

Ruby Rogues
Charles M Wood
Our original panel podcast, Ruby Rogues is a weekly discussion around Ruby, Rails, software development, and the community around Ruby.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.
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Jan 13, 2016 • 1h 25min
242 RR Migrating a Monolith to Microservices Via an Evolutionary Path with Mike Gehard
02:34 - Mike Gehard IntroductionTwitter GitHubPivotal03:23 - Monoliths 04:18 - Microservices 09:47 - Migrating a Monolith to Microservices Via an Evolutionary PathOrganizationThe Application Continuum: Evolving toward distributed systems15:21 - The Steps Along the ContinuumWhere do engines fit in?Service Boundary Definitions19:25 - Bounded ContextThe Ruby Rogues Episode #228: The Lotus Framework with Luca Guidi 21:52 - EvolutionConway’s LawUnbuilt Gems30:40 - Dependency on the Database35:15 - Testingpact Jepsen TestingPostmanMashery I/O Docs 51:16 - DeploymentPivotal Cloud Foundry52:47 - SecurityUAA55:15 - Advice for those getting startedSOA (Service-oriented Architecture)Component-Based Rails Applications Resources01:04:09 - Fault TolerancePicks LOWA Boots (Avdi) Pearl’s Peril (David) He Never Died (David) httplog (Coraline) Toxic Workers by Michael Housman and Dylan Minor (Coraline) The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1 by Ryan North (Jessica) Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (Jessica) MyFitnessPal (Chuck) Run 10k (Chuck) Pebble Time Steel (Chuck) Aftershokz Bluez 2 (Chuck) FLUIDSTANCE (Mike) The Elm Programming Language (Mike) Kotlin (Mike)Special Guest: Mike Gehard. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Jan 6, 2016 • 17min
241 RR What Makes a Great Developer with Phil Spitler
Check out Ruby Remote Conf: coming to you live in March! Buy a ticket or submit a CFP! 02:17 - Phil Spitler IntroductionTwitter GitHub Blog03:20 - Panel opinions: What makes a good developer?07:26 - “Successful” vs “Great” DevelopersGrowth Mindset12:45 - Mentors: What to they epitomize?Maintainability14:37 - How do newbies find/identify mentors?17:45 - When Becoming Great Starts to Matter27:51 - How People “Arrive”; Necessary SkillsetsCode Archaeology30:51 - Bloc.io 36:44 - As a mentor, where do you draw the line?Ruby Rogues Episode #240: What Makes a Good Manager with Marcus Blankenship 40:57 - As an educator: How important is it to do hands-on work of your own?The Freelancers’ Show Episode #184: Goals and Productivity (unreleased at time of publication)Picks Rat-a-Tat Cat (Jessica) Sorry Not Sorry IPA (Jessica) Amazon Fire Kids Edition (Avdi) The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free by Neil Fiore (Avdi) Intercom Central® 246 - Four Channels HOME Power-line Intercom System (Chuck) Fathead (Chuck) spitfire (Phil) Bloc's Software Engineering Track (SET Program) (Phil) Kyle Cease (Phil) Phil’s coworker’s Ariel's man crush on Avdi (Phil) Carol Dweck: The Power of Believing That You Can Improve (Phil) Wile Kratts (Children's Science Show) (Phil) MindSet by Carol Dweck (Chuck)Special Guest: Phil Spitler. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Dec 30, 2015 • 1h 3min
240 RR What Makes a Good Manager with Marcus Blankenship
02:05 - Marcus Blankenship IntroductionTwitter Blog02:52 - Pain and Difficulties of Moving From Programming to ManagementIdentityCredibility10:50 - Image and Identity (Cont’d)ExpectationsRole Models19:16 - Management; Making the Move to ManagementAikido“Everybody deserves a good manager.”23:37 - How do you know if you have a bad manager?27:13 - Feedback; Tone of Communication33:54 - What should you do when you get promoted to a management position?Nix Production Code TasksMeet with Your People (Give Feedback) One-on-one Meetings with Team MembersZero Surprises Evaluation PolicyEvaluation FormsGoals and IncentivesReviews for Self-ReflectionGet Your Own Feedback48:25 - How do you know you are doing a good job?Skip-Level ReviewsGrowth of your team and membersSigns of Loyalty51:06 - What if you don’t want to move into a management role?Picks The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz (Jessica) The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (Jessica) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Chuck) JS Remote Conf (Chuck) Ruby Remote Conf (Chuck) Freelance Remote Conf (Chuck) The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield (Marcus) Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or Cost by Johanna Rothman (Marcus)Special Guest: Marcus Blankenship. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Dec 23, 2015 • 47min
239 RR Swiss Army Rubyknife with Peter Cooper at Ruby Remote Conf 2015
This episode is from Peter Cooper’s talk at Ruby Remote Conf 2015. You can watch the full, unedited presentation, Swiss Army Rubyknife, on YouTube at your convenience. Check out All Remote Confs for next year’s remote conference lineup!Ruby Remote Conf will run from March 23rd-25th 2016. Buy a ticket or submit a CFP!JS Remote Conf is running from January 14th-16th 2016. Check out the speaker lineup!Freelance Remote Conf will run from February 24th-26th. We’ve already got a great list of confirmed speakers. Stay tuned for more details!We, the Ruby Rogues panelists (And, Mandy!), wish you a very happy holiday season.Special Guest: Peter Cooper. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Dec 16, 2015 • 1h 1min
238 RR Refactoring
Check out JS Remote Conf and submit a Ruby Remote Conf CFP! 02:26 - Refactoring (Definition) and Where People Fail03:55 - Tests and RefactoringHow do you decide when your codebase is untestable?10:59 - Managing Scope11:42 - Why We Refactor; The Value of RefactoringCoraline's Data-Driven Refactoring Talk17:13 - Refactoring Tools 20:40 - When Refactoring Gets Put Off; Establishing a Code Culture26:23 - Refactoring StrategiesExtract MethodExtract ClassIntroduce Explaining Variable37:38 - Performance Tradeoffs41:42 - Generative Testingapprovals 50:33 - Measurement53:08 - Examples and ResourcesMartin Fowler: Catalog of Refactorings Refactoring: Ruby Edition by Jay Fields Katrina Owen: Therapeutic Refactoring @ Cascadia Ruby Conf 2012Sam Livingston-Gray: Fluent Refactoring @ LoneStarRuby 2013Picks Longmire (Avdi) Clash of Clans (Chuck) Star Wars Commander (Chuck) Cleaning your office (Chuck) Hsing-Hui Hsu: Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana: Parsers for Great Good @ RubyConf 2015 (Coraline) Betsy Haibel: s/regex/DSLs/: What Regex Teaches Us About DSL Design @ RubyConf 2015 (Coraline) Velocity 2016 Call for speakers (Saron) RailsConf 2016 (Saron) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Dec 9, 2015 • 57min
237 RR Rails + JavaScript + Functional Programming with Brad Urani
Check out JS Remote Conf and All Remote Confs! 02:32 - Brad Urani IntroductionTwitter GitHub BlogProcore04:01 - Immutable/Persistent Data Structures; AdvantagesChanging the Unchangeable: The Hows and Whys of Immutable Data Structures @ RubyConf 2015 hamster07:30 - Tools for Debugging08:23 - Why do Rubyists care about things like Elm?09:39 - Persistent Data Structure Use Cases; Functional Programming12:07 - Testability13:51 - Where does “functional play a role in a typical CRUD app? Active Record, The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)CallbacksObject-oriented Programming (OOP)“Nouns are objects; verbs are methods” - Corey Haines22:49 - Coworker Receptiveness of Ruby + JavaScript Style of ProgrammingCodebase Inconsistency?“Merit”26:41 - Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) vs Monolithic ApplicationsRemote Procedure Calls (RPC)Representational State Transfer (REST)30:21 - Monoliths as a Necessary Stage in the Development of a Mature ApplicationElixirThe Phoenix Frameworkecto33:23 - The Repository Pattern; Terminology & NamingPatterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler37:40 - Structured Query Language (SQL)Avdi Grimm: The Soul of Software @ RubyConf Portugal '15The Sapir Whorf Hypothesis'Picks Dan Carlin's Hardcore History (Coraline) Stuff You Missed in History Class (Coraline) Buffer (Avdi) New Belgium Brewing Accumulation White IPA (Avdi) Saramonic SmartMixer Professional Recording Stereo Microphone Rig (Chuck) LaunchCode (Brad) Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson (Coraline) VAT19 (Brad)Special Guest: Brad Urani. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Dec 2, 2015 • 52min
236 RR Neo4j with Brian Underwood
02:10 - Brian Underwood IntroductionTwitter GitHub BlogNeo Technology02:55 - Neo4jNeo4j [GitHub]04:31 - Graph Databases vs Traditional Databases06:02 - Relations Have Directions06:58 - Modeling a Domain as a Graph; How it Workscypher13:25 - Built-in Query Processor15:04 - Neo4j.rb => ORM; OGMMongoid Influence18:06 - Declarative Schema 21:09 - The Ruby Client vs The Java Client25:48 - Use Cases35:53 - Who is using Neo4j?Ashley Sun Lending Club: Managing Microservices with Neo4j @ GraphConnect SF 2015 38:42 - Challenges as an Open Source Maintainer39:44 - Funding Neo4j41:00 - Working Abroad42:16 - Getting Started with Neo4jGetting Started with Neo4j and RubyNeo4j ScreencastsNeo4j.com/developer Neo4j [GitHub]Picks Elle Luna: The Crossroads of Should and Must (Jessica) Lynda Tutorials (Avdi) How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie (Avdi) Marked 2 (Coraline) Fund Club (Coraline) RubyTapas #334: Rspec Compound Matchers (Brian) Pyrosomes (Brian) Americapox: The Missing Plague (Brian)Special Guest: Brian Underwood . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Nov 25, 2015 • 53min
235 RR Processing Textual Data with Ruby with Rob Miller
Check out JS Remote Conf! 02:07 - Rob Miller IntroductionTwitter GitHub BlogBig Fish MarketingText Processing with Ruby: Extracting Value from the Data That Surrounds You with Rob Miller 03:11 - Why does text processing matter?07:32 - One-off Data Processing, Core CompetencyThe Perl Programming Language10:36 - Processing Less-structured, Unstructured Data12:45 - The Command Line Ruby's -e, -n and -p switchesAntipatternsClass: IO 29:15 - Abstractions and Refactoring35:12 - Munging: Tools and Practicestransproc 40:57 - Text Processing for Textual Visual ThingsConway's Game of Life42:57 - Parallelization 45:45 - Fanning DatajoinPicks Text Processing with Ruby: Extracting Value from the Data That Surrounds You with Rob Miller (Avdi) Data Is Plural by Jeremy Singer-Vine (Avdi) RubyConf 2015 Videos (Avdi) Papers We Love (Jessica) transproc (David) Does your data fit in RAM? (David) advisor (David) Swarm Simulator (Chuck) 15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck) Toastmasters (Chuck) All Remote Conferences (Chuck) transproc (Rob) Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby (Rob) Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) by William Poundstone (Rob)Special Guest: Rob Miller. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Nov 18, 2015 • 55min
234 RR Beyond Code with Jerod Santo and Adam Stacoviak
02:28 - Jerod Santo IntroductionTwitterGitHub BlogObject Lateral, Inc. 02:44 - Adam Stacoviak IntroductionTwitter GitHub Blog02:55 - The Changelog and Beyond Code (Background)5by5 Wynn NetherlandThe Changelog #172: GitUp, Git UX, and More with Pierre-Olivier LatourThe Changelog #145: 10+ Years of Rails with DHHThe Changelog #139: The Rise of io.js with Mikeal Rogers The Changelog #155: The Future of Node.js with Scott HammondJavaScript Jabber #147: io.js with Isaac Schlueter and Mikeal Rogers 13:50 - The Corporatization of Open Source16:00 - Sharing Stories of Fascinating People and Choosing ConferencesGophercon21:21 - Differences Between CommunitiesRon EvansRuby Rogues Episode #141: Teaching Kids with Ron Evans24:54 - Where are The Changelog and Beyond Code’s future plans?OSCONStrange Loop Questions:Who is your programming hero?If you had to relearn how to code all over again, what would you tell yourself?What’s the most exciting thing in software right now?31:57 - Interview Wishlist20 Years of Ruby with Matz20 Years of JavaScript with Brendan EichBill O’ReillyLinus Torvalds10 Years of Git with Junio HamanoApple: ResearchKitSara Chipps35:43 - Origin StoriesMitchell HashimotoThe Changelog #180: Otto, Vagrant, and Automation with Mitchell Hashimoto LEGO LeaguePicks Personality Insights (Coraline) The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill by Karla McLaren (Coraline) FamilySearch (Chuck) Snow (Chuck) DISTRICT Roasters (Adam) The Balvenie (Adam) Lismore Scotch (Adam) The Elixir Fountain (Jerod) Robot or Not? (Jerod) Song Exploder (Jerod)Special Guests: Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Nov 11, 2015 • 56min
233 RR Onboarding New Employees
02:36 - Responsibility and CommunicationSlack“Ask Anything”12:10 - Onboarding Experience for Remote Employees15:55 - Measuring New Employee Metrics 17:41 - Onboarding Onto a Team vs Onboarding Onto a Project20:51 - What it Means to be a Senior Developer29:20 - First Impressions and Team Member Categories33:26 - How do you decide what you spend time learning?40:57 - Code ReadingThe Web Platform Podcast Picks Private Internet Access (Avdi) Darkest Dungeon (Avdi) imprint (Coraline) The surprising truth about which personality traits do and don't correlate with computer programming skills (Coraline) TALON Bluetooth Wireless Headphones (Jessica) The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall (Jessica) Reading to your kids (Chuck) LinkedIn (Chuck) RubyTapas (Chuck) Elixir Sips (Chuck) Avdi's Newsletter (Avdi) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.


