Ruby Rogues

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RR 359: Panelist Thoughts, Gripes, and Ideas Apr 24, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Brian Hogan
Eric Berry
Dave Kimura
David Richards

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talk about their thoughts, gripe about things they don’t like, and discuss some new ideas. Some of the things they discuss include having a frozen version of your code, node modules, code dependencies, and more. They also touch on the fact that making shortcuts now means that you will have to pay for it later.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Having a frozen version of your code is a good idea
Dependency problems
Ruby gems
Gem in a Box
Rubygems.org
Node modules
npm install
Do you have to manually add all the gems to the gem in a box?
You don’t ever save time, you just shift time
Do the hard work up front that you can
Stages of a system
Rails, Ruby, and JavaScript
Hello World
The future of building more complex languages and frameworks
Trial and error
Sometimes sad when writing code
There isn’t a lot of empathy in the programming world
Fullstack developer image
And much, much more!

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Brian

Eric

David

Dave

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RR 358: Code Automation Apr 17, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Dave Kimura

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses code automation. They talk about how automating things tends to make them more efficient and speed the time up it takes to complete them. In a world where time is precious, it’s important to automate anything you can so that you can save yourself valuable time and money. They also touch on the importance of having a structure and a consensus among the company in order to have the best productivity and the pros and cons of using “sprints”.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

The more automated things are, the more efficient they tend to be
What can we automate and delegate to make work easier?
Why do you think people are having trouble filling senior positions?
Retention is a problem among companies
Companies need to be more aggressive with incentives to keep people they want to stay
There are more jobs every day and not enough people are being trained fast enough
People leave companies because their priorities don’t match up with the job priorities
Agile processes
What is DevOps?
Make sure everyone understands the process
The importance of structure
Without structure, conflicts are going to arise
Merge conflicts
Planning out the “sprint”
The pros and cons to “sprints”
Velocity is a planning tool only
Test runners
TypeScript, CoffeeScript, and ES6 build processes
What to do when the “sprint” timeline doesn’t match up with your actual performance?
And much, much more!

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Procrastinate on Purpose by Rory Vaden
Alexa Flash Briefings to come

Dave

Having a good soldering iron
Heat shrink tubing
Exercise trampoline

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RR 357: Ruby 3 with Takashi Kokubun Apr 10, 2018

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Panel:

Eric Berry
Dave Kimura
David Richards

Special Guests: Takashi KokubunIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses Ruby 3 with Takashi Kokubun. Takashi works for Treasure Data as a layers application engineer and works with template engines such as Haml and Hamlit. They talk about JIT Compilers and the upcoming Ruby 3.0 launch and the efforts that are going in to making this launch run more smoothly. They also touch on the importance of optimizing your code and discuss the 3 by 3 challenge with the upcoming Ruby 3.0 launch.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Takashi intro
Haml
Works for Treasure Data
What is a JCompiler?
JIT Compiler
Rails
Real world application performance
Have you done any benchmarks to see if the actual application performance has increased?
Need method inlining for the best application
Any efforts being used to speed up Ruby 3.0?
Trouble with optimizing
Thinking about optimization in your code is important
Solve problems using the JIT compiler
3 by 3 challenge
How long have you been working on this compiler?
Current version of the JIT compiler
LLVM
Ruby
Concurrency
Types
And much, much more!

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Dave

2018 Honda Civic Si

David

Joan Didion

Takashi

Special Guest: Takashi Kokubun.
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RR 356: Geospatial Programming in Ruby with Daniel Azuma and Tee Parham Apr 03, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Eric Berry
Special Guests: Daniel Azuma and Tee Parham

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses geospatial programming with Daniel Azuma and Tee Parham. Daniel is a developer at Google and has been doing Ruby for about 14 years. Tee is co-founder and CTO of Neighborland, which is built on Ruby on Rails. Before that, he founded, managed and led technical projects for a small startup for about 8 years. They discuss what geospatial programming is, what RGeo Gem is, and other interesting aspects of geospatial programming.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Daniel and Tee intros
What is the landscape when it comes to geospatial programming?
What is geospatial programming?
Google Maps
Get ahold of a lot of data
Wide angle of data available
Large amount of application available
RGeo Gem
What does RGeo do?
CrimeReports.com
Draw shapes on a map to outline the cities or space
A lot goes into Geospatial programming
What drove you to create this project?
Why Ruby?
Created out of necessity
PostGIS
When did this project begin to gain traction?
Open sourced it so that other people could use it
When did Tee get involved?
Rails
And much, much more!

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CodeSponsor

Eric

Daniel

Tee

Special Guests: Daniel Azuma and Tee Parham.
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RR 355: Code Reviews with Jacob Stoebel Mar 27, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
David Richards

Special Guests: Jacob StoebelIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses code reviews with Jacob Stoebel. Jacob is a Rails and JavaScript developer and works for ePublishing where he does mostly front-end programming. He talks about how he believes that code reviews can be both honest and nice, and that they should inspire the programmer to want to go back and make his/her code better, not tear him/her down. He also gives fours steps to the response process for giving positive and helpful code reviews.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Jacob intro
Rails and JavaScript
Are there other places beside code reviews that we give this kind of feedback?
Talking about code reviews is a great ice-breaker at conferences
Developing is a creative profession
Trust must be present for creativity to flow
What led you to this topic?
Used to be a high school drama teacher
It’s possible to give honest and positive feedback
Code reviews CAN be honest and nice
Code reviews should be inspiring
Code review role play
Example if a good code review vs a bad code review
Four steps to response process
Put the author in the driver’s seat as first
The opinion has to be consented
Keep the conversation civil and collaborative
Rule out passive aggressive comments in the future
And much, much more!

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Dave

Eric

Phoenix Framework on Elixir

David

Jacob

Special Guest: Jacob Stoebel.
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RR 354: Music, Musicians, and Programmers with Catherine Meyers Mar 20, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
David Richards

Special Guests: Catherine MeyersIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses music, musicians, and programmers with Catherine Meyers. Catherine is a software engineer at Mavenlink in San Francisco and is a co-organizer of a meet-up called Women Level Up. Before getting into coding, she was actually an opera singer. They talk a lot about why she decided to change her career and how she came to be a successful coder after being a singer for many years.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Check out React Dev Summit
Catherine intro
Previously an opera singer
How did you decide to get into programming?
Who she performed for and where she performed
Her friends suggested she start coding
Tips to help those not interested in coding give it a chance
Coding is like solving a puzzle
Coding boot camps to facilitate a career change
HTML
Flatiron School
The importance of resilience
Ruby Conf
The ability to communicate with many different typed of people
Patterns
Do musicians have an advantage as a developer?
Patterns in Rails
How can music make you a better coder?
Your brain as a musician
Is there a correlation with brain activity and listening to music?
Different music affects different people
And much, much more!

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Dave

David

Catherine

Public School Music Education
Base.cs
Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy

Special Guest: Catherine Meyers.
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RR 353: Removing Business Logic from Rails Controllers with Aaron Sumner Mar 13, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
David Richards

Special Guests: Aaron SumnerIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses removing business logic from Rails controllers with Aaron Sumner. Aaron is a long time Ruby developer, using mostly Rails, writes a blog called Everyday Rails, and most people know him from his book, Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec: A practical approach to test-driven development. They discuss service objects, the pros and cons of using them, and they emphasize not trying to change something all at once, but gradually.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Aaron intro
How to test code without controller tests?
The cons to controller tests
Soft deprecation
If you’re not writing controller tests, what are you writing?
Get the code out of the controllers and test it in more isolation
Service objects
Problem with a controller having a lot of business logic in it
Rails
Cons of service objects
Using a service object inside of a controller
Pros of service objects
Getting smaller can happen step-wise
Re-architecting should happen gradually not all at once
When you write a service object, there is a flow to it
How writing his book impacted his views
Start small
And much, much more!

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David

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Aaron

Special Guest: Aaron Sumner.
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RR 352: React on Rails and Webpacker with Justin Gordon and Rob Wise Mar 06, 2018

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Panel: Charles Max WoodDave KimuraEric Berry Special Guests: Justin Gordon and Rob WiseIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses React on Rails and Webpacker with Justin Gordon and Rob Wise. They talk about the origins of React on Rails and compare it to Webpacker. They also talk about how the two go hand in hand and how you can use them in your own coding to make your life easier.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

React on Rails library
Ruby on Rails adopted Webpack and called it Webpacker
Define your fence lines for your library
JavaScript
Key features of React on Rails
Props.md
Angular issues with Webpacker
How the original React on Rails worked
Needed a view helper
How much of a part is Webpacker to the core team?
Webpack was huge win
They made a lot of assumptions when making Webpacker
Global registration
Server rendering
HTML
HVMN.com
jQuery
Is there a path with this where you don’t have to be a react expert?
Forum.shakacode.com
Much Webpack to I need to know to pick up React on Rails?
Do we need all of the Ruby stuff built around Webpack?
React Router
2 types of developer to target
And much, much more!

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Anti-Pick: INTELLIbed
Tuft & Needle Bed

Dave

Bostitch Laminator

Eric

BitBar

Justin

Rob

The Prettier Project for JavaScript by James Long

Special Guests: Justin Gordon and Rob Wise.
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RR 351: Thwarting Insider Threats with Greg Kushto Feb 27, 2018

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Panel: Charles Max WoodDave KimuraBrian HoganEric Berry Special Guests: Greg KushtoIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses how to thwart insider threats with Greg Kushto. Greg is the vice president of sales engineering and security at Force 3. Greg talks about how it is a team effort to uphold information security in a company, especially insider threats. He got started with computer security when he worked at a helpdesk and then moved his way up to making it his full-time career. This episode is great for understanding insider threats, both what they are and how to prevent them.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

What are insider threats?
Malicious or unaware intent
Team approach to thwart insider threats
How did you get started?
Helpdesk worker
How to get started in this line of work
You need to be an expert in order to be successful in this line of work
Making a statement
Whistleblowing
Prevention
Don’t give everyone full access to everything
Don’t leave holes in your work
Most errors are caused by humans
Insider threats don’t always have malicious intent
Is there an easy list of things to prevent these threats before they begin?
CIA
How does the new technology affect insider threats?
What to do when there’s a breach
And much, much more!

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Dave

Auxbeam LED Headlights
Native Fire

Brian

Eric

Greg

Special Guest: Greg Kushto.
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RR 350: Episode 350 Celebration! Feb 20, 2018

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Panel: Charles Max WoodDave KimuraDavid Richards Special Guests: NoneIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses where they are right now and what their day to day looks like. Dave is with Sage Software and continues to push himself so that he will always be learning and progressing. He has three kids currently and he tries to have a good work-life balance so that he can separate both of his worlds. David is currently at a Fintech company where he is on the core team and does the data science. He also writes a lot and explores his creativity through that. Charles finds himself working a lot on the podcasts and has to schedule time to code. He works from home and therefore gets to spend a good amount of time with his family. The panel also talks about the importance of family, the need to challenge yourself, and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on: