Summary: Panel Josh Susser (twitter github blog) Avdi Grimm (twitter github blog book) James Edward Gray (blog twitter github) David Brady (blog twitter github ADDcasts) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Intro to CoffeeScript) Discussion 02:05 - Developer Environments 02:40 - Standing desks Health benefits Physical fitness 04:51 - Exercise balls Keeps core engaged Prevents slouching 06:29 - Uses for a Mac Pro Telepresence machine Main development machine 08:40 - Multiple monitors 11:25 - Background noise Podcasts Music 15:42 - General noise 17:43 - Working from different environments Restaurants Coffee shops Libraries 22:02 - Knowing what works for you and adapting your environment 23:18 - Office environments versus home environments 25:35 - Desks: cluttered/uncluttered 29:08 - Ergonomics Split keyboards Posture and positions 35:46 - Software and programs that contribute to productivity Balsamiq Skitch Pivotal Tracker Guard tmux Continuous Integration CCMenu 41:08 - Light f.lux Fluorescent lighting Ambient lighting Programming outside Matte/Glossy displays Screen brightness & keyboard backlighting 48:50 - Contrast/color themes Tomorrow theme Zenburn Molokai for Vim Molokai for Emacs OSX Dark Terminal Theme for Mac Snow Leopard 52:35 - Programming in Windows 55:37 - Mac vs Linux Why Linux: Avdi Grimm MacPorts Homebrew 01:07:28 - Pomodoro Technique Pomodoro Technique Illustrated Picks Vitamix 6300 (Dave) Xiki (Avdi) Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 8 on Twitter (Avdi) Hashrocket Lunch n' Learn - Defining Object-Oriented Design: Sandi Metz (James) Apple iTunes Match (James) The Trouble with the Electoral College: C.G.P. Grey (Josh) National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (Josh) Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: Sandi Metz (Chuck) Ergotron Arm (Chuck) Book Club Book Pick Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails: Paul Dix Transcript JOSH: As everyone watches the Presidential Debates tonight and gets despondent over the state of national politics, I want you to contrast that with the terrible state of affairs here in San Francisco, where our huge political issue this week is the fact that one of the supervisors wants to ban public nudity to stop the old naked dudes from hanging out in the town square of Nicastro. AVDI: Why is that a problem? [laughter] DAVID: All I want to know is are they going to do anything about the roller-skating hat cocker on the Embarcadero? [Hosting and bandwidth provided by The Blue Box Group. Check them out at bluebox.net] [This episode is sponsored by JetBrains, makers of RubyMine. If you like having an IDE that provides great in line debugging tools, built in version control and intelligent code insight and refactorings, checkout RubyMine 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.] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to episode 74 of the Ruby Rogues Podcast. This week on our panel we have Josh Susser. JOSH: Hey, good morning everyone! CHUCK: We have Avdi Grimm. AVDI: Hey, this is Avdi, Head Chef at rubytapas.com. CHUCK: We also have James Edward Gray. JAMES: We have had complaints about our jokes, so I am not opening with a joke this time. CHUCK: We also have David Brady. DAVID: I just want to start with a warning, [unintelligible] CHUCK: I am Charles Max Wood from devchat.tv. I am actually working on an introduction to CoffeeScript webinar or online training that I am going to be doing. You can get it at introtocoffeescript.eventbright.com. Alright, well so let’s get this started. So, we are going to be talking about our Development Environments. JOSH: Do you mean IDEs? [laughter] CHUCK: Yeah,
