Ruby Rogues

00:45 - Introducing Jerome Hardaway and Vets Who Code

• Website
• Twitter

3:40 - All about Vets Who Code 8:00 - Special considerations for the Veteran community

• Smashing Magazine

13:10 - Coding and social/life skills

• Interview Cake

21:45 - Veteran lingo and coding26:45 - Transitioning into the civilian workplace30:50 - Vets Who Code gender breakdown35:20 - Connecting with Vets in the tech world

• The Murph Challenge
• Linkedin for Veterans

41:40 - Expanding Vets Who Code46:25 - Common jobs for Veterans in tech50:40 - Vets Who Code success stories55:00 - Supporting Vets Who Code

• Email: [email protected]
• Personal email: [email protected]
• Vets Who Code SwearJar

Picks: Scala Parser Combinators (Jessica) Boil the Frog (Coraline)Apple picking (Saron) Markings notebook (Saron) RubyConf trailer (Saron) Jerome’s episode on CodeNewbie (Saron)Hot sauce recipe: One tablespoon of Cayenne pepper, one tablespoon of ranch dressing, and one tablespoon of sugar (David) Balanced Rebellion (Charles) Ruby Remote Conf (Charles) Tech Inclusion Conference in San Francisco (Jerome) SprezzaBox (Jerome) NootroBox and NootroBox Sprint (Jerome)Special Guest: Jerome Hardaway.

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0:45 - Introducing Carina C. Zona

• Website
• Personal Twitter
• Callback Women
• We So Crafty

2:10 - Coding consequences

• RubyConf 2015 Keynote: “Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm”
• Slides
• Code Newbies discussion

6:00 - Examples of consequences

• Flickr Deep Learning
• Google Photo

10:50 - Data quality theories14:05 - Preventable Mistakes and Algorithmic Transparency17:30 - Predictive Policing and Biased Data

• “The Reality of Crime-Fighting Algorithms”
• “Machine Bias”

22:07 - Coder Responsibility

• Mechanical Turk
• Google Crowdsource App
• “Social Network Nextdoor Moves To Block Racial Profiling Online”
• “raceAhead: How Nextdoor Reduced Racist Postings Using Empathy”

31:35 - Algorithm triggers

• Eric Meyer: “Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty”

37:20 - Fixing a mistake40:15 - Trusting humans versus trusting machines

• Facebook Trending Topics 
  • Article on leaked documents
  • Former contractor’s experience
  • Trending topic mistakes

44:30 - Considering social consequences47:30 - Confronting the uncomfortable50:30 - Fitbit Example

• “How Data From Wearable Tech Can Be Used Against You In A Court Of Law”
• “This chicken breast has a surprisingly healthy heart rate, considering it’s dead”
• OSFeels 2016 Talk by Emily Gorcenski with chicken example

Picks: 99 Bottles by Sandi Metz (David) Vivaldi Browser (Saron) Magnetic Sticky Notes (Saron) Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Sam) Ruby Remote Conf Recordings (Charles) Rails Remote Conf (Charles) Webinars (Charles) Books by Howard Zinn (Corina)On Food and Cooking by Harold McGeeSpecial Guest: Carina C Zona.

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00:30 Introducing Andy Hunt

• Website
• Twitter
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf
• GROWS Method

5:25 - GROWS Method

• Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition

13:20 - How GROWS solves Agile’s shortcomings19:50 - GROWS for executives22:50 - Marketing

• Ruby Faker Gems
• Fakercompany.bs

25:30 - GROWS and laying framework for change29:00 - How empirical is GROWS?33:35 - How expectations from the Agile Manifesto have changed36:10 - Prescribing practices that work40:00 - Getting feedback

• Burnup and Burndown charts

42:40 - Human limitations46:00 - Meaning behind GROWS name50:05 - Knowing when to scale up53:00 - Agile Fluency

• Agile Fluency Model by Diana Larson and James Shore

57:30 - The future of GROWS Picks:Going camping in your front yard (Jessica) California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco (Sam) Exploratorium in San Francisco (Sam) Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (Saron) Espresso Pillows (Saron) “It’s Darkest Before Dawn” DjangoCon 2016 talk by Timothy Allen (Saron) Ruby Book Club Podcast (Saron)Investing in yourself (Andy)Special Guest: Andy Hunt.

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1:15 - Introducing Kenzi Connor

• Cloud City
• Cloud City Twitter
• Kenzi Connor’s Twitter
• Email: [email protected]

4:15 - Senior developer vs Junior developer: Sustainability and hiring8:25 -  Examining the “senior-obsessed field”10:00 - Importance of sustainability12:35 - Lottery-ticket thinking13:35 - Solutions to the junior vs senior dilemma21:10 - Diversity and productivity23:50 - Effective management strategies31:00 - Strategies for going from a high-conformity company to a more diverse company

• Marco Rogers Twitter Feed
• Harvard study - gender discrimination in the hiring process

36:05 - Why junior developers leave your company

• Dead Sea Effect

Picks: Mandy Moore (Sam) Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World by Caroline Yoachim (Jessica)Foreign exchange students (Charles) Octavia Butler (Kenzi) Black Girls Code (Kenzi) Special Guest: Kenzi Connor.

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Rails Remote Conference1:20 - Introducing James Shore

• Github
• Flow for Javascript
• Screen cast
• Email: [email protected]

1:40 - Freelancing and Consulting5:20- Co-opting Agile and the movement away from technology/software

• Agile Alliance Technical Conference
• Agile Fluency Model

16:20- Evolutionary Design in Agile

• Ron Jeffries Sudoku
• Think Like A Git code visualization built with Gource

24:15 - Evolutionary Design for Beginners

• James Shore - Evolutionary Design Illustrated
• Stack Overflow

32:30 - Technical Practices and Agile Architecture

• Procrastinate on Purpose by Rory Vaden

39:10 - Engineering on a Team Level

• “No Silver Bullet” by Fred Brooks
• James Shore - Rethinking Scaling

52:10 - Redesigning Team Responsibilities

• Joy, Inc by Richard Sheridan

PicksSandi Metz “The Wrong Abstraction” blog post (Sam) Why Are Computers podcast by Tom Stewart (Sam) Netstat (Jess) Wood Badge (Charles) Remember the Titans (Charles) Rick Sheridan’s Agile India talk (James) Liftoff by Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies (James)Special Guest: James Shore.

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Rails Remote Conference1:25 Introducing Josh Doody

• • Twitter
• Fearless Salary Negotiation by Josh Doody
• Take his (free!) crash course in getting promotions

2:50 - Making salary negotiations when you’re your own boss4:22 - Asking an employer to “give where it hurts”6:20- Minimum Acceptable Salary / B.A.T. N. A.10:45 - Leaving a new job for a better offer13:47 - Job happiness versus job salary15:55 - Contracting

• The Freelancers’ Show

18:55 - Renegotiating and peace of mind21:00 - Researching the company28:00 - Answering salary-based interview questions33:20- Negotiating for a job you really want35:00 - Common fears to negotiating

• 10 reasons you should NOT negotiate your salary

42:10 - Countering an offer (in writing)48:55 - Negotiating with benefits and vacation51:50 - Scripting a conversation55:05 - Bantering with an employer1:03:00 - Salaries higher than market value1:06:00 - Negotiating with no work experiencePicks: Negotiating Your Salary: How To Make $1000 a Minute by Jack Chapman (Dave)Jack Chapman’s salary negotiation video series: (Dave) Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4   Part 5Hunter x Hunter (Dave) Negotiate with Chad (Jessica) Pokemon Go (Jessica) Wood Badge (Charles) Boy Scouts of America (Charles) Tifie Scout Camp (Charles) Penn & Teller: Fool Us Madhi Gilbert (Josh) Seveneves by Neal Stephens (Josh) Mystery Show podcast, “Case #3 Belt Buckle” (Josh) Special Guest: Josh Doody.

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01:11 - Aurynn Shaw Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Eiara

01:56 - Contempt Culture

• Aurynn Shaw: Contempt Culture
• Impostor Syndrome

07:32 - “But PHP is objectively bad….”; True Objectivity

• PHP: a fractal of bad design

10:35 - The History of The Contempt Culture in Tech Spaces12:40 - Reinventing Tools15:00 - “Intent is not magic.”

• Shakesville: Harmful Communication, Part 1: Intent Is Magic

20:09 - Contempt Culture in the Ruby Community Towards PHP21:56 - Why Contempt Culture Forms

• WDCNZ
• Luser
• Power and Goodness
• Noblesse Oblige
• “Design is how it works.”

29:08 - DevOps and the Disruption of Culture32:34 - Open Source vs Free Software 36:33 - Cultural Implications/Ramifications Around Open Source

• OpenSSL
• Ruby Rogues Episode #144: Passion

41:32 - Service Culture

• Actor-Observer Bias in Social Psychology

 Picks

• RODE PSA1 Swivel Mount Studio Microphone Boom Arm (Sam)
• Design Thinking (Aurynn)

Special Guest: Aurynn Shaw.

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01:42 - Amir Rajan

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• A Noble Circle
• Surviving The App Store: How to Make It as an Indie Game Developer by Amir Rajan

02:24 - A Dark Room (ADR); Revenue and Downloads

• Revenue Updates for A Dark Room et al

09:16 - Quality, Heart and Soul, and Putting Yourself Into a Product

• iPhreaks Show Episode #161: Successful Indie iOS Game Development with Amir Rajan

14:31 - Choosing RubyMotion

• Albacore
• NeXTSTEP

17:43 - Objective-C vs Ruby

• HipByte/Flow

21:51 - Cross-platform Availability23:53 - ADR => Watch/TV Capability with RubyMotion26:17 - The Ecosystem in iOS and RubyMotion28:11 - Code Structure29:58 - Testing; UI Automation

• mac_bacon  

31:29 - Open Source and Proprietary33:15 - Other Components

• UIkit
• SpriteKit
• motion-game
• Cocos2d-x
• CocoaPods

34:07 - Going on a Sabbatical40:58 - .NET => Ruby

• Inversion of Control; (IoC) Container

 Picks

• Transistor (Amir)
• Hoplite (Amir)
• Alto's Adventure (Amir)
• Shadowrun: Dragonfall (Sam)
• Minecraft: Story Mode (David)
• Sriracha and Egg in Ramen (Chuck)
• Ruby Rogues Facebook Page (Chuck)

Special Guest: Amir Rajan.

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Rails Remote Conf 01:14 - Justin Weiss Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Avvo  
• Practicing Rails: Learn Rails Without Being Overwhelmed by Justin Weiss

02:15 - “Learning Rails Without Getting Overwhelmed”?

• Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson, with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, and Andreas Schwarz

02:34 - Problems New Developers Don’t Realize They Have04:35 - Learning New Things08:05 - What is a success?09:02 - What can senior devs do? What shouldn’t they do?

• Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman David H. Hoover and Adewale Oshineye
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt
• Brandon Hays: The Conjoined Triangles of Senior-Level Development

15:43 - Are there still “Architects”?20:45 - The Existential Crisis of Software Development

• Integrated Tests Are A Scam
• Emo Philips: The best God joke ever - and it's mine!

22:26 - The Responsibility of the Students26:08 - How can new developers obtain objective evidence of their blind spots?

• Bias Blind Spot
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
• Asch Experiment

33:49 - Early Career Developers Working Together37:03 - Learning Practices Picks

• emoj (Coraline)
• Teaching Robots to Feel: Emoji & Deep Learning (Coraline)
• The Lies of Locke Lamora (Sam)
• Gorilla Tape (Sam)
• Portillo's (Chuck)
• iPad Pro (Chuck)
• Apple Smart Keyboard (Chuck)
• Apple Pencil (Chuck)
• GoodNotes (Chuck)
• Podcast Movement (Chuck)
• The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen (Justin)
• How to Write in Plain English (Justin)
• Avvo (Justin)

Special Guest: Justin Weiss.

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All Remote Conferences 02:01 - Lauren Voswinkel Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• New Relic

02:39 - May 1st: International Workers’ Day

• Lauren Voswinkel: #talkpay and the Importance of Collective Action
• Taft–Hartley Act (The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947)

06:11 - #talkpay

• Information Asymmetry

10:22 - Fair Trade of Value; Companies and Salaries

• Kelley Blue Book

19:37 - Salary Maximization and Negotiations22:40 - Executive Salaries

• Planet Money: Episode 682: When CEO Pay Exploded

25:58 - Hashtag Effectiveness

• Glassdoor

29:05 - Implications of Salary Reveals32:08 - The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Cont’d)Salary Sharing Between Employees35:41 - Sharing Salary Information Publicly and Impostor Syndrome

• Crab Mentality

37:38 - Job Elimination42:40 - Is/has #talkpay been successful? More Information

• Ex-Apple, Google, Intel geeks in line for $415m over wage-fix pacts
• Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts
• Highlights of women’s earnings in 2014

 Picks

• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Sam)
• The Lies of Locke Lamora (Coraline)
• Brandon Sanderson's Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians Series (Chuck)
• Bose QuietComfort 3 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones (Chuck)
• Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability (Lauren)
• Brené Brown: Listening to shame (Lauren)

Special Guest: Lauren Voswinkel.

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