092 RR Picksplosion!




The Ruby Rogues show

Summary: Panel Avdi Grimm (twitter github blog book) David Brady (twitter github blog ADDcasts) James Edward Gray (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:25 - Unofficial Rogue Avi Flombaum of the Flatiron School Picksposion! 02:11 - Remote Work Why I Love Being A Programmer in Louisville (or, Why I Won’t Relocate to Work for Your Startup: Ernie Miller (James) Stack Overflow - Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely: David Fullerton (James) Wide Teams Podcast 06:30 - Noel Rappin (twitter blog) Windy City Rails 2012: Let’s Make Testing Fun Again - Noel Rappin (Avdi) 030 RR Software Craftsmanship with Noel Rappin 030 JSJ Learning & Teaching JavaScript with Noel Rappin 11:05 - I Can’t Believe It Hasn’t Been Picked, Picks Programming Ruby 1.9 (3rd edition): The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide (David) Programming Ruby 1.9 (Amazon Affiliate Link) The Ruby Toolbox (James) 17:46 - Old Apps (Chuck) 19:14 - More Books The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan The Ruby Way by Hal Edwin Fulton 20:58 - Vimium (James) 22:57 - Kama Pootra: 52 Mind Blowing Ways to Poop by Daniel Cole Young (David) 24:21 - Reminder Services Contactually (Chuck) FollowUp.cc (Avdi) 27:39 - Picks the Rogues have benefitted from Marked (James) Wordoid (James) Wordnik (James) 30:35 - TV-related Picks Downton Abbey (Chuck) Sherlock (James) Big Bang Theory (James) Community (James) 33:00 - RubyTapas (David) 35:20 - ‘Big Bang Theory’ star creates TV show about real prodigies: Dara Kerr (Avdi) 36:21 - Code-related Picks Iteration Inside and Out (Avdi) html-pipeline: Chainable Content Filters (James) copiousfreetime/heel (James) mojikun (James) 40:33 - Technology Picks Edison Electric Table - ELE-TB Series (David) Aeron Chair by Herman Miller (Chuck) A standing desk for $22: Colin Nederkoorn (Chuck) Zoom H4n Handy Portable Digital Recorder (James) Roland R-05 Studio WAVE/MP3 Recorder (Chuck) My Podcasting Setup: Charles Max Wood (Chuck) 58:23 - Lone Star Ruby Conference (James) 58:42 - Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver of the 10th Doctor (Chuck) 01:00:51 - Take A Newbie Shooting: Sharing Our Passion for Firearms (David) Book Club Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler: Read along with us! We will be discussing the book with Martin himself and the episode will air on Wednesday, March 20th, 2013. Next Week Exploits with Patrick McKenzie Transcript DAVID:  I think he’s dead. Should we just divide up his stuff now? [Laughter] CHUCK:  Go through his pockets and look for loose change? JAMES:  That’s what I was thinking, yup! [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.] [This podcast is sponsored by New Relic. To track and optimize your application performance, go to RubyRogues.com/NewRelic.] [This episode is brought to you by WAZA, Heroku’s one day celebration of art and technique. Join Matz, Aaron Patterson, and more on February 28th in San Francisco. Use exclusive code ruby-rogues-13 for $50 off registration at WAZA.Heroku.com.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 92 of the Ruby Rogues podcast. This week on our panel, we have Avdi Grimm. AVDI:  Hello. CHUCK:  We have David Brady. DAVID:  Hello. CHUCK:  We have James Edward Gray. DAVID:  Hello from the Skype interface. CHUCK:  And I'm Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv. Real quick, I just want to mention again that I'm going to be doing this Rails Ramp Up Course on Ruby on Rails. It’s kind of a mix between the course and coaching. And you can go sign up at RailsRampUp.com. I know that not everyone’s interested but if you can help me get the word out even if you're not at the place where you want to learn Rails, I’d really appreciate that. So,