Ruby Rogues

02:20 - Eric Normand Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub
• Democracy Works
• LispCast
• Clojure Gazette
• PurelyFunctional.tv

03:31 -    Old vs Young Programmers

• Robert C. Martin: My Lawn
• “Uncle Bob” Martin Speaks at Yale SOM  

05:38 - Teaching Fundamentals

• Kathy Sierra

11:02 - Teaching Backgrounds12:13 - Why is so hard to be a good teacher?15:54 - Teacher Feedback19:46 - Asking Questions25:56 - Community Education28:20 - Order of Operation29:36 - Recognizing Students Understanding of Fundamentals

• NPR Planet Money: When Women Stopped Coding

31:25 - Should there be prerequisites?34:30 - How to Assess Where People Are 35:43 - Teaching the Teacher39:10 - Bootcamps 45:52 - After BootcampsMentoring52:11 - Skill vs Knowledge

• O'Reilly's Head First Series

 More From Eric

• How to avoid "Makes sense if you already understand it."
• Making True/False Questions Easy
• Tap Into Your Social Brain
• Use Task Analysis to Break a Skill Into Steps

Picks Inoreader (Avdi)
Windows 10 (Avdi)
Sandi Metz's Courses (Avdi)
Avdi Grimm: I have a newsletter. You could subscribe, maybe. (Avdi)
Ian Steadman: Sex isn’t chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & Y (Coraline)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Coraline)
Wunderlist (Jessica)
The Partially Examined Life (Jessica)
Together Tech (Chuck)
Being Intentional (Chuck)
Highrise (Chuck)
Eventual Millionaire with Rory Vaden (Chuck)
Ruby Rogues (Eric)
Yoshiki Ohshima's Youtube Channel (Eric)
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour A. Papert (Eric)Special Guest: Eric Normand.

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Go check out Rails Remote Conf!  02:30 - Lee Byron Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Facebook

02:46 - GraphQL

• [GitHub] graphql 
• Relay 

04:16 - GraphQL vs REST09:43 - Endpoints

• Security

13:33 - How the Stack Works

• graphql-ruby 

19:35 - GraphQL on the Front and Back Ends

• Type Checking
• Contracts
• Versions

36:14 - Calculating Tradeoffs43:38 - Structuring46:17 - Building the Ecosystem48:16 - Use with Other Frameworks

• JavaScript Jabber Episode #152: GraphQL and Relay with Nick Schrock and Joe Savona

49:50 - GraphQL vs Falcor 52:20 - How would you have made GraphQL differently?54:06 - React Native 56:29 - REST => GraphQL

• ElixirConf 

57:36 - TypesPicks San Francisco (Jessica)
Dolores Park (Jessica)
Greg Heo: Outlining Your Conference Talk Pixar-style (Coraline)
Walnut (Coraline)
Tandy Leather (David)
Ian Atkinson on YouTube (David)
Bruce Cheaney on YouTube (David)
Springfield Leather (David)
Tandy Leather Outlet (David)
The Ionic Framework (Chuck)
CharlesMaxWood.com (Chuck)
Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)
All Remote Confs (Chuck)
JS Remote Conf (Chuck)
Flow (Lee)
The Firesteel: A Novel by Ash Huang (Lee) Special Guest: Lee Byron.

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Check out and get your ticket for Rails Remote Conf! 02:00 - Sarah Mei Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Devmynd
• RailsBridge

06:11 - Why It’s Hard to be “The First Person”

• Biases
  • Mind the Gap - On the unconscious bias we all carry, and how it applies to hiring
  • Avdi Grimm: What it’s like to come back to a Ruby project after 6 months 

13:27 - Transmitting Cultural Values16:01 - What Companies Can Do

• Dev Team Diversity #Realtalk - On the unprecedented opportunity we have right now to diversify our small teams
• Everyone has something to learn; Everyone has something to teach (Mentoring)

22:35 - What do you look for in a person as a hiring company?

• Rubberducking

24:46 - Setting Expectations Around Pairing Sessions

• Pairing with Junior Developers - On making sure newer devs can be successful once they're hired

27:45 - Whisper Networks

• Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic: Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? 

34:08 - Performance Review

• “How can we make you successful?”

42:15 - “I will help you find a better fit.”

• Investment and Risk

44:40 - Communication Culture

• Ask vs. Guess Culture 

50:43 - Empathy

• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Picks troll-repellant (Coraline)
Avdi Grimm: An alternative to `puts` in Ruby (Coraline)
Alan C. Kay: The Early History of Smalltalk (Avdi)
RubyTapas (Avdi)
Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)
Loot Crate (Chuck)
Prints and Visual Communication (Sarah)
Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work by Robert Austin (Sarah)Special Guest: Sarah Mei.

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When is it worthwhile to introduce a new language, tool, or database? And when will it likely bite you in the rearend?02:43 - Episode Idea Background

• PolyConf
  • @polyconfhq

04:28 - Implementing Standards and Comparisons

• Minimize Entry Level / Maximizing Payoff

08:23 - “Dumb Code” and Developer Expectations10:48 - Code Coverage and Regular Expressions

• Oniguruma
• Fizz Buzz
• Ruby Rogues Episode #120: RR Book Club: Understanding Computation with Tom Stuart

12:49 - Risk Impact/Probability Chart, Risk - Reward Matrix 24:01 - Collaboration, Communication => Constraint

• Responsibility

30:36 - Bringing It In: Process

• Databases
  • Demille Quote

38:48 - Why would you want to switch databases and when is it worth it?

• Eliminating a Technology
  • Peter Seibel: Let a 1,000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots.
• Internal vs External Motivation
  • Redis vs Memcache

46:06 - Success Cases

• Abstraction

Picks OS4W: Open Source for Women (Coraline)
Contributor Covenant (Coraline)
Camille Fournier: Hopelessness and Confidence in Distributed Systems Design (Jessica)
Abby Bobé: From Protesting to Programming: Becoming a Tech Activist (Jessica)
Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)
TV Fool (Chuck)

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02:00 - Luca Guidi Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog

02:35 - The Lotus Framework

• @lotus_rb 
• Lotus Mailing List 
• A Rails Criticism by Luca Guidi 

03:56 - Working Full-time on Open Source04:55 - Flat MVC06:26 - Maintainability07:42 - Entities and Repositories10:42 - Controllers, Views, Conventions, and Templates (Structure)16:41 - Helpers17:56 - The Controller Layer20:12 - Validations23:26 - Testing

• capybara
• BDD (Behavior-Driven Design)

29:23 - The API32:37 - Contributing to Lotus

• Contributor Code of Conduct 
• discuss.lotusrb.org
• lotus/chat - Gitter
• Lotus Hack Day 2015 

34:50 - Using Fewer Gems 39:09 - Lessons Learning Building Lotus41:42 - Philosophy 42:56 - Upcoming FeaturesPicks Threes (Jessica)
15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck)
Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)
Pebble Time (Chuck)
micro.rb (Luca)
Duy Huynh (Luca)Special Guest: Luca Guidi.

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Check out Rails Remote Conf! Submit a CFP!01:53 - Daniel Kehoe Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub 
• Blog

02:07 - Digital Nomad Lifestyle

• Daniel Kehoe: Why I Left My Heart in San Francisco 
• Nomad List
• Remote Year 

08:45 - RailsApps & Rails Tutorials

• @rails_apps 
• [GitHub] RailsApps
• RailsClips #007: Rails Composer 
• Daniel's Kickstarter Project: Rails Composer with Rails Tutorials -- Runs until October 6th, 2015!
• Michael Hartl's he Ruby on Rails Tutorial Book and Screencast Series
  • Learn Enough Command Line To Be Dangerous

22:42 - rails-composer for Beginner Programmers   

• Flatiron School, @aviflombaum 
• Learn Ruby on Rails by Daniel Kehoe 

Remember to go check out Daniel's Kickstarter Project: Rails Composer with Rails Tutorials! Picks remote | ok (Saron)
Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)
weworkremotely.com (Chuck)
Slack (Chuck)
Screenhero (Chuck)
Pinegrow Web Editor (Daniel)
Nomad List (Daniel)
Low Yat Plaza (Daniel)Special Guest: Daniel Kehoe.

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02:03 - Laurent Bossavit

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Institut Agile

03:11 - The Leprechauns of Software Engineering by Laurent Bossavit 04:52 - The 10x Programmer

• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition by Steve McConnell 

13:07 - The Custom Defects Curve15:33 - Leprechauns and Local Truths (Does Needing to Prove Others Wrong = Fear?)22:53 - The Feedback Cycles25:09 - Agile, Waterfall, and The Software Crisis

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• “Bugs in the brain” = Cognitive Biases

32:30 - Estimations, Calibration and Assessments

• How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business by Douglas W. Hubbard
• Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip E. Tetlock
• Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnell    

38:16 - Starting Points/Research Skills for Identifying Leprechauns

• 1. Skepticism
• 2. Curiousity
• 3. Tenacity

43:14 - The Value of Leprechauns46:46 - “Most of our job is learning.”50:44 - The Definition of “Insanity” => Experimentation

• QWERTY vs Dvorak 

Picks The Leprechauns of Software Engineering by Laurent Bossavit (Avdi)
The Crystal Programming Language (Avdi)
Zojirushi (Avdi)
The Elm Programming Language (Laurent)
Smarter Every Day 133: The Backwards Brain Bicycle (Laurent)
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Laurent)
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business by Douglas W. Hubbard (Jessica)Special Guest: Laurent Bossavit.

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02:18 - Ben Browning Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Red Hat
• JRuby

02:46 - TorqueBox 

• @torquebox

04:05 - Use Cases and Benchmarks

• TechEmpower's latest round of benchmark results, filtered to just the Ruby servers running Rack/Rails/Sinatra/etc apps and their JSON serialization test 

06:32 - The Genesis of TorqueBox

• Bob McWhirter

07:49 - JBoss

• WildFly 

09:15 - The Name “TorqueBox”10:12 - Adoption12:05 - Documentation

• DocBook 
• YARD 

13:18 - When should/could you use TorqueBox?17:25 - Monolith vs Microservice

• WildFly Swarm

21:36 - JAR Files and WAR Files 25:31 - Server Setup & Deployment Process27:16 - Packaging Static Assets in JAR and WAR Files28:27 - Contribution and Community Involvement32:55 - Startup Cost35:53 - Getting Started with TorqueBox37:33 - Immutant 40:17 - The Rack Spec and TorqueBox

• tubesock
• SockJS

42:11 - Useful Features44:26 - Building Useful Features45:53 - GrowthPicks [Khan Academy] Pixar in a Box: Introduction to Animation Curves (Saron)
Tony Stark in Salt and Pepper (Saron)
ElixirConf (Jessica)
Nick Shrock: GraphQL Introduction (Jessica)
Troll - Shane Koyczan (Coraline)
funtools (Coraline)
Ruby Remote Conf Talks (Chuck)
Angular Remote Conf (Chuck)
Bob McWhirter: qcon-keynote (Ben)
Coders For Sanders (Ben)Extras

• JavaScript Jabber Episode #152: GraphQL and Relay with Nick Schrock and Joe Savona

Special Guest: Ben Browning.

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02:05 - André Arko Introduction + Bundler

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog

04:28 - Ruby Together

• Trade Association
  • ​Brian Mikulencak

10:52 - Ruby Central

• 501(c) Organization

14:23 - Ruby Together Timeline16:01 - Open Source People Depend on vs Open Source as a Hobby17:03 - Corporate Member Rights / The Structure of Ruby Together

• Monthly Contributions

20:19 - How the Board Makes Decisions

• Slack

23:00 - Membership Numbers24:03 - How Voting Works26:58 - How much work is involved in maintaining these projects?30:08 - How is work doled out?

• Eric Hodel (@drbrain)
• Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove)

33:41 - Future Plans and Community Impact

• Fastly

40:28 - Getting People Involved43:34 - Lessons Learned45:23 - Code of Conducts / Community ValuesPicks Boundaries: A talk by Gary Bernhardt from SCNA 2012 (André)
The Protomen (André)
Bubblesort Zines (André)
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug (Saron)
F.lux (Saron)
Hue (Saron)
Madison Ruby Day 1 (Coraline)
Madison Ruby Day 2 (Coraline)
Survive Escape From Atlantis 30th Anniversary Edition (Coraline)
Angular Remote Conf (Chuck)
React Rally (Chuck)
Alcatraz Books by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck)Special Guest: André Arko.

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02:35 - Yorick Peterse Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Rubinius
• The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome
• libxslt

03:07 - oga

• nokogiri 

06:38 - Fixing vs Writing an Alternative Feature

• lexers 
• Parse Tree 

14:01 - Doing a Document Instead of a Programming Language16:01 - Modifying XML Documents17:19 - Inputting in Memory19:09 - Extending oga with C

• ffi 

22:44 - Parsing

• racc 
• ruby-ll 

25:16 - Resources

• LL Parser

28:57 - Lessons Learned Building oga 30:14 - Writing Parsers in Other Languages31:19 - Getting Started34:19 - Making oga and Using oga at Work35:42 - Did it make a better API?37:23 - The Community and Contribution

• Documentation

Picks AirPair (Chuck)
CAL(1) Shell Command (Jessica)
fish shell (Yorick)
asciinema (Yorick) Special Guest: Yorick Peterse.

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