and is working on some apps that need the upgrade. Listen to 2 veteran Rails developers talk through the issues of upgrade from different versions of Rails to the latest version.Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Sponsors Resolve Digital Springboard | $500 Scholarship Available for Candidates who Apply with Code "AISPRINGBOARD" "The...

Apr 28, 202037 min

RR 456: Ruby for Good :) with Sean Marcia

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Sean Marcia organizes Ruby For Good—an organization for building technology to solve the world's problems and an in person meetup held online this year. Sean talks about founding Ruby For Good and some of the projects it has been responsible for creating.Panel Charles Max Wood John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Sean Marcia Sponsors Springboard | $500 Scholarship Available for Candidates who Apply with Code "DASPRINGBOARD" "The MaxCoders...

Apr 21, 202052 min

RR 455: What's Up, Rogues?

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! This episode is a roundup discussion about what the podcast hosts have going on these days. John talks about going freelance working on Ruby, Rails, and React Native. John and Chuck riff on the pros and cons of React Native. Luke then jumps in and talks about a crash-and-burn he ran into with building reports. John sympathizes based on his past experiences. The rest of the show comprises the panel filling in with what they're working o...

Apr 14, 202046 min

RR 454: Music and Factory Bot with Daniel Colson

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! Daniel Colson, from Thoughtbot and maintainer of Factory Bot, joins Dave Kimura, Luke Sutters, Tom Rossi, and John Epperson and discuss the transition from a Music career to a development career. We also dive into Factory Bot and its use cases.Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Tom Rossi Luke Stutters Guest Daniel Colson Sponsors Resolve Digital ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Y...

Apr 07, 20201 hr 10 min

RR 453: Ruby Next: Get future Ruby changes now with Vladimir Dementyev

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! We talk with Vladimir Dementyev about Ruby Next, its use cases and why you might want to get features from newer versions of Ruby in your current versionPanel Dave Kimura John Epperson Tom Rossi Guest Vladimir Dementyev ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! _______________________________...

Mar 31, 202053 min

RR 452: The History and Personalities of Ruby with Chris O’Sullivan

Chris O’Sullivan joins the Rogues to talk about the people who influenced Ruby and how it’s shaped the community and technology we have today.Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Guest Chris O'Sullivan Sponsors Resolve Digital ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ____________________________________________________________Links 209 JSJ...

Mar 17, 20201 hr

RR 451: Pair Programming with Ian Norris

David Kimura and John Epperson talk with Ian Norris on his experiences with Pair Programming. We discuss misconceptions, when pair programming works and when it doesn’t, remote paring and different types of pair programming.Panel: Dave Kimura John Epperson Guest: Ian Norris Sponsors: Resolve Digital ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ___________...

Mar 03, 202057 min

RR 450: Writing Ruby for the Apple II with Colin Fulton

Colin Fulton has written a Ruby implementation in assembly for the Apple II. He's also got a fondness for the impossible and impractical applications of software. He walks through how he approached writing a somewhat limited version of Ruby for a old and limited machine. He also talks through other ways to explore the limits of Ruby and other programming languages.Panel: Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Guest: Colin Fulton Sponsors: Resolve Digital _____________________________________...

Feb 25, 202057 min

RR 449: Everything worth doing has already been done with Zachary Schroeder

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Zachary and the panelists speak about doing small projects. They cover half-done projects, when is a project really “done” and staying focused. An unfinished project is not a failure and making a small project helps to make a complete project.Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Guest Zachary Schroeder Sponsors Resolve Digital RedisGreen ________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Woo...

Feb 18, 20201 hr 5 min

RR 448: How To Avoid Catastrophes with Jon Druse

Jon Druse is a developer from Tennessee and has been using Rails for 15 years. He starts the show by sharing some of the background behind his RailsConf talk “How To Lose 50 Milion Records in 5 Minutes” and the various mistakes that were made that lead to such a dramatic loss. The loss of these records lead the company to refactor and rewrite the entire app in MongoDB. Jon talks about the decision to use Mongo. One of the main points of his talk was that their mistake was discovered because they...

Feb 04, 202042 min

RR 447: All About Kafka and Oracle with Bob Quillin and Karthik Gaekwad

Bob Quillin and Karthik Gaekwad are on the Oracle developer relations team. Karthik has been on Ruby Rogues previously, and he explains how he went from the Kubernetes team to developer relations. They begin the show by explaining what Kafka is, the leading open-source event streaming platform that Oracle is compatible with. It allows cloud developers to build, publish, and subscribe models for streams of records in addition to many other functions. Systems that used to take a long time to make ...

Jan 21, 202047 min

RR 446: Development Environments

Today the panel is talking about their development environments and preferences. Most of them run on Macs, but they talk about other operating systems. They discuss some of the pros and cons of using Apple products. While Apple has conveniences to help you restore data, many of them have had issues with cabling and the fact that Macs are not easily extendable. They agree that the speed at which a development environment gets up and running is less about the hardware and more about how the enviro...

Jan 14, 202059 min

RR 445: Location Services with Mithun Dhar

Mithun leads development relations at HERE Technologies which specializes in building location services and location platforms. A lot of location is so seamlessly integrated we don’t even have to think about it, but it’s quite complex. He talks about how location services work, such as a ride-sharing app. He talks about some of the tools and data available from HERE Technologies for people who want to use location services. The panel discusses when to use services from companies like HERE and wh...

Jan 07, 20201 hr 1 min

RR 444: Rails Against the Machine

Brittany Martin, Lead Web Developer at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust joins the panel today to talk about her talk "Rails Against The Machine". She has given this talk at Southeast Ruby, Rubyconf MY and Ruby on Ice.Brittany Martin works for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust as the nonprofit’s Lead Web Developer, where she is part of the team that develops, supports and maintains the Trust’s ticketing and festival web applications. She is a certified AWS Developer and the host of the 5by5 Ruby on Rail...

Dec 31, 201947 min

RR 443: Sharing Tips from the Trench with Sven Akerman Jr.

Sven Akerman Jr. is the chief architect at Outlook Insight. Today he and the panel are talking about the process behind development, specifically how Sven helped improve the software development process at his previous employer. When he started, they had a formal Scrum/Agile process for the first 5 years, but recognized gaps using key performance indicators like turnaround time. So the company implemented the single piece flow method, which ensures that all developers are focused on one thing fr...

Dec 24, 201954 min

RR 442:Ruby Rogues Live at GitLab Commit 2019

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Charles Max Wood interviews speakers at GitLab Commit 2019. Eddie Zaneski from Digital Ocean talks about "Creating a CI/CD Pipeline with GitLab and Kubernetes in 20 minutes", Shamiq Islam from Coinbase talks about "Closing the SDLC Loop- Automating Security" and Jasmine James, from Delta Airlines, discusses " How Delta Became Cloud Native-Avoiding the Vendor Lock".Eddie, Shamiq, and Jasmine give the 5 min "elevator pitch" for the talks they gave at the conference....

Dec 17, 201954 min
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