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, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2019•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2019•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2019•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alessandro Desantis is the director of Nebulab and is currently working on Solidus. After talking a little bit about how Nebulab got started, he describes what Solidus is. Solidus is a free, open source eCommerce platform built in Ruby on Rails that gives you complete control over your store. Three things that set it apart from other eCommerce platforms are that it is governed by a single company and that the focus is on quality and backwards compatibility. One of their biggest goals is to make ...
Dec 10, 2019•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today the panel discusses the difference between Swagger and Open API with Josh Ponelat. Josh details the difference between the two. Swagger is a set of protocols around describing restful APIs. Swagger was taken over by a company called SmartBear, who donated the donated the specification to the Open Linux Foundation, and that became the Open API. Swagger is the tooling surrounding these specifications. Open API is a standardized way to describe a restful API in a YAML file. Once you’ve got a ...
Dec 03, 2019•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Andrew Glass is a Brooklyn based Rubyist operating a small independent devshop called Bang Equals. He has held many ‘enrichment jobs’, including being a ball person at US Open for 5 years, traveling for judging Guinness World Record attempts, and will be a balloon holder in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year. Today the panel is discussing his about his 2018 RailsConf talk, Human Powered Rails: Automated Crowdsourcing In Your Ruby on Rails App. In his talk, he shows the audience how to ...
Nov 26, 2019•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today Charles and Dave are discussing deviating from the Rails core. Dave doesn’t care for JavaScript frameworks or microservices as he believes that they add too much complexity. These things may become necessary when your project gets massive, but otherwise we shouldn’t jump to these as a first option. If you don’t need the frontend powerhouse features, you may want to see how far you can get with Rails and a minimal frontend. React may not always be the solution that you need. They discuss jQ...
Nov 19, 2019•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Khash and Kasia work for Cloud 66, a company started in 2012 with a goal to make Rails deployment simple and infrastructure easy to understand for application developers. As the company has moved towards containerization, they have integrated with Kubernetes. Khash talks about what distinguishes Cloud 66 from other platform as a service companies and why the company was started. He begins by talking about the structure of Heroku, how they own the entire stack down to the server, and how they are...
Nov 12, 2019•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Michael Herold is married to an economist and is a staff engineer at Flywheel where he writes Ruby programs to support PHP programs. He gave a talk at RailsConf 2018 about how to price a product. The frame for the problem is whenever you have a business idea, you eventually have to decide how to price it, and the pricing area is ripe for inefficiency on both customer and business ends. In his talk, he gave a simple framework based on the field of market research that helps give you an idea of wh...
Nov 05, 2019•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Graham Conzett has been a developer for 12 years. He has worked with Ruby and Rails for half of that, and currently works for a company that does large format touchscreens. Graham gave a talk at RailsConf 2018 called “Old School JavaScript and Rails” where he talks about the experience of JavaScript fatigue. The world of JavaScript changes very quickly, and sometimes it feels like there’s a new framework every week. Because there is no clear winner among these frameworks, many Rails developers f...
Oct 22, 2019•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ross Kaffenberger is a software engineer at Stitch Fix and has been developing web applications for the past 12 years, mostly in Ruby and JavaScript. Today he and the panel are discussing how to survive Webpack. When many folks first encounter Webpack, they feel confused, overwhelmed, and don’t know how to get it to do what you want it to. In the latest version they tried to introduce some more sane default settings, but it is still a major change in technology. Ross talks about how his company ...
Oct 15, 2019•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast John Epperson has been doing ruby for 12 years and is a friend of Andrew Mason. He got into Docker a couple years ago and felt like something was missing, so he wrote Shiplane. He liked Docker because it was a promise that he could delegate a lot of the manual devops work to something else, and that something else was able to automate all of it. What he noticed was if you have a Docker thing in development and want to transfer it into production, there was no clear path to get a Docker item from...
Oct 08, 2019•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mike Schutte is a fronted developer at TED conferences and was trained in code school at Turing in Colorado. He likes the idea of code as a communication tool, and in 2018 he gave a talk at RailsConf called Stop Testing. Start Storytelling. Today the panel is discussing what Mike means by storytelling in testing. In order to combat the hesitancy to start testing, Mike believes that changing your mindset to think away from the implementation details while deploying these tests can help them be mo...
Oct 01, 2019•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Todd Kaufman is one of the cofounders of Test Double, a software development consultancy that was started 8 years ago. Todd talks about how he got started with Test Double and how it grew. He and Justin started Test Double because he felt that a lot of consultancies didn’t align with what they thought was important. Most consultancies then didn’t focus on good software development practices, and instead focused solely on the process. They decided that they would put the developers first and fore...
Sep 24, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Summary Today’s guest Elia Schito has been a Ruby developer for 12+ years and works for Nebulab. During his career he looked for Ruby to JavaScript translators and found Opal. The panel discusses where Opal belongs within an app and when the compilation into JavaScript occurs. The main reason a person would want to use Opal is to avoid writing in JavaScript. Elia talks about the benefits of using Opal. One is that productivity is better in a language like Ruby. Also, if you’re working on...
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