Summary: Panel Arlen Walker (twitter blog) David Brady (twitter github blog ADDcasts) Josh Susser (twitter github blog) Katrina Owen (twitter github blog) James Edward Gray (twitter github blog) Discussion 01:57 - Arlen Walker Introduction PKWARE, Inc. 03:06 - Unofficial Rogue: Dave Newton 03:49 - Best of Parley: DHH episode 056 RR David Heinemeier Hansson 05:33 - Vote for your favorite Ruby Rogues Episode of 2012: rubyrogues.com/survey 05:58 - Learning From The Past On Chess and Software Development by Arlen Walker Model-view-controller 10:15 - Learning From The Rules Chess 047 RR Coding Disciplines with Dan Kubb 17:01 - Testing/Best Practices Head First books Head First Design Patterns By Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra 23:39 - Mentoring Pair Programming 25:49 - Learning From Other People’s Mistakes Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective by Diomidis Spinellis Software Tools by Brian W. Kernighan, P.J. Plauger Planning for the future; doing nothing 33:11 - Learning & Teaching Concepts The Gang of Four Book Skill Acquisition: The Dreyfus Model Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt The Desire to Learn 47:50 - Good Introductory Patterns Sugar-Free Ruby: An Experiment in Object-first: Steven! Regnarök The Composed Method Adapter Pattern Facade Pattern Factory Method Pattern Picks Lost Treasures of Infocom (David) Kyocera Mega Peeler (Katrina) Daemon by Daniel Suarez (Katrina) Freedom by Daniel Suarez (Katrina) Press Enter by John Varley (Josh) Cake Wrecks (Josh) Middleman (Josh) tcrayford / Values (James) solnic / virtus (James) The Verge at work: backing up your brain (How I use Evernote as a memory tool for deep reading, writing, and research) by Thomas Houston (James) Guide to Good Chess by C.J.S. Purdy (Arlen) The Search for Chess Perfection by C.J.S. Purdy (Arlen) Yusupov’s award-winning Training Course (Arlen) O’Reilly - Safari Books Online (Arlen) The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5 (Arlen) Next Week Book Club Episode: Sandi Metz - Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer Transcript JOSH: Okay, don’t tell the world, but I’m having headset issues today. JAMES: I’m having Skype issues; like, my mute button has apparently… [Laughter] KATRINA: That was beautiful. ARLEN: Poetic. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Jet Brains, makers of Ruby Mine. If you like having an IDE that provides great inline debugging tools, built-in version control, and intelligent code insight and refactorings, check out Ruby Mine by going to JetBrains.com/ruby] [This podcast is sponsored by New Relic. To track and optimize your application performance, go to RubyRogues.com/NewRelic] JAMES: Hey everybody and welcome to the Ruby Rouges podcast. Chuck is off this week, so I’ll be your host. With me today, I have David Brady. DAVID: 404 Poop metaphor not found. JAMES: Josh Susser. JOSH: Good Morning! JAMES: Katrina Owen. KATRINA: Good afternoon or evening from the Arctic! JAMES: And we have a guest Rogue this week, Arlen Walker. ARLEN: The button today is, “Mr. Garibaldi, get that police box out of my office, now!” JOSH: Very nice. James, I know you don’t run the show very often, but you forgot to mention yourself in the introductions. JAMES: Oh yeah. I am James Edward Gray, the second, who doesn’t run the show often enough to remember how to do an intro. DAVID: Today, we’re talking about ‘off by one errors’. JAMES: But today, the good news is I reclaim my tie for most episodes of Ruby Rogues recordings, so it’s a very special day. We have some announcements to make before we get into the show proper. Actually before we do that, Arlen,
