Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

30: Giant Year-End Extravaganza

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Ben Orenstein is joined by Chad Pytel, the CEO of thoughtbot to take a look back at some of the things thoughtbot did in 2012. They then answer a bunch of listener questions.

January

  • Trajectory Redesign
  • Open source releases every two weeks
  • Factory Girl 2.4 (refactoring, speed increase) and 2.5 (custom constructors)
  • shoulda-context gets a new maintainer

    • February

    • Shoulda 3.0
    • Apprentice.io Launches
    • Airbrake acquired by Exceptional

      • March

      • thoughtbot goes to Stockholm
      • Paperclip 3.0
      • FactoryGirl 3.0
      • Apprentice.io opens up to all employers
      • Copycopter goes open source
      • Trajectory gets Campfire integration

        • April

        • Zero Github Issues
        • FactoryGirl 3.2
        • New Boston office

          • May

          • Trail Maps released
          • Trajectory gets a full json API
          • Humans Present: Refactoring

            • June

            • Backbone.js on Rails hit 1.0
            • Opening and office in SF
            • First podcast episode!

              • July

              • Playbook: Video Edition
              • Version 3.6.0 of factory_girl, memoization to the names of attributes which adds a 33% speed increase on factories with override

                • August

                • Learn launched

                  • September

                  • Bourbon Neat version 1.0
                  • Online workshops

                    • November

                    • Colorado office announced
                    • Stockholm drinkup
                    • 2nd online workshop Test-Driven Rails

                      • December

                      • Ruby Science launched

                        • Follow @thoughtbot, @cpytel, and @r00k on twitter.

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