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RUBY 485: What is a Top 5% Developer? Jan 26, 2021

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The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out discussing how mid-level developers can move up and how developers can grow in more ways that technical skills.Panel

Charles Wood
Dave Kimura
John Epperson

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RUBY 484: Bootcamps: Bad or Badass Jan 19, 2021

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We discuss the value of bootcamps and whether new developers should consider them. We also touch a little bit on related topics like interviewing.Panel

Charles Wood
John Epperson
Luke Stutters

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RR 428: Arming the Rebels with Rails 6 Featuring David Heinemeier Hansson Jan 12, 2021

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Today’s guest is David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and co founder and CTO at Basecamp. This episode is focused on the release of Rails 6. David talks about the process of getting from Rails 5 to Rails 6 and some of the new features and frameworks in Rails 6. David describes some of the new features as ‘magical, which some people don’t like. He believes that the ‘magical’ element is a good thing because it reduces the learning curve for newcomers, so you can less time studying and more time being productive. This is important because it allows people from other platforms to jump on. Rails 6 will provide users with more frameworks so that they do not have to build all of their own solutions to common problems. David delves into how Ruby goes against the grain by providing tools and how that coincides with their philosophy. He talks about the process for deciding which problems the core team is going to tackle, how they come out of Basecamp, and Basecamp’s methodology in terms of what tools they decide to build. The panel discusses how deviating from the Rails core is almost an antipattern and how having the tools provided for them has improved their experience with Rails. David talks about some more upcoming frontend products and more on the process of updating Basecamp. He talks about his belief that most companies should not be inspired by how the big tech companies structure their internal teams. The conversation turns to how Shopify and Github are now running Rails 6 and how they have influenced the feature that have been added to Ruby. David believes that it’s important to focus on how to make a framework that solves problems for people but also focuses on real world results and businesses. Ruby wants to continue to “arm the rebels” by enabling small independent software makers to continue to challenge the industry giants. The show finishes with David giving some advice to new Rails programmers. Panel

David Kimura
Andrew Mason
Nate Hopkins
Charles Max Wood

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David Heinemeier Hansson

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RUBY 483: Unlocking the Power of Functional Programming and Elm with Richard Feldman Jan 05, 2021

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Richard Feldman - author of Elm in Action - joins the Rogues to discuss the advantages of Functional Programming and using Elm. Elm is a programming language that is a functional programming language built for the front-end that compiles to JavaScript. Due to its set of enforced assumptions, it leads to clean code and powerful programming constructs.Panel

John Epperson
Luke Stutters

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Richard Feldman

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BONUS: How to Crush Your Biggest Goals in 2021 Jan 01, 2021

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(Coupon Code: GOALS for a massive discount)Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals.Mani has read thousands of books on success, setting and achieving goals, and personal growth and has distilled these 6 principles from the books and then figured out how to put them into practice.He and Chuck walk through the principles and strategies that create success and allow you to set goals that will bring you the things you want during the next year or so.Listen to this episode to learn how to crush your biggest goals in 2021. Get the 2020 Goal Setting Workshop + Success Accelerator Deal HERE
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RUBY 482: Successfully Onboarding a Junior Engineer in Three Steps with Emily Giurleo Dec 30, 2020

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Onboarding and leveling up Junior developers can be tricky. Emily Giurleo joins the Rogues to discuss the process for creating autonomous, competent developers when you hire someone who doesn't have as much experience. She walks us through setting expectations for the new hire, giving feedback, and assessing their performance.Panel

John Epperson
Luke Stutters

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Emily Giurleo

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RUBY 481: Why We Worry About All the Wrong Things with Hilary Stohs-Krause Dec 23, 2020

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Hilary Stohs-Krause addresses the things that we have strong emotional reactions to as developers that maybe we shouldn't worry about them. She also leads a discussion with the panel around when fear is a good thing.Panels

Dave Kimura
John Epperson
Luke Stutters

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Hilary Stohs-Krause

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RUBY 480: The Sounds of Silence: Lessons From an API Outage with Paul Zaich Dec 01, 2020

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Paul Zaich from Checkr tells us about a critical outage that occurred, what caused it and how they tracked down and fixed the issue. The conversation ranges through troubleshooting complex systems, building team culture, blameless post-mortems, and monitoring the right things to make sure your applications don't fail or alert you when they do.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Dave Kimura
Luke Stutters

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Paul Zaich

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BONUS: How to do LARGE Volumes of HIGH Quality Work - While Spending Fewer Hours Working Nov 27, 2020

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RUBY 479: Mistakes Were Made with Jesse Spevack Nov 26, 2020

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Jesse Spevack tells us about a conference topic he gave where big mistakes were made at his company. Having lived through the choices that they made, we chat about the lessons learned.Links

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