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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:

210 RR Roda and Routing Trees with Jeremy Evans Jun 03, 2015

Show notes

03:58 - Roda and Routing Trees

08:56 - Roda vs Padrino, Sinatra 10:03 - Nested Routing11:09 - Snipping Routing Trees?

MultiRoute

13:19 - Dispatching from One Rack Application to Another13:54 - Rails Integration14:33 - Performance and Benchmarking

17:29 - Streaming

reel

19:26 - Support Decisions (Roadmapping)

22:05 - Plugin Architecture

28:00 - Security

30:17 - Apps That Work Well with Roda and Using Roda33:16 - Application Freezing36:12 - Jeremy’s Typical Stack/Workflow37:30 - When Should You Not Use Roda?38:39 - Roda Timeline and Roadmap40:01 - Jeremy’s Work/Life Balance

OpenBSD

43:46 - Open Source

Getting Paid
Picking a Project

49:03 - Application Optimization

Big O Notation

57:00 - Routing Approaches

The Annotated C++ Reference Manual by Ellis and Stroustrup

Picks Self: The Movie; (Avdi)
Self and Self: Whys and Wherefores (Avdi)
April Fools Video Prank in Math Class (Saron)
A pattern language for microservices (Coraline)
Wytches (Coraline)
Garmin Vivosmart (David)
"REDNECK AVENGERS: TULSA NIGHTS" — A Bad Lip Reading of Marvel's The Avengers (David)
CodeNewbie Episode #37: From Skates To Code with Aimee Knight (Chuck)
This Is Your Life Podcast (Chuck)
Cleaning off your desk (Chuck)
Ys (Jeremy)
minjs (Jeremy)
Camp (2013) (Jeremy) Special Guest: Jeremy Evans.
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209 RR Robots and IoT with Julian Cheal May 27, 2015

Show notes

02:32 - Julian Cheal Introduction

02:49 - Julian’s Background with Robots and Drones

03:32 - NodeCopter Events 04:31 - Traveling with Robots05:35 - Julian’s Collection and Projects

07:46 - Giving Demos09:12 - What Makes Robots?

10:21 - Where is IoT (Internet of Things) Heading?

Security

13:11 - Programming Languages

NodeBots

14:15 - Tools and Protocols

17:31 - Programming Challenges Around Hardware Hacking

Artoo
- celluloid

18:49 - Barrier to Entry20:41 - Getting Kids Started

22:09 - Wearables

EL Wire (Electroluminescent Wire)

23:18 - LEGO Robotics

25:01 - Issues with Hardware Hacking28:22 - Rubyists and Hardware

29:45 - Interfacing with Humans

33:27 - [Kickstarter] CHIP - The World's First Nine Dollar Computer 34:01 - Connectivity

Sphero
- Carin Meier: The Joy of Flying Robots with Clojure @ OSCON 2013

36:55 - More Interesting Projects

Picks Jacob Kaplan-Moss Keynote @ Pycon 2015 (Jessica)
Kobo Aura H20 (Avdi)
Liz Abinante: Unicorns Are People, Too (Re-Thinking Soft and Hard Skills) @ Madison+ Ruby 2014 (Coraline)
littleBits (Julian)
Jewelbots (Julian)
Ruby Rogues Episode #156: Hardware Hacking with Julia Grace (Julian)
The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas (Julian) Special Guest: Julian Cheal.
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208 RR Erlang with Francesco Cesarini May 20, 2015

Show notes

Check out and sign up for https://rubyremoteconf.com/!02:45 - Francesco Cesarini Introduction
- https://twitter.com/francescoc
- https://github.com/francescoc
- https://www.erlang-solutions.com/
- Books:
- http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596518189.do
- http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920020240.do
- http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024149.do
03:08 - http://www.erlang.org/
- Multicore
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7005759/erlang-on-multicore-cpu
- History
- http://www.ericsson.se/
- http://www.erlang.se/
08:23 - Francesco and Erlang
- https://twitter.com/joeerl
- http://joearms.github.io/
10:49 - Building a Company Around a Language (https://www.erlang-solutions.com/)
- Products:
- https://www.erlang-solutions.com/products/mongooseim-massively-scalable-ejabberd-platform
- https://www.erlang-solutions.com/products/wombat
- https://www.erlang-solutions.com/products/riak-nosql-database
- Events:
- http://www.erlang-factory.com/euc2015/#home
- http://www.erlang-factory.com/
- http://www.codemesh.io/
- Projects:
- T-Mobile SMS Gateway
- Instant Messaging Gateway (2008-2009)
- Preemptive Support, Monitoring, Metrics & Alarming (https://www.erlang-solutions.com/products/wombat)
16:00 - http://www.erlang.org/
- http://devblog.avdi.org/2015/05/11/in-which-i-make-you-hate-ruby-in-7-minutes/
- http://pharo.org/
- The Concurrency Model
- Debugging
- Live Code Upgrade
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
- http://elixir-lang.org/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Telecom_Platform
24:25 - Error Handling Semantics
- Actors and Supervisors
- The Client-Server Behavior
- The Event Handler
- Finite State Machines
30:23 - Getting Started with Erlang
- Resources:
- https://pragprog.com/book/jaerlang/programming-erlang
- https://moodle.kent.ac.uk/external/course/view.php?id=237 (Erlang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course)
- http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content
- http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024149.do
- http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596518189.do
- Major Hurdles to Learning Erlang:
- Understanding Tail Recursion and Pattern Matching
- Concurrency
- Error Handling
34:23 - http://elixir-lang.org/ 35:28 - Erlang and Polyglot Architecture
- https://www.rabbitmq.com/
37:01 - https://www.erlang-solutions.com/products/wombat 38:57 - Erlang Pros and Cons
- Cons:
- Number Crunching
- Parallelism
- Graphics, Web Development, and Frontends
- Pros:
- REST APIs
- https://github.com/basho/webmachine
- https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy
40:44 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development
- http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/common_test.html
- https://github.com/richcarl/eunit
- http://www.quviq.com/products/erlang-quickcheck/
- http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/mnesia.html
- Shrinking
46:10 - Languages/Technologies on the Horizon (for Francesco)
- http://elixir-lang.org/
- Large-Scale Distributed Computing
- http://www.flowforwarding.org/
- https://github.com/FlowForwarding/
48:21 - The Erlang Community
- http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo
- https://erlangcentral.org/
50:24 - Writing Apps with Erlang / IoT?Picks http://devblog.avdi.org/2015/05/08/a-personal-programming-language-roadmap/ (Avdi)
http://pharo.org/ (Avdi)
http://devblog.avdi.org/2015/05/11/in-which-i-make-you-hate-ruby-in-7-minutes/ (Avdi)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375706690/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375706690&ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&linkId=MWQUHC65F2ARUNLP&tag=chamaxwoo-20 (Coraline)
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1083885%7C0/Orson-Welles-Fridays-in-May.html (Coraline)
https://vimeo.com/112812515 (Jessica)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262521121/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0262521121&ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&linkId=O6ZYVOI2MTPAUEPZ&tag=chamaxwoo-20 (Jessica)
http://zerotoonebook.com/ (Francesco)
http://www.codenewbie.org/podcast (Chuck)
http://www.npr.org/programs/ask-me-another/ (Chuck)
http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ (Chuck)Special Guest: Francesco Cesarini.
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207 RR Rebuilding Rails with Noah Gibbs May 13, 2015

Show notes

02:30 - Noah Gibbs Introduction

03:03 - Structure03:44 - Guiding People Through the Magic

Special-Purpose Tools: The Good and the Bad

06:55 - The Origins of Rebuilding Rails by Noah Gibbs 07:55 - The Practice of Code Reading09:19 - Getting Started Rebuilding Rails

Frameworks
The Core Functionality of Rack
- CGI = Common Gateway Interface

15:09 - Use Case for Rebuilding Rails

Tradeoffs
- decent_exposure
  - The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez

19:49 - View Model Objects (Presenter Objects?)24:25 - What Do Rails Devs Take For Granted?

Rack
Security

27:59 - Rails = “Weird” ??32:48 - Rails Expectations

When It’s Time for Separation
Rails Programmers

37:56 - Constraints: Making Framework Decisions

44:19 - Big Data

Picks simplehuman Garbage Cans (Avdi)
Etsy CTO On Its Conservatively Crafty Tech Philosophy (Saron)
Death Of A Programmer. Life Of A Farmer. (Saron)
Mary Poppendieck's Keynote (Jessica)
Ruby Remote Conf (Chuck)
Rails Camp USA West Coast (Chuck)
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman (Chuck)
Rails Camps (Coraline)
The Codeless Code (Noah)
Ruby Under a Microscope: An Illustrated Guide to Ruby Internals by Pat Shaughnessy (Noah)
The Rails 4 Way by Obie Fernandez (Noah) Special Guest: Noah Gibbs.
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206 RR Trailblazer with Nick Sutterer May 06, 2015

Show notes

02:53 - Nick Sutterer Introduction

03:31 - Trailblazer

[GitHub] trailblazer
04:56 - Form Object
“Operation”

07:28 - Validations

08:47 - Decoupling09:45 - Namespace Reuse

Concepts/Concerns

11:50 - Process Method => Procedural Code12:54 - Inheritance13:57 - Contracts14:57 - How is Using Trailblazer Different?18:17 - What Would DHH Think?19:32 - Trailblazer as an Extra Layer

27:20 - Testing28:35 - When Should You NOT Use Trailblazer?29:53 - Moving to Trailblazer36:03 - Rails 5 and Trailblazer37:22 - Maintainers

38:44 - APIsDeserialization41:04 - Parts of Trailblazer

44:16 - GeneratorsPicks A Gentleman’s Guide To Street Harassment (Saron)
Tor and HTTPS (Saron)
How it feels to watch a user test your product for the first time (Saron)
Humane Development (Coraline)
The Left Hand of Darkness (Coraline)
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (Chuck)
WorkFlowy (Chuck)
Ruby Rogues Episode #204: Limerence with Dave Thomas (Chuck)
JS Remote Conf Talks (Chuck)
Trailblazer: A New Architecture For Rails by Nick Sutterer (Nick)
[YouTube] Cinco Face Time Party Snoozer (Nick)Special Guest: Nick Sutterer.
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205 RR Eight Years of Ruby and Rails with Piotr Solnica Apr 29, 2015

Show notes

02:25 - Piotr Solnica Introduction

03:04 - Piotr Solnica: 8 Things I Learned During 8 Years of Ruby and Rails 03:45 - Test-Driven Development 06:17 - Building a Stack

Roda
- [YouTube] Jeremy Evans: Better Routing Through Trees (MountainWest RubyConf 2015)

09:56 - (TDD) Test-Driven Development Cont’d15:36 - Immutability (Immutable Objects)

Command-Query Separation
Changing Objects
Freezing Objects
- adamantium
Zippers
Persistent Data Structures
- hamster

28:49 - No Rules, Just Guidelines

38:39 - Class Interfaces: “Class interfaces are a smell”

Using Classes
SOLID Principle

49:30 - “Convenience has a big price”

Convenience vs Explicitness

55:06 - Mutation Testing 01:00:51 - “Ideas behind ORM are a fallacy”

01:10:42 - Piotr Solnica: Introducing Transproc - Functional Data Transformations for Ruby

transproc

Picks SweetWater Road Trip (Avdi)
BOSTITCH: Black Magnetic Push Style Staple Remover (Avdi)
Planet Mercenary Schlock Mercenary RPG (David)
Anker® 2.4G Wireless Vertical Ergonomic Optical Mouse (David)
Anker® Ergonomic Optical USB Wired Vertical Mouse (David)
asciinema (Piotr) Special Guest: Piotr Solnica.
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204 RR Limerence with Dave Thomas Apr 22, 2015

Show notes

02:37 - Dave Thomas Introduction

04:17 - How Dave Got Started in Programming06:34 - Tools and Constraints

“An Enthusiast’s Problem”?
Is the focus on tools a form of cargo culting?
Leadism Over Chosen Technologies and Its’ Effect on Innovation
Switching Tools and Making Excuses

19:29 - Limerence

Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love by Dorothy Tennov
Irrational Interest and Defensiveness

28:54 - Ruby = Happiness: Does it Hurt?31:00 - Tools and Falling in Love with Tools

Fear of Falling Behind; Fear of Irrelevancy
Different Tools for Different Contexts

35:08 - When Do You Learn? When Do You Train? (Not Falling Behind)38:01 - Choosing Similar Tools and Technologies vs Choosing Different Tools and Technologies

Gulp => Grunt => Browserify Example
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt

43:36 - Relationships and Identities46:08 - Looking Forward vs Looking Back (Knowing Your History)

Resources, Curriculum:
Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) Brainstorming Example

01:01:48 - Is the rampant use of social media hindering the learning of big ideas?

Self-Curation = Key

01:08:15 - How You Learn a Language / Decide You Like a Language

Sudoku Solver
Markdown Parser

Picks Slack (Dave)
Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?) by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Dave)
Philly Emerging Tech Conference (Dave) Special Guest: Dave Thomas.
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203 RR Design and Sketching with CSS with Sean Fioritto Apr 15, 2015

Show notes

02:29 - Sean Fioritto Introduction

02:52 - Design and Sketching with CSS Background & Overview

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Sketching with CSS by Sean Fioritto
- Skip Using Photoshop; Move Straight to Code => Get Pixels to Screen Faster

06:34 - Developer <> Designer Communication

Tooling and Muscle Memory

12:23 - Using CSS Over Photoshop, Alternative Programs, and Frameworks

15:29 - Grid Systems and Resets (Frontend Tools)

i.e. Grid Systems
- The Grid System
- Responsive Grid System
CSS Resets
- What Is A CSS Reset?
- CSS Tools: Reset CSS

17:27 - Prototyping (Workflow)

23:14 - Documentation26:14 - Adopting New Practices (Progressive Enhancement)

(Killer) Interactive Demo Presentations
“Style Tiles”
Fluency
"Pixel Pushers"

45:33 - The Modern Web Moving Forward47:30 - Keep Up with Scott

Picks NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence by Pramod J. Sadalage and Martin Fowler (David)
RoT.js (David)
The Spatials (David)
The User is Drunk (Saron)
Drunk Kitchen (Saron)
The Reckoners Series by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck)
Bootstrapping Design: Roll Your Own Design by Jarrod Drysdale (Sean)
The Ruby DSL Handbook by Jim Gay (Sean)
Ryan Castillo: 7 Recurring Recipes for Consultancies (Sean)
ExpeditedSSL (Sean)
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing Marie Kondo (Sean)Special Guest: Sean Fioritto.
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202 RR The Struggles New Ruby Users Have with Jake Day Williams Apr 08, 2015

Show notes

Support our Teespring campaign! Get your Ruby Rogues unisex t-shirts, hoodies, ladies’-sized, and long-sleeve tees! 03:19 - Jake Day Williams Introduction

03:48 - What Do New People Struggle With?04:59 - Teaching While Learning and Video Tutorials vs In-Person Training