Ruby Rogues

When is it worthwhile to introduce a new language, tool, or database? And when will it likely bite you in the rearend?02:43 - Episode Idea Background

• PolyConf
  • @polyconfhq

04:28 - Implementing Standards and Comparisons

• Minimize Entry Level / Maximizing Payoff

08:23 - “Dumb Code” and Developer Expectations10:48 - Code Coverage and Regular Expressions

• Oniguruma
• Fizz Buzz
• Ruby Rogues Episode #120: RR Book Club: Understanding Computation with Tom Stuart

12:49 - Risk Impact/Probability Chart, Risk - Reward Matrix 24:01 - Collaboration, Communication => Constraint

• Responsibility

30:36 - Bringing It In: Process

• Databases
  • Demille Quote

38:48 - Why would you want to switch databases and when is it worth it?

• Eliminating a Technology
  • Peter Seibel: Let a 1,000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots.
• Internal vs External Motivation
  • Redis vs Memcache

46:06 - Success Cases

• Abstraction

Picks OS4W: Open Source for Women (Coraline)
Contributor Covenant (Coraline)
Camille Fournier: Hopelessness and Confidence in Distributed Systems Design (Jessica)
Abby Bobé: From Protesting to Programming: Becoming a Tech Activist (Jessica)
Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)
TV Fool (Chuck)

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02:00 - Luca Guidi Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog

02:35 - The Lotus Framework

• @lotus_rb 
• Lotus Mailing List 
• A Rails Criticism by Luca Guidi 

03:56 - Working Full-time on Open Source04:55 - Flat MVC06:26 - Maintainability07:42 - Entities and Repositories10:42 - Controllers, Views, Conventions, and Templates (Structure)16:41 - Helpers17:56 - The Controller Layer20:12 - Validations23:26 - Testing

• capybara
• BDD (Behavior-Driven Design)

29:23 - The API32:37 - Contributing to Lotus

• Contributor Code of Conduct 
• discuss.lotusrb.org
• lotus/chat - Gitter
• Lotus Hack Day 2015 

34:50 - Using Fewer Gems 39:09 - Lessons Learning Building Lotus41:42 - Philosophy 42:56 - Upcoming FeaturesPicks Threes (Jessica)
15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck)
Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)
Pebble Time (Chuck)
micro.rb (Luca)
Duy Huynh (Luca)Special Guest: Luca Guidi.

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Check out Rails Remote Conf! Submit a CFP!01:53 - Daniel Kehoe Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub 
• Blog

02:07 - Digital Nomad Lifestyle

• Daniel Kehoe: Why I Left My Heart in San Francisco 
• Nomad List
• Remote Year 

08:45 - RailsApps & Rails Tutorials

• @rails_apps 
• [GitHub] RailsApps
• RailsClips #007: Rails Composer 
• Daniel's Kickstarter Project: Rails Composer with Rails Tutorials -- Runs until October 6th, 2015!
• Michael Hartl's he Ruby on Rails Tutorial Book and Screencast Series
  • Learn Enough Command Line To Be Dangerous

22:42 - rails-composer for Beginner Programmers   

• Flatiron School, @aviflombaum 
• Learn Ruby on Rails by Daniel Kehoe 

Remember to go check out Daniel's Kickstarter Project: Rails Composer with Rails Tutorials! Picks remote | ok (Saron)
Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)
weworkremotely.com (Chuck)
Slack (Chuck)
Screenhero (Chuck)
Pinegrow Web Editor (Daniel)
Nomad List (Daniel)
Low Yat Plaza (Daniel)Special Guest: Daniel Kehoe.

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02:03 - Laurent Bossavit

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Institut Agile

03:11 - The Leprechauns of Software Engineering by Laurent Bossavit 04:52 - The 10x Programmer

• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition by Steve McConnell 

13:07 - The Custom Defects Curve15:33 - Leprechauns and Local Truths (Does Needing to Prove Others Wrong = Fear?)22:53 - The Feedback Cycles25:09 - Agile, Waterfall, and The Software Crisis

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• “Bugs in the brain” = Cognitive Biases

32:30 - Estimations, Calibration and Assessments

• How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business by Douglas W. Hubbard
• Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip E. Tetlock
• Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnell    

38:16 - Starting Points/Research Skills for Identifying Leprechauns

• 1. Skepticism
• 2. Curiousity
• 3. Tenacity

43:14 - The Value of Leprechauns46:46 - “Most of our job is learning.”50:44 - The Definition of “Insanity” => Experimentation

• QWERTY vs Dvorak 

Picks The Leprechauns of Software Engineering by Laurent Bossavit (Avdi)
The Crystal Programming Language (Avdi)
Zojirushi (Avdi)
The Elm Programming Language (Laurent)
Smarter Every Day 133: The Backwards Brain Bicycle (Laurent)
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Laurent)
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business by Douglas W. Hubbard (Jessica)Special Guest: Laurent Bossavit.

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02:18 - Ben Browning Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Red Hat
• JRuby

02:46 - TorqueBox 

• @torquebox

04:05 - Use Cases and Benchmarks

• TechEmpower's latest round of benchmark results, filtered to just the Ruby servers running Rack/Rails/Sinatra/etc apps and their JSON serialization test 

06:32 - The Genesis of TorqueBox

• Bob McWhirter

07:49 - JBoss

• WildFly 

09:15 - The Name “TorqueBox”10:12 - Adoption12:05 - Documentation

• DocBook 
• YARD 

13:18 - When should/could you use TorqueBox?17:25 - Monolith vs Microservice

• WildFly Swarm

21:36 - JAR Files and WAR Files 25:31 - Server Setup & Deployment Process27:16 - Packaging Static Assets in JAR and WAR Files28:27 - Contribution and Community Involvement32:55 - Startup Cost35:53 - Getting Started with TorqueBox37:33 - Immutant 40:17 - The Rack Spec and TorqueBox

• tubesock
• SockJS

42:11 - Useful Features44:26 - Building Useful Features45:53 - GrowthPicks [Khan Academy] Pixar in a Box: Introduction to Animation Curves (Saron)
Tony Stark in Salt and Pepper (Saron)
ElixirConf (Jessica)
Nick Shrock: GraphQL Introduction (Jessica)
Troll - Shane Koyczan (Coraline)
funtools (Coraline)
Ruby Remote Conf Talks (Chuck)
Angular Remote Conf (Chuck)
Bob McWhirter: qcon-keynote (Ben)
Coders For Sanders (Ben)Extras

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

Special Guest: Ben Browning.

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02:05 - André Arko Introduction + Bundler

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog

04:28 - Ruby Together

• Trade Association
  • ​Brian Mikulencak

10:52 - Ruby Central

• 501(c) Organization

14:23 - Ruby Together Timeline16:01 - Open Source People Depend on vs Open Source as a Hobby17:03 - Corporate Member Rights / The Structure of Ruby Together

• Monthly Contributions

20:19 - How the Board Makes Decisions

• Slack

23:00 - Membership Numbers24:03 - How Voting Works26:58 - How much work is involved in maintaining these projects?30:08 - How is work doled out?

• Eric Hodel (@drbrain)
• Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove)

33:41 - Future Plans and Community Impact

• Fastly

40:28 - Getting People Involved43:34 - Lessons Learned45:23 - Code of Conducts / Community ValuesPicks Boundaries: A talk by Gary Bernhardt from SCNA 2012 (André)
The Protomen (André)
Bubblesort Zines (André)
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug (Saron)
F.lux (Saron)
Hue (Saron)
Madison Ruby Day 1 (Coraline)
Madison Ruby Day 2 (Coraline)
Survive Escape From Atlantis 30th Anniversary Edition (Coraline)
Angular Remote Conf (Chuck)
React Rally (Chuck)
Alcatraz Books by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck)Special Guest: André Arko.

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02:35 - Yorick Peterse Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Rubinius
• The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome
• libxslt

03:07 - oga

• nokogiri 

06:38 - Fixing vs Writing an Alternative Feature

• lexers 
• Parse Tree 

14:01 - Doing a Document Instead of a Programming Language16:01 - Modifying XML Documents17:19 - Inputting in Memory19:09 - Extending oga with C

• ffi 

22:44 - Parsing

• racc 
• ruby-ll 

25:16 - Resources

• LL Parser

28:57 - Lessons Learned Building oga 30:14 - Writing Parsers in Other Languages31:19 - Getting Started34:19 - Making oga and Using oga at Work35:42 - Did it make a better API?37:23 - The Community and Contribution

• Documentation

Picks AirPair (Chuck)
CAL(1) Shell Command (Jessica)
fish shell (Yorick)
asciinema (Yorick) Special Guest: Yorick Peterse.

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Don’t miss out! Sign up for Angular Remote Conf! 02:28 - Sean Griffin Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub
• thoughtbot
  • @thoughtbot

02:53 - Rails 5 Ship Estimate?03:15 - What’s Coming in Rails 5?

• actioncable
• turbolinks 3

04:13 - Approachability For New Developers

• Turing School

05:49 - Making Decisions06:46 - “Syntax”07:40 - Adding or

• Matthew Draper

09:36 - The Attributes API 12:57 - Serialization & Deserialization21:26 - Feature Proposal & Policies

• The Rails Core Mailing List
• The Rails Talk Mailing List
• Stack Overflow

22:46 - preload, eager_load, includes

• Robert Pankowecki: 3 ways to do eager loading (preloading) in Rails 3 & 4 

23:59 - prepend

• Ruby 2 - Module#prepend 

25:29 - Deconstructing/Constructing APIs

• or
• where 
• Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)
• arel 

28:27 - bound_attributes() 29:58 - Trying Ideas and Going About Development in Rails32:01 - Legacy Code

• Yehuda Katz: Keynote: 10 Years! @ RailsConf 2014

33:43 - The Migration Path From Rails 4 => 534:59 - Other Changes Outside Active Record39:19 - Performance41:09 - Trying Rails43:05 - Tests43:52 - Are the guides and documentation up-to-date? Extras

• JavaScript Jabber Episode #161: Rust with David Herman
• The Bike Shed Podcast
  • @_bikeshed
• RubyConf Portugal
• WindyCityRails
• Sean Griffin: Designing a Great Ruby API - How We're Simplifying Rails 5

 Picks Maria Matveeva: Design sprints: what are they for? (Saron)
LoneStarRuby (Saron)
Support CodeNewbie! (Saron)
Mockaroo (Coraline)
Jim Kazanjian (Coraline)
Mastermind Groups (Chuck)
Planning (Chuck)
The Rust Programming Language (Sean)Special Guest: Sean Griffin.

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Check out Angular Remote Conf and RailsClips! 03:15 - Mike Perham Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Contributed Systems
• sidekiq
• dalli

03:43 - Sidekiq Overview

• resque
• JRuby

05:18 - Job Runners vs Queuing Systems, Background Jobs

• RabbitMQ
  • sneakers

08:47 - Performance

• celluloid 

09:49 - celluloid vs Ruby Threads11:47 - The GIL (Global Interpreter Lock) 12:49 - Passing Data14:01 - Performance Boost From Using JRuby?15:48 - The Actor Model

• revactor
• Rubinius 
• girl_friday 

20:39 - Sidekiq Roadmap

• Statistics & History

21:44 - Sidekiq Enterprise 27:58 - Sidekiq vs Resque

• Scheduled-Jobs

29:50 - Adding Features to Sidekiq30:28 - “Unique Job”31:17 - Idempotency 

• Sidekiq Best Practices Page

33:12 - Mixing In Other Data Stores

• Redis
• Kafka
• Apollo 

38:42 - Encoding40:04 - Format40:36 - The Active Job Adapter 41:23 - Making Open Source Viable and Sustainable44:04 - Launching An Open Source Project

• Kickstarter
• BSD & LGPL Licences

Picks Mike Hoye: Citation Needed (David)
Code Master (Coraline)
Robot Turtles (Coraline)
Zalando STUPS (Jessica)
Elevator Saga (Chuck)
Developer On Fire: Episode 017 - Charles Max Wood - Get Involved and Try New Things (Chuck)
Model View Culture (Mike)
Plasso (Mike)
James Mickens: Not Even Close: The State of Computer Security (with slides) from NDC Conferences (Mike)Special Guest: Mike Perham.

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Check out RailsClips and Angular Remote Conf! 02:46 - Leon Gersing Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHhub 
• Blog
• Dev Bootcamp
• [Talk] Leon Gersing: Keep Software Weird 

03:24 - “Augmenting Your Reality”07:06 - Emotional Goals and Quantifying Happiness

• Hacking Happy by Dusty Phillips 

13:49 - Quantification15:32 - Reacting to Data17:49 - Recognizing Patterns and Trends

• Journaling and Meditation

21:58 - FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) 26:20 - The Software Development Mindset

• Teams Should Play More
• Encouraging Easter Eggs
• Following Trails

31:55 - The Ruby Community, Whimsy, and Creating Realities

• why's (poignant) guide to Ruby: in color by why the lucky stiff

40:41 - Leon’s Role at Dev Bootcamp 42:16 - Wisdom; Not Authority44:14 - Recommended Reading

• Aldous Huxley
  • The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
• Jean Baudrillard
  • Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)
  • America
• Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown  

Picks Dollywood's Splash Country Water Adventures Park (Avdi)
Normality (Avdi)
Jessica Kerr: Meritocracy @ PolyConf 2015 (Jessica)
Periscope (Chuck)
The Eventual Millionaire Podcast (Chuck)
Entreprogrammers Retreat 2015  (Chuck)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (Leon)
Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown (Leon)
Shel Silverstein - Freakin At The Freakers Ball (Leon)
The Circle by Dave Eggers (Leon)Special Guest: Leon Gersing.

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