Code with Jason

Ernesto is back and this time we're talking upgrading Rails, speaking at conferences, how to find freelancing clients, and how to assess code quality.

• Ernesto Tagwerker on Twitter
• Ernesto Tagwerker on GitHub
• Ombu Labs
• Fast Ruby
• Ernesto Tagwerker's Blog Posts at Fast Ruby

Charles and Tom, co-leads of the JRuby project, explain what JRuby is, how it works and who it’s for. Our guests also patiently answer Jason’s numerous and excruciatingly fine-grained questions. Charles and Jason also discuss their respective endeavors for spicy food during their international travels.

• JRuby
• JRuby on Matrix
• Charles Nutter on Twitter
• Charles Nutter on GitHub
• Tom Enebo on Twitter
• Tom Enebo on GitHub

On today's episode, Benedickt Deicke and I discuss Ember + Rails as an architecture choice, starting a software project from scratch, and some of our past failed business attempts.

• Benedikt Deike on Twitter
• Benedikt Deike on GitHub
• Userlist
• Userlist on Twitter
• Slow & Steady Podcast
• User Onboarding: The Ultimate Guide for SaaS Founders

Andrew and I got together to discuss his software Bullet Train, service objects, POROs, and the value of code testability.

• Bullet Train
• Andrew's blog at Bullet Train
• Andrew Culver on Twitter
• Andrew Culver on GitHub

Richard Schneeman and I discuss his job with Heroku, rate limiting, inventions, refrigeration, peas, and the overlaps between mechanical engineering and coding.

• Richard Schneeman on Twitter
• CodeTriage
• Richard Scheeman's Personal Site
• Richard Scheeman on GitHub

Me and Mike discuss, among other things, good use cases for Sidekiq, deploying Sidekiq to production, and side topics like what the JVM is and what threads are.

• Sidekiq
• mikeperham.com
• Mike Perham on GitHub

Noah and I got together for a conversation about his book Rebuilding Rails and then immediately digressed into a series of fascinating rabbit holes about the history of coding and computers themselves.

• Noah Gibbs on Twitter
• Noah's Book, Rebuilding Rails
• Codefol.io
• Noah's writing for AppFolio

Mike Buckbee, founder of Expedited Security returns and we discuss how we transitioned from freelance work to building our own products.

• Mike Buckbee on Twitter
• Mike Buckbee on GitHub
• Expedited Security
• Expedited SSL
• Expedited WAF

I talk with Nate Berkopec about common Rails performance issues. Nate also explains what the heck threads and connection pools are.

• Speedshop, Nate's consultancy
• The Complete Guide to Rails Performance
• Nate Berkopec on Twitter
• Nate Berkopec on Github

In this episode I drag my friend Andrew Mason through a long, rambling, undisciplined discussion of a number of things including me and Andrew's respective experiences with Docker.

• Andrew Mason's website
• Andrew Mason on LinkedIn
• Andrew Mason on GitHub
• Andrew Mason on Twitter
• Ruby Rogues Podcast