Ruby Rogues

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280 RR The Future of Ruby Rogues Oct 05, 2016

Show notes

1:00 - Addressing the Ruby Rogues rumors3:10 - History of the show6:30 - Why Charles Max Wood does the podcast10:40 - Listener emails13:50 - Moving forward with Ruby Rogues18:30 - Answering questions from the chat
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279 RR Vets Who Code with Jerome Hardaway Sep 28, 2016

Show notes

00:45 - Introducing Jerome Hardaway and Vets Who Code

3:40 - All about Vets Who Code 8:00 - Special considerations for the Veteran community

Smashing Magazine

13:10 - Coding and social/life skills

Interview Cake

21:45 - Veteran lingo and coding26:45 - Transitioning into the civilian workplace30:50 - Vets Who Code gender breakdown35:20 - Connecting with Vets in the tech world

41:40 - Expanding Vets Who Code46:25 - Common jobs for Veterans in tech50:40 - Vets Who Code success stories55:00 - Supporting Vets Who Code

Picks: Scala Parser Combinators (Jessica) Boil the Frog (Coraline)Apple picking (Saron) Markings notebook (Saron) RubyConf trailer (Saron) Jerome’s episode on CodeNewbie (Saron)Hot sauce recipe: One tablespoon of Cayenne pepper, one tablespoon of ranch dressing, and one tablespoon of sugar (David) Balanced Rebellion (Charles) Ruby Remote Conf (Charles) Tech Inclusion Conference in San Francisco (Jerome) SprezzaBox (Jerome) NootroBox and NootroBox Sprint (Jerome)Special Guest: Jerome Hardaway.
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278 RR Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm with Carina C Zona Sep 21, 2016

Show notes

0:45 - Introducing Carina C. Zona

2:10 - Coding consequences

6:00 - Examples of consequences

10:50 - Data quality theories14:05 - Preventable Mistakes and Algorithmic Transparency17:30 - Predictive Policing and Biased Data

22:07 - Coder Responsibility

31:35 - Algorithm triggers

Eric Meyer: “Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty”

37:20 - Fixing a mistake40:15 - Trusting humans versus trusting machines

Facebook Trending Topics

44:30 - Considering social consequences47:30 - Confronting the uncomfortable50:30 - Fitbit Example

Picks: 99 Bottles by Sandi Metz (David) Vivaldi Browser (Saron) Magnetic Sticky Notes (Saron) Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Sam) Ruby Remote Conf Recordings (Charles) Rails Remote Conf (Charles) Webinars (Charles) Books by Howard Zinn (Corina)On Food and Cooking by Harold McGeeSpecial Guest: Carina C Zona.
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277 RR GROWS Method with Andy Hunt Sep 14, 2016

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00:30 Introducing Andy Hunt

5:25 - GROWS Method

Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition

13:20 - How GROWS solves Agile’s shortcomings19:50 - GROWS for executives22:50 - Marketing

25:30 - GROWS and laying framework for change29:00 - How empirical is GROWS?33:35 - How expectations from the Agile Manifesto have changed36:10 - Prescribing practices that work40:00 - Getting feedback

Burnup and Burndown charts

42:40 - Human limitations46:00 - Meaning behind GROWS name50:05 - Knowing when to scale up53:00 - Agile Fluency

Agile Fluency Model by Diana Larson and James Shore

57:30 - The future of GROWS Picks:Going camping in your front yard (Jessica) California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco (Sam) Exploratorium in San Francisco (Sam) Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (Saron) Espresso Pillows (Saron) “It’s Darkest Before Dawn” DjangoCon 2016 talk by Timothy Allen (Saron) Ruby Book Club Podcast (Saron)Investing in yourself (Andy)Special Guest: Andy Hunt.
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276 RR Hiring and Retention with Kenzi Connor Sep 07, 2016

Show notes

1:15 - Introducing Kenzi Connor

4:15 - Senior developer vs Junior developer: Sustainability and hiring8:25 - Examining the “senior-obsessed field”10:00 - Importance of sustainability12:35 - Lottery-ticket thinking13:35 - Solutions to the junior vs senior dilemma21:10 - Diversity and productivity23:50 - Effective management strategies31:00 - Strategies for going from a high-conformity company to a more diverse company

36:05 - Why junior developers leave your company

Dead Sea Effect

Picks: Mandy Moore (Sam) Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World by Caroline Yoachim (Jessica)Foreign exchange students (Charles) Octavia Butler (Kenzi) Black Girls Code (Kenzi) Special Guest: Kenzi Connor.
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275 RR The Evolution of Agile and Evolutionary Design with James Shore Aug 31, 2016

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Rails Remote Conference1:20 - Introducing James Shore

Github
Flow for Javascript
Screen cast
Email: jshore@jamesshore.com

1:40 - Freelancing and Consulting5:20- Co-opting Agile and the movement away from technology/software

16:20- Evolutionary Design in Agile

Ron Jeffries Sudoku
Think Like A Git code visualization built with Gource

24:15 - Evolutionary Design for Beginners

James Shore - Evolutionary Design Illustrated
Stack Overflow

32:30 - Technical Practices and Agile Architecture

Procrastinate on Purpose by Rory Vaden

39:10 - Engineering on a Team Level

“No Silver Bullet” by Fred Brooks
James Shore - Rethinking Scaling

52:10 - Redesigning Team Responsibilities

Joy, Inc by Richard Sheridan

PicksSandi Metz “The Wrong Abstraction” blog post (Sam) Why Are Computers podcast by Tom Stewart (Sam) Netstat (Jess) Wood Badge (Charles) Remember the Titans (Charles) Rick Sheridan’s Agile India talk (James) Liftoff by Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies (James)Special Guest: James Shore.
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274 RR Fearless Salary Negotiation with Josh Doody Aug 24, 2016

Show notes

Rails Remote Conference1:25 Introducing Josh Doody

- Twitter
Fearless Salary Negotiation by Josh Doody
Take his (free!) crash course in getting promotions

2:50 - Making salary negotiations when you’re your own boss4:22 - Asking an employer to “give where it hurts”6:20- Minimum Acceptable Salary / B.A.T. N. A.10:45 - Leaving a new job for a better offer13:47 - Job happiness versus job salary15:55 - Contracting

The Freelancers’ Show

18:55 - Renegotiating and peace of mind21:00 - Researching the company28:00 - Answering salary-based interview questions33:20- Negotiating for a job you really want35:00 - Common fears to negotiating

10 reasons you should NOT negotiate your salary

42:10 - Countering an offer (in writing)48:55 - Negotiating with benefits and vacation51:50 - Scripting a conversation55:05 - Bantering with an employer1:03:00 - Salaries higher than market value1:06:00 - Negotiating with no work experiencePicks: Negotiating Your Salary: How To Make $1000 a Minute by Jack Chapman (Dave)Jack Chapman’s salary negotiation video series: (Dave) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Hunter x Hunter (Dave) Negotiate with Chad (Jessica) Pokemon Go (Jessica) Wood Badge (Charles) Boy Scouts of America (Charles) Tifie Scout Camp (Charles) Penn & Teller: Fool Us Madhi Gilbert (Josh) Seveneves by Neal Stephens (Josh) Mystery Show podcast, “Case #3 Belt Buckle” (Josh) Special Guest: Josh Doody.
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273 RR Contempt Culture with Aurynn Shaw Aug 17, 2016

Show notes

01:11 - Aurynn Shaw Introduction

01:56 - Contempt Culture

07:32 - “But PHP is objectively bad….”; True Objectivity

PHP: a fractal of bad design

10:35 - The History of The Contempt Culture in Tech Spaces12:40 - Reinventing Tools15:00 - “Intent is not magic.”

Shakesville: Harmful Communication, Part 1: Intent Is Magic

20:09 - Contempt Culture in the Ruby Community Towards PHP21:56 - Why Contempt Culture Forms

WDCNZ
Luser
Power and Goodness
Noblesse Oblige
“Design is how it works.”

29:08 - DevOps and the Disruption of Culture32:34 - Open Source vs Free Software 36:33 - Cultural Implications/Ramifications Around Open Source

OpenSSL
Ruby Rogues Episode #144: Passion

41:32 - Service Culture

Actor-Observer Bias in Social Psychology

Picks

RODE PSA1 Swivel Mount Studio Microphone Boom Arm (Sam)
Design Thinking (Aurynn)

Special Guest: Aurynn Shaw.
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272 RR Game Development and RubyMotion with Amir Rajan Aug 10, 2016

Show notes

01:42 - Amir Rajan

02:24 - A Dark Room (ADR); Revenue and Downloads

Revenue Updates for A Dark Room et al

09:16 - Quality, Heart and Soul, and Putting Yourself Into a Product

iPhreaks Show Episode #161: Successful Indie iOS Game Development with Amir Rajan

14:31 - Choosing RubyMotion

17:43 - Objective-C vs Ruby

HipByte/Flow

21:51 - Cross-platform Availability23:53 - ADR => Watch/TV Capability with RubyMotion26:17 - The Ecosystem in iOS and RubyMotion28:11 - Code Structure29:58 - Testing; UI Automation

mac_bacon

31:29 - Open Source and Proprietary33:15 - Other Components

34:07 - Going on a Sabbatical40:58 - .NET => Ruby

Inversion of Control; (IoC) Container

Picks

Transistor (Amir)
Hoplite (Amir)
Alto's Adventure (Amir)
Shadowrun: Dragonfall (Sam)
Minecraft: Story Mode (David)
Sriracha and Egg in Ramen (Chuck)
Ruby Rogues Facebook Page (Chuck)

Special Guest: Amir Rajan.
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271 RR Problems New Developers Don’t Realize They Have and Hidden Tradeoffs to Coding Decisions Developers Have to Make with Justin Weiss Aug 03, 2016

Show notes

Rails Remote Conf 01:14 - Justin Weiss Introduction

02:15 - “Learning Rails Without Getting Overwhelmed”?

Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson, with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, and Andreas Schwarz

02:34 - Problems New Developers Don’t Realize They Have04:35 - Learning New Things08:05 - What is a success?09:02 - What can senior devs do? What shouldn’t they do?

15:43 - Are there still “Architects”?20:45 - The Existential Crisis of Software Development

22:26 - The Responsibility of the Students26:08 - How can new developers obtain objective evidence of their blind spots?

33:49 - Early Career Developers Working Together37:03 - Learning Practices Picks

emoj (Coraline)
Teaching Robots to Feel: Emoji & Deep Learning (Coraline)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Sam)
Gorilla Tape (Sam)
Portillo's (Chuck)
iPad Pro (Chuck)
Apple Smart Keyboard (Chuck)
Apple Pencil (Chuck)
GoodNotes (Chuck)
Podcast Movement (Chuck)
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen (Justin)
How to Write in Plain English (Justin)
Avvo (Justin)

Special Guest: Justin Weiss.
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