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April 03, 2019MRS 084: Justin Searls
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Host: Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Justin Searls
Episode Summary
In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Justin Searls, co-founder of Test Double, a software agency which helps developers improve their quality of the software.
Listen to Justin on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode and this episode.
Justin got into programming playing with his Casio Calculator when he was 10 years old. He came up with little games such as guessing the number. Later on, he added features and soon created an ephemeral checkers game. He had no knowledge about the basics of programming and everything was self-directive.
Justin majored in Computer Science in college.However, he soon learned that Computer Science does not equal Application Development. The things taught to him by his professors were not very practical for building applications.
He had his first hands-on experience in programming when he worked at the campus library. He was asked to work on their flash base citation generator which was meant to help those who were doing research for their bibliography. Millions of people used it and its feedback led him to build web applications that could provide a free useful service to other people.
Over time, he found out that JavaScript was a good way to solve problems for people. However, he did not have a lot of autonomy over the jobs. He recalls an experience where every single Java library he wanted to pull off had to get approved by a committee.
He ended up building an earlier Ajax application which uses JavaScript for services. That was a path for him to record productivity.
To hear the rest of My Ruby Story Justin Searls, download and listen to the entire episode.
Links
JavaScript Jabber: Test Doubles with Justin Searls

JavaScript Jabber: Jasmine with Justin Searls

Justin's Twitter

test double.js (library)

SCNA

SCNA Talk - How to Scratch an Itch

Teenytest

Test Double blog archive

Social Coding Contract

Jasmine

https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/

https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv
Picks
Justin Searls:
USB-C
Charles Max Wood:
Electro-Voice RE 20

Battlestar Galactica 2003 series

Stranger Things

Arcanum Unbounded
56 min
April 02, 2019RR 406: How Hard is Ruby on Rails to Learn?
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Charles Max Wood
Nate Hopkins
David Richards
Dave Kimura
SummaryCharles Max Wood puts the question to the panel, how hard is it to learn ruby on rails? This leads them on an discussion of the evolution of ruby on rails. The simplicity of rails is a theme through their discussion of learning and teaching rails. The panel talks about the importance of collaboration and using the rails community to learn and to avoid messy architecture. The panel shares tips and resources for learning ruby on rails while discussing their mentoring experiences. The panel ends by coming back to the initial question and gives their final answers on how hard is ruby rails to learn?Links
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt
https://thinkster.io/
https://www.railstutorial.org/
http://learn-rails.com/learn-ruby-on-rails.html
https://www.facebook.com/RubyRogues
https://twitter.com/rubyrogues
PicksNate Hopkins
https://pragprog.com/book/rails5/agile-web-development-with-rails-5
Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis
David Richards
A Philosophy of Software Design 1st Edition by John Ousterhout
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers 1st Edition by Sönke Ahrens
Charles Max Wood
https://www.jamesfend.com/learned-ruby-rails-12-weeks-launch-freelancify
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini
That’s Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
Dave Kimura
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJ2R2LL/A/magic-trackpad-2-silver
https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-whiteboard/digital-whiteboard-app

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1 hr 8 min
March 27, 2019MRS 083: Stefan Wintermeyer
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Host: Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Stefan Wintermeyer
Episode Summary
In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Stefan Wintermeyer, a freelancer developer from Germany focused on Ruby on Rails, Phoenix Framework, and web performance.
Listen to Stefan on the podcast Ruby Rogues here.
Stefan got into programming when he was 8 years old. He started with Basic and Pascal and moved onto other languages. Even though he never received a formal programming education, he liked solving problems with software and was able to make money programming so he became a developer.
Currently Stefan is working on a project called vutuv which is an open-source alternative to LinkedIn. He has also written books and gives talks, ones that are well know in the Ruby community are Learn Rails 5.2: Accelerated Web Development with Ruby on Rails as well as a Cache talk he gave at RailsConf 2013.
Links
Ruby Rogues: Rails Needs Active Deployment with Stefan Wintermeyer

Stefan's Twitter

Stefan's LinkedIn

Stefan's Medium

Stefan's GitHub

Stefan's Talk

vutuv

vutuv GitHub

Stefan's Book

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https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv
Picks
Stefan Wintermeyer:
Darknet Diaries
Charles Max Wood:
Podcast - Gary Vaynerchuk

MFCEO Project Podcast

Girl In Space Podcast

Audio Drama Podcasts

JBL Charge 4
39 min
March 26, 2019RR 405: Rubymotion with Lori Olson
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Nate Hopkins
Dave Kimura
Andrew Mason
Charles Max Wood
Joined by Special Guest: Lori OlsonSummaryLori Olson introduces herself, her school and ruby motion. Lori invites all to come to her webinar introducing her “six steps from idea to app store”. The panel discusses their rubymotion experiences and issues; which Lori advises on gems that will help. Lori shares her introduction to ruby and the story of writing her book.The evolution of rubymotion is shared leading the panel to discuss dragon ruby, the rebranding of rubymotion, which will be open sourced. Lori discusses her views of open sourcing and talks about her experiences in the rubymotion community; Amir Rajan, the owner of rubymotion, and his role and success in rubymotion are discussed. The panel considers flows potential and discusses the best way to develop for IOS and android. Links
https://wndxschool.easywebinar.live/registration
http://www.rubymotion.com/news/2019/03/01/the-sleeping-dragon-has-awoken.html
https://github.com/infinitered/redpotion
http://rubymotionquery.com
https://wndx.school/p/rubymotion-jumpstart
https://github.com/rubymotion/BubbleWrap
https://rubymotionweekly.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/aovm41/a_renaissance_for_ruby_rubymotion_will_be/
http://macruby.org/
https://github.com/amirrajan/rubymotion-templates
https://github.com/infinitered/bluepotion
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/wimby/id1147353955?mt=8
https://wimby.ca
https://wndx.school/p/6-pack-apps
https://coredatainmotion.com/
https://motioneers.herokuapp.com
https://devchat.tv/iphreaks/161-ips-successful-indie-ios-game-development-with-amir-rajan/
https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/272-rr-game-development-and-rubymotion-with-amir-rajan/
https://www.twitch.tv/amirrajan
https://kotlinlang.org/
https://devchat.tv/iphreaks/172-ips-kotlin-vs-swift-with-andrew-rahn/
Picks Nate Hopkins
https://www.focusatwill.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psych
Dave Kimura
https://nucleoapp.com/
https://calendly.com
Andrew Mason
https://www.codewithjason.com/rails-testing-book/
https://twitter.com/josh_cheek
Charles Max Wood
www.vrbo.com
www.audible.com
Lori Olson
https://alteregoeffect.com
https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/
Special Guest: Lori Olson.

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1 hr 7 min
March 21, 2019RR 397: Oracle with Karthik Gaekwad
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Eric Berry
Andrew Mason
Special Guest: Karthik Gaekwad Episode Summary In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists speak with Karthik Gaekwad, who helped build the Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The panelists discuss the naming of Ruby as the Server-Side Programming Language of the Year in 2018, beating out PHP and Java. Karthik talks about incorporating Ruby into Oracle. His team uses Ruby in both development and operations, and having a common language has increased their efficiency. The panelists discuss the shift from constant servers to more volatile servers that can make provisions on the fly. Karthik explains the benefits of using Oracle Cloud Native over other services. Oracle places a lot of emphasis on helping startups by giving them more computing power than other companies. Karthik talks about the merits of using Kubernetes in testing and production, and encourages those interested in using Kubernetes to jump in and start learning about it. For startups that want to use Kubernetes but lack a specialist, Karthik suggests letting a cloud service (like Oracle) manage the servers. Finally, Karthik tells listeners how to get started using Oracle Cloud, namely:
Go to cloud.oracle.com
Click the green “Try For Free” button to create your account
Go into the Oracle Cloud Console and start exploring
People who sign up get $300 in free credits
Links:
Kubernetes
Oracle Cloud Native
Capistrano
Chef
Puppet
Hiroku
Oracle Functions
CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation)
Picks Andrew:
Archipelago
Eric:
Desk Mini Fridge
Asynci (in beta)
David:
Presonus Studio channel amplifier
Karthik:
Visual Studio Code
Cloudnative.oracle.com
Karthik’s team blog
Special Guest: Karthik Gaekwad.

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45 min
March 20, 2019MRS 082: Sebastian Sogamoso
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Host: Charles Max Wood
Guest: Sebastian Sogamoso
Episode Summary
In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Sebastian Sogamoso, a software developer from Colombia. Sebastian now lives in Panama City and works for CookPad. Listen to Sebastian on the Ruby Rogues podcast here.
Sebastian first started coding in high school with Pascal. Upon graduating with a Systems Engineering degree from National University of Colombia, he continued developing in Ruby.js.
Sebastian will be a track director in RailsConf2019 which will take place in Minneapolis at the end of April. He is also on the organizing team for RubyConf Colombia scheduled to take place in Colombia in September 2019.
Links
RR 349: The Overnight Failure with Sebastian Sogamoso

Sebastian's Website

https://medium.com/@sebasoga

Sebastian's Twitter

Sebastian’s GitHub

http://railsgirls.com/

https://www.railsconf.com/

CookPad

https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/

https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv
Picks
Sebastian Sogamoso:
Paper app: https://paper.bywetransfer.com/

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

RubyConf Colombia : http://www.rubyconf.co
Charles Max Wood:
Code BEAM SF 2019

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
29 min
March 19, 2019RR 404: Ruby Bindings & Extensions With FFI with Sean Handley
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Joined by Special Guest: Sean HandleySummarySean Handley explains in detail ruby bindings and FFI and why they might be useful. The panel discusses the advantages of using a ruby binding, such as speed and opening up access to other projects. Sean Handley and Dave Kimura give advice on organizing code, to make it easier to use the FFI library. Sean Handley talks about his experience using FFI and native extension. The discussion switches gears and talks about Sean Handley’s blog post about hexagons and 3D space. The panel discusses how this math is used in services like Uber. Sean Handley brings up that hexagons are seen in nature and shares the beehive example. The discussion ends with Sean Handley answering a few more questions about FFI and Fiddle.Links
https://github.com/uber/h3
https://nokogiri.org/
Behind the Curve
https://github.com/seanhandley
https://twitter.com/code_sean
https://medium.com/@sean.handley
https://medium.com/stuart-engineering
https://www.facebook.com/RubyRogues
https://twitter.com/rubyrogues
PicksAndrew Mason
http://strftimer.com/
Sean Handley
https://vasyop.github.io/miniC-hosting/
Dave Kimura
https://www.foragoodstrftime.com/
https://microk8s.io/
Special Guest: Sean Handley.

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51 min
March 13, 2019MRS 081: Genadi Samokovarov
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Host: Charles Max Wood
Guest: Genadi Samokovarov
Episode Summary
In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles chats with Genadi Samokovarov, a software developer who loves using Ruby.
Genadi has also been a guest on the podcast Ruby Rogues, you can listen to it here.
Genadi was born in Bulgaria and grew up playing video games. During his high school years he was the “go-to guy” for computers in his neighborhood. In his university years he got interested in Python and afterwards in Ruby.
He then applied for Google Summer of Code and continued developing his coding skills there. He is now working for the company Receipt Bank. Genadi is also on the organizing team for the Balkan Ruby Conference which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria in May 2019.
Links
RR 386: Web Console Internals with Genadi Samokovarov

http://gsamokovarov.com/

https://libraries.io/github/gsamokovarov

https://twitter.com/gsamokovarov/

https://github.com/gsamokovarov

https://www.meetup.com/Ruby-Banitsa/members/

https://rubyconferences.org/

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

https://github.com/rails/web-console

https://github.com/gsamokovarov/jump

https://balkanruby.com/

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
Picks
Genadi Samokovarov:
AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee
Charles Max Wood:
https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sf-2019/

City of San Francisco
39 min
March 12, 2019RR 403: Rails Needs Active Deployment with Stefan Wintermeyer
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Panel:
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Dave Kimura
Andrew Mason
Joined by Special Guest: Stefan WintermeyerEpisode summaryStefan Wintermeyer, a german consultant, discusses his recent blog post “Rails needs Active Deployment”. He goes on to explain that this isn’t meant for rails deployment “rockstars” or Heroku, this is for normal developers who need an easier way to deploy their rails applications. Stefan Wintermeyer addresses the suggestions of using Docker. This begins a discussion of the different services that can be used and the disconnects found in many of them. Stefan Wintermeyer brings up the unfortunate truth of how many new developers give up because of the difficulty of the last step in rails. The panel discusses the difficulty of finding a perfect fit for all applications and share the different solutions they’ve tried in many services. This sparks a lively discussion on what a community wide solution might look like and what that might entail.Links
https://phusionpassenger.com/library/deploy/apache/deploy/ruby/
https://nanobox.io
https://cloud66.com
https://www.hatchbox.io
https://github.com/tongueroo/jack
https://www.wintermeyer-consulting.de
https://twitter.com/wintermeyer
www.facebook.com/RubyRogues
www.twitter.com/rubyrogues
PicksEric Berry:
https://www.intercom.com/
Dave Kimura:
https://probot.github.io/
Andrew Mason:
http://jack-eb.com
Special Guest: Stefan Wintermeyer.

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55 min
March 06, 2019MRS 080: Josh Justice
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Host: Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Josh Justice
Episode Summary
In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Josh Justice, software engineer at Big Nerd Ranch, a Mobile app development, training and design firm.
Listen to Josh on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode.
Josh wanted to be a software developer ever since he was very young, his father worked in IT so he had access to computers from very early on. After studying computer science, he started working as a developer in JavaScript, PHP and in Ruby. His specialties include Ruby on Rails, Ember, Vue.js and React Native. Josh really enjoys content creation for other developers and is currently streaming React Native TDD Fridays 2pm EST at Twitch.tv.
Josh and his family recently adopted a baby boy in addition to his two daughters. Listen to the podcast to hear more about this miraculous adoption story!
Links
Ruby Rogues 391: Frontend Testing Like a Rubyist with Josh Justice

React Native Testing feat. Josh Justice of Big Nerd Ranch

Josh’s Twitter

Josh’s GitHub

Josh’s LinkedIn

Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial

Josh's Blog

Learn Test-Driven Development

Object Oriented and Functional Programming Blog Post

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https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/

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Picks
Josh Justice:
Webpacker

Object Thinking

Learn Test-Driven Development

Ember and Rails Live Stream
Charles Max Wood:
The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
44 min

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