Ruby Rogues

By Charles M WoodBusiness Technology Education How To Careers

Ruby Rogues episodes

February 20, 2018RR 350: Episode 350 Celebration!
Panel: Charles Max WoodDave KimuraDavid Richards Special Guests: NoneIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses where they are right now and what their day to day looks like. Dave is with Sage Software and continues to push himself so that he will always be learning and progressing. He has three kids currently and he tries to have a good work-life balance so that he can separate both of his worlds. David is currently at a Fintech company where he is on the core team and does the data science. He also writes a lot and explores his creativity through that. Charles finds himself working a lot on the podcasts and has to schedule time to code. He works from home and therefore gets to spend a good amount of time with his family. The panel also talks about the importance of family, the need to challenge yourself, and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
Where are you now?
Sage Software
Stimulus and JavaScript Frameworks
Drift and Ruby
Python, Ruby, and Elixir
CSS
Zapier
The importance of family
Learning new languages
Expanding your horizons
Python vs Ruby
New show ideas
Working outside Ruby and your comfort zones
Machine Learning
Using Ruby knowledge to solve problems elsewhere
What projects are you working on right now?
And much, much more!
Links:
Linode
Sage Software
Zapier
Interview Cake
FreshBooks

Picks:Charles
Mormon Sunday School Podcast
Having tough conversations
Kim Crayton
Dave
iMac Pro
Micro Center

David
Space E Python Library
Prodigy

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1 hr 16 min
February 14, 2018MRS 031: Jeremy Evans
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.
In particular, We dive pretty deep on:
How did you first get introduced into programming?

Roda and Sequel

Rails and Sinatra

C++

Java Outlets

Static sites to PHP

Python

How did you get into Ruby?

Ruby was more enjoyable to use

Over time, how has your view on code and Ruby changed?

Avoid aliases

Automated tests

Took over Sequel

Open-Source projects

Sinatra is not as good with good cases, Roda is better

What’s it like to create a framework?

Cuba

Plug in system

Extendable and over-ridable framework in Roda and Sequel

Rodauth

eRuby

Currently working on changes to Ruby itself

Do you have any advice for people wanting to get into Open-Source?

And much, much more!
Links:
FreshBooks

Roda

Sequel

Rodauth

@JeremyEvans0

Jeremy’s GitHub

Linode
Picks:
Jeremy
The Trails Series

OpenBSD

Charles
GlassDoor.com

LinkedIn

MeetUp.com

GetaCoderJob.com
34 min
February 13, 2018RR 349: The Overnight Failure with Sebastian Sogamoso
Panel: Charles Max WoodEric BerryDave KimuraDavid Richards Special Guests: Sebastian SogamosoIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses failures with Sebastian Sogamoso. Sebastian is a software developer of 6 years, and working with Ruby for the last 5 years, and before worked with Java and PHP. He is currently living in Panama City, but grew up in Colombia. He now works for CookPad and organizes a Ruby conference in Colombia. Sebastian stresses the fact that everyone fails no matter what, and if you take responsibility and learn from your failures, you can more on to become a better programmer and developer because of it.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
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!
Links:
Linode
CookPad
Interview Cake
FreshBooks
SebaSoga.com
@SebaSoga
Sebastian’s GitHub
SourceDiving.com

Picks:Charles
Craigslist
eBay
Classified Sites for Non-Running Vehicles
Eric
Django
Cats
Dave
Costco Glasses
David
The Knowledge Worker by Peter Drucker
A Different View of Mindfulness by Zat Rana

Sebastian
Headspace App
You Need a Budget App
1Blocker App
Special Guest: Sebastian Sogamoso.

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1 hr 7 min
February 08, 2018MRS 030: Cameron Dutro
Panel:
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.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
How did you get introduced to programming?

At the age of 4, Cameron was fascinated with computers and games

In elementary started writing games with Basic and Visual Basic 6

Wrote a prank program

In high school moved to C# and.Net

Windows and PC

Got a computer science degree

Work at Flutter and Twitter

Then joined Lumosity

2011 - Twitter as a startup

Ruby Projects

Ruby Gem - Arrow Helpers

Turbo Sprocket Rails 4

Games at Lumosity

What are you working on these days?

Password and Login app

Pron PDF - TTFunk

Masters in Computer Science in the works

Should I get a degree? Advantages? - NO

Getting a job in tech?

When you might need a degree - AI, Machine Learning

and much, much more!
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/camerondutro

https://github.com/camertron

http://camerondutro.com

@camertron

https://www.lumosity.com

https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/267-rr-internationalization-with-cameron-dutro

Platform Engineer and Dev Ops Opening at Lumosity!
Picks
Cameron
The Far Side Comic Strips

The Fox Trot

Sunday Comics

Amazon Lightsail

Mental Health - Preventing Burnout
Charles
Recording interviews with speakers at conferences

Sponsorship for conferences

Video Recording Kit

Zoom H6
40 min
February 06, 2018RR 348: Continuous Automation - Chef, InSpec, and Habitat with Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Panel:Dave KimuraEric BerryDavid RichardsSpecial Guest: Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-HarringtonIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues panelist speak with Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-Harrington. Nell is the Senior Software Development Engineer at Chef, the CTO at Operation Code. Nathen is the VP Community at Chef. The topic of discussion is about Chef. Chef is a platform that enables teams to collaborate, share, and automate everything.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
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.
Links:
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
Picks:David
Zat Rana -https://medium.com/personal-growth/how-ernest-hemingway-became-an-overnight-success-3277b482c39c
Eric
Operation Code
Code Sponsor is Back!
Dave
Kreg Pocket Jig
Chuck
AirPods
Nell
Blue Pearl Animal Clinic
Darkest Hour
Nathen
Dev Ops Days
ChefConf.com
The Food Fight Show Podcast
Special Guests: Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-Harrington.

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1 hr 2 min
February 01, 2018MRS 029: Sudhindra Rao
Panel:
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
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
How did you get introduced to programming?

Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering

Operating Systems

Debugging form memory

How did you get back to working in Ruby?

Application Programming

Thought Works

What have you done with Ruby that you are proud of?

Providing solution and building apps

What is it about building apps that appeal to you?

What are you working on now?

Problems in data

Machine Learning and Data Science is done with Python

and much, much more!
Links:
https://github.com/sudhindrarao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1UD9ZI_gwg

https://medium.com/@sudheendrarao66

@suhindrarao
Picks
Sudhindra
Release It

Remote

React Tool Chain

Runaway Species

BBC Earth

Eggless Apple Carrot Cake
Charles
Sling TV

Roku Express
30 min
January 30, 2018RR 347: There's Nothing New Under the Sun with Justin Searls and Josh Greenwood
Panel:Dave KimuraEric BerryDavid RichardsSpecial Guest: Justin Searls and Josh GreenwoodIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues speaks with Justin Searls and Josh Greenwood. Justin and Josh both work for a software agency called Test Double, who are a fully remote software agency. Both Josh and Justin are well versed in many technologies and platforms of development such as Ruby, Javascript and much more. Both Justin and Josh are on the show to talks about their recent presentation “There's Nothing New Under the Sun,” which was presented at conferences.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
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.
Links:
https://github.com/searls
http://testdouble.com
@searls
@joshtgreenwood
Picks:David
Gilmore Girls
Programming Language - Julia
Eric
Orville
BoJack Horseman
Dave
A Good Snowman is hard to build
Dos Strap
Justin
Ruby Warrior
SkyrimVR
Osaka
Josh
Elm
Space Max text editor
Mini Metro
Special Guests: Josh Greenwood and Justin Searls.

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1 hr 8 min
January 24, 2018MRS 028: Reuven Lerner
Panel:
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.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
How did you get introduced to programming?

Atari game console and programming cartridge

Programming class at computer store at the age of 8

Discover programming in college

Educational background from Bachelors to PhD

Education and education in programming

Being a little better than the rest

Consulting

Time Warner

How did you get into Ruby? Thesis

What have you done with Ruby

Book Buy Back program

Dissertation

What are you working on now? Training, coursed and products

Weekly Python exercise

Ruby on Rails, Big Data,…Etc.

Python talk

and much, much more!
Links:
https://lerner.co.il

http://blog.lerner.co.il

Ruby Rouges Episode 260

[email protected]

@revuemlerner
Picks
Reuven
Better Developer Newsletter

Trainer Weekly

Weapons of Math Destruction
Charles
CES Videos for Product Lines at DEV Chat TV Youtube Channel

Primo

Merge Cube

Crazies Babies
39 min
January 23, 2018RR 346: Ruby Debuggers with Daniel Azuma
Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraBrian HoganEric BerrySpecial Guest: Daniel AzumaIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues speaks with Daniel Azuma, Daniel is has being a “Rubyist", and has been developing for over 20 years, and currently works at Google apart of the Cloud team with programming language support specialist. Daniel leads the Ruby and Elixir team at Google.Daniel is on the show to discuss Ruby debuggers with the Ruby Rogues panel. Topics cover ruby support, cloud debugger, projects, processes for debuggers and much more. This is a great episode to understand more about Ruby debuggers and processes.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
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.
Links:
http://daniel-azuma.com/
http://daniel-azuma.com/articles/talks/rubyconf-2017
debugger product
App Engine
RailsConf 2012 talk
RailsConf 2013 talk
rgeo
Picks:Brian
Docker
Monodraw
Typora
Eric
The Punisher
Dave
Kitematic
Thomas and Friends Mini app
Chuck
Business on Purpose
Kent C. Dobbs

Daniel
Docker
Music Animation Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAWSonBN3Pk
Special Guest: Daniel Azuma.

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1 hr 5 min
January 17, 2018MRS 027: Thom Parkin
Panel:
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
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
How did you get introduced to programming?

Old computers

Cobalt

Compuserve

AOL

When the internet was young

Learning Ruby

Learning Sinatra

Site Point

Git

Git Cheatsheet

Remote work on Rail Project - for Non-Profit

Vim

A Ruby method a day

Software development, Cyber Security, etc

Comparison to board games

Ghost in the Wires

Hacking

and much, much more!
Links:
http://ParaHacker.com

https://github.com/ParkinT

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomparkin

https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/245-rr-the-charles-max-wood-interview-with-thom-parkin

Git

wishfulthinking.com
Picks
Thom
evernote.com

Uppercase Box

Business Spew
Charles
Take some time to spend with family

Learn about your family background

Set up a board game group
48 min

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