Ruby Rogues

This episode is from Peter Cooper’s talk at Ruby Remote Conf 2015. You can watch the full, unedited presentation, Swiss Army Rubyknife, on YouTube at your convenience.

• Check out All Remote Confs for next year’s remote conference lineup!
• Ruby Remote Conf will run from March 23rd-25th 2016. Buy a ticket or submit a CFP!
• JS Remote Conf is running from January 14th-16th 2016. Check out the speaker lineup!
• Freelance Remote Conf will run from February 24th-26th. We’ve already got a great list of confirmed speakers. Stay tuned for more details!

We, the Ruby Rogues panelists (And, Mandy!), wish you a very happy holiday season.Special Guest: Peter Cooper.

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Check out JS Remote Conf and submit a Ruby Remote Conf CFP! 02:26 - Refactoring (Definition) and Where People Fail03:55 - Tests and Refactoring

• How do you decide when your codebase is untestable?

10:59 - Managing Scope11:42 - Why We Refactor; The Value of Refactoring

• Coraline's Data-Driven Refactoring Talk

17:13 - Refactoring Tools 20:40 - When Refactoring Gets Put Off; Establishing a Code Culture26:23 - Refactoring Strategies

• Extract Method
• Extract Class
• Introduce Explaining Variable

37:38 - Performance Tradeoffs41:42 - Generative Testing

• approvals 

50:33 - Measurement53:08 - Examples and Resources

• Martin Fowler: Catalog of Refactorings 
• Refactoring: Ruby Edition by Jay Fields 
• Katrina Owen: Therapeutic Refactoring @ Cascadia Ruby Conf 2012
• Sam Livingston-Gray: Fluent Refactoring @ LoneStarRuby 2013

Picks Longmire (Avdi)
Clash of Clans (Chuck)
Star Wars Commander (Chuck)
Cleaning your office (Chuck)
Hsing-Hui Hsu: Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana: Parsers for Great Good @ RubyConf 2015 (Coraline)
Betsy Haibel: s/regex/DSLs/: What Regex Teaches Us About DSL Design @ RubyConf 2015 (Coraline)
Velocity 2016 Call for speakers (Saron)
RailsConf 2016 (Saron)

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Check out JS Remote Conf and All Remote Confs! 02:32 - Brad Urani Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Procore

04:01 - Immutable/Persistent Data Structures; Advantages

• Changing the Unchangeable: The Hows and Whys of Immutable Data Structures @ RubyConf 2015 
• hamster

07:30 - Tools for Debugging08:23 - Why do Rubyists care about things like Elm?09:39 - Persistent Data Structure Use Cases; Functional Programming12:07 - Testability13:51 - Where does “functional play a role in a typical CRUD app? Active Record, 

• The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
• Callbacks
• Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
  • “Nouns are objects; verbs are methods” - Corey Haines

22:49 - Coworker Receptiveness of Ruby + JavaScript Style of Programming

• Codebase Inconsistency?
• “Merit”

26:41 - Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) vs Monolithic Applications

• Remote Procedure Calls (RPC)
• Representational State Transfer (REST)

30:21 - Monoliths as a Necessary Stage in the Development of a Mature Application

• Elixir
  • The Phoenix Framework
  • ecto

33:23 - The Repository Pattern; Terminology & Naming

• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler

37:40 - Structured Query Language (SQL)

• Avdi Grimm: The Soul of Software @ RubyConf Portugal '15
• The Sapir Whorf Hypothesis'

Picks Dan Carlin's Hardcore History (Coraline)
Stuff You Missed in History Class (Coraline)
Buffer (Avdi)
New Belgium Brewing Accumulation White IPA (Avdi)
Saramonic SmartMixer Professional Recording Stereo Microphone Rig (Chuck)
LaunchCode (Brad)
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson (Coraline)
VAT19 (Brad)Special Guest: Brad Urani.

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02:10 - Brian Underwood Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Neo Technology

02:55 - Neo4j

• Neo4j [GitHub]

04:31 - Graph Databases vs Traditional Databases06:02 - Relations Have Directions06:58 - Modeling a Domain as a Graph; How it Works

• cypher

13:25 - Built-in Query Processor15:04 - Neo4j.rb => ORM; OGM

• Mongoid Influence

18:06 - Declarative Schema 21:09 - The Ruby Client vs The Java Client25:48 - Use Cases35:53 - Who is using Neo4j?

• Ashley Sun Lending Club: Managing Microservices with Neo4j @ GraphConnect SF 2015 

38:42 - Challenges as an Open Source Maintainer39:44 - Funding Neo4j41:00 - Working Abroad42:16 - Getting Started with Neo4j

• Getting Started with Neo4j and Ruby
• Neo4j Screencasts
• Neo4j.com/developer   
• Neo4j [GitHub]

Picks Elle Luna: The Crossroads of Should and Must (Jessica)
Lynda Tutorials (Avdi)
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie (Avdi)
Marked 2 (Coraline)
Fund Club (Coraline)
RubyTapas #334: Rspec Compound Matchers (Brian)
Pyrosomes (Brian)
Americapox: The Missing Plague (Brian)Special Guest: Brian Underwood .

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Check out JS Remote Conf! 02:07 - Rob Miller Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Big Fish Marketing
• Text Processing with Ruby: Extracting Value from the Data That Surrounds You with Rob Miller 

03:11 - Why does text processing matter?07:32 - One-off Data Processing, Core Competency

• The Perl Programming Language

10:36 - Processing Less-structured, Unstructured Data12:45 - The Command Line 

• Ruby's -e, -n and -p switches
• Antipatterns
• Class: IO 

29:15 - Abstractions and Refactoring35:12 - Munging: Tools and Practices

• transproc 

40:57 - Text Processing for Textual Visual Things

• Conway's Game of Life

42:57 - Parallelization 45:45 - Fanning Data

• join

Picks Text Processing with Ruby: Extracting Value from the Data That Surrounds You with Rob Miller (Avdi)
Data Is Plural by Jeremy Singer-Vine (Avdi)
RubyConf 2015 Videos (Avdi)
Papers We Love (Jessica)
transproc (David)
Does your data fit in RAM? (David)
advisor (David)
Swarm Simulator (Chuck)
15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck)
Toastmasters (Chuck)
All Remote Conferences (Chuck)
transproc (Rob)
Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby (Rob)
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) by William Poundstone (Rob)Special Guest: Rob Miller.

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02:28 - Jerod Santo Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Object Lateral, Inc. 

02:44 - Adam Stacoviak Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog

02:55 - The Changelog and Beyond Code (Background)

• 5by5 
• Wynn Netherland
• The Changelog #172: GitUp, Git UX, and More with Pierre-Olivier Latour
• The Changelog #145: 10+ Years of Rails with DHH
• The Changelog #139: The Rise of io.js with Mikeal Rogers 
• The Changelog #155: The Future of Node.js with Scott Hammond
• JavaScript Jabber #147: io.js with Isaac Schlueter and Mikeal Rogers  

13:50 - The Corporatization of Open Source16:00 - Sharing Stories of Fascinating People and Choosing Conferences

• Gophercon

21:21 - Differences Between Communities

• Ron Evans
  • Ruby Rogues Episode #141: Teaching Kids with Ron Evans

24:54 - Where are The Changelog and Beyond Code’s future plans?

• OSCON
• Strange Loop  
• Questions:
  • Who is your programming hero?
  • If you had to relearn how to code all over again, what would you tell yourself?
  • What’s the most exciting thing in software right now?

31:57 - Interview Wishlist

• 20 Years of Ruby with Matz
• 20 Years of JavaScript with Brendan Eich
• Bill O’Reilly
• Linus Torvalds
• 10 Years of Git with Junio Hamano
• Apple: ResearchKit
• Sara Chipps

35:43 - Origin Stories

• Mitchell Hashimoto
  • The Changelog #180: Otto, Vagrant, and Automation with Mitchell Hashimoto 
• LEGO League

Picks Personality Insights (Coraline)
The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill by Karla McLaren (Coraline)
FamilySearch (Chuck)
Snow (Chuck)
DISTRICT Roasters (Adam)
The Balvenie (Adam)
Lismore Scotch (Adam)
The Elixir Fountain (Jerod)
Robot or Not? (Jerod)
Song Exploder (Jerod)Special Guests: Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo.

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02:36 - Responsibility and Communication

• Slack
• “Ask Anything”

12:10 - Onboarding Experience for Remote Employees15:55 - Measuring New Employee Metrics 17:41 - Onboarding Onto a Team vs Onboarding Onto a Project20:51 - What it Means to be a Senior Developer29:20 - First Impressions and Team Member Categories33:26 - How do you decide what you spend time learning?40:57 - Code Reading

• The Web Platform Podcast 

Picks Private Internet Access (Avdi)
Darkest Dungeon  (Avdi)
imprint (Coraline)
The surprising truth about which personality traits do and don't correlate with computer programming skills (Coraline)
TALON Bluetooth Wireless Headphones (Jessica)
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall (Jessica)
Reading to your kids (Chuck)
LinkedIn (Chuck)
RubyTapas (Chuck)
Elixir Sips (Chuck)
Avdi's Newsletter (Avdi)

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02:20 - Eric Normand Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub
• Democracy Works
• LispCast
• Clojure Gazette
• PurelyFunctional.tv

03:31 -    Old vs Young Programmers

• Robert C. Martin: My Lawn
• “Uncle Bob” Martin Speaks at Yale SOM  

05:38 - Teaching Fundamentals

• Kathy Sierra

11:02 - Teaching Backgrounds12:13 - Why is so hard to be a good teacher?15:54 - Teacher Feedback19:46 - Asking Questions25:56 - Community Education28:20 - Order of Operation29:36 - Recognizing Students Understanding of Fundamentals

• NPR Planet Money: When Women Stopped Coding

31:25 - Should there be prerequisites?34:30 - How to Assess Where People Are 35:43 - Teaching the Teacher39:10 - Bootcamps 45:52 - After BootcampsMentoring52:11 - Skill vs Knowledge

• O'Reilly's Head First Series

 More From Eric

• How to avoid "Makes sense if you already understand it."
• Making True/False Questions Easy
• Tap Into Your Social Brain
• Use Task Analysis to Break a Skill Into Steps

Picks Inoreader (Avdi)
Windows 10 (Avdi)
Sandi Metz's Courses (Avdi)
Avdi Grimm: I have a newsletter. You could subscribe, maybe. (Avdi)
Ian Steadman: Sex isn’t chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & Y (Coraline)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Coraline)
Wunderlist (Jessica)
The Partially Examined Life (Jessica)
Together Tech (Chuck)
Being Intentional (Chuck)
Highrise (Chuck)
Eventual Millionaire with Rory Vaden (Chuck)
Ruby Rogues (Eric)
Yoshiki Ohshima's Youtube Channel (Eric)
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour A. Papert (Eric)Special Guest: Eric Normand.

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Go check out Rails Remote Conf!  02:30 - Lee Byron Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Facebook

02:46 - GraphQL

• [GitHub] graphql 
• Relay 

04:16 - GraphQL vs REST09:43 - Endpoints

• Security

13:33 - How the Stack Works

• graphql-ruby 

19:35 - GraphQL on the Front and Back Ends

• Type Checking
• Contracts
• Versions

36:14 - Calculating Tradeoffs43:38 - Structuring46:17 - Building the Ecosystem48:16 - Use with Other Frameworks

• JavaScript Jabber Episode #152: GraphQL and Relay with Nick Schrock and Joe Savona

49:50 - GraphQL vs Falcor 52:20 - How would you have made GraphQL differently?54:06 - React Native 56:29 - REST => GraphQL

• ElixirConf 

57:36 - TypesPicks San Francisco (Jessica)
Dolores Park (Jessica)
Greg Heo: Outlining Your Conference Talk Pixar-style (Coraline)
Walnut (Coraline)
Tandy Leather (David)
Ian Atkinson on YouTube (David)
Bruce Cheaney on YouTube (David)
Springfield Leather (David)
Tandy Leather Outlet (David)
The Ionic Framework (Chuck)
CharlesMaxWood.com (Chuck)
Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)
All Remote Confs (Chuck)
JS Remote Conf (Chuck)
Flow (Lee)
The Firesteel: A Novel by Ash Huang (Lee) Special Guest: Lee Byron.

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Check out and get your ticket for Rails Remote Conf! 02:00 - Sarah Mei Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Devmynd
• RailsBridge

06:11 - Why It’s Hard to be “The First Person”

• Biases
  • Mind the Gap - On the unconscious bias we all carry, and how it applies to hiring
  • Avdi Grimm: What it’s like to come back to a Ruby project after 6 months 

13:27 - Transmitting Cultural Values16:01 - What Companies Can Do

• Dev Team Diversity #Realtalk - On the unprecedented opportunity we have right now to diversify our small teams
• Everyone has something to learn; Everyone has something to teach (Mentoring)

22:35 - What do you look for in a person as a hiring company?

• Rubberducking

24:46 - Setting Expectations Around Pairing Sessions

• Pairing with Junior Developers - On making sure newer devs can be successful once they're hired

27:45 - Whisper Networks

• Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic: Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? 

34:08 - Performance Review

• “How can we make you successful?”

42:15 - “I will help you find a better fit.”

• Investment and Risk

44:40 - Communication Culture

• Ask vs. Guess Culture 

50:43 - Empathy

• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Picks troll-repellant (Coraline)
Avdi Grimm: An alternative to `puts` in Ruby (Coraline)
Alan C. Kay: The Early History of Smalltalk (Avdi)
RubyTapas (Avdi)
Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)
Loot Crate (Chuck)
Prints and Visual Communication (Sarah)
Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work by Robert Austin (Sarah)Special Guest: Sarah Mei.

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