Ruby Rogues

Rails Remote Conf 02:07 - Testing07:28 - Adding Tests Later; When is the test useful?

• TDD (Test-driven Development)

14:35 - Testing the Happy Path16:48 - Writing Tests First18:53 - Sharing Code

• Larry Wall: Three Virtues

27:34 - Testing Error Messages29:04 - External vs Mocking/Stubbing34:11 - Exploratory Tests and Characterization Tests

• Sunk Cost Fallacy
• Katrina Owen: Therapeutic Refactoring

39:07 - Refactoring47:22 - Mocking and Stubbing (Cont’d)

• Justin Searls: To Mock or Not to Mock @ SCNA 2012
• Dependency Injection
  • Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz
• Spies

 Picks

• How American Politics Went Insane (Jessica)
• Alex Kitchens’ Minecraft Tweet (Sam)
• The "Is It a DSL or an API?" Ten Question Checklist (Sam)
• Transmit (Chuck)
• Zoom (Chuck)
• Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)

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Check out Angular Remote Conf and React Remote Conf  01:55 - Jamis Buck Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Medium.com: Jamis Buck

02:57 - Mazes

• Mazes for Programmers: Code Your Own Twisty Little Passages by Jamis Buck
• 3.5 Random Dungeon Generator for D&D
• Mazoo!

08:01 - Programing can be fun?! Play

• Jamis Buck: Second Wind @ Mountain West Ruby 2016 (Talk on burnout)

11:49 - Historical and Traditional vs Technical Mazes13:51 - Jamis’ Backstory with Mazes; Algorithms

• Hunt-and-Kill Algorithm
• Wilson's Algorithm  
• Eller's Algorithm

21:14 - Discovering Algorithms

• Think Labyrinth
• Neo4j

28:01 - Varying Algorithms

• AST (Abstract Syntax Tree)

36:38 - Writing a Book

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

39:16 - Text App for Generating Mazes

• ASCII
• ChunkyPNG

 Picks

• The Walking Dead (Sam)
• The Codeless Code (Coraline)
• Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (Jessica)
• Feeling sad about tragedy (Jessica)
• Completely Disconnect (Chuck)
• Being Outdoors (Chuck)
• Shooting Firearms (Chuck)
• Productive (Jamis)
• Kerbal Space Program (Jamis)

Special Guest: Jamis Buck.

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02:39 - Cameron Dutro Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Lumosity

02:39 - Internationalization vs Localization 05:28 - How important is internationalization?13:54 - Internationalization and Accessibility

• The Tragedy of the Commons

Developer Ignorance/Indifference19:43 - Tools

• Twitter Translation Center
• Rosette
• txgh
• Transifex

24:48 - How can small companies internationalize?26:22 - Crowdsourcing

• Contributor Covenant

30:34 - People Have Names

• Patrick McKenzie: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers
• Carina C. Zona: Schemas for the Real World @ RubyConf AU 2013

34:54 - Gender

• I18n, l10n, m10n: Abbreviations for Internationalization, Localization, and Minimization

39:35 - Educational Resources

• Rails Guides on Internationalization
• ICU - International Components for Unicode
• twitter-cldr-rb
• CLDR - Unicode Common Locale Data Repository

47:14 - Unicode

• Unicode Consortium
• Aditya Mukerjee: I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name

 Picks

• I17n.rb - Intranumeralization (David)
• Patrick McKenzie: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (David)
• Mogo Portable Active Office Chair (Sam)
• Richard Schneems: Saving Sprockets (Coraline)
• Calvino Noir (Coraline)
• ICU (Cameron)
• CLDR (Cameron)
• twitter-cldr-rb (Cameron)
• Hacknet (Cameron)
• Golden State Warriors (Cameron)

Special Guest: Cameron Dutro .

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Check out Newbie Remote Conf! 03:09 - Kronda Adair Introduction

• Twitter
• Blog
• Karvel Digital
  • @karveldigital
  • Facebook

03:11 - WordPress

• DevChat.tv
• Derick Bailey: WatchMeCode
• Sunk Cost Fallacy

07:59 - Why do developers hate WordPress?

• Venomous Porridge: A conversation I have every month or so

14:53 - Using Tools That Fit Technology Preferences

• PHP
• Wix
• Aaron Hockley: WordPress is a DSLR; Squarespace is a Point and Shoot
• Technology Bias
• Refresh Portland

21:52 - Empathy and Discovery Processes for Clients

• Tests
• Asking Questions
• The Freelancers’ Show
  • The Freelancers' Show Episode 201: Roadmapping with Brennan Dunn

31:38 - Conversations with Customers vs Owners/Managers

• WordCamp Orange County

34:43 - Websites That Work | Indiegogo 36:48 - Kronda’s Origin Story

• Portland Community College

 Picks

• Hover (Kronda)
• Flywheel (Kronda)
• WordPress (Kronda)
• Thrive Themes (Kronda)
• Genesis (Kronda)
• ActiveCampaign (Kronda)
• Lingo (Kronda)
• Tybee Island, Georgia (Jessica)
• Robert Epstein: The empty brain: Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer (Coraline)
• Blindsight by Peter Watts (Sam)
• Aurynn Shaw: Contempt Culture (Sam)
• StudioPress (Chuck)
• DigitalOcean (Chuck)
• Drip (Chuck)

Special Guest: Kronda Adair.

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02:33 - Frank McSherry Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub

03:06 - Computation03:48 - When are more computers needed?04:28 - Scalability! But at what COST?

• Experimentation

08:03 - Data Format and Pipelines

• Hilbert Curve
  • github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-02-04.md

14:06 - Code That Could Grow

• Hadoop
• summingbird

20:38 - Languages and Performance23:14 - “For Loops Unrolled”

• Rust

28:01 - Scaling

• helix

35:42 - Functional vs Procedural Language37:47 - Dataflow (Timely; Differential)

• Around, Epic
• Vector Clock
• Introductory Blog Posts: 
  • github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-09-14.md
  • github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-09-18.md
  • github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-09-21.md

 Picks

• Go-Ped Know Ped Scooter (Sam)
• 2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report (Jessica)
• The Screwtape Letters (Jessica)
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek (Chuck)
• RIF6 Cube 2-inch Mobile Projector (Chuck)
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Frank)
• PrAna (Frank)
• Rust (Frank)
• Big Data Analytics with Datalog Queries on Spark (Frank)

Special Guest: Frank McSherry.

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Get your Ruby Remote Conf tickets! 02:42 - Nadia Odunayo Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Ignition Works
• Nadia Odunayo: Playing Games in the Clouds

05:00 - Ruby Book Club 11:20 - Nadia Odunayo: The Guest: A Guide To Code Hospitality @ RailsConf 2016 17:23 - Collaboration and Pairing: Guest and Host Roles; Driving and Navigating

• Coderetreat
• Ruby DCamp

24:42 - Perspectives and Mapping

• Sam Livingston-Gray: Cognitive Shortcuts: Models, Visualizations, Metaphors, and Other Lies @ Cascadia Ruby Conf 2014
• Cortical Homunculus
• Peter Gardiner Motor and Sensory Homunculi

41:04 - Ruby Central's Opportunity Scholarship Program

• Space Babies

 Picks  

• Case Studies in Apprenticeship (Coraline)
• Everything's an Argument by Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz (Sam)
• RIF6 Cube 2-inch Mobile Projector (Chuck)
• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg (Nadia)
• Robert Frank on Dinner Table Economics (Nadia)

 See Also

• Ruby Rogues Episode #190: Apprenticeship with Joseph Mastey and Jill Lynch of Enova

Special Guest: Nadia Odunayo.

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Check out Ruby Remote Conf! 02:39 - Tom Stuart Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Ruby Rogues Episode #120: Book Club: Understanding Computation with Tom Stuart
• Understanding Computation by Tom Stuart

03:17 - “Computer Scientist”; Computer Science 04:17 - Static Typing, Type Systems

• Tom Stuart: Consider Static Typing @ RubyConf Australia 2015
• Matz's Opening Keynote at RubyConf 2014
• The Halting Problem

18:44 - The Direction, Adoption Curve, and Use of Ruby33:36 - Multicore Growth and Concurrency => What programming language should I learn?

• Moore’s Law

 Picks

• Halting State by Charles Stross (Sam)
• The Belgariad by David Eddings (Chuck)
• Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most by Timothy Shriver (Chuck)
• The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory: new paper by Adam Yedidia and me (Tom)
• Martin Kleppmann: Staying in Sync: from Transactions to Streams (Tom)

Special Guest: Tom Stuart.

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Check out Ruby Remote Conf! 02:12 - Ra’Shaun “Snuggs” Stovall Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Facebook

02:29 - Noel Sagaille Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Censible

02:56 - The Pomodoro Technique

• Parkinson's Law

04:43 - Community and Community Leaders

• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
• “Hometraining”
• Being John Malkovich
  • Polyphasic Sleep
  • Carl Jung

19:11 - Values

• Altruism
• Autonomy

26:02 - Mentorship

• Switching Roles
• Advocacy
• Mastermind Groups
• Homage

Picks

• RFC 2119 (Sam)
• James Edward Gray II: Implementing the LHC on a Whiteboard (Coraline)
• Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions by Gayle Laakmann McDowell (Coraline)
• Thinking about your health (Chuck)
• FitBit One (Chuck)
• Block & Flow (Ra'Shaun)
• Censible (Ra’Shaun)
• Heroku Pipelines (Noel)
• Dialogue - A proposal by David Bohm, Donald Factor and Peter Garrett (Noel)

Special Guests: Noel Sagaille and Ra’Shaun “Snuggs” Stovall .

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Check out our speaker list and sign up for Ruby Remote Conf! 01:53 - Kerri Miller Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog

02:12 - Networking Without Networking04:22 - Social Currency 06:35 - Creating Opportunities to Connect

• Knowing Small Details About People
• Remembering Faces
• Randomizing
• Opening the Circle
• Offering Help and Guidance
• Playing Games

22:38 - New Programmers as Speakers24:17 - Connecting After Talks25:29 - Merging the Speakers and Attendees30:13 - Users Groups

• Be an Organizer
• Get A Coder Job
• Travel and Find a Users Group

35:01 - Livestreaming; Pairing Sharing

• Livecoding.tv
• Twitch
• Hangouts On Air
• YouTube Live
• Crowdcast

37:03 - Connecting with People at Specific Companies47:27 - The Opportunity Scholarship Program  Picks

• Nadia Eghbal: I hate the term “open source” (Coraline)
• tabular (Sam)
• dotfiles/vimrc at master (Sam)
• PlugBug World (Chuck)
• Safemore Smart 8-Outlet with 4-USB Output Surge Protection Power Strip (Chuck)
• moonconf (Kerri)
• Open Source and Feelings (Kerri)
• Sage Yoyo Starter Pack (Kerri)

Special Guest: Kerri Miller.

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Want to be a Ruby Rogue? Apply at https://rubyrogues.com/ruby-nuby   01:47 - Reuven Lerner Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• The Freelancers’ Show Podcast
• Practice Makes Python by Reuven Lerner
• Practice Makes Regexp by Reuven Lerner
• Daily Tech Video

03:49 - Training

• Pedagogy

07:54 - Approaching Teaching

• Mental Model

09:33 - Pairing People Up

• Metacognition

10:57 - Example: Reuven’s Training Sessions19:59 - Moving Up The Ladder24:06 - Company Goals25:56 - Hostile Learners28:00 - Breaking Into the Big Company Market

• LinkedIn
• Devchat.tv Interest Survey

35:03 - Offerings37:53 - Cultural Differences  Picks

• Society Of Mind By Marvin Minsky (Reuven)
• Peter Hessler's Books (Reuven)
• Regexp Crash Course (Reuven)
• rspec-given (Sam)
• Katrina Owen on Confreaks (Sam)
• github-shoutouts (Coraline)
• Ruby Together (Coraline)
• Ruby Rogues Episode #224: Ruby Together with André Arko (Chuck)
• Ruby Remote Conf (Chuck)
• FitBit One (Chuck)

Special Guest: Reuven Lerner.

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