My Ruby Story

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Aurynn Shaw This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Aurynn Shaw. Aurynn got into programming when she was helping clients at a contracting company deploy early web things using Perl. Programming really clicked for her when she was fascinated by how programs really work when she created her own language. Currently, she works with Python for Lambdas and is doing a lot of client work. This includes building deployment pipelines and helping them ask information security questions. She also discusses programming culture and her views on it. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 

• How did you first get introduced into programming?
• GameDove
• Matt’s Script Archive
• Perl
• What made programming click for you?
• Writing her own language
• Python, Java, and JavaScript
• Do you work a lot with Ruby?
• Writing software is less relevant to what she is doing now
• What are you most proud of in your career?
• Contempt culture
• OpenStack Cloud in New Zealand
• SaltStack
• DevOps
• StartUp Weekend
• Her Blog Post
• Changed perspective on coding
• Hacker Culture
• Her Ruby Rogues Episode 
• What are you working on now?
• Information security
• Programming Culture
• And much, much more!

Links: 

• LootCrate
• StartUp Weekend
• Contempt Culture Blog Post
• Ruby Rogues Episode 273
• EIARA.nz
• Linode
• @Aurynn
• Aurynn’s GitHub
• Blog.Aurynn.com

Picks: Charles

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Keep your mind open to what’s out there

Aurynn

• Unwritten Laws of Engineering by W.J. King and James G. Skakoon
• Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
• Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Corey Haines This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Corey Haines. Corey first got into programming because when his father shifted over into programming in the late 70’s, that meant that there was always a computer in the house when he was growing up. He grew up playing games on his father’s computer, and from there gained interest in code and programming. He talks about his love for Ruby and Rails as well as his proudest contributions to the Ruby community, such as the different communities of learning that he has impacted over the years. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 

• How did you first get introduced into programming?
• TRS 80 and WordStar
• Games
• C and C++
• Getting a job as a web developer
• HTML
• Microsoft IAS
• Visual Basic and C#
• Java to Ruby
• How do you become a good mentor?
• Background in Math and English
• Was it hard to get back to programming?
• Excel and VBA in Hungary
• Index files
• The importance of learning from others
• Not having a CS degree didn’t hold him back
• Programming as a creative outlet
• Widgets
• How did you get into Ruby?
• Switching over to Ruby and Rails
• Heroku
• Really sticks to Rails and Ruby now
• Learn how to cash
• What are the highlights of your Ruby career?
• And much, much more!

Links: 

• Linode
• @CoreyHaines
• Corey’s GitHub
• CoreyHaines.com
• FreshBooks
•  

Picks: Charles

• Food Smoker
• Keto diet

Corey

• Elm language
• The Beyond Burger

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Jeremy Evans This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Jeremy Evans. Jeremy has been programming Ruby since 2004, and is best known for working on Roda and Sequel. He talks about his journey into programming, starting when he was in college and took an introduction to programming class that focused on C++, which he found interesting and then took the next courses in the series. This was just the beginning for his programming journey, though. Jeremy continues to talk about his present and future endeavors and how he is adding value to the Ruby community. In particular, We dive pretty deep on: 

• How did you first get introduced into programming?
• Roda and Sequel
• Rails and Sinatra
• C++
• Java Outlets
• Static sites to PHP
• Python
• How did you get into Ruby?
• Ruby was more enjoyable to use
• Over time, how has your view on code and Ruby changed?
• Avoid aliases
• Automated tests
• Took over Sequel
• Open-Source projects
• Sinatra is not as good with good cases, Roda is better
• What’s it like to create a framework?
• Cuba
• Plug in system
• Extendable and over-ridable framework in Roda and Sequel
• Rodauth
• eRuby
• Currently working on changes to Ruby itself
• Do you have any advice for people wanting to get into Open-Source?
• And much, much more!

Links: 

• FreshBooks
• Roda
• Sequel
• Rodauth
• @JeremyEvans0
• Jeremy’s GitHub
• Linode

Picks: Jeremy

• The Trails Series
• OpenBSD
•  

Charles

• GlassDoor.com
• LinkedIn
• MeetUp.com
• GetaCoderJob.com

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Cameron Dutro This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Cameron Dutro. Cameron is a return guest from Ruby Rogues. Currently, Cameron works at Lumosity, a company that creates brain games & brain training application for web and mobile.  Cameron mention working on the platform team working with internationalization. Cameron talks about his journey into programming, starting at the age of 4 and being fascinated an IBM 85XT computer and flight simulator games. Cameron describes is early interactions with programming in elementary and high school. Then moving into a professional field after college at Twitter and eventually at Lumosity. Cameron talks about his next projects and his contributions to the Ruby community. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get introduced to programming?
• At the age of 4, Cameron was fascinated with computers and games
• In elementary started writing games with Basic and Visual Basic 6
• Wrote a prank program
• In high school moved to C# and.Net
• Windows and PC
• Got a computer science degree
• Work at Flutter and Twitter
• Then joined Lumosity
• 2011 - Twitter as a startup
• Ruby Projects
• Ruby Gem  - Arrow Helpers
• Turbo Sprocket Rails 4
• Games at Lumosity
• What are you working on these days?
• Password and Login app
• Pron PDF - TTFunk
• Masters in Computer Science in the works
• Should I get a degree? Advantages? - NO
• Getting a job in tech?
• When you might need a degree - AI, Machine Learning
• and much, much more!

Links:  

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/camerondutro
• https://github.com/camertron
• http://camerondutro.com
• @camertron
• https://www.lumosity.com
• https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/267-rr-internationalization-with-cameron-dutro
• Platform Engineer and Dev Ops Opening at Lumosity!

Picks Cameron

• The Far Side Comic Strips
• The Fox Trot
• Sunday Comics
• Amazon Lightsail
• Mental Health - Preventing Burnout

Charles

• Recording interviews with speakers at conferences
• Sponsorship for conferences
• Video Recording Kit
• Zoom H6 

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Sudhindra Rao This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Sudhindra Rao, Sudhindra has been a Ruby developer for over 10 years. Sudhindra talks about working on media platforms, e-commerce type sights, campaign platforms, and healthcare applications. Sudhindra talks about working in Ruby still but has moved into many platforms and technologies. Sudhindra talks about his journey into programming, starting with electrical engineering, control systems, and has a Masters degree in Control System, switch interest him into learning more about how the software is created and functioning. Sudhindra talks about learning more about operating systems and digging deeper into the guts of software. Sudhindra talks about his next project and his contributions to the Ruby community In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get introduced to programming?
• Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering
• Operating Systems
• Debugging form memory
• How did you get back to working in Ruby?
• Application Programming
• Thought Works 
• What have you done with Ruby that you are proud of?
• Providing solution and building apps
• What is it about building apps that appeal to you?
• What are you working on now?
• Problems in data
• Machine Learning and Data Science is done with Python
• and much, much more!

Links:  

• https://github.com/sudhindrarao
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1UD9ZI_gwg
• https://medium.com/@sudheendrarao66
• @suhindrarao

Picks Sudhindra

• Release It
• Remote
• React Tool Chain
• Runaway Species
• BBC Earth
• Eggless Apple Carrot Cake

Charles

• Sling TV
• Roku Express

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Reuven Lerner This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Reuven Lerner,  Reuven was a guest on Ruby Rouges Episode 260 and is a regular panelist on The Freelancer Show on the Dev Chat TV network. Reuven talks about his background in Ruby development, from programming on an Atari to discovering computer science in his college years. Reuven mentions getting a bachelors in programming and eventually getting a Ph.D. in education/learning sciences. Reuven talks about doing consulting and his entrepreneurial journey as a programmer. Lastly, Reuven shares his contributions with Ruby and current training projects. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get introduced to programming?
• Atari game console and programming cartridge
• Programming class at computer store at the age of 8
• Discover programming in college
• Educational background from Bachelors to PhD
• Education and education in programming
• Being a little better than the rest
• Consulting
• Time Warner
• How did you get into Ruby? Thesis
• What have you done with Ruby
• Book Buy Back program
• Dissertation
• What are you working on now? Training, coursed and products
• Weekly Python exercise
• Ruby on Rails, Big Data,…Etc.
• Python talk
• and much, much more!

Links:  

• https://lerner.co.il
• http://blog.lerner.co.il
• Ruby Rouges Episode 260
• [email protected]
• @revuemlerner

Picks Reuven

• Better Developer Newsletter
• Trainer Weekly
• Weapons of Math Destruction 

Charles

• CES Videos for Product Lines at DEV Chat TV Youtube Channel 
• Primo 
• Merge Cube
• Crazies Babies

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Thom Parkin This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Thom Parkin, Thom is a return guest and interviewer on Ruby Rogues Episode 245. Thom describes the early days in his career of programming, starting with mechanical computing devices and early computers. Thom talks about working with Cobalt and other early technologies. Thom talks about his journey in programming and the developing world. As well as his contributions to the Ruby community throughout his career In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get introduced to programming?
• Old computers
• Cobalt
• Compuserve 
• AOL
• When the internet was young
• Learning Ruby
• Learning Sinatra
• Site Point
• Git 
• Git Cheatsheet
• Remote work on Rail Project - for Non-Profit
• Vim
• A Ruby method a day
• Software development, Cyber Security, etc
• Comparison to board games
• Ghost in the Wires
• Hacking
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• http://ParaHacker.com
• https://github.com/ParkinT
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomparkin
• https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/245-rr-the-charles-max-wood-interview-with-thom-parkin
• Git
• wishfulthinking.com

Picks Thom

• evernote.com
• Uppercase Box
• Business Spew

Charles

• Take some time to spend with family
• Learn about your family background
• Set up a board game group

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Michael DiBernardo This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Michael DiBernardo. Michael is a return guest, previously on Ruby Rogues Episode 256. Micheal talks about his journey into programming via building a PC with an uncle and learning about programming games. Micheal mentions teaching programming at a university and learned that most students interests in programming began with gaming. Micheal continues to talks about the many different paths in his development career, including teaching and going back to college to learn other programming languages. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get introduced to programming?
• Games
• Flags, bit flip.
• Building complex games
• Gaming
• Web Development
• Mindset to approaching problems with gaming
• Have you worked in Rudy extensively
• How do you wind up picking a language?
• C++
• When back to College to learn other languages
• Communities and languages
• What do you like about the communities you’ve been in?
• Going to events - new and old Microsoft
• What are you doing with Python these days?
• VIP of Engineering
• Book writing for 2018
• When started this project, how do you approach it?
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• https://twitter.com/mdibernardo
• http://mikedebo.ca
• https://github.com/MichaelDiBernardo
• https://www.waveapps.com/payments/
• @mdbernardo

Picks Micheal

• Wardly Maps 
• Poetry

Charles

• CES
• E Myth Revisited
• zappier.com

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Tyler Renelle This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Tyler Renelle. Tyler is a contractor and developer who has worked in many web technologies like Angular, Rails, React and much more! Tyler is a return guest, previously on Adventure in Angular and JavaScript Jabber talking Ionic and Machine learning. Tyler has recently expanded his work beyond JavaScript and is on the show to talk his interest in AI or Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning. Furthermore, Tyler talks about his early journey as a game developer, web developer, and work with some content management systems, and more recently, his development in various technologies. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Writing games out of college, studies computer science.
• Did web development to pay for college working with PHP and ASP
• Content managements
• Working with various technologies
• Working with React, is this it?
• Problems React has solved with web apps
• What is the next big innovation?
• View
• Creating Podcasts
• Machine Learning
• Specialized application of AI
• NLP
• Never use his computer science degree as a web developer
• You don’t study code to be a developer
• AI and machine learn is based on Computer Science
• Tensor Flow
• Data Skeptic - podcast
• Performance
• Graphics cards
• Philosophy of Consciousness
• The subjective experience
• Job displacement phenomenon
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• http://ocdevel.com
• http://ocdevel.com/podcasts/machine-learning
• Tensor Flow
• Data Skeptic - podcast
• https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/jsj-278-machine-learning-tyler-renelle
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/lefnire

Picks Tyler

• The Great Courses 

Charles

• CES
• Email beforehand and setup an appointment
• VRBO.com
• Autonomous.ai
•  

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Peter Cooper This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Peter Cooper. Peter was one the original panelist on Ruby Rogues and JavaScript Jabber. Currently, Peter runs several weekly new letters on JS, Ruby, Go, React, etc. Peter talks about he journey as a programmer started at an early age tinkering with his father’s computer at home. Peter describes the beginning as a hobby until he learned the skills to being programming on many platforms. Peter talks about how he learn Ruby and JavaScript, and in early stages of noodling or learning code. Lastly, Peter talks about his contributions to the community and giving back. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get into programming?
• Playing with computers at an early age
• Computers were a hobby, rather than a career builder then
• Being heavily into to anything can become your career, age does not matter
• Finding the skill or passion in programming
• Natural ability to see and make sense of code
• UseNet
• AJax
• Directness
• Blogging 
• New Letters
• rubyflow.com
• What is the ultimate goal of the new letters?
• Contributions
• Helping host podcasts
• Current work?
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• http://peterc.org
• https://rubyweekly.com
• https://github.com/peterc/
• Cooper Press

Picks: Peter

• Litmus
• Cheap Gaming consoles on eBay
• Jason Scott of archive.org
•  

Charles

• Hyper Drive
• J5
• Dash Pro In-Ear Headphones