Sean Devine reviews the 2014 Rails Rumble entries, points out some highlights, and reveals who he would pick as the winner. Links for this episode: Rails Rumble Entries Ninefold : An easier way to deploy & host your Rails apps. Codeship : Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Squarespace - the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website, portfolio, and online store. For a free trial and ...
Oct 25, 2014•1 hr
Nick Mango joins Sean Devine to talk about Swell , his new service that let's you know instantly when something exciting is happening on your website. Also, they share some final thoughts about the upcoming Rails Rumble . Codeship : Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months....
Oct 17, 2014•59 min
Sean Devine recorded his first solo podcast to talk about his first solo hackathon entry. This episode is chock full of advice about how to compete in a hackathon, especially if you're on a small/solo team and/or are old. Links for this episode: Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon callforpractice.com Twilio Rails Rumble 2014 Ninefold : An easier way to deploy & host your Rails apps. Mandrill : The fastest way to deliver email. Use offer code 5BY5 for 50,000 free emails per month for six months. ...
Oct 15, 2014•54 min
Reid Carlberg joins Sean Devine to preview another! October hackathon - the Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon at Dreamforce 2014 in San Francisco, CA from October 10th - 12th. Since one of the categories is Heroku, Rails developers are a great match for the event. Links for this episode: SALESFORCE $1 MILLION HACKATHON @reidcarlberg heroku.com...
Oct 01, 2014•1 hr 11 min
Imran Raja and Shah Sikder, two of the three team members that built Caller Key - the winner of the 2013 Rails Rumble, join Sean Devine to discuss their victory. Links for this episode: CallerKey Rails Rumble Entry Page callerkey.com twilio.com imranraja.com Kuju Ninefold : An easier way to deploy & host your Rails apps. SmartThings : Control your home using your smartphone…from anywhere. Codeship : Continuous Delivery made simple....
Sep 28, 2014•57 min
Josh Owens, Meteor developer and former winner of the Rails Rumble, talks to Sean Devine about the entry that won and some others that didn't. He also gives an overview of the basics of Meteor because Sean knows nothing. Links for this episode: @joshowens Meteor railsrumble.com Squarespace - the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website, portfolio, and online store. For a free trial and 10% off, visit Squarespace.com and enter offer code SEANSENTME a...
Sep 19, 2014•1 hr 7 min
Kelli Shaver, winner of the 2013 Rails Rumble solo division, joins Sean Devine to talk about her many Rails Rumble entries and last year's VICTORY. Links for this episode: Itemize - Rails Rumble winning entry github.com/kellishaver @kellishaver kellishaver.com Nitch Podcast StickyAlbums railsrumble.com Codeship - Codeship makes continuous deployment simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Find Codeship on codeship.io/5by5ruby and use the offer code 5BY5RUBY t...
Sep 11, 2014•58 min
Tom & Nick Mango - organizers of the Rails Rumble - join Sean Devine to preview the this year's competition. This is the first in a series of episodes about the Rails Rumble (a 48 hour application development competition in October). If you've participated in the past or are thinking about participating this year, you should definitely listen to this episode. Links for this episode: railsrumble.com @tsmango @Alternate1985 Earmarkd - Sean's 2012 Entry Kayla's Tour - Sean's 2013...
Sep 04, 2014•1 hr
Jim Chevalier, creator of citystrides.com , joins Sean Devine in person! to talk about the creation of his great run-every-street-in-my-city website. Links for this episode: @jameschevalier citystrides.com k-d tree Wikipedia entry kdtree Ruby gem GitHub repository PostGIS - Spatial and Geographic objects for PostgreSQL RunKeeper CityStrides map of Jim and Sean's run MailChimp.com means easy email newsletters. MailChimp helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integ...
Aug 29, 2014•1 hr 5 min
Jim Remsik, organizer of Madison+ Ruby, joins Sean Devine to talk about the history of the Madison+ Ruby conference and what to expect at the event this weekend. Squarespace - the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website, portfolio, and online store. For a free trial and 10% off, visit Squarespace.com and enter offer code SEANSENTME at checkout. A better web starts with your website. Raygun - Get notified about your software's bugs as they happen. R...
Aug 20, 2014•59 min
Justin Weiss (@justinweiss) joins Sean Devine to talk about his Rails-focused blog at http://www.justinweiss.com and his upcoming book. Links for this episode: justinweiss.com justinweiss.com weekly newsletter github.com/justinweiss @justinweiss A Guide to Choosing the Best Gems for Your Ruby Project Search and Filter Rails Models Without Bloating Your Controller seanwes podcast beeminder.com Don’t Fave This Post: How to REALLY Launch in 2014 rubyflow.com Raygun - Get notified about your softwar...
Aug 13, 2014•1 hr 2 min
Olga Raskina joins Sean Devine to discuss her journey from secondary school in Soviet Russia to her undergraduate degree at Moscow State University to her PhD at Columbia University in NYC to her professional career in Operations Research and programming. They discuss formal vs informal education and the upside of each approach along with lots of related topics. Links for this episode: Madison+ Ruby @jremsikjr @MadisonRuby Adorable.io Squarespace - the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and ...
Aug 06, 2014•1 hr 9 min
Peter Cooper (@peterc) - publisher of Cooper Press - discusses his email newsletter empire (including Ruby Weekly) with lots of side trips along the way. Links for this episode: @peterc on Twitter @CooperPress on Twitter Cooper Press Ruby Weekly Newsletter peterc.org Codeship - Codeship makes continuous delivery simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Use the offer code 5BY5RUBY to get 20% off ANY plan for 3 months....
Jul 31, 2014•1 hr 7 min
Sean Devine is the interviewee and Eric Steele plays host. Topics include how Sean started to program, web scraping via Mechanize and Watir, the Ruby Quiz as therapy, the evolution of Ruby's testing culture and much much more. Codeship - Codeship makes continuous delivery simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Use the offer code 5BY5RUBY to get 20% off ANY plan for 3 months....
Jul 25, 2014•1 hr 20 min
Sean Devine is joined by Flo Motlik from Codeship to discuss continuous delivery, the history of Codeship and some of the biggest challenges involved in running a CI service. Plus coconuts and peaches. Links for this episode: @flomotlik on Twitter github.com/flomotlik codeship.io Kendo on Wikipedia One Reason Cross-Cultural Small Talk Is So Tricky - Coconut vs Peach Codeship - Codeship makes continuous delivery simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Use the ...
Jul 16, 2014•1 hr 15 min
Sean Devine talks with Daniel Jalkut (@danielpunkass) about why he develops software for the Apple ecosystem (mostly OS X) and how that experience compares and contrasts to developing software in an OSS environment like Ruby on Rails. Links for this episode: @danielpunkass on Twitter Red Sweater Software Core Intuition podcast github.com/danielpunkass MarsEdit - Desktop blog editing for Mac OS X Codeship - Codeship makes continuous delivery simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only...
Jul 08, 2014•1 hr 17 min
Sean Devine talks to Lex Friedman, the EVP Sales and Development of Midroll, a large podcast ad sales network. Lex describes the full time Ruby on Rails programming position that they are looking to fill. There's also plenty of behind-the-scenes stories about the podcasting world. If you want to apply for the Ruby on Rails position at Midroll, email [email protected] . Links for this episode: @lexfri on Twitter Midroll - Podcast advertising network Turning This Car Around podcast Your Daily Lex po...
Jul 05, 2014•1 hr
Eric Steele talks about releasing his new book, "What Do I Test?". Links for this episode: @genericsteele Dub Side of the Moon Pitchfork What Do I Test? Fuck you Jobu! I do it myself! Codeship - Codeship makes continuous deployment simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Use the offer code 5BY5RUBY to get 20% off ANY plan for 3 months....
Jun 28, 2014•1 hr 20 min
Nick tells Sean about his rubygems fantasies, ranks his noteworthiness, clarifies the contents of concert balloons, and provides free parenting advice. Links for this episode: rubygems.org @qrush on Twitter CoworkBuffalo Nickel City Ruby Basecamp AqueousBand.net RUSH Phish Bourbon (and friends) Heroku Postgres Codeship - Codeship makes continuous deployment simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Use the offer code 5BY5RUBY to get 20% off ANY plan for 3 month...
Jun 20, 2014•2 hr 30 min
Sean Devine learns about Twilio from Greg Baugues. Links for this episode: @greggyb on Twitter twilio.com github.com/twilio/twilio-ruby github.com/ZestFinance/zestphone Codeship - Codeship makes continuous deployment simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Use the offer code 5BY5RUBY to get 20% off ANY plan for 3 months. Squarespace - the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website, portfolio, and online store. For ...
Jun 12, 2014•1 hr 17 min
Sean Devine learns about elasticsearch from Ben Hundley of Qbox. Links for this episode: elasticsearch.org Qbox Codeship - Codeship makes continuous deployment simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Use the offer code 5BY5RUBY to get 20% off ANY plan for 3 months. Squarespace - the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website, portfolio, and online store. For a free trial and 10% off, visit Squarespace.com and enter...
Jun 05, 2014•1 hr 11 min
Sean Devine talks with Oren Dobzinski of Desk.com about service oriented architecture, elasticsearch, immutability, working remotely and much, much more. Links for this episode: The desk.com api @orend on Twitter Oren's blog - re-factor.com Blog post => Slow Tests are the Symptom Not the Cause Datomic elasticsearch Desk.com Codeship - Codeship makes continuous deployment simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Find Codeship on codeship.io/5by5ruby and...
May 29, 2014•1 hr 4 min
Sean Devine talks with Ross Penman, a 15 year old programmer from Scotland, about what it's like to learn to program as a kid, opportunities to improve technical education, and the Scottish independence referendum. Links for this episode: @PenmanRoss on Twitter penman on GitHub rosspenman.com On Computing Education - The Windows Movie Maker Problem Google Map of Scotland Scottish independence Wikipedia page Squarespace - the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own prof...
May 23, 2014•1 hr 25 min
Sean Devine talks with Jamis Buck about his new fantasy blog/book about algorithms - "Basil & Fabian" and his history with Rails and 37signals. lynda.com - lynda.com offers thousands of video courses in software, creative, and business skills—everything from productivity and collaboration to photography and video editing. Access unlimited courses for $25 per month. Try out lynda.com for free for 7 days at lynda.com/rubyonrails . Codeship - The Codeship is continuous deployment made simple. Y...
May 14, 2014•58 min
Sean Devine talks with Chad Fowler about the early days of Ruby and Rails and the heterogeneous architecture of Wunderlist. Codeship - The Codeship is continuous deployment made simple. You can set up continuous integration in a few steps and automatically deploy when all your tests have passed. It has great support for lots of languages and test frameworks. Integrates with GitHub and Bitbucket. Deploy to cloud services like Heroku, AWS, Nodejitsu, Google App Engine or your own servers. Start wi...
May 08, 2014•1 hr 2 min
Sean Devine and Chad Pytel discuss @dhh's controversial RailsConf 2014 keynote and the current state of thoughtbot. Links for this episode: Justin.tv - Confreaks - Live Streaming - RailsConf 2014 Opening Keynote Part 1 Codeship - The Codeship is continuous deployment made simple. You can set up continuous integration in a few steps and automatically deploy when all your tests have passed. It has great support for lots of languages and test frameworks. Integrates with GitHub and Bitbucket. Deploy...
Apr 29, 2014•1 hr 25 min
Sean Devine and Eric Steele preview RailsConf 2014. Codeship - The Codeship is continuous deployment made simple. You can set up continuous integration in a few steps and automatically deploy when all your tests have passed. It has great support for lots of languages and test frameworks. Integrates with GitHub and Bitbucket. Deploy to cloud services like Heroku, AWS, Nodejitsu, Google App Engine or your own servers. Start with the free plan and setup only takes 3 minutes. Find The Codeship at ww...
Apr 21, 2014•1 hr 21 min
Sean Devine has a conversation with Horace Dediu of Asymco about open source software. Squarespace - the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website, portfolio, and online store. For a free trial and 10% off, visit Squarespace.com and enter offer code UNICORN at checkout. A better web starts with your website. workonrails.com - use code RELAUNCH to post your job for free...
Apr 16, 2014•1 hr 10 min
Eric Steele - Rails contractor and author of the upcoming book "What Do I Test?" - talks about growing up in rural Pennsylvania, his programming history, and his new book about learning to test. Squarespace - the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website, portfolio, and online store. For a free trial and 10% off, visit Squarespace.com and enter offer code UNICORN at checkout. A better web starts with your website. workonrails.com - use code RELAUNCH ...
Apr 08, 2014•2 hr 44 min
Mike Perham - creator of Sidekiq and Sidekiq Pro - talks about the history of Sidekiq, the brand new 3.0 release, the Sidekiq Pro commercial add on, money in open source, and related topics. workonrails.com Ruby on Rails job board. Use code RELAUNCH to post a job for free while supplies last.
Apr 05, 2014•1 hr 12 min
