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Ruby, Rails, the Cloud (Changelog Interviews #50)

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Steve and Wynn caught up with Dr. Nic from Engine Yard to talk about the cloud, Jenkins, Ruby, and lowering the barrier of entry for learning Rails on Windows.

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Featuring:

  • Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
  • Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

  • Catch up with us at Red Dirt Ruby Conf
  • Steve will be at Codeconf
  • Kenneth will be covering PyCon 2011
  • Thanks for putting up with us for 50 episodes!
  • Dr. Nic Williams is Developer Advocate at Engine Yard has a ton of open source projects
  • Engine Yard uses Amazon AWS and Terremark
  • Dr. Nic actively and aggressively abandons most of his 154 public repos and feels good about it due to Git and GitHub
  • Steve maintains a couple of projects from _why
  • Dr. Nic liked how Jamis Buck declared he abandoned Capistrano
  • Dr. Nic prefers TextMate instead of “1960s technology”
  • Steve likes Janus for Vim
  • Steve asks about Redcar
  • Engine Yard has partnered with Appcelerator for mobile app developers
  • Dr. Nic helps maintain Rails Installer, the easiest way to get up and running with Ruby on Rails. For Windows. Mac and Linux coming soon.
  • Luis Lavena and Charles Nutter are core to the Ruby community
  • “If you have to put the shortcuts on a coffee mug!” - Dr. Nic on Vim
  • Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud is a regular on The Changelog for projects like Docco, CloudCrowd, Underscore.js, CoffeeScript
  • The Jenkins rename shows the power of the community to stick together
  • Dr. Nic is sticking with Jenkins, but Travis is worth a look for Rubyists
  • Someone send Dr. Nic an Octocat badge

    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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