Cloud Out Loud | Ruby

Elaine Greenberg interviews New Relic Developer Evangelist Chris Kelly about conferences, getting developers to speak up, and the subtleties of San Francisco burritos. 0:36 All About Chris 3:30 Getting new speakers at conferences 9:30 San Francisco burritos vs. San Diego burritos 13:00 Being an evangelist at New Relic 15:00 What makes a great evangelist 16:00 Combining philosophy and technology 19:00 Chris' current projects 25:00 New Relic in 2013 28:00 The future of Ruby and Rails Chris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/amateurhuman Chris on GitHub: https://github.com/amateurhuman Chris' website: http://amateurhuman.com/ Links RubyFuza: http://rubyfuza.org/ Ruby There: http://rubythere.com/ Cheat: https://github.com/defunkt/cheat Jekyll: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll Rubygems: http://rubygems.org/ Riak: http://docs.basho.com/ RubyConf Australia: http://www.rubyconf.org.au/ Railsberry: http://railsberry.com/ Bacon: http://devslovebacon.com/ Jessica Allen's DIY Standing Desk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st9J29bS7ak OSCON: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013 Brian Ford's Toward A Design for Ruby talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BagNfTbXn3w Rubinius: http://rubini.us/

Michael Brodhead talks to Avdi Grimm of RubyTapas fame about joining Ruby Rogues, creating Exceptional Ruby and why he uses Emacs 1:00 All about Avdi 9:45 Advice for Python users learning Ruby 19:00 Exceptional Ruby 20:30 RubyTapas 24:00 Working on Ruby Rogues 27:00 Challenges with remote working 38:00 Why Emacs 52:00 What's next Avdi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/avdi Avdi on GitHub: https://github.com/avdi Avdi's website: http://about.avdi.org/ Links RubyTapas: http://devblog.avdi.org/rubytapas/ Expect-tcl: http://www.tcl.tk/man/expect5.31/expect.1.html Ruby Rogues: http://rubyrogues.com/ Wide Teams: http://www.wideteams.com/ yuuguu: https://www.yuuguu.com/s/home

Michael Brodhead talks to Jesse Storimer of Shopify about his upcoming book releases, and the company's roots in Rails. 0:45 All about Jesse 4:00 Where Jesse started 9:00 Upcoming projects, including writing about threading 11:45 The importance of testing 14:00 The process of self-publishing 17:45 Shopify's roots in Rails Jesse on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jstorimer Jesse on GitHub: https://github.com/jstorimer Jesse's website: http://jstorimer.com Links Working with Unix Processes: http://workingwithunixprocesses.com/ Working with TCP Sockets: http://workingwithtcpsockets.com/ Shopify: http://www.shopify.com/ Teamviewer: http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx Textmate: http://macromates.com/ Vim: http://www.vim.org/

Elizabeth Naramore interviews Chris Nelson of Gaslight about testing, using Backbone, and organizing QCMerge. 0:30 All about Chris 5:00 What's Next at Gaslight 11:30 The Gaslight Podcasts 13:20 Organizing QCMerge Chris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/superchris Chris on GitHub: https://github.com/superchris Chris' website: http://mysterycoder.blogspot.com Links QCMerge: http://www.qcmerge.com/ Gaslight: http://gaslight.co/home Mastering Backbone: http://www.masteringbackbone.com/ CoffeeScript: http://coffeescript.org/ Jasmine: http://pivotal.github.com/jasmine/ mocha: http://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/ CodeMash: http://codemash.org/

Our own Michael Brodhead talks to Angela Harms about pair programming practices, meditation and more. 0:25 All about Angela 11:15 Pairing, and how to improve 14:35 The role of an Agile Coach 25:00 Finding a balance 30:00 The benefits of meditation and how to do it Angela on Twitter: https://twitter.com/angelaharms Angela on GitHub: https://github.com/angelaharms Angela's blog: http://angelaharms.com/ Angela's website: http://myagileeducation.com/ Links LeanDog: http://leandog.com/ Brené Brown TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html Stop Stealing Dreams: http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/stopstealingdreamsscreen.pdf

Our own Michael Brodhead talks to Katrina Owen of Bengler about the joys of refactoring. 0:30 All about Katrina 6:45 Tools for distant pairing 10:00 Getting started with refactoring, adding tests 17:00 Isolating the method in a different environment 20:55 What's next for Katrina Katrina on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Katrina on GitHub: https://github.com/kytrinyx Links Therapeutic Refactoring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4dlF0kcThQ Bengler: http://bengler.no/ Petroglyph: http://rubygems.org/gems/petroglyph rabl: https://github.com/nesquena/rabl Riak: http://wiki.basho.com/ JSON: http://www.json.org/ Erlang: http://www.erlang.org/

Our own Jason Hansen interviews Vimcasts' Drew Neil about getting started with Vim, writing his book and playing VimGolf. 0:30 All about Drew 1:00 Collective Nouns 3:15 How Drew got involved with Vim 9:50 Writing the book 12:20 Honing your Vim craft, mastering the dot command 18:30 Other tools in Drew's toolkit 20:45 Advice for Vim users 23:20 The driving interest in Vim Drew's website: http://drewneil.com/ Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nelstrom Drew on GitHub: https://github.com/nelstrom Links Collective Nouns: http://all-sorts.org/ Vimcasts: http://vimcasts.org/ TextMate: http://macromates.com/ Sublime Text: http://www.sublimetext.com/ VimGolf: http://vimgolf.com/ Angular.js: http://angularjs.org/ Practical Vim (Drew's book): http://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim

Our own Jason Hansen interviews Steve Klabnik and Lindsey Bieda about taking on Ruby projects and the gender bias in programming. 0:00 All about Steve and Lindsey 2:50 Working on Hackety Hack 6:00 Social oppression 16:00 The urgency of the topic today 25:35 Codes of conduct becoming the norm Steve's Twitter: https://twitter.com/steveklabnik Lindsey's Twitter: https://twitter.com/lindseybieda Steve's Github: https://github.com/steveklabnik Lindsey's Github: https://github.com/LindseyB Steve's website: http://steveklabnik.com/ Lindsey's website: http://rarlindseysmash.com/ Additional resources Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/ Open Source Game Coding Competition: http://osgcc.org/ Hackety Hack!: http://hackety.com/ Shoes: http://shoesrb.com/ Girl Develop It: http://girldevelopit.com/ Geek Feminism: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents The Microagressions Project: http://www.microaggressions.com/ Programmers Being Dicks: http://programmersbeingdicks.tumblr.com/ Code of Conduct, Steel City Ruby: http://steelcityrubyconf.org/policies#antiharassment rstat.us: http://github.com/hotsh/rstat.us

Our own Anthony Accomazzo talks to Bendyworks' Jim Remsik about Open Source and planning conferences. 0:10 All about Jim 1:30 Jim's role at Bendyworks 2:30 Bendyworks' uniqueness 6:25 Talking at and planning conferences 13:30 Open (Source) Wounds 14:45 How to get started with Open Source Jim's website: http://bigtiger.github.com/ Jim on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jremsikjr Jim's GitHub: https://github.com/bigtiger Links: Madison Ruby User Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/mad-railers Bendyworks: http://bendyworks.com/ Madison Ruby Conf: http://madisonruby.org/ UXMad: http://uxmad.com/ Travis CI: http://travis-ci.org/ JRuby Conf: http://jrubyconf.com/ Windy City Rails: http://windycityrails.org/ Open (Source) Wounds: https://vimeo.com/45673516

Our own Jessica Allen interviews LivingSocial engineer and Hungry Academy graduate Elise Worthy about the program, learning Rails and living in Washington DC. 0:00 All about Elise 1:45 How Elise got into technology marketing 3:20 How to market to developers 4:45 Getting into Hungry Academy 6:15 A typical Hungry Academy day 8:20 Finding a good way to learn Rails 10:30 Avoiding burnout 13:30 Elise's new role at LivingSocial Elise's website: http://bebrandworthy.com/ Elise on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eliseworthy Links: Hungry Academy: http://hungryacademy.com/ JumpstartLab: http://jumpstartlab.com/ Rails Hotline: http://rails.pockethotline.com/ PeepCode: https://peepcode.com/ RailsCasts: http://railscasts.com/ jQuery: http://jquery.com/ D3: http://d3js.org/

Elaine Greenberg interviews Meghan Murphy, Community Manager at Twilio, about working with different language communities, learning to code and planning TwilioCon. 0:00 All About Meghan 1:20 How Meghan got into Community 2:11 Learning to code 4:00 Meghan's favorite events 9:05 Trends at conferences 10:30 Twilio con 14:50 being involved in different communities 16:10 The challenges of Community Meghan's website: http://about.me/meghanmurphy Meghan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/megmurph Links: TwilioCon: http://www.twilio.com/conference The Escapist: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/ TechStars: http://www.techstars.com/ Code for America: http://codeforamerica.org/ South by Southwest: http://sxsw.com/

Ines Sombra interviews Tom Wilkie, the founder and VP of Engineering of Acunu about Cassandra, how to deal with frequent issues and future projects. Tom on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/tom_wilkie Acunu: http://www.acunu.com/ Discussion * 0:20 All About Tom * 2:00 About Acunu * 3:30 Using Cassandra * 10:35 Contributing to the data/Cassandra community * 12:30 Areas that need improvement in the space * 18:20 Sneak peeks at Acunu * 20:00 Frequent mistakes in dealing with Cassandra Links * Camel - http://camel.apache.org/language.html * Hadoop - http://hadoop.apache.org/ * Cassandra - http://cassandra.apache.org/

Elizabeth Naramore talks to Jan Lehnardt and Tiffany Conroy about their weareallaweso.me project. We Are All Awesome: http://weareallaweso.me/ Tiffany on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/theophani Tiffany on Github: https://github.com/theophani Jan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/janl Discussion 0:00 All about Jan and Tiffany 1:30 How weareallaweso.me got started 8:00 The breakdown of the website, a call to action 13:00 Reactions and pushback 28:00 What's next? Links Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/ JSConf EU: http://2012.jsconf.eu/ devChix: http://www.devchix.com/ Programmers Being Dicks: http://programmersbeingdicks.tumblr.com/

Our own Ines Sombra interviews Andreas Kollegger about the present and future of Neo4j, how to get started, and a likely Graph Conference in San Francisco. Andreas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/akollegger Neo Technology: http://www.neotechnology.com/ Discussion * 0:00 All about Andreas * 3:00 Working with graphs * 5:00 Trends with Neoj4 * 6:00 Mistakes people make with Neo4j * 8:45 Areas of improvement for Graph Databases * 14:00 Getting started with Neo4j for Ruby and PHP * 15:45 What's coming up in the Neo4j world * 22:30 Neo4j user groups * 23:15 Cat's out of the bag: Graph Conference in SF Links * Neo4j - http://neo4j.org/ * Neograph by Max de Marzi - https://github.com/maxdemarzi/neography * NoSQL - http://nosql-database.org/

"You'll probably never be angry at Ruby." Michael Brodhead interviews 18-year-old Isaac Sanders, veteran intern of EdgeCase and Groupon about his Open Source projects, going to college and what inspired him to start programming. Isaac on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/isaacsanders Isaac's Website: http://isaacbfsanders.com/ Derick on Github: https://github.com/isaacsanders HTTParty: http://johnnunemaker.com/httparty/ Githubris: https://github.com/isaacsanders/githubris Emptying Your Cup: http://isaacbfsanders.com/blog/2012/05/07/emptying-your-cup-revisited/ Discussion *0:30 All about Isaac * 3:30 Contributing to Rails, Ruby, JRuby and Rubinius * 7:20 Getting started with programming * 13:30 Githubris and other projects * 16:30 Linworth's alternative program Links A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age: http://www.amazon.com/Whole-New-Mind-Information-Conceptual/dp/1573223085 Apprenticeship Patterns: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596518387.do Eloquent Ruby: http://www.amazon.com/Eloquent-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Series/dp/0321584104 Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: http://pragprog.com/book/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning Linworth Alternative Program: http://www.linworth.org/ Leandog: http://leandog.com/ EdgeCase: edgecase.com CodeMash: http://codemash.org/ Agile and Beyond: http://agileandbeyond.org/ RailsConf: http://railsconf2012.com/

Elaine Greenberg interviews Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls Code about impacting the community around you, getting girls involved and the current landscape of diversity in tech. Kimberly on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/6gems Kimberly's Website: http://about.me/kimberlybryant Black Girls Code: http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ Black Girls Code on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/BlackGirlsCode Discussion * 0:15 All about Kimberly * 1:10 How Kimberly got into programming * 2:15 Starting Black Girls Code * 5:30 The structure of Black Girls Code * 8:45 Getting girls engaged as early as possible * 13:30 Combining tech and civics * 14:40 the changing landscape of diversity in tech * 21: 50 Success stories * 24:00 Call for volunteers for Black Girls Code Links KidsRuby: http://kidsruby.com/ Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/ Alice: http://www.alice.org/ Code for America: http://codeforamerica.org/ RailsBridge: http://railsbridge.org/en Women 2.0: http://www.women2.com/ Black Founders: http://www.blackfounders.com/ Golden Gate Ruby Conference: http://gogaruco.com/

Elizabeth Naramore interviews Github Community Manager Kami Lott about her experiences in organizing events for developers, the importance of community, and open source knitting patterns. Kami on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/_kamzilla Kami's Website: http://kamilott.com/ Kami on Github: https://github.com/kamzilla Discussion * 0:10 All about Kami * 2:00 Why community is so important * 6:30 Github's open-office culture * 10:00 Getting into programming through community

Our own Ines Sombra interviews Mathias Meyer, the author of the Riak Handbook and Infrastructure Engineer at Travis-CI. Mathias on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/roidrage Mathias' Website: http://www.paperplanes.de/ Discussion * 0:20 All about Mathias * 2:45 The Riak handbook * 6:30 Using specific DBs for different use cases * 9:30 Postgres and why it's exciting * 14:30 The challenges that big data stores will face and the future of databases * 20:00 Advice for people getting started Promotions Buy the Riak Handbook here, and enter code EYDATA to get 20% off through May 17: http://riakhandbook.com/ Links * Riak - http://basho.com/products/riak-overview/ * CouchDB -http://couchdb.apache.org/ * MongoDB - http://www.mongodb.org/ * Redis - http://redis.io/ * Percona - http://www.percona.com/ * MongoDB Best Practices - http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/mongodb-best-practices/ * Travis-CI - http://travis-ci.org/ * Martin Fowler's Polyglot Persistence Blog Post - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PolyglotPersistence.html * Cassandra - http://cassandra.apache.org/

Tasha Drew and Ines Sombra interview Wedge Martin, Jimmy Zhang and Ken Bibb of Badgeville about using MongoDB, Redis, Engine Yard and future of the company. 0:40 All about Badgeville 2:20 Badgeville's technology stack 3:00 Starting and ramping up Badgeville 4:10 Using MongoDB 13:00 Using 10gen 13:45 The future of Badgeville Website: http://badgeville.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/badgeville Links MongoDB: http://www.mongodb.org/ Redis: http://redis.io/ MySQL: http://mysql.com/ Unicorn: http://unicorn.bogomips.org/ 10gen: http://www.10gen.com/ MongoDB Best Practices: http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/mongodb-best-practices/

Our own Michael Brodhead talks to Mike Perham, the maintainer and creator of Sidekiq. Listen in as they talk about Open Source, The Clymb, Motorcycles and Portland. 0:30 All about Mike 1:00 How Clymb works so snappily, upgrading to Rails 3.2 4:00 Sidekiq 11:00 Fibers making sense, when to use them 13:00 Using threads 16:00 Motorcycle racing 23:00 Programmers and meetings 29:00 SF vs. PDX: lifestyles and tech scenes Mike Perham on: Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/mperham GitHub: https://github.com/mperham Blog :http://www.mikeperham.com/ Links The Clymb: http://www.theclymb.com/ Sidekiq: http://mperham.github.com/sidekiq/ Sidekiq's Pledgie: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/16623 Dalli: https://github.com/mperham/dalli Girlfriday: https://github.com/mperham/girlfriday

Tasha Drew, our Success Manager interviews some of our awesome Support Engineers: John Yerhot, Adam Holt, Erik Jones, James Paterni. 1:15: Support’s different roles on the team 6:15: Spare time with support: user groups, open source 8:55: How customers scale 15:30: How support at EY has evolved, customer engagement Links John’s Twitter Tasha’s Twitter James’ Twitter Erik’s Twitter Adam’s Twitter RailsBridge New Relic Ruby Users of Minnesota

Our very own Danish Khan interviews Miso’s Josh Hull. 0:00 All about Josh 4:20 Miso’s show and tell 10:00 The Renee framework 18:00 Test frameworks and Ruby 19:00 CommonTest 24:00 Padrino vs Rails 3 Links About Josh Twitter Github Miso Padrino CommonTest em-spec Renee Burlington Ruby Conference

Elizabeth Naramore interviews Jen Myers, the founder of Cincinnati’s Girl Develop It chapter about being both a designer and a developer, teaching programming to beginners. 0:00 All about Jen Myers 0:55 About Girl Develop It 6:00 Advice for designers and developers 9:10 What the future holds for women in tech 12:50 Looking forward 17:30 Getting involved with Girl Develop It Links Twitter Website Girl Develop It

Engine Yard’s Ines Sombra interviews Twilio designer Nina Mehta about inspiration, working with HCI and the changing landscape of tech journalism. 0:00 All about Nina 1:00 HCI and Journalism 2:00 The Twilio Mission 4:00 Working with HCI and why it’s important 8:00 Nina’s influences 9:30 Personal projects 11:00 Challenges in design and HCI 13:30 HCI and Design expanding to different industries 15:00 Tips for budding designers 18:00 The current state of tech journalism Links About Nina Mehta Twitter Website Mentioned content Twilio Instagram Soundcloud

Chris Tosswill talks to Hotel Tonight CTO Chris Bailey about 0:15 All about Hotel Tonight 3:30 Testing and feedback at HT 4:50 HTML5 vs. Native 8:00 HT’s Rails stack (open sourcing to come!) 10:15 Backing up your data with Rails 11:15 HT is hiring! 13:00 Using Scala and Clojure 13:30 Coffeescript 15:00 Rails and the asset pipeline 16:20: Interfacing with hotels for rates Links About Chris Bailey Twitter Website Github

Dr. Nic Williams talks to Mitchell Hashimoto about Vagrant. 0:20 All about Mitchell 3:45 The OSS grant: Vagrant 6:00 How Vagrant works 7:15 Networking options for Vagrant 8:45 Who uses Vagrant? 12:00 When should you use Vagrant? 12:45 Fog and Vagrant 18:25 Kiip Links About Mitchell Hashimoto Twitter Website Github Vagrant

Our very own Michael Brodhead interviews Jonan Scheffler of G5 in Oregon, the creator of the walking desk. 0:00 All about Jonan 8:15 Jonan’s development process at G5 11:00 TextMate vs. Vim 12:45 Working from home vs. working at work 13:50 The origins of the walking desk 18:00 How the walking desk works 28:00 How to make your own walking desk Links About Jonan Scheffler Twitter Website Github G5

Danish Khan interviews Thomas Shafer, a developer at change.org 0:00 All about Thomas 0:30 The technology stack at change.org 1:40 Migrating to Rails 3.0 2:30 How they widgetized the Rails view 6:45 How they redesigned the site in 3 weeks on the user side 7:50 Split testing frameworks 9:40 Testing code path changes 12:30 What change.org does Links About Thomas Shafer Change.org profile Change.org official website

0:00 About about Erica Kwan 1:00 All about Square 3:15 Watching and playing videogames 4:30 Getting into Ruby 7:30 Erica’s development process: pairing and releasing 9:30 Ruby on Windows 11:40 Women in Ruby 13:14 “Don’t use development tools as side projects” 14:50 The Checklist Manifesto and its takeaways 16:20 Post-mortems 18:25 Testing for iOS and Android development Links About Erica Kwan Twitter: Github: Blog: Square RubyConf 2011 1. Erica Kwan’s presentation – Failing Fast: Stuff We Should have Done Better at Square

In this very special podcast, Paul Reinheimer interviews Engine Yard and Orchestra’s very own new PHP Community Manager, Elizabeth Naramore. 0:00 How Elizabeth got into PHP 3:00 How she got involved into the community 5:00 What she’s doing and how she’s interacting in the PHP community now 5:20 Mini/local PHP communities 6:20 Why the community is vital to the success of a project, especially open source 9:00 Advice for someone who wants to join the community 12:00 PHP and women 13:35 Mentorship and partnership programs 15:52 Advice for communities Links About Elizabeth Naramore Twitter: Blog. phpwomen oink-pug PHP Community Zend Framework symfony

0:00 About about Xavier Shay 0:38 Xavier’s introduction to open source 1:19 What is DataMapper? What are the goals of DataMapper? 2:52 Xavier’s work on the analytics team at Square 3:55 Technologies Square uses: Ruby, JVM, Cube, D3 4:50 Impressions of and use for various JVMs: Rubinius, MRI, JRuby 6:10 Xavier’s interest in speeding up Rails startup time 8:20 Protecting yourself from data integrity problems and the importance of using foreign keys 12:35 Considering tradeoffs of various databases 14:41 Xavier’s favorite talks from RubyConf 2011 Links About Xavier Shay Twitter: Github: DataMapper Square Cube d3.js Rubinius MRI JRuby Xavier Shay’s Blog Post “Speeding up Rails Startup Time” Xavier’s Workshop “Database is your friend” RubyConf 2011 1. Greg Moeck’s “Why You Don’t Get Mock Objects” presentation 2. Brian Ford’s presentation on improving tooling for Ruby “Nikita: The Ruby Secret Agent” 3. Dr. Nic’s “Threading versus Evented”

0:00 Who is Wes? 0:50 The humble beginnings of fog, the Ruby cloud services library 3:25 The current goal of fog and the state of the project 4:33 Ensuring a base level of fog functionality while catering to different cloud systems 6:03 Finally, fog 1.0! 7:19 Working through old assumptions leading up to fog 1.0 8:05 fog adoption and contributors 11:48 Additions and changes to fog coming soon 15:43 Good places to begin contributing to fog 17:30 fog, mocks and testing 19:47 Parallels between game design and usable software design 21:45 Wes’ ISRU asteroid mining game Links Wes on Twitter and GitHub fog website fog on GitHub In-Situ Resource Utilization

0:30 Introduction: Chris and Fancy 1:27 When to use Fancy 2:40 Fancy and Ruby similarities and differences 3:50 Chris’ favorite thing about Fancy 5:20 Why Fancy is built on top of the Rubinius VM 7:44 Other language implementors building on top of the Rubinius VM 8:31 Contributing to Fancy 9:35 The contribution model for Fancy; areas where contribution is welcomed 10:50 Getting started with Fancy 11:46 Chris’ interest in distributed computing 13:00 Working at Twitter: what Chris does, the technologies uses at Twitter 14:36 Batman or Spiderman? 14:55 If you were guaranteed not to fail… Links Christopher Bertels on github on Twitter Fancy Fancy website Fancy on github Alex Suraci on github Atomy project on github Clojure Cascalog Distributed computing Python Rubinius Rubinius Hack Day Storm – distributed and fault tolerant realtime computation Twitter Analytics

0:00 Introduction: runa and Zach 2:00 How runa leverages Clojure 3:41 What led Zach to Clojure 5:10 Wrapping libraries with Clojure 6:20 Clojure and Lisp 7:27 The evolution of graphics programming “Shader Programs” GLSL 10:30 Penumbra library 13:40 Create wrappers for libraries 16:15 REPL 18:20 Tools to work with Clojure 20:15 Phil’s starter kit Zach Tellman on: Twitter GitHub his blog Links runa Clojure 3VR C# OCaml Tom Fallhaber on Twitter GLSL Penumbra ClojureScript WebGL Phil Hagelberg “technomancy” on GitHub

0:30 – About TripLingo 1:55 – Vince’s role at TripLingo 3:28 – Metrics used in UX 4:49 – A/B testing for the TripLingo mobile platform 6:30 – Finding a balance between design and code 7:32 – Business-agile: One step ahead, no more, no less 9:21 – Life before TripLingo 10:30 – UX for the web versus mobile UX 11:37 – Why Vince loves mobile 4:18 – Resources for those interested in UX 17:05 – Understanding the user experience Links TripLingo Agile Software Development Crazy Egg Kiss Metrics Kiss Insights Morehouse College Smashing Magazine Steven Krug, Don’t make me think Steven Krug, Rocket surgery made simple More about Vince Baskerville Twitter Linkedin

2:00 How MVC is shifting from server side to client side 2:53 Backbone.js and CoffeeScript revolutionizing front end development 4:35 Seamlessly structuring client side code with Backbone.js 6:18 The origin of Backbone.js and why it fits naturally with Rails 8:34 How CoffeeScript changed Chris’ approach to front end development 9:00 CoffeeScript as a better syntax for JavaScript 10:00 Where to begin? CoffeeScript for n00bs 11:00 Jasmine: BDD for JavaScript 11:42 Why Jasmine + CoffeeScript = crazy delicious 12:30 The Beautiful Front End Code training course 13:37 How Steve Jobs and the Apple IIe shaped Chris’ introduction to programming 19:15 Chris’ interest in node.js 20:20 Rails 3.1 asset pipeline for managing dependencies in JavaScript 20:40 The npm_assets gem to add npm modules to your Rails asset path Links Training: Beautiful Front End Code with Backbone and CoffeeScript, November 7-8, 2011 in San Francisco, CA Backbone.js Jeremy Ashkenas of Backbone.js on GitHub CoffeeScript Jasmine Screw Unit RubyConf 2011 node.js Rails 3.1 asset pipeline Rails Guide npm_assets gem More about Chris Nelson: Twitter GitHub MysteryCoder blog Gaslight Software

Konstantin Haase discusses his involvement with Sinatra and Rubinius. 0:00 Intro, the momentum of Ruby in Europe 3:15 Opportunities to improve Ruby 4:30 BitHug project 4:55 Contributions to Sinatra 6:40 Involvement with Rubinius 10:50 Impression of the US 11:41 RubyConf 2011 “Message in a Bottle” talk 12:29 Portland love 13:08 Batman or Spiderman? Links: Konstantin Haase on Twitter and GitHub BitHug Sinatra Rubinius Golden Gate Ruby Conference (GoGaRuCo) 2011 Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference 2011 RubyConf 2011 Portland food carts Batman

Nathan Verril discusses using Rails as the backend for the NY Public Library centennial blended reality game. 0:00 Introductions 1:20 The concept of “blended reality” games 5:40 The New York Public Library “Find the Future” blended reality game 7:29 The technology behind the game 8:36 Why Rails was used for the back end of the game 11:43 Rails control over the implementation of the user interface 16:13 The “Heart Chase” for the American Heart Association project 19:45 Using the Engine Yard Cloud platform 21:46 Final thoughts Links: Natron Baxter Applied Gaming Find the Future NYPL Heart Chase Heart Chase Video

Gary Bernhardt of Destroy All Software speaks about his passion for test driven development. 0:00 Introductions 5:05 Rewriting unit tests 3:04 Destroy All Software screencasts and the focus on testing 7:30 Frameworks for Rails testing 10:44 The Test Driven Development (TDD) cycle in Rails 12:38 The ‘London School’ vs. the ‘Detroit School’ of Test Driven Development 14:24 Unix and Gary’s saying “half-assed is good enough if it’s the right half of the ass” 17:13 How Destroy All Software screencasts fit into the screencast ecosystem 18:27 Gary’s passion for the software building cycle, Object-Oriented Design (OOD), Test Driven Development 20:49 Resources and techniques for learning Test Driven Development 22:39 Learning via experienced peers and user groups Links: Gary Bernhardt on GitHub and on Twitter Cascadia Ruby Conf Cleveland Ruby Brigade Destroy All Software: Screencasts for serious developers Extracting Domain Objects screencast Factory Girl Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests RSpec Seattle Ruby Brigade The Unix Chainsaw – Gary’s Cascadia Ruby Conf presentation

Stephen Robinson of Avity and Eye & Mind Blog talks about entrepreneurship and Rails development. Moving from a developer/academic background to an entrepreneurial role Entrepreneurship vs. Development In-house vs. geographically distributed development teams Starting the Eye and Mind blog and goal Mobile development on the rise When to use Ruby on Rails vs. other languages Getting in touch with Ruby on Rails Training staff Links: A Brief History of Steve video Eye and Mind blog Dream Staffing Avity Appcelerator Engine Yard and PHP announcement The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (book)

Santiago Pastorino of WyeWorks talks about Rails and the Ruby community in Uruguay. 00:20: Introduction 00:45: WyeWorks 01:40: How Santiago started contributing to Rails 03:52: What work Santiago did for the Rails 3 release 05:36: Making the switch from Java to Ruby 07:20: Metaprogramming 09:32: Plans for RubyConf Uruguay 2011 10:50: Why should people attend RubyConf Uruguay 2011 Santiago Pastorino on GitHub Santiago Pastorino on Twitter

Santiago Pastorino de WyeWorks nos habla sobre su participacion en Rails Core y la comunidad de Ruby en Uruguay. " Santiago Pastorino on GitHub":https://github.com/spastorino Santiago Pastorino on Twitter WyeWorks RubyConf Uruguay 2011

Hal Helms discusses his Cold Fusion background and his interest in Ruby and Rails. 0:10 Introduction 0:55 Finding ColdFusion 03:05 Finding Ruby on Rails 05:10 Taking on Ruby on Rails as a ColdFusion programmer 07:40 Modern programming practices and changes in agility and velocity 10:33 Blogging about Ruby on Rails 12:00 Using agile in a consulting practice 13:55 Outreach to the ColdFusion community Links: Hal Helms Inc. Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl Ajax ColdFusion

This week on Cloud Out Loud Darcy Laycock discusses API Smith and RailsRumble. 00:10 Introduction 01:35 Balancing school, work, and volunteering 02:15 Current work at The Frontier Group 03:13 Coding time spent pairing vs. solo 04:32 Why Coffeescript? Why Javascript? 08:00 Ruby as Darcy’s first language 9:10 Languages used at University 11:40 RailsRumble 16:15 Genesis of API Smith library 20:40 Pebble 25:38 Smeg-Head Links: Darcy Laycock API Smith Building Structured API Clients with API Smith The Frontier Group Rails Rumble 2010 Ruby Summer of Code 2010 Youth Tree Pebble Socketstream Smeg-Head

Luis Lavena discusses Ruby on Windows and Ruby Installer. 00:05 Introduction 01:29 Ruby Installer for Windows 03:14 Difference Between Running on Windows vs Mac 05:22 Why Ruby for Windows? 07:42 What Can The Community Do To Make Ruby For Windows Better? 09:10 Using Ruby for Windows Without Windows 12:22 Why Ruby? 15:16 Windows for Ruby in the Enterprise Community 16:58 Involvement in RubyGems and RubyCore 20:55 Events Luis is Attending/ Ways to Reach Luis Links: Ruby Installer For Windows Area17 RailsConf 2011 Talk RubyGems RubyConf Argentina RubyInstaller Google Group

Cody Swann discusses Ruby on Rails 3.1, Node.js and the Rails project he worked on for ESPN. 00:10 Introduction 01:25 How Cody’s Experience at ESPN Shaped the Culture at Gunner Technology 03:10 Ruby on Rails taking root in large corporations 07:40 How Rails was received at ESPN 11:10 Scaling with Rails 14:15 Nginx extension 16:10 Cody’s recent projects 19:15 Projects in Node.js 21:10 Comparing Node.js to Rails 23:00 CoffeeScript 25:00 Rails 3.1 release Links: Gunner Technology MySQL node.js CoffeeScript Rails 3.1 Release Django

Arthur Chiu and Nathan Esquenazi of the Padrino core team discuss Padrino, Sinatra and Rails. 0:01 Introduction 01:40 What is Padrino? 04:30 Why Padrino? 11:25 How Arthur uses Padrino at GaiKai 12:00 How Nathan uses Padrino at Miso 16:33 Selenium tests on the iPhone simulator 18:51 How Padrino compares to Sinatra 21:30 Using Padrino and Sinatra 22:40 Padrino 1.0 release 23:40 Padrino recipes 26:25 Upcoming speaking engagements Links: Padrino GaiKai Miso Sinatra DataMapper MongoMapper Cucumber Selenium Sinatra Synchrony Padrino Recipes GoGaRuCo 2011 Ruby Web Conference 2011

Ian Dees discusses the Using JRuby book and JRubyConf. 0:00 Introduction 0:55 How Ian got involved with Ruby 2:15 Authoring books 2:55 The “Using JRuby” book 9:55 The JRubyConf conference series 10:35 Ian’s presentation at JRubyConf 2011 11:45 JRuby as a vehicle to explore computer science 18:40 The future of JRuby 19:50 Warbler 21:15 Why JRuby? Links: Using JRuby Bringing Ruby to Java Tektronix Ola Bini Bitescript Mirah Scala OSCON 2011 Open Source Bridge 2011 Keavy McMinn’s Must Try Harder presentation from JRubyConf 2010. JRubyConf 2011 JRubyConf Talks Redcar Warbler TorqueBox

Shane Becker discusses Rubinius and the inaugural Cascadia Ruby Conf. 00:15 Introduction 0:50 Background 05:30 Getting Started with Ruby on Rails 08:00 Friends and connections in Seattle 10:00 Cascadia Ruby Conf 17:45 Organizing regional events 23:00 Working at Engine Yard 29:30 Life as a remote employee 32:45 Recent projects 36:15 Rubinius 2.0 Links: Homesteading ZineDistro Farmhouse Conf GoGaRuCo Cascadia Ruby Conf Peepcode Developer Preview: Rubinius 2.0

David Keener discusses use of Ruby in the government space and the RubyNation DC conference. 00:00 Introduction 00:20 Background 00:50 General Dynamics 01:35 Government projects leveraging Ruby on Rails 03:30 Issues with using Ruby on Rails for Government Projects 04:50 Section 508 Compliance 05:20 Utilizing HTML5 06:50 Why Ruby on Rails for Government Projects? 08:15 Balancing Back End and Front End Work 10:15 Rails 3.0 and 3.1 10:45 Saas vs Scss 11:30 Ruby Nation Conference in DC 12:40 Advice for Conference Organizers 14:15 Challenges of Rails Development on Windows 16:15 Using Rails for Facebook Application Development 17:30 Eloquent Ruby 19:50 Git and GitFlow 21:10 Advice for Speakers at Ruby/Tech Conferences Links: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems General Dynamics Section 508 Saas Ruby Nation CoffeeScript Eloquent Ruby Review Buy Eloquent Ruby Git