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    Software How-To

    Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

    A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.

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    9: TDD for Business!! Aug 23, 2012
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    Ben Orenstein is joined by Chad Pytel, the CEO and Founder of thoughtbot. Ben and Chad talk about the history of thoughtbot, success, failures, lessons learned, the current growth plans for the company, and much more. They also answer listener questions about hiring, growing, balancing client and internal work like open source and products, and contractor rates and how to set them.

    • Stand-up meeting
    • Blog post: Keeping the Pressure On

    Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @cpytel on twitter.

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    8: Wax on, Wax off Aug 16, 2012
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    Ben Orenstein is joined by Gabe Berke-Williams and Edward Loveall. Gabe is developer at thoughtbot and the product manager of the thoughtbot apprenticeship program, apprentice.io. Edward is a current design apprentice. Gabe, Edward, and Ben talk about apprentice.io, how it works, it's successes, and lessons learned. They also discuss how Gabe goes about mentoring new developers, and effective learning and teaching methods. Edward also gives his perspective on his apprenticeship how it went, his typical day as an apprentice, his advice for incoming apprentices, and much more.

    • apprentice.io
    • Apprenticship Patterns
    • The Pickaxe
    • Red-Black Trees
    • The Rise of The Software Apprenticeship Academy (BostInno)
    • Lessons Learned From Our Development/Designer Apprenticeship Program (BostInno)
    • "Gang of Four" Design Patterns
    • Intrepid Labs
    • Take the Interview

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    7: Something Else Was Smellier Aug 09, 2012
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    Ben Orenstein is once again joined by Joe Ferris, CTO of thoughtbot. Joe and Ben dive right in to a technical discussion about Objects versus Structures. They then discuss what Joe does as the new CTO of thoughtbot, and how his goal is to set up a system where everybody is teaching everybody. Finally, they discuss why Joe doesn't like using rspec's let and subject, and his strategy for writing tests without them.

    • Object Mentor blog, Objects vs. Structures
    • Robert Martin Shape Hierarchy (Open Closed Principle)
    • Martin Fowler's Refactoring
    • Code smell
    • Case statement code smell
    • Visitor pattern
    • Shotgun surgery
    • Method object
    • Composition over inheritance
    • paperclip
    • Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
    • thoughtbot's apprentice.io
    • Parkinson's Law of Triviality (bikeshedding)
    • Broken windows theory
    • rspec's let and subject
    • Mystery Guest

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    6: MVP of Personal Hygiene Aug 02, 2012
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    Ben Orenstein is joined by Dan Powell, founder of Abakas. Dan plays the role of Consulting CTO for his clients. They discuss the best and the worst of his job, his history as a Linux hacker, and what his experience has taught him about technology and technology trends, and how he stays on top of them. Also, how to create effective, well-written, maintainable software, the Rails talent crunch, developers getting promoted to management, maintaining work-life balance and how not to get burnt out, and much, much more.

    • Abakas
    • Microway "Screamer 533"
    • DEC Multia
    • Abakas

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    5: My wife is getting really into whiskey Jul 26, 2012
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    Ben Orenstein is joined by “Cowboy” Ben Alman, JavaScript open source developer and Director of Pluginization at Bocoup. They discuss how Ben Alman got started with programming and his crazy projects, the open web, favorite tools, and one of his latest projects, Grunt. They also discuss CoffeeScript, and why Ben Alman’s not using it yet, speaking at conferences and how Ben Alman got more comfortable in front of crowds, whether its important to understand straight JavaScript, or just jQuery, and more! Also, Whiskey.

    • "Cowboy" Ben Alman
    • Bocoup
    • Ben Alman's enormous project listing
    • Bocoup
    • Sublime Text 2
    • M+ monospace font
    • Ben Alman's dotfiles and gpr
    • Grunt on github, Grunt introduction
    • jake
    • JSHint
    • npm
    • CoffeeScript
    • ES.next
    • Variadic function
    • YUI Compressor
    • Bulleit Bourbon
    • The Macallan
    • Big Ben Hillman @ The Big Easy

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    4: I've got a little thoughtbot angel or devil on my shoulder Jul 19, 2012
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    Ben Orenstein is joined by David Thyresson, the founder of Stattleship and a past client of thoughtbot. Ben and David discuss how he got started with Stattleship, how he came to work with thoughtbot, and what it was like to work with us. Also, how the idea of what he would initially build changed, and how through agile software development he discovered how it was wrong. How he learned Ruby on Rails from thoughtbot during his project. Finally, what has worked for driving visitors to the site, and important lessons learned about starting up, building an app, and running a business.

    • Stattleship

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    3: The FactoryGirl Representation of a Factory Jul 12, 2012
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    Ben Orenstein is joined by Josh Clayton, the maintainer of FactoryGirl, and a developer at thoughtbot. Ben and Josh discuss FactoryGirl: using it, its development progress, and features. What it's like to run an open source project, and how to contribute to open source effectively. Looking at your old code and being a better developer. Approaches to testing. And answer your questions about: FactoryGirl, How to write effective tests suites and whether integration tests are a scam, our process for upgrading between Rails versions, testing complex UI logic, and leaving code untested.

    • FactoryGirl
    • The Pickaxe
    • factory_girl_rails
    • factory_girl Google Group
    • FactoryGirl Tips and Tricks
    • Integration Tests Are a Scam
    • Lone Star Ruby Conference

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    2: Design with a sip of Bourbon Jun 22, 2012
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    Ben Orenstein is joined this week by Phil LaPier, the creator of Bourbon and a designer at thoughtbot. Ben and Phil discuss the design process, fundamentals of visual design, common design errors, and how to be a better designer (even if you're a developer), and how to work with designers as a developer. They also answer some audience questions about design: How to handle feedback from clients, and HAML vs. HTML.

    • Bourbon
    • Dribbble
    • Dan Cederholm - Dribbble
    • Lea Verou - Twitter
    • Benjamin De Cock - Twitter
    • Jason Santa Maria - Twitter
    • Trent Walton
    • Adobe Fireworks
    • Bourbon
    • Sass
    • Bourbon Grid-Width
    • Bourbon Font Stacks

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    1: Polymorphism vs. Conditionals Jun 11, 2012
    Show notes

    Ben Orenstein and Joe Ferris (and the surprise special guest Seana Quental) start the series off with a very technical discussion about Polymorphism vs. Conditionals. We also answer some of the audience questions we asked for last week.

    • CVS
    • SVN
    • Git
    • Feature branch code reviews
    • Rebasing
    • Composition over Inheritance
    • Objects on Rails, Avdi Grimm
    • NullObject
    • Rails Refactoring Example: Introduce Null Object
    • #try
    • God objects
    • Rich Hickey's Railsconf Keynote
    • Kingdom of Nouns, Steve Yeggie
    • Ruby blocks
    • StrategyPattern
    • CommandPattern
    • Clearance
    • Gang of Four Design Patterns

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