My Ruby Story

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Stefan Wintermeyer Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Stefan Wintermeyer, a freelancer developer from Germany focused on Ruby on Rails, Phoenix Framework, and web performance. Listen to Stefan on the podcast Ruby Rogues here. Stefan got into programming when he was 8 years old. He started with Basic and Pascal and moved onto other languages. Even though he never received a formal programming education, he liked solving problems with software and was able to make money programming so he became a developer. Currently Stefan is working on a project called vutuv which is an open-source alternative to LinkedIn. He has also written books and gives talks, ones that are well know in the Ruby community are Learn Rails 5.2: Accelerated Web Development with Ruby on Rails as well as a Cache talk he gave at RailsConf 2013. Links

• Ruby Rogues: Rails Needs Active Deployment with Stefan Wintermeyer
• Stefan's Twitter
• Stefan's LinkedIn
• Stefan's Medium
• Stefan's GitHub
• Stefan's Talk
• vutuv
• vutuv GitHub
• Stefan's Book
• https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/
• https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv

Picks Stefan Wintermeyer:

• Darknet Diaries

Charles Max Wood:

• Podcast - Gary Vaynerchuk
• MFCEO Project Podcast
• Girl In Space Podcast
• Audio Drama Podcasts
• JBL Charge 4

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Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Sebastian Sogamoso Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Sebastian Sogamoso, a software developer from Colombia. Sebastian now lives in Panama City and works for CookPad. Listen to Sebastian on the Ruby Rogues podcast here. Sebastian first started coding in high school with Pascal. Upon graduating with a Systems Engineering degree from National University of Colombia, he continued developing in Ruby.js. Sebastian will be a track director in RailsConf2019 which will take place in Minneapolis at the end of April. He is also on the organizing team for RubyConf Colombia scheduled to take place in Colombia in September 2019. Links

• RR 349: The Overnight Failure with Sebastian Sogamoso
• Sebastian's Website
• https://medium.com/@sebasoga
• Sebastian's Twitter
• Sebastian’s GitHub
• http://railsgirls.com/
• https://www.railsconf.com/
• CookPad
• https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/
• https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv

Picks Sebastian Sogamoso:

• Paper app: https://paper.bywetransfer.com/
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
• RubyConf Colombia : http://www.rubyconf.co

Charles Max Wood:

• Code BEAM SF 2019
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

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Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Genadi Samokovarov Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles chats with Genadi Samokovarov, a software developer who loves using Ruby. Genadi has also been a guest on the podcast Ruby Rogues, you can listen to it here. Genadi was born in Bulgaria and grew up playing video games. During his high school years he was the “go-to guy” for computers in his neighborhood. In his university years he got interested in Python and afterwards in Ruby. He then applied for Google Summer of Code and continued developing his coding skills there. He is now working for the company Receipt Bank. Genadi is also on the organizing team for the Balkan Ruby Conference which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria in May 2019. Links

• RR 386: Web Console Internals with Genadi Samokovarov
• http://gsamokovarov.com/
• https://libraries.io/github/gsamokovarov
• https://twitter.com/gsamokovarov/
• https://github.com/gsamokovarov
• https://www.meetup.com/Ruby-Banitsa/members/
• https://rubyconferences.org/
• https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
• https://github.com/rails/web-console
• https://github.com/gsamokovarov/jump
• https://balkanruby.com/
• David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

Picks Genadi Samokovarov:

• AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee

Charles Max Wood:

• https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sf-2019/
• City of San Francisco

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest:  Josh Justice Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Josh Justice, software engineer at Big Nerd Ranch, a Mobile app development, training and design firm. Listen to Josh on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode. Josh wanted to be a software developer ever since he was very young, his father worked in IT so he had access to computers from very early on. After studying computer science, he started working as a developer in JavaScript, PHP and in Ruby. His specialties include Ruby on Rails, Ember, Vue.js and React Native. Josh really enjoys content creation for other developers and is currently streaming React Native TDD Fridays 2pm EST at Twitch.tv. Josh and his family recently adopted a baby boy in addition to his two daughters. Listen to the podcast to hear more about this miraculous adoption story! Links

• Ruby Rogues 391: Frontend Testing Like a Rubyist with Josh Justice
• React Native Testing feat. Josh Justice of Big Nerd Ranch
• Josh’s Twitter
• Josh’s GitHub
• Josh’s LinkedIn
• Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial
• Josh's Blog
• Learn Test-Driven Development
• Object Oriented and Functional Programming Blog Post
• https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/
• https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/
• https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv

Picks Josh Justice:

• Webpacker
• Object Thinking
• Learn Test-Driven Development
• Ember and Rails Live Stream  

Charles Max Wood:

• The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest:  Chandan Jhunjhunwal Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Chandan Jhunjhunwal, a tech lead at Coupa Software from Pune India. Listen to Chandan on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode. Chandan studied electronics in university but was hired as a software engineer at IBM after university and really liked programming. He then continued working as a developer for a startup before founding his own startup. Chandan is now working for the procurement department at Coupa Software. Chandan feels that no matter what your background is, nothing is too hard and  if you like something you should dive in and do it. He also points out that especially in technology there is always a learning curve. Links

• Ruby Rogues 314: DynamoDB on Rails with Chandan Jhunjhunwal
• Chandan's GitHub
• Chandan’s Twitter
• Chandan's LinkedIn
• https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/
• https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv

Picks Chandan Jhunjhunwal:

• Rescuing The Daughter
• No Ordinary Moments by Dan Millman
• Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial
• Metaprogramming Ruby by Paolo Perrotta

  Charles Max Wood:

• Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
• Ultramarathonman by Dean Karnazes

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest:  Vladimir Dementyev Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Vladimir Dementyev, a backend engineer at  Evil Martians and a mathematician who found his happiness in programming Ruby and Erlang. He is also the author of Author of AnyCable, TestProf and ActionPolicy. Listen to Vladimir  on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode. Vladimir studied mathematics in university and started programming with ActionScript in an internship during his university education. He then went onto developing with Ruby and became heavily involved in open source projects. He is originally from Moscow but is currently based out of Brooklyn, NY working for Evil Martians, a web development consultancy company that supports open source projects. Vladimir will be a speaker at the RailsConf 2019. Links

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• Ruby Rogues: Cables, Concurrency, and Ruby 3×3 with Vladimir Dem
• Evil Martians
• Vladimir’s Twitter
• Vladimir's GitHub
• Vladimir's LinkedIn
• Vladimir's Dev.to
• https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/
• https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv
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Picks Vladimir Dementyev:

• danger.systems

Charles Max Wood:

• MyFitnessPal
• CardioCoach VO2 Max App

   

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest:  Radoslav Stankov Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Radoslav Stankov, the head of the engineering team at Product Hunt. Listen to Radoslav  on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode. Radoslav was interested in technology from a young age, he was recruited by a company at a youth community center for IT support. He was interested in web development so he started to coding in PHP.  He then started learning Ruby on Rails and started working for a company which sells trucks where he built the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system  in Rails. The user interface for this ERP system was very successful and Radoslav stresses any software that can’t be used by the client can not be considered very good. Radoslav then started working for a startup which failed but there he met the team  which eventually led him to the job at Product Hunt. Radoslav and Charles share stories where they were hired by people they had met at other projects. They point out that people like to keep hiring those they trust and admire. Radoslav then goes on to share projects he has been proud of throughout his career. Radoslav is currently at Product Hunt and one of the working to make the app work better and faster. Links

• Ruby Rogues: GraphQL at Product Hunt with Radoslav Stankov
• React Round Up: React at Product Hunt with Radoslav Stankov
• React Native Radio: React Native at Product Hunt feat. Radoslav Stankov and Vlad Vladimirov
• Radoslav’s Website
• Radoslav’s GitHub
• Radoslav’s Twitter
• https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/
• https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv

Picks Radoslav Stankov:

• The Ruby Toolbox
• formulaic

Charles Max Wood:

• Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
• Writing Excuses Podcast

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Sihui Huang Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Sihui Huang, a software engineer at Gusto, which is a startup that works with payroll, benefits, and HR for companies. Listen to Sihui on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode. Before taking programming classes in university, Sihui didn’t know anything about programming. In fact, she had originally planned to study accounting and switched her major on the first day of classes. Read Sihui’s blog piece “From Hello World to Six Job Offers From Facebook, Airbnb, Salesforce…” to learn more about a step by step account of her programming studies. Sihui did a couple of internships to figure out exactly what kind of a work environment she wanted to be in and Gusto fit that environment the best. She has been there since graduation. In her career, Sihui follows an iterative methodology where she sets one goal, unblocks herself and performs the necessary steps to reach that goal and then sets her next goal. Every 6 months she reflects on what she has learned the past 6 months and puts it in a blog piece to remember it. Check out Sihui’s blog here. Links

• Ruby Rogues: “How to Contribute to Ruby” with Sihui Huang
• Sihui’s GitHub
• Sihui’s Website
• Sihui’s LinkedIN
• Sihui’s Twitter
• https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/
• https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv

Picks Sihui Huang:

• Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

Charles Max Wood:

• 31 Days to Build a Better Blog - ProBlogger

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Luca Guidi Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Luca Guidi, Senior Software Developer at DNSimple and creator of Hanami ( previously Lotus framework) from Italy. Listen to Luca on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode and this episode. Luca grew up playing video games and took his first programming class when he was 12. His dream was to become a programmer. After studying Information Technology, Luca started working as a programmer and Ruby felt the most natural to him. He found that Rails was a great to start off applications with but not necessarily maintain with. So he created Ruby web framework Lotus which he renamed as  Hanami after IBM created software named Lotus as well. Luca is currently working on Hanami preparing for a 2.0 alpha release, he will also be a speaker at the RubyDay2019 conference that will be held in Verona in April. Links

• Ruby Rogues: Ruby Elapsed Time with Luca Guidi
• Ruby Rogues: The Lotus Framework with Luca Guidi
• Hanami
• aculo.us
• Prototype
• Luca’s LinkedIN
• Luca’s Twitter
• com
• Luca’s GitHub
• RubyDay2019
• https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/
• https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv

Picks Luca Guidi:

• The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo

Charles Max Wood:

• Podfest Multimedia Expo
• MicroConf
• The Gifted TV Show

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Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Andrew Mason Summary Charles Max Wood introduces the newest panelist for Ruby Rogues, Andrew Mason. Andrew shares his background and how got into computer programming. Andrew and Charles share their stories of first using ruby and the sense of wonder they felt. Andrew talks about what he has done in Ruby and shares his excitement to learn while on Ruby Rogues. Links

• https://github.com/andrewmcodes
• https://twitter.com/andrewmcodes
• https://www.andrewmason.me/
• https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/

Picks Andrew Mason:

• https://undraw.co/
• Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Charles Max Wood:

• Modern medicine & antibiotics
• Inflatable donut pillows
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• The Kingfountain series by Jeff Wheeler
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