36: A gem called exploit

This week Ben Orenstein is joined by Nick Quaranto, developer at 37signals and one of the maintainers of RubyGems.org. Nick and Ben discuss the just released Basecamp iOS app, the architecture of the app, the origins of the app and how it became what it is today, and RubyMotion in general. They then move on to discuss the recent RubyGems.org cracking, the mechanism behind it, the process of restoring the service, and how it might affect RubyGems going forward. They then circle back to talk more about RubyMotion, testing, working at 37signals, CoworkBuffalo, OpenHack, and good coffee.

• #inspect, RubyMotion conference
• Basecamp for iOS
• RubyGems.org cracked
• CoworkBuffalo
• The On-Call Programmer
• Kevin Purdy
• Chemex Coffeemaker
• OpenHack

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