Ruby Rogues

Support our Teespring campaign! Get your Ruby Rogues unisex t-shirts, hoodies, ladies’-sized, and long-sleeve tees!  03:19 - Jake Day Williams Introduction

• Twitter
• Wild Academy
• [YouTube] Wild Academy
• Learn Ruby: The Beginner Guide: An Introduction to Ruby Programming by Jake Day Williams
• Learn PHP: The Beginner Guide: An Introduction to PHP Programming by Jake Day Williams

03:48 - What Do New People Struggle With?04:59 - Teaching While Learning and Video Tutorials vs In-Person Training

• Resources:
  • Lynda
  • The Ultimate Guide to Coding Bootcamps: The Exhaustive List
• Being a “Self-Starter”  
• The EntreProgrammers Episode 51: Ship 'em Pears with Jake Day Williams
• “Work the system that does exist, not the system we wish exists.”
• Impostor Syndrome
• RailsClips
  • RailsClips Kickstarter Campaign
• Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
  • Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
• Blender Guru: Andrew Price

16:59 - Responsibility

• As Teachers
  • Planet Money Podcast: The App Economy with Marco Arment of Instapaper
• Gauging Your Own Success
• Digital Content (Updating)
  • Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails by Michael Hartl 

23:05 - Feedback

• Trolling and Criticism (Niceness vs Directness)
• David Brady: Ruby Hashes and David Brady: Associative Arrays with James Edward Gray II Example
• The Job Replacement Guide by David Brady

26:22 - Leveling Up and Monetizing Content

• “MPP” (Multiple Payout Potential)
• Ethics and Morals
• Long-term Sustainability

33:26 - Impostor Syndrome and The Dunning–Kruger Effect 

• Lara Hogan: On having a totally reasonable amount of self-confidence

37:42 - Is the Ruby Community Beginner-Friendly?

• thoughtbot's Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots Podcast
• The Ruby on Rails Podcast: 148: Chad Pytel of thoughtbot discusses @dhh's RailsConf 2014 keynote (and more)  

42:50 - Content Production: Is it a barrier to entry?

• Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande 

Picks Survivorship Bias (Saron)
Laurent Bossavit: 10X Programmer and other Myths in Software Engineering (Jessica)
Rachel Nabors: The Hating Game (Coraline)
How to Poo on a Date: The Lovers' Guide to Toilet Etiquette by Mats (David)
How to Poo at Work by Mats (David)
How to Poo on Holiday by Mats (David)
Steelheart (The Reckoners) by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck)
Gitter (Chuck)
The Entreprogrammers Podcast (Jake)
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg (Jake)
Laura Sydell: The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech (Jake) Special Guest: Jake Day Williams.

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Thank you RailsClips Kickstarter Backers! 02:27 - Andrea Magnorsky Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• [YouTube] Andrea Magnorsky: The Tools that Shape Us
• BatCat Games
  • @batcatgames
• Blog  
• @roundcrisis (Andrea’s Game-Related Twitter Account)

02:56 - “What Game Developers Know That Business Devs Can Benefit From”

• Going From Enterprise => Professional Game Dev
  • Andrew O’Connor, co-founder of BatCat Games
  • XSplit (Xbox Comparison)

08:28 - Curiosity and Motivation09:10 - Is game development more approachable than in the past?

• Unity Game Engine
• The Unreal Engine
• MonoGame
• Totality Engine

10:12 - Learning New Skills and Coding Practices to Write Games

• Unlearning to Be Clean
• Game Loop
• Levels of Code:
  • Low-Level Code
  • Intermediate Layer
  • Scripts and Game Play

15:45 - Performance and Iterations

• [YouTube] Andrea Magnorsky: The Tools that Shape Us 
• Testing
• Iteration Speed
• “Benevolent Dictator + You”

20:45 - Making Games Inviting

• FUN

23:11 - Techniques to Cope with State24:16 - Releasing and Deadlines (Business Issues Between Developers and Management)28:30 - Testing 

• Property Testing
  • FsCheck

30:45 - Writing Aspects of Games (Stories, Artwork, etc.)32:22 - Why F#?

• Type Providers
  • Tutorial: Creating a Type Provider (F#)
• Xamarin Studio

38:44 - Pair Programming or Agile Techniques in Game Dev?

• “Stupid Courage/Bravery”

42:22 - Teaching Game Development (Game Jams)

• Global Game Jam 
• Indie Game Jams
• Game Jams on itch.io

44:39 - Onikira: Demon Killer 

• Onikara - Demon Killer on Steam 
• Hardware
• DmC: Devil May Cry

Picks [Vimeo] Carina C. Zona: Schemas for the Real World (Avdi)
Maryville, Tennessee (Avdi)
Monodraw (Jessica)
Elizabeth Naramore: Uncomfortable (Jessica)
ambient_spec (Coraline)
Cosmic Encounter (Coraline)
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Chuck)
Mastery by Robert Greene (Chuck)
Dixit (Andrea)
Michael Bernstein: Know Your Types (Andrea)
[Vimeo] Philip Potter: Generative testing with clojure.test.check (Andrea)Special Guest: Andrea Magnorsky.

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03:08 - What’s Up with Aaron Patterson?

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Red Hat <= They’re Hiring!!
• Mechanical Keyboarding
  • ErgoDox.org 
  • Arduino
  • The Norman Layout vs Dvorak
  • Ducky Keyboards
  • Atreus Keyboard Kit

16:45 - What’s Up with James Edward Gray?

• Game Programming
  • GameSalad
  • Gusu
  • Dart 
  • Unreal Engine
  • Unity
  • Game Programming Patterns by Bob Nystrom
  • James Edward Gray’s Book Review on Game Programming Patterns
  • Blender
• Teaching Kids to Program
  • LEGO Mindstorms
  • MiP Robot
  • Code.org
  • Joseph Wilk: Programming as Performance (from RubyConf Australia) 
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Sonic Pi

30:16 - What’s Up with Katrina Owen?

• Splice 
• Bath Ruby Conference
  • @BathRuby
  • [Confreaks] Katrina: Here Be Dragons at Bath Ruby Conference 2015 
• The Go Programming Language
  • Ruby Rogues Episode #198: Expanding the Ruby Community Values to Other Languages with Scott Feinberg and Mark Bates
• Ruby Hero Awards
• 99 Bottles Of OOP (Practical Programming Book) by Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen
• [YouTube] Katrina Owen: Overkill (Bob Exercism Problem)

41:55 - What’s Up with Saron Yitbarek?

• CodeNewbie
  • @CodeNewbies
  • #CodeNewbie
  • Podcast
  • Discourse Forum
  • Blog
• Developer Apprentice at thoughtbot
• Nand2Tetris
  • The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken
• CodeNewbie and Hardware
  • CodeNewbie Episode #27: Intro to Raspberry Pi with Matt Richardson
  • CodeNewbie Episode #26: The Hardware Marketplace with Julia Grace
  • CodeNewbie Episode #25: From Software To Hardware with Sara Chipps
• [Confreaks] Saron: Reading Code Good at Bath Ruby Conference 2015

47:31 - A Look Back at the Past 100 Ruby Rogues Episodes and Conference Memories  

• Ruby Rogues Episode #198: Expanding the Ruby Community Values to Other Languages with Scott Feinberg and Mark Bates
• Ruby Rogues Episode #196: Testing Clojure in Ruby with Ashton Kemerling
• Ruby Midwest
  • @RubyMidwest
  • [YouTube] Ruby Midwest 2013 Keynote by James Edward Gray II
• Keep Ruby Weird
  • @keeprubyweird 

53:55 - HI AARON’S MOM! THANKS FOR MAKING AARON PUNNY! (Editor’s Note: Aaron didn’t tell you how far into the call it was, but I did. <3 Mandy) 55:50 - A Look Back at the Past 100 Ruby Rogues Episodes and Conference Memories (Cont’d)

• James at Scottish Ruby Conf 2013: The Patterns We All Need to Know (Editor’s Note: I can’t find this must-see video online, but if you can, tweet a link to @therubyrep)
• [Confreaks] Aaron Patterson: Keep Ruby Weird (Homeopathic Refactoring)

58:32 - Legacy Rogues: What Changed You and Improved You the Most by Being a Panelist on Ruby Rogues?01:02:29 - The Panelists <3 Picks

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01:10:10 - New Rogues’ and Chuck’s Thoughts on the ShowPicks The Speed of Dark (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Elizabeth Moon (Katrina)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Katrina)
Atreus Keyboard Kit (Aaron)
Be My Eyes (Saron)
March is for Makers (Saron)
Hire Saron! (Saron)
[Indiegogo] Con Man (James)
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02:08 - Noah Gibbs Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog

02:38 - Rebuilding Rails: Understand Rails by Building a Ruby Web Framework by Noah Gibbs

• [YouTube] Noah Gibbs: GoGaRuCo 2013 - The Littlest ORM

03:06 - Sinatra 03:47 - Rack

• Introduction to Rack middleware
• rackamole

07:32 - Deploying Apps

• Hosting
  • Heroku
  • Redis
  • Vagrant
• Server Provisioning
  • Chef
  • Puppet 
  • Ansible
  • Capistrano

12:22 - Support, Operations, and Monitoring

• DevOps
• Database Administrator (DBA)
• [Confreaks] Paul Hinze: Smoke & Mirrors: The Primitives of High Availability
• Reliability
• Enterprise Tools
  • HashiCorp
    • Ruby Rogues Episode #192: Vagrant with Mitchell Hashimoto
• Learning Curve and Lack of Documentation (“Wild West”)

20:36 - Social Differences Between Communities: Ruby vs Python

• Ruby Rogues Episode #198: Expanding the Ruby Community Values to Other Languages with Scott Feinberg and Mark Bates
• COBOL, Java, C
• The SaltStack
  • Ryan D. Lane: Moving away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible? 

27:18 - Deployment Tools Targeting Polyglot Architectures28:39 - Ease of Deployment

• Go

32:26 - The Success of a Language = The Deployment Story33:51 - Feedback Cycle34:57 - Reproducibility

• Bash

35:44 - Docker and Configuration Management Tools

• "chroot" = change root

44:06 - Deployment Problems46:45 - Ruby Mad Science

• madscience_gem 
• Community Feedback
• The Learning Curve
• Roadmap
  • Multiple VM Setups

Picks TuneMyGC (Coraline)
Bear Metal: Rails Garbage Collection: Tuning Approaches (Coraline)
Rbkit (Coraline)
Get out and jump in a mud puddle! (Jessica)
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael T. Nygard (Noah)
Ruby DSL Handbook by Jim Gay (Noah)Special Guest: Noah Gibbs.

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02:32 - Mark Bates Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Boston Ruby Users Group
  • @bostonrb 
• MetaCasts: HD Screencasts for GO Enthusiasts
  • @metacasts  

03:14 - Scott Feinberg Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub 
• Blog
• WePay
  • @WePay
  • @wepaystatus

03:46 - Community Values

• 2014 Videos - WindyCityRails Lightning Talks (Scott’s is first)
• Scott Feinberg: Where does Ruby go from here? (The Happiness Manifesto)
  • [GitHub] the-happiness-manifesto  

05:32 - Ruby Community Standards and Values

• Testing
• Programming Should Be Fun and Enjoyable
• Pairing
• Large Regional Conferences and Meetups    

07:33 - User Groups

• Lambda Lounge
  • @LambdaLounge 
• Netflix Open Source Group

10:18 - Polyglot Conferences

• Midwest.io 2014 - MythBashers: Adventures in Overlooked Technologies - Avdi Grimm
• [GitHub] A web server written in Bash
• Great Wide Open
  • @AllThingsOpen 
• CodeMash
  • @codemash 

13:07 - Including and Getting Newbies Involved in Conference and Community Culture

• Generations
• Boot Camps
  • Launch Academy
    • @LaunchAcademy_ 
• Hugs

20:41 - Diversity and Codes of Conduct

• PyLadies
  • PyLadies Chapters (Twitter) 
• RailsBridge
  • @railsbridge 
• Rails Girls
  • @railsgirls 

23:08 - AlterConf

• @AlterConf
• Ashe Dryden
  • @ashedryden

24:22 - PyCon 

• @pycon 

25:31 - HappinessConf

• @Happiness_Conf  
• Diversity
  • Black Girls Code
    • @blackgirlscode 
  • Women Who Code
    • @WomenWhoCode 

28:30 - Developer Happiness and Invoking Community Values Within Corporate Company Culture

• Ruby Rogues Episode #191: The Developer Happiness Team with Kerri Miller
  • PluralSight
    • PluralSight Author Summit
• Trust
• Roles of Influence
  • Navigating Office Politics

38:03 - Agile Software Development and Productivity

• The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
• [TED Talk] Bruce Feiler: Agile programming — for your family  

40:41 - “The Ruby Diaspora”

• Mark Bates - Panel: The Future of Ruby - Burlington Ruby Conference 2014
• Elixir
  • Programming Elixir: Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun by Dave Thomas
• The Go Programming Language
  • Gophercon
    • @GopherCon

47:47 - Acceptance

• Accepting Acceptance / Tolerating Intolerance

50:55 - Mentoring

• Boston Ruby’s “Project Night”
• Mentor Someone Who Doesn’t Look Like You

Picks Love Letter (Coraline)
RescueTime (Coraline)
Hacking Happy by Dusty Phillips (Jessica)
Happiness Conf Coupon Code (Scott)
HappinessConf Speakers Page (Scott)
The Flight Deal (Scott)
iStat Menus (Scott)
HappinessConf (Mark)
The Go Programming Language (Mark)
Use the Coupon Code: ROGUES to get your first month free: MetaCasts.tv: HD Screencasts for GO Enthusiasts (Mark)Special Guests: Mark Bates and Scott Feinberg.

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Check out RailsClips on Kickstarter!! 02:23 - Justin Searls Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Test Double
  • @testdouble

03:02 - Justin Searls: The Social Coding Contract 

• Open Source
  • GitHub

04:58 - Transitive Dependences and Understanding Technical Debt

• RailsConf 2014 - Keynote: 10 Years! by Yehuda Katz 
• The CAP Theorem

15:21 - Learning Outside Work Hours

• Tracking Time
• Micromanagement

21:21 - Understanding Transitive Dependencies (Cont’d)

• Gary Bernhardt

23:00 - Use Someone Else’s Framework or Write Your Own?

• “It Depends.”
• “A dirty code base is the sign of a well-monetized application.” - Matt Scantland

31:25 - When Does it Hurt to Use Tools You Don’t Completely Understand?

• Elasticsearch

34:14 - Leaving Code Behind36:26 - Be a Responsible Open Source User

• Pull Request Sample 
  • Amount of Investment
  • Community Management
    • Communication
      • cancan => cancancan
      • GitX
        • Graphical User Interface (GUI)
        • rowanj GitX

47:22 - Reacting to Change

• Process and Ceremony
• Deming’s Common Cause and Special Cause
• Pair Programming
  • [YouTube] Justin Searls and Aaron Patterson: The act of using vim, tenderly.

54:16 - Just Blog It!Picks Royalty Free Music by Kevin MacLeod (David)
Rebif (David)
Ruby Rogues Episode #188: Community Building with Pieter Hintjens (Jessica)
Commercial Users of Functional Programming 2015: Call for Presentations (Jessica)
James Clear: Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead. (Jessica)
Screw motivation, what you need is discipline. (Jessica)
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Chuck)
Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education by Glenn Beck (Chuck)
Sony NEX-5T Compact Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera (Justin)
Justin’s Talk at RailsConf 2015: Boring Code (Sometimes a Controller is Just a Controller) (Justin)
Alpine iLX-007 7-Inch In-Dash Receiver with Apple CarPlay (Justin)Special Guest: Justin Searls.

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Check out RailsClips on Kickstarter!!  02:45 - Ashton Kemerling Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog

03:00 - Ruby and Clojure

• Pivotal Labs
• Pivotal Tracker
• Clojurescript
• Generative Testing
• PhantomJS
• Invariance

14:50 - Difficulty

• generative 
• rantly

23:13 - Generative Testing and Documentation

• “Shrinking”

26:38 - Are Generative Tests Disposable?

• Capybara

29:09 - When Do You Start Generative Testing?31:43 - Setup & Barriers to Entry40:38 - Why Does Generative Testing Have a Bad Reputation?42:49 - Getting Past ^^44:17 - Verifying Things Are Fixed46:57 - Maintaining These Tests

• Multimethods

51:12 - Human Actions, Generative Testing, and Architecture

• Functional Programming

01:02:10 - Resources

• [YouTube] Integrating Test.Check and Javascript 
• Jessica Kerr: TDD with generative testing: an example in Ruby  
• Ashton Kemerling: Integrating Test.Check and Javascript

Picks Joseph Wilk: Programming as Performance (Coraline)
Linda Liukas: Principles of Play (Coraline)
Hello Ruby (Coraline)
QuickCheck CI (Jessica)
CodeMesh 2014 - John Hughes - QuickCheck Evolution (Jessica)
GeeCON 2012: Kevlin Henney - It Is Possible to Do Object-Oriented Programming in Java (Avdi)
FUJITSU Image Scanner ScanSnap iX500 (Avdi)
FFmpeg (Chuck)
YouTube (Chuck)
Developer’s Box Club (Chuck)
Ruby Remote Conf (Chuck)
RailsCasts on Kickstarter (Chuck)
Datomic (Ashton)Special Guest: Ashton Kemerling.

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02:25 - Neal Ford Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• ThoughtWorks
• iPhreaks Show Episode #084: Building Your Technology Radar with Neal Ford
• Freelancers' Show Episode 145: Life as a Traveling Consultant with Neal Ford
• RailsConf 2010: Neal Ford "Creativity & Constraint"   

02:20 - The Thoughtworks Technology Radar

• Rebecca Parsons

06:28 - Quadrants

• Techniques
• Tools
• Languages & Frameworks
• Platforms

07:01 - Categories (Rings)

• Hold
• Assess
• Trial
• Adopt

09:23 - Adopting New Technologies

• William Gibson: “The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.”
• Cycle Time
• Neal Ford: Build Your Own Technology Radar
• [YouTube] Neal Ford: Build Your Own Technology Radar

14:42 - Providing Familiarity Resources15:24 - Radars as Resources and Lifecycle Assessment Tools

• Intentional Software
• Radar A-Z

18:36 - Themes22:17 - Making Decisions

• Diversify
• Testability

27:40 - Jamming Radars31:53 - Hireability?

• Paying Developers to Learn

36:54 - Financial Portfolios and Planning Your Career

• Specialization vs Generalization

42:03 - Software Architecture & Engineering Practices

• Microservices

43:57 - Functional Programming

• Functional Thinking: Paradigm Over Syntax by Neal Ford
• Clojure

44:16 - Estimation46:03 - Creating Your Own Radar

• Brett Dargan: bdargan/techradar
• Blip Placement
• Neal Ford: Build Your Own Technology Radar

Picks All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Avdi)
The Project Euler Sprint (Coraline)
Gloom (Coraline)
The Bad Plus: Inevitable Western (Jessica)
tmate (Jessica)
Screenhero (Chuck)
Slack (Chuck)
DevOps Bookmarks (Neal)
Elvis has left the ivory tower by Neal Ford (Neal)
Culture Series (Neal)Special Guest: Neal Ford.

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The Rogues talk to ThoughtWorks' Sudhindra R. Rao about JRuby.Special Guest: Sudhindra R. Rao.

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The Rogues talk to Ryan Stout about the Volt framework.Special Guest: Ryan Stout.

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