Teach Me To Code Podcast

Download this episode Subscribe in iTunes Remember to leave feedback by calling 801-753-8279 or emailing podcast@railscoach.com. Conferences are a great way to learn and meet people. The conferences I've attended: Mountain West RubyConf RubyConf RailsConf Tips for getting the most out of conferences: Put away your distractions. Sit next to and meet people you don't know. Take the opportunity to meet with the "greats" in your community. Talk to people between sessions and find out what they're working on. Find open source projects to contribute to. Submit a proposal to speak. Ask people what worked and what didn't work for them to avoid the same problems. Take advantage of the conference energy to get things done. Collaborate or program with other developers. Talk to the speakers who cover a topic that interests you. Go to the meetups or Birds of a Feather meetings. Find community movements occuring outside the conference. Review the basics. Find a job or increase marketability. Conferences in the Ruby and Rails Community RailsConf RubyConf MountainWest RubyConf acts_as_conference Lone Star Ruby Conf Ruby Hoedown Windy City Rails GoGaRuCo Aloha on Rails

Download this Episode During the interview with James, we talked about several things. You can find him on twitter at http://twitter.com/JEG2 James ran the RubyQuiz for 3 years and wrote Best of Ruby Quiz Volume One (Pragmatic Programmers) and Textmate: Power Editing for the Mac (Pragmatic Programmers). Mountain West RubyConf James' talk at Mountain West RubyConf 2009 is available at ConFreaks Scout Pomodoro Technique Pomodoro Technique Illustrated: Can You Focus - Really Focus - for 25 Minutes? (Pragmatic Life) (the book) Tokyo Cabinet NoSQL Perl Quiz of the Week Code Katas Project Euler Ruby Talk List FasterCSV Mastering Regular Expressions (the book) Ruby 1.9 Perl Beginners Perl Monks Lonestar Ruby Conference James' Blog Things James said to look up: Hash#fetch Hash#Array Regular Expressions Also, I just added the podcast to Podcast Alley. Here's a link to My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-0b125abf61f52ffc632391fdcb8adbb5} NOTE: All links to books are affiliate links for which I will be compensated.

Download this Episode This week I talked to Ben Johnson, who built the authlogic and memorylogic (among many other) libraries for the Ruby and Rails communities. He talked to me about the side business he's running, what he looks for in developers who come work for him, and about being a passionate programmer. If you want to keep up with him and what he's doing, you can check out his blog or his github profile. He also said that he'll be at RailsConf this year in Baltimore.

Download this episode One of the things that has helped me the most in learning to program well is having a good mentor. I didn't necessarily choose mine, but I've had some excellent mentors. Here's what made them great for me. They had been where I was at. They were at where I wanted to be. What they did that was so powerful. They explained topics and details when I needed to apply them. They didn't solve my problems for me. They encouraged me to explore the areas I needed to learn about. They provided structure for the environment I was learning in. They provided an example of where I wanted to be. Where do we find them? Users' Groups Work Online Communities IRC Forums Blogs We find their code We contribute to their code We use their code Conferences

Download this episode This episode is my interview with Gregg Pollack. We had a great discussion about podcasting and podcast styles, users' groups, what makes a good developer, Envy Labs, and a whole lot more. Here are links to several of the things we discuss. Rails Envy Podcast Viral Videos Orlando Ruby Users Group Envy Labs Ruby5 My post about Ruby5 and Rails Envy Dave Thomas' Code Katas RubyQuiz Utah Ruby Users Group Railsbridge Rails Activists RailsCasts Yehuda's Aloha on Rails talk Yehuda's Mountain West Ruby Conf talk Ruby Heroes Scaling Rails Screencast Rails Github Repository Music: Midnight Composition by Al Phlipp and The Woo Team