The Bike Shed
Summary: On The Bike Shed, hosts Derek Prior, Sean Griffin, Laila Winner, and guests discuss their development experience and challenges with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, admiration, or ire this week.
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Podcasts:
Derek and Sean talk trade schools, sneaky bugs, bad method names, before_filters, and the Superbowl.
Sean and Derek discuss thoughtful deprecations, backwards compatibility, and other joys of library maintenance.
Derek and Sean discuss various ways of taking the Rails out of your Ruby on Rails application, what folder to put your files in, and the difficulties and rewards of learning new programming languages.
Derek and Sean discuss hunting Rails performance regressions and techniques for improving performance in your web applications.
Sean and Derek take a fresh look at the tradeoffs in writing CoffeeScript and whether we should be using an ES6 transpiler instead.
Derek and Sean discuss Sean's commit access to Rails, what's coming in Rails 4.2, and how to go about making Rails code better.
Sean and Derek discuss lessons learned from following Sandi Metz' rules on a project and the overall impact of rules on code.