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**Ruby Rogues**

Our original panel podcast, Ruby Rogues is a weekly discussion around Ruby, Rails, software development, and the community around Ruby.

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Latest Episodes:

260 RR Training with Reuven Lerner May 18, 2016

Show notes

Want to be a Ruby Rogue? Apply at https://rubyrogues.com/ruby-nuby 01:47 - Reuven Lerner Introduction

03:49 - Training

Pedagogy

07:54 - Approaching Teaching

Mental Model

09:33 - Pairing People Up

Metacognition

10:57 - Example: Reuven’s Training Sessions19:59 - Moving Up The Ladder24:06 - Company Goals25:56 - Hostile Learners28:00 - Breaking Into the Big Company Market

35:03 - Offerings37:53 - Cultural Differences Picks

Society Of Mind By Marvin Minsky (Reuven)
Peter Hessler's Books (Reuven)
Regexp Crash Course (Reuven)
rspec-given (Sam)
Katrina Owen on Confreaks (Sam)
github-shoutouts (Coraline)
Ruby Together (Coraline)
Ruby Rogues Episode #224: Ruby Together with André Arko (Chuck)
Ruby Remote Conf (Chuck)
FitBit One (Chuck)

Special Guest: Reuven Lerner.
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259 RR Pair Programming with Jay Bobo of Pair Columbus May 11, 2016

Show notes

01:59 - Jay Bobo Introduction

04:20 - Pair Columbus 07:28 - Meeting Formats

11:21 - Organization

@cowboyd Tweet

14:57 - Attendee Experience Levels15:56 - Matching People18:04 - “Three Amigos”19:33 - Pair Programming and Communication/Chemistry

31:50 - Dealing with Difficulties During Pair Programming34:50 - Useful Strategies For Pairing Related to Hiring

54:14 - More Episodes on Pair Programming

Picks Jarvis Desk (Sam)
What Do Women Want At Hackathons? NASA Has A List (Sam)
Dan North - Embracing uncertainty: why you should and why you won’t (Jessica)
Common Ground and Coordination in Joint Activity (Jessica)
Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman (Jay)
Zach Holman: How to Deploy Software (Jay)
Patricio Gonzalez Vivo: The Book of Shaders (Jay)
Black Mamba Hot Sauce by CaJohn's (David)Special Guest: Jay Bobo of Pair Columbus.
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258 RR Twilio with Greg Baugues May 04, 2016

Show notes

01:37 - Greg Baugues Introduction

02:51 - Twilio 05:27 - Two-factor Authentication

13:42 - Implementing Security; Why Security is Important and Essential

Dan Luu: Normalization of deviance in software: how broken practices become standard

27:26 - Twilio Use Cases

34:16 - IP Messaging

38:02 - TwiML Burner 42:46 - Using Twilio to Enhance Business

48:50 - Twilio’s Tech Stack

50:19 - Opt-outs and Phone Number Validation52:45 - Lookup

55:46 - Developer Evangelism
Goodbye, Avdi. We will miss you <3
Avdi's Newsletter
Who wants to be the next Ruby Rogue? Submit your video. Picks The CHECKS Pattern Language of Information Integrity (Avdi)
Delegation (Avdi)
CaJohns Ignite Hot Sauce (David)
beach house (Coraline)
CocoRosie (Coraline)
The Misters of Circe (Sam)
DesktopServer (Chuck)
Advanced Custom Fields (Chuck)
Convert Post Types (Chuck)
Gravity Forms (Chuck)
MemberPress (Chuck)
SIGNAL Conference (Greg)Special Guest: Greg Baugues.
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257 RR Learning and Training with Neil Brown Apr 27, 2016

Show notes

01:29 - Neil Brown Introduction

02:32 - Where do new people get stuck?

IDEs

07:21 - Targeting Particular Age Groups

BlueJ

13:46 - Becoming Professional Programmers15:33 - Apprenticing17:20 - Teaching Theory and Algorithms vs Practical Aspects20:42 - Value and Negotiating Raises24:06 - Preparing Students for Business Challenges25:39 - What is the first thing students should learn?28:46 - Using Games 30:45 - Using Music

Scratch

31:48 - Hypotheses Testing34:08 - Tools38:23 - "Frame-Based Editing" 40:21 - Beyond Beginners41:15 - “My Holy Grail has been to radically simplify professional programming. I now realize that simplification is not fundamentally a technical problem but rather a cultural one. Our nerd culture embraces inhuman levels of complexity. Mastering mind-boggling complexity is our mutant superpower. It is our tribal marker. Complexity is the air we breath, and so it is invisible to us. Simplification will only come from outside this culture. To disrupt programming I first have to reinvent it for a fresh audience of non-programmers.” 44:26 - Technical Matters vs Elitism

Andreas Stefik
- Ruby Rogues Episode #184: We Actually Know About Software Development and Why We Believe It's True with Greg Wilson and Andreas Stefik

47:57 - Making Programming Easier to Learn51:20 - Team Structures in Academia vs IndustryPicks git-standup (Coraline)
Craft Conference (Jessica)
UtahJS (Chuck)
Zoom H6 (Chuck)
Ian Leslie: The Sugar Conspiracy (Coraline)
The sugar conspiracy (Neil)
Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson (Neil)Special Guest: Neil Brown.
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256 RR Reading Code and The Architecture of Open Source Applications with Michael DiBernardo Apr 20, 2016

Show notes

01:42 - Michael DiBernardo Introduction

02:27 - The Architecture of Open Source Applications Series 08:24 - Demonstrating Concepts in 500 Lines of Code12:24 - Why Open Source?

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler

14:20 - Lessons Learned19:05 - Communication Issues22:41 - Reuse

Udi Dahan: The Fallacy Of ReUse

28:52 - What should people gain from the book?34:12 - How to Read a Book Like This (Retention)37:48 - Soft Skills

Writing Excuses

Picks Udi Dahan: The Fallacy Of ReUse (David)
Dan Luu: Normalization of deviance in software: how broken practices become standard (David)
A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives by Cordelia Fine (Avdi)
HolloLens Demo (Chuck)
Build a Raspberry Pi-Powered DIY Amazon Echo (Chuck)
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Stewart Brand (Michael)
How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (Michael)
Writing Excuses (Michael)Special Guest: Michael DiBernardo.
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255 RR What's Missing? with Greg Wilson Apr 13, 2016

Show notes

01:59 - Greg Wilson Introduction

02:37 - What’s Missing?05:48 - Disconnect Between Computer Scientists and Software Developers09:09 - How necessary are books?

Ruby Rogues Episode #184: What We Actually Know About Software Development and Why We Believe It's True with Greg Wilson and Andreas Stefik

15:18 - Being Part of a Process vs Starting a Process17:01 - Software Tools; Spreadsheets

LibreOffice

28:45 - Language, Vocabulary, and Theory and The Software Craftsmanship Movement33:41 - Reinventing the Wheel36:24 - CrowdsourcingPicks Software Tools by Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger (Greg)
Scratch (Greg)
Techies (Greg)
HTML element standards (Jessica)
Feerless (Coraline)
Félienne Hermans (Avdi)
moonconf (Jessica)Special Guest: Greg Wilson.
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254 RR Building/Scaling a Rails SaaS App with Derrick Reimer Apr 06, 2016

Show notes

02:25 - Julia Evans Introduction

02:52 - Derrick Reimer Introduction

05:25 - SaaS Apps vs Other Web Development Projects06:18 - Scaling08:44 - Gathering Feedback12:01 - How has underlying technology helped and gotten in the way?

PostgreSQL

15:18 - Choosing Boring Technology20:49 - Scaling (Cont’d)

Caching
Redis

29:07 - Strategies to Keep the Application Manageable31:41 - What makes technology boring and safe to use? Evaluating Technologies

“Boringification”

35:43 - Building Something Useful vs Building Something for Entertainment40:13 - PrioritizationPicks writegif (Derrick)
RuboCop (Derrick)
htop (Jessica)
Java Concurrency in Practice (Julia)
HOW TO PRONOUNCE GIF! (David)
Teaching a local Ruby class (Avdi)Special Guests: Derrick Reimer and Julia Evans.
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253 RR Phoenix and Rails with Chris McCord Mar 30, 2016

Show notes

01:57 - Chris McCord Introduction

02:09 - The Phoenix Framework

02:46 - Ruby vs Elixir

José Valim
“Programming should be enjoyable.”
sync
WhatsApp
Metaprogramming

12:12 - Phoenix as a Framework; Similarity to Rails15:38 - ecto 16:45 - Performance 18:06 - Generating a Phoenix Project

20:44 - Getting Started with Phoenix; Creating and Maintaining25:29 - Guidance and Decision Making

Development and Documentation

30:22 - Phoenix and JavaScript; Build Tools

Brunch

37:22 - Phoenix and Elm

Chris McCord and Evan Czaplicki: Phoenix and Elm: Making the Web Functional @ Erlang Factory SF 2016

38:45 - Maintainability

OTP Framework

41:52 - Hosting Phoenix

Heroku

42:48 - Object-Oriented vs Functional

50:29 - Debugging; Tooling

UberAuth

01:01:08 - Phoenix PresencePicks Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss | First Round Review (Jessica)
Flex ('Mancer) by Ferrett Steinmetz (Jessica)
The Teaching Company: How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (Jessica)
Programming Phoenix: Productive |> Reliable |> Fast by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and José Valim (Chris)
Jose Valim: Phoenix a web framework for the new web @ Lambda Days 2016 (Chris)
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss (Avdi)
Efficient State-based CRDTs by Delta-Mutation (Chris)Special Guest: Chris McCord.
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252 RR Feature Toggles with Pete Hodgson Mar 23, 2016

Show notes

02:07 - Pete Hodgson Introduction

03:13 - Feature Toggles, Flags, Bits, Etc.

06:17 - Merge Hell 08:10 - Branches08:59 - Why not constantly rebase?

Martin Fowler: FeatureBranch

10:48 - Why use feature toggles?

Martin Fowler: Feature Toggles

12:29 - Making Code Configurable16:37 - Approaching Feature Toggles20:04 - A/B Testing 25:11 - Approaching Feature Toggles (Cont’d)

34:37 - Implications for Testing36:12 - Toggle Interaction; Nesting of Features37:28 - Introducing Features Toggles to Teams

Pushback

40:43 - Managing Code Reviews with No Feature BranchesPicks Cryptic Ruby Global Variables and Their Meanings (Coraline)
RailsBridge Installfest (Coraline)
Concourse (Pete)
Architectural Decision Records (Pete)
Pete Hodgson: The Ultimate Traveler's Coffee Kit (Pete)
Deschutes Red Chair NWPA (Pete)Special Guest: Pete Hodgson .
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251 RR Automating Code Reviews with Mindaugas Mozūras Mar 16, 2016

Show notes

02:04 - Mindaugas Mozūras Introduction

02:36 - Automating Code Reviews03:17 - What is a code review and why do it?03:39 - Styles of Code Reviews: What parts should be automated? 06:04 - pronto vs rubocop

08:26 - Workflow10:14 - Runners11:42 - Feedback13:21 - Use Cases for Pronto14:28 - How has pronto changed your codebase?15:34 - Feelings and Code Reviews; Agreeing on Standards as a Team17:38 - Return Values