Ruby Rogues

01:42 - Amir Rajan

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• A Noble Circle
• Surviving The App Store: How to Make It as an Indie Game Developer by Amir Rajan

02:24 - A Dark Room (ADR); Revenue and Downloads

• Revenue Updates for A Dark Room et al

09:16 - Quality, Heart and Soul, and Putting Yourself Into a Product

• iPhreaks Show Episode #161: Successful Indie iOS Game Development with Amir Rajan

14:31 - Choosing RubyMotion

• Albacore
• NeXTSTEP

17:43 - Objective-C vs Ruby

• HipByte/Flow

21:51 - Cross-platform Availability23:53 - ADR => Watch/TV Capability with RubyMotion26:17 - The Ecosystem in iOS and RubyMotion28:11 - Code Structure29:58 - Testing; UI Automation

• mac_bacon  

31:29 - Open Source and Proprietary33:15 - Other Components

• UIkit
• SpriteKit
• motion-game
• Cocos2d-x
• CocoaPods

34:07 - Going on a Sabbatical40:58 - .NET => Ruby

• Inversion of Control; (IoC) Container

 Picks

• Transistor (Amir)
• Hoplite (Amir)
• Alto's Adventure (Amir)
• Shadowrun: Dragonfall (Sam)
• Minecraft: Story Mode (David)
• Sriracha and Egg in Ramen (Chuck)
• Ruby Rogues Facebook Page (Chuck)

Special Guest: Amir Rajan.

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Rails Remote Conf 01:14 - Justin Weiss Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Avvo  
• Practicing Rails: Learn Rails Without Being Overwhelmed by Justin Weiss

02:15 - “Learning Rails Without Getting Overwhelmed”?

• Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson, with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, and Andreas Schwarz

02:34 - Problems New Developers Don’t Realize They Have04:35 - Learning New Things08:05 - What is a success?09:02 - What can senior devs do? What shouldn’t they do?

• Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman David H. Hoover and Adewale Oshineye
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt
• Brandon Hays: The Conjoined Triangles of Senior-Level Development

15:43 - Are there still “Architects”?20:45 - The Existential Crisis of Software Development

• Integrated Tests Are A Scam
• Emo Philips: The best God joke ever - and it's mine!

22:26 - The Responsibility of the Students26:08 - How can new developers obtain objective evidence of their blind spots?

• Bias Blind Spot
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
• Asch Experiment

33:49 - Early Career Developers Working Together37:03 - Learning Practices Picks

• emoj (Coraline)
• Teaching Robots to Feel: Emoji & Deep Learning (Coraline)
• The Lies of Locke Lamora (Sam)
• Gorilla Tape (Sam)
• Portillo's (Chuck)
• iPad Pro (Chuck)
• Apple Smart Keyboard (Chuck)
• Apple Pencil (Chuck)
• GoodNotes (Chuck)
• Podcast Movement (Chuck)
• The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen (Justin)
• How to Write in Plain English (Justin)
• Avvo (Justin)

Special Guest: Justin Weiss.

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All Remote Conferences 02:01 - Lauren Voswinkel Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• New Relic

02:39 - May 1st: International Workers’ Day

• Lauren Voswinkel: #talkpay and the Importance of Collective Action
• Taft–Hartley Act (The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947)

06:11 - #talkpay

• Information Asymmetry

10:22 - Fair Trade of Value; Companies and Salaries

• Kelley Blue Book

19:37 - Salary Maximization and Negotiations22:40 - Executive Salaries

• Planet Money: Episode 682: When CEO Pay Exploded

25:58 - Hashtag Effectiveness

• Glassdoor

29:05 - Implications of Salary Reveals32:08 - The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Cont’d)Salary Sharing Between Employees35:41 - Sharing Salary Information Publicly and Impostor Syndrome

• Crab Mentality

37:38 - Job Elimination42:40 - Is/has #talkpay been successful? More Information

• Ex-Apple, Google, Intel geeks in line for $415m over wage-fix pacts
• Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts
• Highlights of women’s earnings in 2014

 Picks

• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Sam)
• The Lies of Locke Lamora (Coraline)
• Brandon Sanderson's Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians Series (Chuck)
• Bose QuietComfort 3 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones (Chuck)
• Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability (Lauren)
• Brené Brown: Listening to shame (Lauren)

Special Guest: Lauren Voswinkel.

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Rails Remote Conf 02:07 - Testing07:28 - Adding Tests Later; When is the test useful?

• TDD (Test-driven Development)

14:35 - Testing the Happy Path16:48 - Writing Tests First18:53 - Sharing Code

• Larry Wall: Three Virtues

27:34 - Testing Error Messages29:04 - External vs Mocking/Stubbing34:11 - Exploratory Tests and Characterization Tests

• Sunk Cost Fallacy
• Katrina Owen: Therapeutic Refactoring

39:07 - Refactoring47:22 - Mocking and Stubbing (Cont’d)

• Justin Searls: To Mock or Not to Mock @ SCNA 2012
• Dependency Injection
  • Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz
• Spies

 Picks

• How American Politics Went Insane (Jessica)
• Alex Kitchens’ Minecraft Tweet (Sam)
• The "Is It a DSL or an API?" Ten Question Checklist (Sam)
• Transmit (Chuck)
• Zoom (Chuck)
• Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)

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Check out Angular Remote Conf and React Remote Conf  01:55 - Jamis Buck Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Medium.com: Jamis Buck

02:57 - Mazes

• Mazes for Programmers: Code Your Own Twisty Little Passages by Jamis Buck
• 3.5 Random Dungeon Generator for D&D
• Mazoo!

08:01 - Programing can be fun?! Play

• Jamis Buck: Second Wind @ Mountain West Ruby 2016 (Talk on burnout)

11:49 - Historical and Traditional vs Technical Mazes13:51 - Jamis’ Backstory with Mazes; Algorithms

• Hunt-and-Kill Algorithm
• Wilson's Algorithm  
• Eller's Algorithm

21:14 - Discovering Algorithms

• Think Labyrinth
• Neo4j

28:01 - Varying Algorithms

• AST (Abstract Syntax Tree)

36:38 - Writing a Book

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

39:16 - Text App for Generating Mazes

• ASCII
• ChunkyPNG

 Picks

• The Walking Dead (Sam)
• The Codeless Code (Coraline)
• Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (Jessica)
• Feeling sad about tragedy (Jessica)
• Completely Disconnect (Chuck)
• Being Outdoors (Chuck)
• Shooting Firearms (Chuck)
• Productive (Jamis)
• Kerbal Space Program (Jamis)

Special Guest: Jamis Buck.

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02:39 - Cameron Dutro Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Lumosity

02:39 - Internationalization vs Localization 05:28 - How important is internationalization?13:54 - Internationalization and Accessibility

• The Tragedy of the Commons

Developer Ignorance/Indifference19:43 - Tools

• Twitter Translation Center
• Rosette
• txgh
• Transifex

24:48 - How can small companies internationalize?26:22 - Crowdsourcing

• Contributor Covenant

30:34 - People Have Names

• Patrick McKenzie: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers
• Carina C. Zona: Schemas for the Real World @ RubyConf AU 2013

34:54 - Gender

• I18n, l10n, m10n: Abbreviations for Internationalization, Localization, and Minimization

39:35 - Educational Resources

• Rails Guides on Internationalization
• ICU - International Components for Unicode
• twitter-cldr-rb
• CLDR - Unicode Common Locale Data Repository

47:14 - Unicode

• Unicode Consortium
• Aditya Mukerjee: I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name

 Picks

• I17n.rb - Intranumeralization (David)
• Patrick McKenzie: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (David)
• Mogo Portable Active Office Chair (Sam)
• Richard Schneems: Saving Sprockets (Coraline)
• Calvino Noir (Coraline)
• ICU (Cameron)
• CLDR (Cameron)
• twitter-cldr-rb (Cameron)
• Hacknet (Cameron)
• Golden State Warriors (Cameron)

Special Guest: Cameron Dutro .

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Check out Newbie Remote Conf! 03:09 - Kronda Adair Introduction

• Twitter
• Blog
• Karvel Digital
  • @karveldigital
  • Facebook

03:11 - WordPress

• DevChat.tv
• Derick Bailey: WatchMeCode
• Sunk Cost Fallacy

07:59 - Why do developers hate WordPress?

• Venomous Porridge: A conversation I have every month or so

14:53 - Using Tools That Fit Technology Preferences

• PHP
• Wix
• Aaron Hockley: WordPress is a DSLR; Squarespace is a Point and Shoot
• Technology Bias
• Refresh Portland

21:52 - Empathy and Discovery Processes for Clients

• Tests
• Asking Questions
• The Freelancers’ Show
  • The Freelancers' Show Episode 201: Roadmapping with Brennan Dunn

31:38 - Conversations with Customers vs Owners/Managers

• WordCamp Orange County

34:43 - Websites That Work | Indiegogo 36:48 - Kronda’s Origin Story

• Portland Community College

 Picks

• Hover (Kronda)
• Flywheel (Kronda)
• WordPress (Kronda)
• Thrive Themes (Kronda)
• Genesis (Kronda)
• ActiveCampaign (Kronda)
• Lingo (Kronda)
• Tybee Island, Georgia (Jessica)
• Robert Epstein: The empty brain: Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer (Coraline)
• Blindsight by Peter Watts (Sam)
• Aurynn Shaw: Contempt Culture (Sam)
• StudioPress (Chuck)
• DigitalOcean (Chuck)
• Drip (Chuck)

Special Guest: Kronda Adair.

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02:33 - Frank McSherry Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub

03:06 - Computation03:48 - When are more computers needed?04:28 - Scalability! But at what COST?

• Experimentation

08:03 - Data Format and Pipelines

• Hilbert Curve
  • github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-02-04.md

14:06 - Code That Could Grow

• Hadoop
• summingbird

20:38 - Languages and Performance23:14 - “For Loops Unrolled”

• Rust

28:01 - Scaling

• helix

35:42 - Functional vs Procedural Language37:47 - Dataflow (Timely; Differential)

• Around, Epic
• Vector Clock
• Introductory Blog Posts: 
  • github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-09-14.md
  • github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-09-18.md
  • github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-09-21.md

 Picks

• Go-Ped Know Ped Scooter (Sam)
• 2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report (Jessica)
• The Screwtape Letters (Jessica)
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek (Chuck)
• RIF6 Cube 2-inch Mobile Projector (Chuck)
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Frank)
• PrAna (Frank)
• Rust (Frank)
• Big Data Analytics with Datalog Queries on Spark (Frank)

Special Guest: Frank McSherry.

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Get your Ruby Remote Conf tickets! 02:42 - Nadia Odunayo Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Ignition Works
• Nadia Odunayo: Playing Games in the Clouds

05:00 - Ruby Book Club 11:20 - Nadia Odunayo: The Guest: A Guide To Code Hospitality @ RailsConf 2016 17:23 - Collaboration and Pairing: Guest and Host Roles; Driving and Navigating

• Coderetreat
• Ruby DCamp

24:42 - Perspectives and Mapping

• Sam Livingston-Gray: Cognitive Shortcuts: Models, Visualizations, Metaphors, and Other Lies @ Cascadia Ruby Conf 2014
• Cortical Homunculus
• Peter Gardiner Motor and Sensory Homunculi

41:04 - Ruby Central's Opportunity Scholarship Program

• Space Babies

 Picks  

• Case Studies in Apprenticeship (Coraline)
• Everything's an Argument by Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz (Sam)
• RIF6 Cube 2-inch Mobile Projector (Chuck)
• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg (Nadia)
• Robert Frank on Dinner Table Economics (Nadia)

 See Also

• Ruby Rogues Episode #190: Apprenticeship with Joseph Mastey and Jill Lynch of Enova

Special Guest: Nadia Odunayo.

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Check out Ruby Remote Conf! 02:39 - Tom Stuart Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Ruby Rogues Episode #120: Book Club: Understanding Computation with Tom Stuart
• Understanding Computation by Tom Stuart

03:17 - “Computer Scientist”; Computer Science 04:17 - Static Typing, Type Systems

• Tom Stuart: Consider Static Typing @ RubyConf Australia 2015
• Matz's Opening Keynote at RubyConf 2014
• The Halting Problem

18:44 - The Direction, Adoption Curve, and Use of Ruby33:36 - Multicore Growth and Concurrency => What programming language should I learn?

• Moore’s Law

 Picks

• Halting State by Charles Stross (Sam)
• The Belgariad by David Eddings (Chuck)
• Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most by Timothy Shriver (Chuck)
• The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory: new paper by Adam Yedidia and me (Tom)
• Martin Kleppmann: Staying in Sync: from Transactions to Streams (Tom)

Special Guest: Tom Stuart.

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