Joe is one of the talented developers at Thoughtbot in Boston, MA.

Joe is a maintainer for the shoulda gem. Here's a video on how to use shoulda.

Some of the gems we talked about are:

Thoughtbot is responsible for HopToad.

Joe also mentioned that Thoughtbot uses Pivotal Tracker and most developers use VIM. His VIM config files are here.

Here's the article on Team Rotation.

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Writing Code is the Easy Part is the new slogan for the website. It basically boils down to the fact that putting up syntacticly correct code is the simplest part of coding. More difficult is solving problems and all of the other things that come with having a job or working for clients.

Here are some of the things that I listed as the harder parts of coding:

Here are affiliate links to some of the books that I mentioned:

Here are the links to the podcast episodes by:

Finally, I would really appreciate a $5 donation to help me get to RubyConf.

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Here's the link to the pledgie where you can help me get to RubyConf.

This week's episode is an interview with Corey Haines. He's pretty well known as the Software Journeyman and his coding tours where he traded time pairing on code for room and board.

You can keep up with him at http://coreyhaines.com.

You can also check out the following links for other things he's doing:

Here's a link to the Software Craftsmanship Manifesto which is tied a lot to the discussion we had on Software Craftsmanship.

Corey mentioned the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

We also discussed pairing in relation to the code retreats. Corey mentioned the paper by Arlo Belshee called “Promiscuous Pairing and the Beginner's Mind”

You can reach Corey on twitter as @coreyhaines and by email at [email protected]

Finally, checkout the latest news on the XP Universe conference.

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