Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Jeremy Evans

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Jeremy Evans. Jeremy has been programming Ruby since 2004, and is best known for working on Roda and Sequel. He talks about his journey into programming, starting when he was in college and took an introduction to programming class that focused on C++, which he found interesting and then took the next courses in the series. This was just the beginning for his programming journey, though. Jeremy continues to talk about his present and future endeavors and how he is adding value to the Ruby community.

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• Ruby, Java, and PHP
• Failure stories
• Personal failure stories in software projects
• Public failure stories in technology companies
• Failure from a personal perspective
• I am the worst developer ever?
• Will I get fired?
• Will this ever be over?
• Getting peer support
• Will I have to carry with the weight of this failure for my entire career?
• Taking time off to decompress
• Failure from a company perspective
• The customer support side
• The Public Relationships side
• The engineering side
• Blameless postmortems (don’t do guilt blame)
• Root cause analysis
• Fix the code, but most importantly the processes
• Gaining confidence back
• Mental health
• Why sharing our failures can help
• Impostor syndrome
• And much, much more!

• Linode
• CookPad
• Interview Cake
• FreshBooks
• SebaSoga.com
• @SebaSoga
• Sebastian’s GitHub
• SourceDiving.com
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• Craigslist
• eBay
• Classified Sites for Non-Running Vehicles

• Django
• Cats

• Costco Glasses

• The Knowledge Worker by Peter Drucker
• A Different View of Mindfulness by Zat Rana
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• Headspace App
• You Need a Budget App
• 1Blocker App

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Charles Max Wood

Guest: Cameron Dutro

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Cameron Dutro. Cameron is a return guest from Ruby Rogues. Currently, Cameron works at Lumosity, a company that creates brain games & brain training application for web and mobile.  Cameron mention working on the platform team working with internationalization.

Cameron talks about his journey into programming, starting at the age of 4 and being fascinated an IBM 85XT computer and flight simulator games. Cameron describes is early interactions with programming in elementary and high school. Then moving into a professional field after college at Twitter and eventually at Lumosity. Cameron talks about his next projects and his contributions to the Ruby community.

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• What is Dev Ops? A cultural and professional movement, focused on how we build and operate high-velocity organizations, born from the experiences of its practitioners.
• Chef Automate - the platform that enables teams to collaborate, share, and automate everything.
• Cultural and Professional
• Continuous Automation - Chef, InSpec, Habitat
• 3 Main Focuses: Infrastructure Automation, Compliance Automation, Application Automation
• Instanbul, AWS Cloud, Etc.
• AWS Bean Stalk
• Chef works best at “Massive Scale”
• Where Chef shines!
• Tests
• More on compliance
• InSpec
• Things to do at the minimum?
• Talks about issues with infrastructure issues at Knight Capital
• Habitat - Application Automation, Build, deploy, run any application, anywhere.
• If you hate Dev Ops?
• Chef Community - Slack
• The best way to learn about each of these - https://learn.chef.io/#/
• and much much more.

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathen
• Chef - Infrastructure Automation, Infrastructure as Code - https://www.chef.io/chef/
• InSpec - Compliance Automation, testing framework for infrastructure - https://www.inspec.io/
• In-browser tutorial - https://www.inspec.io/tutorial
• https://www.habitat.sh/  Tutorials - https://www.habitat.sh/learn/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/nellshamrell
• https://blog.chef.io/author/nshamrell/
• @NellShamrell
• @NathenHarvey

• Zat Rana -https://medium.com/personal-growth/how-ernest-hemingway-became-an-overnight-success-3277b482c39c

• Operation Code 
• Code Sponsor is Back!

• Kreg Pocket Jig

• AirPods 

• Blue Pearl Animal Clinic
• Darkest Hour

• Dev Ops Days 
• ChefConf.com
• The Food Fight Show Podcast

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Charles Max Wood

Guest: Sudhindra Rao

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Sudhindra Rao, Sudhindra has been a Ruby developer for over 10 years. Sudhindra talks about working on media platforms, e-commerce type sights, campaign platforms, and healthcare applications. Sudhindra talks about working in Ruby still but has moved into many platforms and technologies.

Sudhindra talks about his journey into programming, starting with electrical engineering, control systems, and has a Masters degree in Control System, switch interest him into learning more about how the software is created and functioning. Sudhindra talks about learning more about operating systems and digging deeper into the guts of software. Sudhindra talks about his next project and his contributions to the Ruby community

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• History and the knowledge of the community
• Abandoning Gems
• Exploratory
• The rise of Rails
• How much of what you do is in Ruby and Rails?
• New contracts - How long do they last?
• Secrets to onboard members or developers?
• Overwhelmed with projects?
• Where do you see Ruby in the next few years?
• Slowing of processors - intel
• Working with other languages, then into Ruby
• Jim!
• Our industry’s obsession at placing novelty/newness above deeper truths and wisdoms. Once the shine has worn off we tend to ignore it, and even the timeline-style most information consumption software is designed with goes out of its way to bury anything “old”
• What important context new Ruby developers tend to lack (this was the motivation for the talk in the first place) and what can we do to make them more comfortable & capable
• Straight up nostalgia time. Folks who’ve been in Ruby for a while should find motivation and encouragement by celebrating our past more often to remind ourselves of why we love Ruby
• and much much more.

• https://github.com/searls
• http://testdouble.com
• @searls
• @joshtgreenwood

• Gilmore Girls 
• Programming Language  - Julia

• Orville 
• BoJack Horseman 

• A Good Snowman is hard to build 
• Dos Strap

• Ruby Warrior
• SkyrimVR
• Osaka

• Elm
• Space Max text editor
• Mini Metro

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Charles Max Wood

Guest: Reuven Lerner

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Reuven Lerner,  Reuven was a guest on Ruby Rouges Episode 260 and is a regular panelist on The Freelancer Show on the Dev Chat TV network. Reuven talks about his background in Ruby development, from programming on an Atari to discovering computer science in his college years. Reuven mentions getting a bachelors in programming and eventually getting a Ph.D. in education/learning sciences. Reuven talks about doing consulting and his entrepreneurial journey as a programmer. Lastly, Reuven shares his contributions with Ruby and current training projects.

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• Ruby Support
• Cloud Debugger
• First debugger project
• Talks about debugging
• Why do you use a debugger in the first place?
• Figuring out info and where to started  - processes to start
• Rapid round trips
• Pry
• Second debugger,
• Snapshots of program state
• Byte Code
• Is this only available on the Google cloud platform
• Similar products?
• Stack driver gems
• Google cloud debugger gem
• Standard rails application?
• Does the debugger take snapshots of the issue?
• Debugger agents
• If you could do it about what would you tell yourself?
• What are the lessons of writing a Ruby Debugger?
• If someone wants to put a Ruby app on App engine how do they do that?
• and much much more.

• http://daniel-azuma.com/
• http://daniel-azuma.com/articles/talks/rubyconf-2017
• debugger product
• App Engine
• RailsConf 2012 talk
• RailsConf 2013 talk
• rgeo

• Docker
• Monodraw
• Typora

• The Punisher

• Kitematic
• Thomas and Friends Mini app

• Business on Purpose 
• Kent C. Dobbs
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• Docker
• Music Animation Machine 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAWSonBN3Pk

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Charles Max Wood

Guest: Thom Parkin

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Thom Parkin, Thom is a return guest and interviewer on Ruby Rogues Episode 245. Thom describes the early days in his career of programming, starting with mechanical computing devices and early computers. Thom talks about working with Cobalt and other early technologies. Thom talks about his journey in programming and the developing world. As well as his contributions to the Ruby community throughout his career

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• Holiday and emergency deployment
• Staff availability is the biggest problem during that holidays
• Coming in on holidays
• "The Server is Down email”
• Adapting and avoiding the email
• Crashes - stories
• Redundant storage array
• Disaster recovery
• Having a plan
• Communication
• Having the team in-place
• Dealing with management and giving updates
• Covering things during holidays
• Documentations
• Deployment
• Running tests, CI Code
• Guard
• Continuous deployment
• Rolling back
• Database
• Debugging
• Irreversible migration
• Risk assessment
• Mistakes happen
• and much much more.

• https://www.bigbinary.com
• https://blog.bigbinary.com
• @bigbinary

• Threat Models
• Human Heart, Cosmic Heart 

• Electro Voice RE20
• Rails Active Storage

• Eternium
• Atari - Sega Games
• Smoker
• Instant Pot

• 2.5 Ruby