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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:

220 RR Augmenting Your Reality with Leon Gersing Aug 12, 2015

Show notes

Check out RailsClips and Angular Remote Conf! 02:46 - Leon Gersing Introduction

03:24 - “Augmenting Your Reality”07:06 - Emotional Goals and Quantifying Happiness

Hacking Happy by Dusty Phillips

13:49 - Quantification15:32 - Reacting to Data17:49 - Recognizing Patterns and Trends

Journaling and Meditation

21:58 - FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) 26:20 - The Software Development Mindset

Teams Should Play More
Encouraging Easter Eggs
Following Trails

31:55 - The Ruby Community, Whimsy, and Creating Realities

why's (poignant) guide to Ruby: in color by why the lucky stiff

40:41 - Leon’s Role at Dev Bootcamp 42:16 - Wisdom; Not Authority44:14 - Recommended Reading

Picks Dollywood's Splash Country Water Adventures Park (Avdi)
Normality (Avdi)
Jessica Kerr: Meritocracy @ PolyConf 2015 (Jessica)
Periscope (Chuck)
The Eventual Millionaire Podcast (Chuck)
Entreprogrammers Retreat 2015 (Chuck)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (Leon)
Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown (Leon)
Shel Silverstein - Freakin At The Freakers Ball (Leon)
The Circle by Dave Eggers (Leon)Special Guest: Leon Gersing.
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219 RR Brakeman and Rails Security with Justin Collins Aug 05, 2015

Show notes

02:40 - Justin Collins Introduction

03:40 - Brakeman & Static Analysis 04:02 - Common Security Vulnerabilities (and Definitions)

08:57 - The Inspiration for Brakeman09:47 - Getting Brakeman Working (Process)10:41 - Learning About Security

13:01 - Security and The Rails Core Team

Justin Collins: The World of Ruby on Rails Security @ RailsConf 2015

15:19 - Should Brakeman be integrated into Rails?16:29 - Running Brakeman On Your CI Machine

guard-brakeman

17:43 - Are there specific types of vulnerabilities that are hard to find with static analysis?19:18 - Rails Engines20:56 - When building an app, is security something you should focus on from the get-go?

Where should you get started?
- The OWASP Top Ten

25:32 - Code Schools Teaching Security26:17 - Translating Lessons Learned Into Brakeman27:24 - Handling Security and Data Breaches

Charlie Miller

32:28 - Crowdsourcing Security (Security in Open Source)

Terri Oda: Bringing Security to Your Open Source Project

34:54 - The Technical Side of Brakeman and Static Analysis Tools

Identifying a Dangerous Value

37:34 - Data Tracing, Limited Data Flow Analysis 40:52 - Future Brakeman Features43:29 - Supporting and Contributing to Brakeman48:23 - PhDsPicks "Why didn't you [just]..." and "Did you consider..." Parley Thread (Avdi)
Object Thinking (Developer Reference) by David West (Avdi)
Web Design - The First 100 Years (Avdi)
Brighton Ruby Conference (Avdi)
Email (Avdi)
The Twitter Mute Button (Avdi)
git - the simple guide (Saron)
I Love My Campus (Saron)
LoneStarRuby (Saron)
React Rally (Jessica)
Livecoding.tv (Jessica)
Remembering the Apollo 11 Moon Landing With the Woman Who Made It Happen (Coraline)
Showgoers (Coraline)
AngularJS Kurs (Chuck)
Hire Thom Parkin! (Chuck)
RethinkDB (Justin)
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzik (Justin)
The Search for General Tso (Justin)Special Guest: Justin Collins.
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218 RR AWS Deployments with Alex Wood and Trevor Rowe Jul 29, 2015

Show notes

Check out RailsClips! 02:44 - Alex Wood Introduction

03:09 - Trevor Rowe Introduction

03:26 - What is offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

06:48 - Setup and Taking Incremental Steps (The Cloud as a Paradigm)

Identity and Access Management
“Make sure everything works”

12:19 - CloudFormation

Tooling
- aws-sdk-ruby

15:19 - Data-Centric Services (Monitoring, Traceability, Visibility)

23:48 - When to Use What (Getting Started)

Simplicity vs Control

26:07 - Making Apps Run Better, General Optimizations

Route 53

33:43 - Implementing AWS

“Eat the elephant one bite at a time”

37:15 - Security

Creating Visibility Without Opening an SSH Port
- CloudWatch
- CloudWatch Logs
Running Inside a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Why doesn’t security happen?

47:51 - Maintaining and Continually Improving Within Teams (Scalability)56:33 - AWS Resources

Picks Interview with Laurent Bossavit of the 10X Programmer and other Myths in Software Engineering (Jessica)
Paracord (Chuck)
Alex's RailsConf 2015 Workshop (Alex)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (Alex)
Kalzumeus Podcast (Alex)
Gitter (Trevor)
AWS Ruby Development Blog (Trevor)Special Guests: Alex Wood and Trevor Rowe.
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217 RR Architecture Without an End State with Michael Nygard Jul 22, 2015

Show notes

RailsClips is officially launched!03:11 - Michael Nygard Introduction

04:36 - Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael T. Nygard

The Circuit Breaker Pattern
Designing Software to Get Past 1.0

07:15 - Upfront Architecture

Agile Software Development
What does “good” look like?
“Old ideas in new context result in innovation”
Michael Nygard: Architecture Without an End State

14:29 - Architecture Without an End State (Definition)18:42 - Beware Grandiosity22:45 - Context

Interface Segregation Principle

23:52 - Holding Teams to Standards26:27 - Architecture Between Groups29:16 - “It’s not my job” (Developer Responsibility)31:45 - Design Artifacts37:55 - Staying Humble

“Assume positive intent…”

39:43 - Distributing Economic Decision Making

Technical Debt
Accounting

45:51 - Tools and Technologies That Are Helping48:45 - Future Book Plans?Picks Michael Nygard: Architecture Without an End State (Avdi)
Daily Tech Video (Avdi)
October CincyRb - Jim Weirich on Decoupling from Rails (Avdi)
Rachel Shadoan: Why Algorithm Transparency is Vital to the Future of Thinking (Avdi)
Avdi Grimm: A review of news summary services (Avdi)
Systems Thinking, Third Edition: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture by Jamshid Gharajedaghi (Jessica)
William Byrd: The Promise of Relational Programming @ PolyConf 15 (Jessica)
Again (Coraline)
Seveneves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson (Coraline)
remoteconfs.com (Chuck)
God (Chuck)
Jesus Christ (Chuck)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Chuck)
Cory Doctorow: The Internet of Things That Do What You Tell Them (Michael)
The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference by Charles M. Kozierok (Michael)
services-engineering (Michael)Special Guest: Michael Nygard.
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216 RR Code Review Culture with Derek Prior Jul 15, 2015

Show notes

03:42 - Derek Prior Introduction

04:01 - Code Reviews

Derek Prior: Implementing a Strong Code-Review Culture @ RailsConf 2015
- Slides

05:14 - What happens when you don’t do code reviews?06:30 - Not Emphasizing Code Quality, Setting Code Review Up for Failure

Edge Cases
Diverse Feedback, Team Conflict

10:43 - Code Reviewing Yourself: Answering Your Own Questions12:03 - The Evolution of Code Review (Code Review as an Asynchronous Process)14:51 - Small Changes, “Pull Request Bombs”

Handling Architectural Disagreements and Discussions
Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler (with Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, and Don Roberts)

23:49 - Making Code Review a Supportive Process

Stop Issuing Commands; Ask Probing Questions
DON’T Use “Why didn’t you ________?”
DO Use “Have you considered _________?”
or “That’s interesting…I might have used _______.”

30:32 - What qualities should reviewees have?34:27 - Getting Code Reviews Introduced Into Company Culture38:30 - Making Sure Code Reviews Get Done40:47 - Tagging Specific Team Members

LGTM = Looks Good To Me
Gerrit

44:39 - Other Handy Code Review Tools

47:49 - Code Review Feedback Resources for Solo Programmers

Picks Code Newbie Podcast: Sandi Metz Part I (Saron)
Code Newbie Podcast: Sandi Metz Part II (Saron)
If Google Were A Guy (Saron)
LEGO Ideas - Lovelace & Babbage (Coraline)
CoverMyMeds is offering Ruby on Rails training for experienced developers (David)
CoverMyMeds Billboard 1 (David)
CoverMyMeds Billboard 2 (David)
The Bike Shed Podcast (Derek)
The Ember RFC Process (Derek)
tota11y (Derek)
Eileen Uchitelle: How to Performance @ GoRuCo 2015 (Derek)
Olympus SP-100EE (Avdi)Special Guest: Derek Prior.
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215 RR Sonic Pi with Sam Aaron Jul 08, 2015

Show notes

02:41 - Sam Aaron Introduction and Background

10:53 - Sonic Pi Defined

Affordable Creative Coding with Music

13:10 - Live Performance Aspect23:58 - The Learning Curve28:06 - Teaching Kids to Program Through Music

Joseph Wilk: Programming as Performance @ Ruby Conf Australia 2015

34:07 - Sonic Pi in the Classroom 36:22 - Threading

Cue and Sync

41:18 - Choosing Ruby Over Clojure for Sonic Pi44:13 - Sonic Pi Roadmap: What’s Next?49:22 - Contribute to the sonic-pi Repo!

Sonic Pi on Facebook
- Phase Abstractions: Live Coded with Sonic Pi at NODE15, Frankfurt

50:43 - Heritage?

53:53 - Experimenting with Music, The Evolution of Dance Music56:19 - Types of Sounds

Synths
Pre-recorded Sounds
- freesound.org
Effects

Picks Cate Huston: 5 Strategies For Making Progress on Side Projects (Coraline)
TIS-100 (Coraline)
Building Microservices by Sam Newman (David)
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin (David)
[YouTube] Ben Eggett: Writing Music with Ruby: A Subtle Introduction to Music Theory @ MountainWest RubyConf 2015 (Chuck)
Elixir (Chuck)
Programming Elixir: Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun by Dave Thomas (Chuck)
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren (Sam)
The Joy of Clojure by Michael Fogus (Sam)
Raspberry Pi (Sam)Special Guest: Sam Aaron.
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214 RR Ruby in a Polyglot Architecture at Ruby Remote Conf 2015 Jul 01, 2015

Show notes

02:28 - Ruby in a Polyglot Architecture (Panel Experience)04:21 - Does Ruby do well or not in the microservices area? Is Ruby keeping up?07:30 - What are areas where Ruby still beats other languages?

Speed and Momentum
Dependency Management

13:12 - Polyglotting Architecture if Only Using Ruby for Build Tools, Deployment Tools, etc.?

“Deployment is part of the code.”
- Capistrano
- rake

16:09 - Error Messages 18:20 - Tradeoffs in a Polyglot Architecture (Negatives)

Context Switching
- AWK
- DSLs

34:35 - Learning Programming

Ruby as a First Language?
What is a good language for beginners?

41:24 - Mixing Languages
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213 RR Team Dynamics, API Design, and System Resiliency with Daniel Jacobson of Netflix Jun 24, 2015

Show notes

02:25 - Daniel Jacobson Introduction

02:46 - How Netflix Looks at Programming and Development Team

Context and Control
Freedom and Responsibility
- Netflix: Freedom & Responsibility Culture (Version 1)
- Netflix Culture: Freedom & Responsibility (Version 2)
Amazon AWS
JVM (Java Virtual Machine)
“Specialties”

05:03 - Maintaining a Consistent Culture

Setting Context

06:37 - Onboarding Process08:15 - Engineering spirals: 10 philosophies to facilitate innovation

Introspection
Transformations:
- Staffed Up
- Solving the Resiliency Problem
  - hystrix

15:04 - Making Space for Innovation

Building Expectations
Incrementing Deliverables
Building Trust and Confidence
Maintenance Mode

23:12 - APIs

Why REST Keeps Me Up At Night
API Orchestration Layers (Separation of Concerns)
- Gather
- Format
- Deliver

29:32 - Solving Real Problems, The Groovy Layer

The Groovy Programming Language

31:34 - hystrix and Patterns for Making Systems Resilient

39:14 - RxJava 41:17 - The Dynamic of Senior EngineersScreening Process44:02 - Conway's Law 47:44 - Best and Most Challenging Parts About Working for Netflix

Scaling and Maintaining

Picks Fund Club (Coraline)
The Codeless Code (Avdi)
Trotro (Avdi)
Serial Podcast (Chuck)
Happy Father’s Day! (Chuck)
RailsClips (Chuck)
StartUp (Daniel)
Reply All (Daniel)
Mystery Show (Daniel)
Chris Messina: Seeking Genius in Negative Space (Daniel)
Chris Messina: Full Stack Employee (Daniel)
Netflix Techblog (Daniel)
Netflix GitHub (Daniel)Special Guest: Daniel Jacobson.
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212 RR Elm with Richard Feldman and Evan Czaplicki Jun 17, 2015

Show notes

Get your Ruby Remote Conf tickets and check out the @rubyremoteconf Twitter feed for exciting updates about the conference. 03:09 - Evan Czaplicki Introduction

03:15 - Richard Feldman Introduction

03:42 - Elm