Our original panel podcast, Ruby Rogues is a weekly discussion around Ruby, Rails, software development, and the community around Ruby.
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RR 301 Writing for Developers
Brian Hogan has been writing and teaching about technology. He found that many of the great teachers taught from experience. Similarly, developers can help one another by writing a post or a book about a particular issue they've encountered and solved. Tune in to today's episode about writing for developers.
RR 300 Extravaganza
On today’s episode, Charles Max Wood, David Kimura, and Brian Hogan discuss Extravaganza, sharing their history in Ruby Rogues. Brian and David have their own unique and exciting stories to tell. Tune in as they look back to their personal experiences and how far the show has gone since 2011.
RR 299 Software Intellectual Property and Forensics with Bob Zeidman
On today’s episode, Charles Max Wood, David Kimura, Jason Swett, and Brian Hogan discuss Software Intellectual Property and Forensics with Bob Zeidman. Bob is the President of Zeidman Consulting, a company dedicated in assisting clients and lawyers during litigation. He is an expert on patents, trade secrets, and copyrights of hardware and software. Tune in and be informed about the legal issues in programming!Special Guest: Bob Zeidman.
RR 298 Scope Wars and Being New with Malinna Leach
On today’s episode, Charles Max Wood, Jason Swett, Brian Hogan, and David Kimura discuss Scope Wars and Being New with Malinna Leach. Malinna is a Junior Full-Stack Web Developer who just graduated from Makers Academy. Tune in and learn more about Scope Wars and what inspired her to write the blog post.Special Guest: Malinna Leach.
RR 297 Scaling Web Applications
On today’s episode, Charles Max Wood, Jason Swett, Brian Hogan, and David Kimura discuss Scaling Web Applications. Tune in and learn more as each of them share their own experiences in scaling Ruby applications!
RR 296 The Future of Work in Web Development with Erik Dietrich
On today’s episode, Jason Swett and David Kimura discuss The Future of Work in Web Development with Erik Dietrich. Erik is the founder of DaedTech LLC, programmer, architect, IT management consultant, blogger, and technologist. Tune in and listen as he talks about where he sees things are headed in web development.Special Guest: Erik Dietrich.
RR 295 The European Ruby Community with Devon C Estes
On today’s episode, Charles Max Wood, Brian Hogan, and Jason Swett discuss The European Ruby Community with Devon C Estes. Devon is a Ruby and RAILS developer for Education Superhighway, a nonprofit in San Francisco which helps every public school classroom in America to upgrade their Internet access. He also does a lot of Elixir and open source stuff. Tune in as he shares more about the Ruby communities outside the US.Special Guest: Devon Estes.
RR 294 JSON Web Tokens, Authentication, and Authorization with David Kimura
On today's episode, Charles Max Wood and Jerome Hardaway discuss JSON Web Tokens, Authentication, and Authorization with David Kimura. David has worked on Rubies as well as for Sage Software for about 7 years.Special Guest: Dave Kimura.
RR 293 Packaging Ruby with Nell Shamrell-Harrington
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.
292 RR Bootcamps
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 responsibility of code schools on helping you find a job30:55 - Job searches for the programmer32:30 - Picking the right bootcamp35:50 - Placement as a junior devhttps://code.gov/45:30 - Finding the timeThe Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod52:40 - Deciding if bootcamp is right for youFree Code CampPicks: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Jason) How To Win Friends and Influence People (Jason) Corporate Confidential (Brian) Land the Tech Job You Love by Andy Lester (Brian) The Way of the Fight by George St. Pierre (Jerome) ID.me (Jerome) 10 Ways to Get Noticed by Potential Employers free email course (Charles) Devops Remote Conf (Charles) JS Remote Conf (Charles) Freelance Remote Conf (Charles) Free Code Camp (Charles) Flatiron School (Charles)
291 RR Building Ruby Gems with Brandon Hilkert
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 35:45 - “Gotchas” to publishing a gem 40:00 - Releasing gems that the community doesn’t need Picks: ThinkGeek (Jerome) Facebook Lookalike Audiences (Charles) Mastermind groups (Charles) Think and Grow Rich by Dr. Napoleon Hill (Charles) Bark app (Brandon) People socks (Brandon) The Food Lab by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (Brandon)Special Guest: Brandon Hilkert.
290 RR Deployment
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 deploymentCapistrano49:40 - Monitoring tools Code Climate Honey Badger Zabbix NewRelic TrackJS JSJ 138 with Todd Gardner Picks: Dinosaur Odyssey by Scott Sampson (Jason) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan (Jason) Rails Solutions: Ruby on Rails Made Easy by Justin Williams (Jerome) Take My Money: Accepting Payments on the Web by Noel Rappin (Brian) Deploying with JRuby by Joe Kutner (Brian)RR Episode 281 with Noel RappinRR 150 with Joe Kutner Echo Dot (Charles) The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (Brian) Getting Things Done by David Allen (Charles)
289 RR Head First Ruby and Treehouse with JayMcGavren
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 researchEfficiency in Learning: Evidence-Based Guidelines to Manage Cognitive Load by Ruth Clark15:20 - Reader feedback16:05 - Hangups when learning Ruby20:45 - Searching for error messages23:20 - Early days of programming24:20 - Jay’s switch from Pearl to Ruby30:50 - Building a thorough education with Ruby39:05 - The rate of Ruby change48:30 - Different languages and coding standardsPicks: Effective Ruby: 48 Specific Ways to Write Better Ruby by Peter J. Jones (Jerome) The Ace Editor github (Jerome) Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr by Ron Chernow (Jason) Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (Jason) Evans Mill (Charles) Selfie Sticks (Charles) Shiren the Wanderer video game (Jay) The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin (Jay)Special Guest: JayMcGavren.
288 RR Upgrading Rails Apps with Joshua Wood and Ben Wood
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 the right clients Website Ruby Weekly 37:50 - Avoiding technical debt Rails Xss gem Bundler 40:30 - Upgrading Rails yourself http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ contact@hint.io Picks: Suture Gem (Ben) Debride Gem (Ben) JRuby Truffle Project by Oracle (Josh) ThinkPads (Josh) Honeybadger IO (Josh) “A Rubyist’s Guide to Big-O Notation” blog post (Josh) Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracey (Brian) Codefights (Brian) Basics of Mechanical Engineering by Paul D. Ronney (Jason) The Demon-haunted World by Carl Sagan (Jason)Special Guests: Ben Wood and Joshua Wood.
287 RR Hacking the Asset Pipeline with Cameron Dutro
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 Browserify Rails https://rails-assets.org 31:45 - Creating your own preprocessor for putting a file format into the pipelineSprockets github link36:15 - Other issues with the Asset Pipeline40:00 - Causes behind problems with the Asset Pipeline42:05 - Hygiene of packages43:40 - Incorporating plugins into the pipeline45:30 - Resources for learning moreRails guidesPicks: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards (Jason) Philosophize This! Podcast (Jason) Typora (Brian) Facer.io (Brian) Eventual Millionaire Podcast by Jamie Masters (Charles) Toggl time tracking software (Charles)Being nice to each other (Charles) Ruby Together (Cameron) Lumosity (Cameron)Seattle Seahawks (Cameron)Special Guest: Cameron Dutro .