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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:

240 RR What Makes a Good Manager with Marcus Blankenship Dec 30, 2015

Show notes

02:05 - Marcus Blankenship Introduction

02:52 - Pain and Difficulties of Moving From Programming to Management

Identity
Credibility

10:50 - Image and Identity (Cont’d)

Expectations
Role Models

19:16 - Management; Making the Move to Management

Aikido
“Everybody deserves a good manager.”

23:37 - How do you know if you have a bad manager?27:13 - Feedback; Tone of Communication33:54 - What should you do when you get promoted to a management position?

Nix Production Code Tasks
- Meet with Your People (Give Feedback)
- One-on-one Meetings with Team Members
- Zero Surprises Evaluation Policy
- Evaluation Forms
- Goals and Incentives
- Reviews for Self-Reflection
Get Your Own Feedback

48:25 - How do you know you are doing a good job?

Skip-Level Reviews
Growth of your team and members
Signs of Loyalty

51:06 - What if you don’t want to move into a management role?Picks The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz (Jessica)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (Jessica)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Chuck)
JS Remote Conf (Chuck)
Ruby Remote Conf (Chuck)
Freelance Remote Conf (Chuck)
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield (Marcus)
Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or Cost by Johanna Rothman (Marcus)Special Guest: Marcus Blankenship.
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239 RR Swiss Army Rubyknife with Peter Cooper at Ruby Remote Conf 2015 Dec 23, 2015

Show notes

This episode is from Peter Cooper’s talk at Ruby Remote Conf 2015. You can watch the full, unedited presentation, Swiss Army Rubyknife, on YouTube at your convenience.

Check out All Remote Confs for next year’s remote conference lineup!
Ruby Remote Conf will run from March 23rd-25th 2016. Buy a ticket or submit a CFP!
JS Remote Conf is running from January 14th-16th 2016. Check out the speaker lineup!
Freelance Remote Conf will run from February 24th-26th. We’ve already got a great list of confirmed speakers. Stay tuned for more details!

We, the Ruby Rogues panelists (And, Mandy!), wish you a very happy holiday season.Special Guest: Peter Cooper.
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238 RR Refactoring Dec 16, 2015

Show notes

Check out JS Remote Conf and submit a Ruby Remote Conf CFP! 02:26 - Refactoring (Definition) and Where People Fail03:55 - Tests and Refactoring

How do you decide when your codebase is untestable?

10:59 - Managing Scope11:42 - Why We Refactor; The Value of Refactoring

Coraline's Data-Driven Refactoring Talk

17:13 - Refactoring Tools 20:40 - When Refactoring Gets Put Off; Establishing a Code Culture26:23 - Refactoring Strategies

Extract Method
Extract Class
Introduce Explaining Variable

37:38 - Performance Tradeoffs41:42 - Generative Testing

approvals

50:33 - Measurement53:08 - Examples and Resources

Picks Longmire (Avdi)
Clash of Clans (Chuck)
Star Wars Commander (Chuck)
Cleaning your office (Chuck)
Hsing-Hui Hsu: Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana: Parsers for Great Good @ RubyConf 2015 (Coraline)
Betsy Haibel: s/regex/DSLs/: What Regex Teaches Us About DSL Design @ RubyConf 2015 (Coraline)
Velocity 2016 Call for speakers (Saron)
RailsConf 2016 (Saron)
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237 RR Rails + JavaScript + Functional Programming with Brad Urani Dec 09, 2015

Show notes

Check out JS Remote Conf and All Remote Confs! 02:32 - Brad Urani Introduction

04:01 - Immutable/Persistent Data Structures; Advantages

07:30 - Tools for Debugging08:23 - Why do Rubyists care about things like Elm?09:39 - Persistent Data Structure Use Cases; Functional Programming12:07 - Testability13:51 - Where does “functional play a role in a typical CRUD app? Active Record,

The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
Callbacks
Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
- “Nouns are objects; verbs are methods” - Corey Haines

22:49 - Coworker Receptiveness of Ruby + JavaScript Style of Programming

Codebase Inconsistency?
“Merit”

26:41 - Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) vs Monolithic Applications

30:21 - Monoliths as a Necessary Stage in the Development of a Mature Application

Elixir
- The Phoenix Framework
- ecto

33:23 - The Repository Pattern; Terminology & Naming

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler

37:40 - Structured Query Language (SQL)

Picks Dan Carlin's Hardcore History (Coraline)
Stuff You Missed in History Class (Coraline)
Buffer (Avdi)
New Belgium Brewing Accumulation White IPA (Avdi)
Saramonic SmartMixer Professional Recording Stereo Microphone Rig (Chuck)
LaunchCode (Brad)
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson (Coraline)
VAT19 (Brad)Special Guest: Brad Urani.
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236 RR Neo4j with Brian Underwood Dec 02, 2015

Show notes

02:10 - Brian Underwood Introduction

02:55 - Neo4j

Neo4j [GitHub]

04:31 - Graph Databases vs Traditional Databases06:02 - Relations Have Directions06:58 - Modeling a Domain as a Graph; How it Works

cypher

13:25 - Built-in Query Processor15:04 - Neo4j.rb => ORM; OGM

Mongoid Influence

18:06 - Declarative Schema 21:09 - The Ruby Client vs The Java Client25:48 - Use Cases35:53 - Who is using Neo4j?

Ashley Sun Lending Club: Managing Microservices with Neo4j @ GraphConnect SF 2015

38:42 - Challenges as an Open Source Maintainer39:44 - Funding Neo4j41:00 - Working Abroad42:16 - Getting Started with Neo4j

Picks Elle Luna: The Crossroads of Should and Must (Jessica)
Lynda Tutorials (Avdi)
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie (Avdi)
Marked 2 (Coraline)
Fund Club (Coraline)
RubyTapas #334: Rspec Compound Matchers (Brian)
Pyrosomes (Brian)
Americapox: The Missing Plague (Brian)Special Guest: Brian Underwood .
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235 RR Processing Textual Data with Ruby with Rob Miller Nov 25, 2015

Show notes

Check out JS Remote Conf! 02:07 - Rob Miller Introduction

03:11 - Why does text processing matter?07:32 - One-off Data Processing, Core Competency

The Perl Programming Language

10:36 - Processing Less-structured, Unstructured Data12:45 - The Command Line

29:15 - Abstractions and Refactoring35:12 - Munging: Tools and Practices

transproc

40:57 - Text Processing for Textual Visual Things

Conway's Game of Life

42:57 - Parallelization 45:45 - Fanning Data

join

Picks Text Processing with Ruby: Extracting Value from the Data That Surrounds You with Rob Miller (Avdi)
Data Is Plural by Jeremy Singer-Vine (Avdi)
RubyConf 2015 Videos (Avdi)
Papers We Love (Jessica)
transproc (David)
Does your data fit in RAM? (David)
advisor (David)
Swarm Simulator (Chuck)
15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck)
Toastmasters (Chuck)
All Remote Conferences (Chuck)
transproc (Rob)
Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby (Rob)
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) by William Poundstone (Rob)Special Guest: Rob Miller.
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234 RR Beyond Code with Jerod Santo and Adam Stacoviak Nov 18, 2015

Show notes

02:28 - Jerod Santo Introduction

02:44 - Adam Stacoviak Introduction

02:55 - The Changelog and Beyond Code (Background)

13:50 - The Corporatization of Open Source16:00 - Sharing Stories of Fascinating People and Choosing Conferences

Gophercon

21:21 - Differences Between Communities

Ron Evans
- Ruby Rogues Episode #141: Teaching Kids with Ron Evans

24:54 - Where are The Changelog and Beyond Code’s future plans?

OSCON
Strange Loop
Questions:
- Who is your programming hero?
- If you had to relearn how to code all over again, what would you tell yourself?
- What’s the most exciting thing in software right now?

31:57 - Interview Wishlist

20 Years of Ruby with Matz
20 Years of JavaScript with Brendan Eich
Bill O’Reilly
Linus Torvalds
10 Years of Git with Junio Hamano
Apple: ResearchKit
Sara Chipps

35:43 - Origin Stories

Mitchell Hashimoto
- The Changelog #180: Otto, Vagrant, and Automation with Mitchell Hashimoto
LEGO League

Picks Personality Insights (Coraline)
The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill by Karla McLaren (Coraline)
FamilySearch (Chuck)
Snow (Chuck)
DISTRICT Roasters (Adam)
The Balvenie (Adam)
Lismore Scotch (Adam)
The Elixir Fountain (Jerod)
Robot or Not? (Jerod)
Song Exploder (Jerod)Special Guests: Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo.
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233 RR Onboarding New Employees Nov 11, 2015

Show notes

02:36 - Responsibility and Communication

Slack
“Ask Anything”

12:10 - Onboarding Experience for Remote Employees15:55 - Measuring New Employee Metrics 17:41 - Onboarding Onto a Team vs Onboarding Onto a Project20:51 - What it Means to be a Senior Developer29:20 - First Impressions and Team Member Categories33:26 - How do you decide what you spend time learning?40:57 - Code Reading

The Web Platform Podcast

Picks Private Internet Access (Avdi)
Darkest Dungeon (Avdi)
imprint (Coraline)
The surprising truth about which personality traits do and don't correlate with computer programming skills (Coraline)
TALON Bluetooth Wireless Headphones (Jessica)
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall (Jessica)
Reading to your kids (Chuck)
LinkedIn (Chuck)
RubyTapas (Chuck)
Elixir Sips (Chuck)
Avdi's Newsletter (Avdi)
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232 RR Teaching and How We Can All Do More to Teach Technical Topics to Others with Eric Normand Nov 04, 2015

Show notes

02:20 - Eric Normand Introduction

03:31 - Old vs Young Programmers

05:38 - Teaching Fundamentals

Kathy Sierra

11:02 - Teaching Backgrounds12:13 - Why is so hard to be a good teacher?15:54 - Teacher Feedback19:46 - Asking Questions25:56 - Community Education28:20 - Order of Operation29:36 - Recognizing Students Understanding of Fundamentals

NPR Planet Money: When Women Stopped Coding

31:25 - Should there be prerequisites?34:30 - How to Assess Where People Are 35:43 - Teaching the Teacher39:10 - Bootcamps 45:52 - After BootcampsMentoring52:11 - Skill vs Knowledge

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