Ruby Rogues

By Charles M WoodBusiness Technology Education How To Careers

Ruby Rogues episodes

January 16, 2018RR 345: App Failure Emergencies and Holidays
Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraDavid RichardsSpecial Guest: Amit ChoudaryIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues speaks with Amit Choudary, Amit is based in India as a Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Javascript, and Fullstack Developer. Amit is working with a company called Big Binary. Big Binary builds web apps and a variety of mobile applications. Amit mentions his informative blog on Ruby 2.5 at blog at Big Binary.Amit and the panel discuss app failure emergencies and holidays. Importantly this episode is about how holidays affect the schedules, staff, and emergency deploying apps or repairing crashes and servers. This is a great episode to learn about strategies to recover from crashes, emergencies, and disaster recovery,In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
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.
Links:
https://www.bigbinary.com
https://blog.bigbinary.com
@bigbinary
Picks:David
Threat Models
Human Heart, Cosmic Heart
Dave
Electro Voice RE20
Rails Active Storage
Chuck
Eternium
Atari - Sega Games
Smoker
Instant Pot
Amit
2.5 Ruby
Special Guest: Amit Choudary.

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1 hr 5 min
January 11, 2018MRS 026: Michael DiBernardo
Panel:
Charles Max Wood
Guest: Michael DiBernardo
This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Michael DiBernardo. Michael is a return guest, previously on Ruby Rogues Episode 256. Micheal talks about his journey into programming via building a PC with an uncle and learning about programming games. Micheal mentions teaching programming at a university and learned that most students interests in programming began with gaming. Micheal continues to talks about the many different paths in his development career, including teaching and going back to college to learn other programming languages.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
How did you get introduced to programming?

Games

Flags, bit flip.

Building complex games

Gaming

Web Development

Mindset to approaching problems with gaming

Have you worked in Rudy extensively

How do you wind up picking a language?

C++

When back to College to learn other languages

Communities and languages

What do you like about the communities you’ve been in?

Going to events - new and old Microsoft

What are you doing with Python these days?

VIP of Engineering

Book writing for 2018

When started this project, how do you approach it?

and much, much more!
Links:
https://twitter.com/mdibernardo

http://mikedebo.ca

https://github.com/MichaelDiBernardo

https://www.waveapps.com/payments/

@mdbernardo
Picks
Micheal
Wardly Maps

Poetry
Charles
CES

E Myth Revisited

zappier.com
45 min
January 09, 2018RR 344: What Are You Working On?
Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraDavid RichardsBrian HoganEric BerryIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues panel discuss things they are playing with or working on now. Much of the discussion covers technologies in Rails and Ruby, Rails. 5.2 beta, React, Sprinkles, redux, and more details with these technologies. Each of the Ruby Rogues members comment on their workflows and personal applications for apps and web applications. Also, how playing with things or technologies, helps build your skills and development.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
What are the things you have been playing with? Rails, Ruby, React
React, react components
JS Sprinkles
Tubo Links
Hybrid Apps
Using Angular and React
Why do I thing that way I do?
Comments of DHH
Rails is the Swiss Army Knife
Stimulus
Playing with things helps your development
Environments and Rails
Using Elm
File transfer
Pragmatic Studios - free videos
Podcasting Applications
Understanding how people work.
Docker
Practical Docker
And much much more
Links:
Docker
Pragmatic Studios

Picks:Dave
rubyonrails.link
Cure Coin
David
Article - How Brands Turn Trolling into a Marketing Strategy

Eric
XBox - Call of Duty
iPad Case
Charles
New Shows - React, View and Elixir Indiegogo
Avengers Infinity
Docker
Brian
Korg Gadget
Pragmatic Studios

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54 min
January 05, 2018MRS 025: Tyler Renelle
Panel:
Charles Max Wood
Guest: Tyler Renelle
This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Tyler Renelle. Tyler is a contractor and developer who has worked in many web technologies like Angular, Rails, React and much more! Tyler is a return guest, previously on Adventure in Angular and JavaScript Jabber talking Ionic and Machine learning.
Tyler has recently expanded his work beyond JavaScript and is on the show to talk his interest in AI or Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning. Furthermore, Tyler talks about his early journey as a game developer, web developer, and work with some content management systems, and more recently, his development in various technologies.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
Writing games out of college, studies computer science.

Did web development to pay for college working with PHP and ASP

Content managements

Working with various technologies

Working with React, is this it?

Problems React has solved with web apps

What is the next big innovation?

View

Creating Podcasts

Machine Learning

Specialized application of AI

NLP

Never use his computer science degree as a web developer

You don’t study code to be a developer

AI and machine learn is based on Computer Science

Tensor Flow

Data Skeptic - podcast

Performance

Graphics cards

Philosophy of Consciousness

The subjective experience

Job displacement phenomenon

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

http://ocdevel.com/podcasts/machine-learning

Tensor Flow

Data Skeptic - podcast

https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/jsj-278-machine-learning-tyler-renelle

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lefnire
Picks
Tyler
The Great Courses
Charles
CES

Email beforehand and setup an appointment

VRBO.com

Autonomous.ai
48 min
January 04, 2018RR 343: Ruby 2.5 with Jesus Castello
Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraDavid RichardsEric BerryIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues panel discuss Ruby 2.5 with Jesus Castello. Jesus has been a developer for several years, and has learned Ruby 6 years ago and is now teaching Ruby. Jesus is on Ruby Rogues to talk about Ruby 2.5 and performance improvements and performance documentation. Also, Jesus talks about the everything Ruby 2.5 and the next editions for the language.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
Improvements and documentation
Changes to the library
RVM - Is Great
System Ruby
What feels most natural working with
Preventing SkyNet!
Language changes
Top-level constant lookup is removed.
Rescue/else/ensure are allowed inside do/end blocks.
Refinements take place in string interpolations.
New methods like Kernel#yield_self (Discuss possible uses)
Removed “ubygems.rb” file from stdlib. (We can talk about why this file existed & why it has been removed.)
Elixir and writing code fast
Ruby performance (Why do so many people complain about it, is it really a limiting factor for them? Would people be happy if it got 3 times faster? Ruby 3x3 project)
And much much more
Links:
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v2_5_0_preview1/NEWS
https://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2017/10/10-new-features-in-ruby-2-5/
http://www.rubyguides.com/2017/11/ruby-2-5-performance/
http://www.rubyguides.com
@matugm

Picks:Dave
Video JS
Cure Coin
David
These is nothing new under the sun
Eric
White Board Tests
Charles
New Shows - React, View and Elixir Indiegogo
React Dev Summit
DevChat.tv/events
Jesus
Ruby Gems - Table Print
Rails ERV
Ruby Guides
Special Guest: Jesus Castello.

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57 min
December 27, 2017RR 342 Rails, Development, and More with David Heinemeier Hansson
Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraDavid RichardsEric BerryIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues panel discuss Rails, Development, and More with David Heinemeier Hansson. David is the creator of Ruby on Rails, the founder and CTO of Basecamp, and the hosts of The ReWork Podcast. David Answers a number of questions form the panel about the front-end on Rails, Turbo Link, Stimulus, How does this differ, cheaper labor, better hardware, and much more. This is a great episode to understand the background of Ruby on Rails, Basecamps, and things to come with Ruby.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
The new book The Com Company
Where are we going with the front-end on Rails?
Turbo Links
Stimulus
Redux Application
Productivity
Do you Stimulus providing enough?
How does this differ from new things coming out?
Ruby on Rails will not last…
Toolkits
Cheaper hardware
Basecamp
Higher cost of programmers
The Frontier
C in Java
Why don’t you hire senior experience?
Experience and career path
Remote Work
Paying developers enough
Competitive pay
Switching jobs and values
What is your vision of where Active Storage is going?
Cloud Storage
Action Cable
What are your thoughts on bitcoin?
Train wrecks and it will end badly
How about BlockChain and the web?
What is your daily driver? Cars? Watches?
Porche 911
Celebrating technological heritage
What is in tech that you are liking?
VR
And much much more
Links:
http://david.heinemeierhansson.com
https://twitter.com/internetofshit?lang=en
The ReWork Podcast
@dhh
Picks:Dave
Minio
David
co2meter.com
Sensor Push
The Meditations
Eric
Secret of Luck
Post - Funding open source
Charles
Carrier Wave
Git Lab
Special Guest: David Heinemeier Hansson.

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1 hr 33 min
December 22, 2017RR 341: Standards vs Reality
Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraDavid RichardsIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues panel discuss Standard vs Reality. The panel discusses how realistic it is to expect standards. Charles, Dave and David cover topics on the appearance of code, the family of origin, conforming when working with a team, community projects, company repos, challenging old standards, and much more concerning how workflows are performed today. This is a great episode for developers to learn to ask if there is a better or time efficient way to do things.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
The reality of standards - Does it work and make money?
The appearance of code - the family of origin
Working with a team and maintaining standards
Community standards
Company standards and repos
Who is the boss in project
Challenging old standard as technology updates
Overhead
Standards are a stand-in for I don’t have to think about it.
Reality Check?
Search Kick
Validation
Code growing
Lines of Code
Rubocop
Building standard on your own projects
Writing code that works, but not beautiful
How quickly can you get it done
Maximizing the individual
Being open to criticism
And much much more!
Picks:Dave
https://sentry.io/welcome/
David
Spy’s Guide to Strategy
Charles
UpWork.com
PipeDrive.com
The Way of Kings - books
Getting a second opinion

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1 hr 6 min
December 12, 2017RR 340: Strings and Encodings in Ruby with Aaron Lasseigne
Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraEric BerryDavid RichardsIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues panel discuss Strings and Encodings in Ruby with Aaron Lasseigne. Aaron has been a Ruby developer for over a decade and is the author of Mastering Ruby: Strings and Encodings. Also, Aaron talks about his recent work on a service object Gem called Active Interaction. This is a great episode on learning about Strings and Encodings.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Discussion Points (contributed by guests and hosts):•Why is it so important to understand strings?◦“The internet is powered by multimillion-dollar string manipulation machines. We put strings in a box, and get new strings out. While there’s plenty of mathy things that can happen in the middle, there is no denying the importance of strings in today’s world.” - Schneems◦They’re the only data structure that lies to you. You can see the exact contents of an array or hash but strings mask what’s happening. That’s why you can get situations when a single character has a length of 2.•What are character sets?◦A character set defines a group of characters, their order, and it assigns each an identifier (a code point).▪Unicode is a character set.◦What are code points?▪Unique identifiers within the character set.◦UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 are implementations of the Unicode character set▪Each has its own benefits•Normalization forms◦Different representations of the same character. We can represent “é” as a single character or as an “e” and a combining mark (2 characters). Normalization forms allow us to change between forms.◦There are 4 forms, NFC, NFD, NFKC, and NFKD and they all do slightly different things.▪They can be switched between with `String#unicode_normalize`.•Sorting◦Easy for English only but can be quite difficult with other languages. Sorting “e” and “é” can be tricky.•Security◦Identical characters, similar characters, and invisible characters can all be used to spoof user names.▪https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-to-avoid-downloading-a-fake-app_us_5a147d40e4b0f401dfa7eafb ▪https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/7ahujw/psa_two_different_developers_under_the_same_name/ •The current state of Unicode support in Ruby. It was improved in 2.4 when methods like `upcase` started working with Unicode characters.•The addition of grapheme support in Ruby 2.5.•Freezing strings with `String#freeze` and with the special comment at the top of a file.◦Immutable strings may still make it into Ruby 3 as the default.•Character set expressions (a term I made up) for use with methods like `String#count` and `String#delete`.◦They’re like the inside of a regular expression character set (e.g. `[a-z]`)•Tofu and mojibake◦Tofu are those white boxes you see when a character doesn’t exist on your computer.◦Mojibake is when the characters show up but they don’t make sense because you’re using the wrong encoding or they were misencoded somewhere along the way.•Fixing bad characters◦Strings can be checked with `valid_encoding?`.◦`String#scrub` lets you replace invalid bytes with a single character which is the replacement character by default (that black diamond with a question mark in it).◦`String#encode` also does replacement work and will let you swap out characters if you go from something like UTF-8 to ASCII.▪You can even change out newline types with it.◦`Encoding::Converter` is an even more powerful way to convert but it’s a tool for when things go seriously wrong.Links:
https://aaronlasseigne.com
https://github.com/AaronLasseigne
@AaronLasseigne
Mastering Ruby: Strings and Encodings
Active Interaction
Picks:Eric
The Secret of Luck
Do Things That Don’t Scale
Girls
Dave
FireFox Quantum
David
chris.com
https://juliasilge.com/blog/tidy-word-vectors/
Charles
slack.com
Visual Studio Code Sharing
Podcast for React And View
Aaron
devdoc.io
Rose Mountain
The Dollop
Special Guest: Aaron Lasseigne.

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55 min
December 06, 2017MRS 024: Peter Cooper
Panel:
Charles Max Wood
Guest: Peter Cooper
This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Peter Cooper. Peter was one the original panelist on Ruby Rogues and JavaScript Jabber. Currently, Peter runs several weekly new letters on JS, Ruby, Go, React, etc. Peter talks about he journey as a programmer started at an early age tinkering with his father’s computer at home. Peter describes the beginning as a hobby until he learned the skills to being programming on many platforms. Peter talks about how he learn Ruby and JavaScript, and in early stages of noodling or learning code. Lastly, Peter talks about his contributions to the community and giving back.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
How did you get into programming?

Playing with computers at an early age

Computers were a hobby, rather than a career builder then

Being heavily into to anything can become your career, age does not matter

Finding the skill or passion in programming

Natural ability to see and make sense of code

UseNet

AJax

Directness

Blogging

New Letters

rubyflow.com

What is the ultimate goal of the new letters?

Contributions

Helping host podcasts

Current work?

and much, much more!
Links:
http://peterc.org

https://rubyweekly.com

https://github.com/peterc/

Cooper Press
Picks:
Peter
Litmus

Cheap Gaming consoles on eBay

Jason Scott of archive.org

Charles
Hyper Drive

J5

Dash Pro In-Ear Headphones
53 min
December 05, 2017RR 339: Typical Day of a Developer
Panel:Dave KimuraEric BerryDavid RichardsIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues panel discuss the typical day of a developer. Eric, David, and Dave speak about their daily routines as far as preparation, favorite task management tools, workflows, meetings, coding and testing, home life, working remote, commuting, health/mental healthy choices, and scheduling your projects to stay on course.Importantly, the panel discusses how to handle burnout and keeping up the inspiration to work, and build side businesses. This is a great episode to learn tips and tricks from successful developers and staying the course for further success and longevity in the industry.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
First, how Eric Berry handles day to day
Preparation for the day
Clubhouse task management
Calendly
Handling burnout!
Organization with your tasks list
Passion
Recharging or resetting/resting
Doing what matters to you - Validation
Second, how Dave Kimura handle day to day
Healthy choices - eating in or out for lunch
Working from home after hours
Scheduling your tasks
Priority is with the family
Third, how David handles day to day
Mediation and clarity
How much time do you spend learning something new
Hiring
What is the ideal day?
Delivering a product
No meetings
Learning something new
What does a bad day look like
Production issues
Disorganization
and much much more.
Links:
Clubhouse
Calendly
Sapiens - Book
Writing Great Sentences - Book
trello.com
Picks:Eric
Calendly
Clubhouse
MetaBase
Dave
AWS BeanStalk
David
Tower - Bill Henderson
Building Great Sentences

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59 min

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