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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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200 RR 200th Episode Free-For-All! Mar 25, 2015

Show notes

03:08 - What’s Up with Aaron Patterson?

16:45 - What’s Up with James Edward Gray?

Game Programming
Teaching Kids to Program

30:16 - What’s Up with Katrina Owen?

41:55 - What’s Up with Saron Yitbarek?

47:31 - A Look Back at the Past 100 Ruby Rogues Episodes and Conference Memories

53:55 - HI AARON’S MOM! THANKS FOR MAKING AARON PUNNY! (Editor’s Note: Aaron didn’t tell you how far into the call it was, but I did. <3 Mandy) 55:50 - A Look Back at the Past 100 Ruby Rogues Episodes and Conference Memories (Cont’d)

James at Scottish Ruby Conf 2013: The Patterns We All Need to Know (Editor’s Note: I can’t find this must-see video online, but if you can, tweet a link to @therubyrep)
[Confreaks] Aaron Patterson: Keep Ruby Weird (Homeopathic Refactoring)

58:32 - Legacy Rogues: What Changed You and Improved You the Most by Being a Panelist on Ruby Rogues?01:02:29 - The Panelists <3 Picks

Tweet Us YOUR Picks: @rubyrogues

01:10:10 - New Rogues’ and Chuck’s Thoughts on the ShowPicks The Speed of Dark (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Elizabeth Moon (Katrina)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Katrina)
Atreus Keyboard Kit (Aaron)
Be My Eyes (Saron)
March is for Makers (Saron)
Hire Saron! (Saron)
[Indiegogo] Con Man (James)

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199 RR Deployments with Noah Gibbs Mar 18, 2015

Show notes

02:08 - Noah Gibbs Introduction

02:38 - Rebuilding Rails: Understand Rails by Building a Ruby Web Framework by Noah Gibbs

[YouTube] Noah Gibbs: GoGaRuCo 2013 - The Littlest ORM

03:06 - Sinatra 03:47 - Rack

07:32 - Deploying Apps

Hosting
Server Provisioning

12:22 - Support, Operations, and Monitoring

DevOps
Database Administrator (DBA)
[Confreaks] Paul Hinze: Smoke & Mirrors: The Primitives of High Availability
Reliability
Enterprise Tools
- HashiCorp
  - Ruby Rogues Episode #192: Vagrant with Mitchell Hashimoto
Learning Curve and Lack of Documentation (“Wild West”)

20:36 - Social Differences Between Communities: Ruby vs Python

27:18 - Deployment Tools Targeting Polyglot Architectures28:39 - Ease of Deployment

32:26 - The Success of a Language = The Deployment Story33:51 - Feedback Cycle34:57 - Reproducibility

Bash

35:44 - Docker and Configuration Management Tools

"chroot" = change root

44:06 - Deployment Problems46:45 - Ruby Mad Science

madscience_gem
Community Feedback
The Learning Curve
Roadmap
- Multiple VM Setups

Picks TuneMyGC (Coraline)
Bear Metal: Rails Garbage Collection: Tuning Approaches (Coraline)
Rbkit (Coraline)
Get out and jump in a mud puddle! (Jessica)
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael T. Nygard (Noah)
Ruby DSL Handbook by Jim Gay (Noah)Special Guest: Noah Gibbs.
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198 RR Expanding the Ruby Community Values to Other Languages with Scott Feinberg and Mark Bates Mar 11, 2015

Show notes

02:32 - Mark Bates Introduction

03:14 - Scott Feinberg Introduction

03:46 - Community Values

05:32 - Ruby Community Standards and Values

Testing
Programming Should Be Fun and Enjoyable
Pairing
Large Regional Conferences and Meetups

07:33 - User Groups

10:18 - Polyglot Conferences

13:07 - Including and Getting Newbies Involved in Conference and Community Culture

Generations
Boot Camps
- Launch Academy
  - @LaunchAcademy_
Hugs

20:41 - Diversity and Codes of Conduct

23:08 - AlterConf

24:22 - PyCon

@pycon

25:31 - HappinessConf

@Happiness_Conf
Diversity
- Black Girls Code
  - @blackgirlscode
- Women Who Code
  - @WomenWhoCode

28:30 - Developer Happiness and Invoking Community Values Within Corporate Company Culture

Ruby Rogues Episode #191: The Developer Happiness Team with Kerri Miller
- PluralSight
  - PluralSight Author Summit
Trust
Roles of Influence
- Navigating Office Politics

38:03 - Agile Software Development and Productivity

40:41 - “The Ruby Diaspora”

47:47 - Acceptance

Accepting Acceptance / Tolerating Intolerance

50:55 - Mentoring

Boston Ruby’s “Project Night”
Mentor Someone Who Doesn’t Look Like You

Picks Love Letter (Coraline)
RescueTime (Coraline)
Hacking Happy by Dusty Phillips (Jessica)
Happiness Conf Coupon Code (Scott)
HappinessConf Speakers Page (Scott)
The Flight Deal (Scott)
iStat Menus (Scott)
HappinessConf (Mark)
The Go Programming Language (Mark)
Use the Coupon Code: ROGUES to get your first month free: MetaCasts.tv: HD Screencasts for GO Enthusiasts (Mark)Special Guests: Mark Bates and Scott Feinberg.
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197 RR The Social Coding Contract with Justin Searls Mar 04, 2015

Show notes

Check out RailsClips on Kickstarter!! 02:23 - Justin Searls Introduction

03:02 - Justin Searls: The Social Coding Contract

Open Source
- GitHub

04:58 - Transitive Dependences and Understanding Technical Debt

15:21 - Learning Outside Work Hours

Tracking Time
Micromanagement

21:21 - Understanding Transitive Dependencies (Cont’d)

Gary Bernhardt

23:00 - Use Someone Else’s Framework or Write Your Own?

“It Depends.”
“A dirty code base is the sign of a well-monetized application.” - Matt Scantland

31:25 - When Does it Hurt to Use Tools You Don’t Completely Understand?

Elasticsearch

34:14 - Leaving Code Behind36:26 - Be a Responsible Open Source User

Pull Request Sample
- Amount of Investment
- Community Management
  - Communication
    - cancan => cancancan
    - GitX
      - Graphical User Interface (GUI)
      - rowanj GitX

47:22 - Reacting to Change

Process and Ceremony
Deming’s Common Cause and Special Cause
Pair Programming
- [YouTube] Justin Searls and Aaron Patterson: The act of using vim, tenderly.

54:16 - Just Blog It!Picks Royalty Free Music by Kevin MacLeod (David)
Rebif (David)
Ruby Rogues Episode #188: Community Building with Pieter Hintjens (Jessica)
Commercial Users of Functional Programming 2015: Call for Presentations (Jessica)
James Clear: Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead. (Jessica)
Screw motivation, what you need is discipline. (Jessica)
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Chuck)
Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education by Glenn Beck (Chuck)
Sony NEX-5T Compact Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera (Justin)
Justin’s Talk at RailsConf 2015: Boring Code (Sometimes a Controller is Just a Controller) (Justin)
Alpine iLX-007 7-Inch In-Dash Receiver with Apple CarPlay (Justin)Special Guest: Justin Searls.
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196 RR Testing Clojure in Ruby with Ashton Kemerling Feb 25, 2015

Show notes

Check out RailsClips on Kickstarter!! 02:45 - Ashton Kemerling Introduction

03:00 - Ruby and Clojure

14:50 - Difficulty

23:13 - Generative Testing and Documentation

“Shrinking”

26:38 - Are Generative Tests Disposable?

Capybara

29:09 - When Do You Start Generative Testing?31:43 - Setup & Barriers to Entry40:38 - Why Does Generative Testing Have a Bad Reputation?42:49 - Getting Past ^^44:17 - Verifying Things Are Fixed46:57 - Maintaining These Tests

Multimethods

51:12 - Human Actions, Generative Testing, and Architecture

Functional Programming

01:02:10 - Resources

Picks Joseph Wilk: Programming as Performance (Coraline)
Linda Liukas: Principles of Play (Coraline)
Hello Ruby (Coraline)
QuickCheck CI (Jessica)
CodeMesh 2014 - John Hughes - QuickCheck Evolution (Jessica)
GeeCON 2012: Kevlin Henney - It Is Possible to Do Object-Oriented Programming in Java (Avdi)
FUJITSU Image Scanner ScanSnap iX500 (Avdi)
FFmpeg (Chuck)
YouTube (Chuck)
Developer’s Box Club (Chuck)
Ruby Remote Conf (Chuck)
RailsCasts on Kickstarter (Chuck)
Datomic (Ashton)Special Guest: Ashton Kemerling.
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195 RR Building Your Technology Radar with Neal Ford Feb 18, 2015

Show notes

02:25 - Neal Ford Introduction

02:20 - The Thoughtworks Technology Radar

Rebecca Parsons

06:28 - Quadrants

Techniques
Tools
Languages & Frameworks
Platforms

07:01 - Categories (Rings)

Hold
Assess
Trial
Adopt

09:23 - Adopting New Technologies

William Gibson: “The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.”
Cycle Time
Neal Ford: Build Your Own Technology Radar
[YouTube] Neal Ford: Build Your Own Technology Radar

14:42 - Providing Familiarity Resources15:24 - Radars as Resources and Lifecycle Assessment Tools

18:36 - Themes22:17 - Making Decisions

Diversify
Testability

27:40 - Jamming Radars31:53 - Hireability?

Paying Developers to Learn

36:54 - Financial Portfolios and Planning Your Career

Specialization vs Generalization

42:03 - Software Architecture & Engineering Practices

Microservices

43:57 - Functional Programming

44:16 - Estimation46:03 - Creating Your Own Radar

Brett Dargan: bdargan/techradar
Blip Placement
Neal Ford: Build Your Own Technology Radar

Picks All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Avdi)
The Project Euler Sprint (Coraline)
Gloom (Coraline)
The Bad Plus: Inevitable Western (Jessica)
tmate (Jessica)
Screenhero (Chuck)
Slack (Chuck)
DevOps Bookmarks (Neal)
Elvis has left the ivory tower by Neal Ford (Neal)
Culture Series (Neal)Special Guest: Neal Ford.
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194 RR Real Life JRuby with Sudhindra R. Rao Feb 11, 2015

Show notes

The Rogues talk to ThoughtWorks' Sudhindra R. Rao about JRuby.Special Guest: Sudhindra R. Rao.
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193 RR The Volt Framework with Ryan Stout Feb 04, 2015

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The Rogues talk to Ryan Stout about the Volt framework.Special Guest: Ryan Stout.
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192 RR Vagrant with Mitchell Hashimoto Jan 28, 2015

Show notes

The Rogues interview Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator of Vagrant.Special Guest: Mitchell Hashimoto.
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191 RR The Developer Happiness Team with Kerri Miller Jan 21, 2015

Show notes

Kerri Miller and Coraline head the conversation with the rest of the Rogues about The Developer Happiness Team.Special Guest: Kerri Miller.
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