In this episode of the Gaslight podcast, I sit down with Kevin Rockwood and

Michael Guterl to talk about why developers are treated

like children, teaching Ruby on Rails, and obsessive problem solving.

Kevin and Moore Chris met up with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz, cofounders of Tilde and creators of Ember.js. You'll learn why Ember.js was created, why you should use it to make amazing products like Skylight, and you'll get insight into the future of Ember Data.

This week [Joe Pantuso](https://twitter.com/jpantuso), CTO of

[Ahalogy](http://www.ahalogy.com/) joined us to talk more about managing

software teams. We talk more about Kanban, hiring developers, and working with

distributed teams.

Southwest Ohio Give Camp is an event that

brings developers, designers, and other technologists together to work on

projects to benefit charities. In this episode I spoke with Matt

Brewer and Ryan

Cromwell, the organizers of the event, to

learn about the origins of SWOGC and how Matt and Ryan keep it expanding each

year.

On this episode of the Gaslight podcast, we continue our talk about Kanban and dive into discussion of work in progress

and creating a self organizing team.

In this episode, four Gaslighters gather in the podcast studio to explore

our evolving Kanban process. We talk about the incredible shrinking story,

why we’re moving away from using Pivotal Tracker, and how to improve our

communication as we develop software for our clients.

CCP Ripley, Development Director of

Eve Online joined us to talk about CCP’s development process. We talk about how Ripley manages small teams of developers and artists to deliver new features and gameplay to over 500,000 subscribers.

Chris Glass of Wire & Twine joined us to talk about his process for design. Chris talks about using the analog world in digital design, separation of work and home environments, and how to tell when a design is done.

We packed the room with Gaslighters this week to talk about an upcoming conference called QCMerge. We discus the origins of the conference and some of the exciting things in store for this year.

This episode features Joe Pantuso, a Cincinnati local software entrepreneur. We cover Joe's impressive career as an early employee of PKWARE the creator of a Doom game modding engine, an author of multiple books, and the successful founder of a company that was purchased by McAfee. You'll come away feeling inspired.