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Popular brain researcher Dr. John Medina returns to talk about his new book Brain Rules for Baby. Part I started the discussion. This completes it. Medina holds joint affiliate faculty appointments at the University of Washington School of Medicine, in its Department of Bioengineering, and at Seattle Pacific University, where he is the director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research. Sponsored by PeepCode Sponsored by PeepCode Screencasts. Check out our new screencasts on Node.js, Raphael SVG and the upcoming series on Rails 3!

Popular brain researcher Dr. John Medina returns to talk about his new book Brain Rules for Baby. His previous interviews about the brain (part i, part ii) have been our most popular episodes since they were released over two years ago. Medina holds joint affiliate faculty appointments at the University of Washington School of Medicine, in its Department of Bioengineering, and at Seattle Pacific University, where he is the director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research. Sponsored by PeepCode Sponsored by PeepCode Screencasts. Check out our new screencasts on Node.js, Raphael SVG and the upcoming series on Rails 3!

The designer and developer of the Dribbble social design network talk about its implementation and the ideas behind it. Mentioned Dribbble Dan Cederholm (simplebits) Rich Thornett (frogandcode) Going full time on Dribbble Handcrafted CSS PeepOpen application with icon designed on Dribbble

Director of the Boston-based consultancy Assembly and author of The Merb Way, Foy Savas talks about why sometimes Rails sucks and suggests what we might do to improve the framework, make it easier for new people to learn, and continue to popularize the Ruby language. Interviewed by Rails evangelist Gregg Pollack at RubyConf Taiwan. Links Mentioned in the Show Foy’s website Rubyconf Taiwan Datamapper The Merb Way

Ruby veteran James Edward Gray II talks about Ruby daemons, TextMate 2, and Rails 3. Also Mentioned James Edward Gray’s blog Scout App Red Dirt Ruby Conf Books by James Edward Gray h4. Sponsor Read the PeepCode blog article on text editors and learn Cucumber with our newest screencast. Bandwidth and hosting generously provided by RailsMachine

A developer from Sunlight Labs talks about using Ruby to deliver open government data in the United States. Also Mentioned Sunlight Labs Sunlight Foundation Luigi Montanez h4. Sponsor Check out the new PeepCode Blog and new PeepCode Screencasts on jQuery, jQTouch and Cucumber…soon.

Michael Slater and Christopher Haupt talk about their hosted CMS Webvanta. Also Mentioned Boating SF Michael Slater Christopher Haupt Learning Rails Podcast & Screencast

Nathaniel Bibler interviews Bryan Helmkamp about Arel, the new query engine behind ActiveRecord in Rails 3. Also mentioned Arel Bryan Helmkamp Ruby 5 Podcast Envy Labs

Interviews from the Rails Underground conference in London. Also Mentioned Taryn East HyperActiveResource Scottish Ruby Conference Edge Case h4. Sponsor PeepCode Screencasts: Meet jQuery

An entrepreneur talks about the scrum management process and a new site his company built in Rails to help companies and individuals manage projects. Also Mentioned ScrumNinja Six Scrum Lessons Every Rails Developer Should Know h4. Sponsor

Interviews with Yehuda Katz, Ed Allan, Joe Fiorini, and Blue Box Hosting. Also Mentioned Yehuda Katz Joe Fiorini Blue Box Hosting h4. Sponsor

Rich Kilmer talks about MacRuby and Aaron Quint discusses Sinatra. From GoGaRuCo in San Francisco. Also Mentioned MacRuby Rich Kilmer Sinatra Aaron Quint GoGaRuCo h4. Sponsor

The developers of Intuit’s community site talk about building Rails applications. Also Mentioned Intuit Community Site Brian Morearty Thomas Hanley h4. Sponsor

The members of Highgroove Studios talk about the technical details behind an update to their Rails-based server monitoring application. Also mentioned Highgroove Studios Scout XMPP Ara T. Howard h4. Sponsor

The Senior Software Architect in the Interactive Newsroom Technologies group talks about deploying time-sensitive news applications with Rails. Sites mentioned NYTimes Open Blog Reconstruction Votes Election Election Map Election State Detail Election Words Madoff Claimants Superbowl Inauguration Photos SXSW Jacob Harris on GitHub Jacob Harris on Twitter h4. Sponsor

Ryan Bates of RailsCasts on his day job, bowling, and the Rails Activism team.

Rack and Sinatra committer Ryan Tomayko talks about the benefits of Rails, the value of middleware, and the future of deployment. Also Mentioned Ryan Tomayko Rack Sinatra Heroku h4. Sponsor

Giles Bowkett, Ruby Inside Top Presenter of 2008, talks about success, startups, goals, and music. Sponsor

Jeremy McAnally talks about his open source projects, documentation, and productivity. Sponsor

Monty Williams of Gemstone recounts the history of the MagLev Ruby interpreter project. From RubyConf 2008 in Orlando. Sponsor

Conversations from RubyConf 2008. With Matt Aimonetti of Merb, Blake Mizerany of Sinatra, and Josh Peek of Rails. Sponsor

Jacqui Maher talks about the technical challenges involved in writing Rails apps for a medical team in Malawi. Pat Allan encourages Rails developers to volunteer their time and skills. Developers from Intridea discuss hacking Rails internals, UI design, and mid-end development. From RailsConf 2008 in Berlin. Also mentioned: Baobab Health h4. Sponsor PeepCode Thinking Sphinx PDF by Pat Allan PeepCode CouchDB Screencast

Charles Nutter of JRuby, from erubycon. Sponsor

Jim Weirich, from erubycon. Sponsor

Ian Dees talks about his new book on testing GUI applications. His company uses Ruby to test handheld devices. Sponsor

In person with Hampton Catlin, Anita Kuno, Wayne Seguin, and Nathan Weizenbaum, plus a cameo appearance by Jay Phillips. From the RubyFringe conference in Toronto. Sponsor

Consulting firm Contrast talks about their upcoming app, Exceptional. Mike Gilbert of XLCRS talks about using Rails to solve everyday problems. From Dublin, Ireland. Sponsor

Interviews with the developers of Apricado, New Relic RPM and Phusion Passenger. Sponsor

Adam Keys interviews Geoffrey Grosenbach about his blog, PeepCode, and the bass. We also introduce the term for 2008: show the whale. Sponsor

Developers from GitHub and Powerset with a short appearance by photographer James Duncan Davidson. For even more about GitHub, check out their Gitsplosion! podcast. Sponsor

Garrett Dimon talks about his new company Next Update and their bug tracker Sifter. Sponsor

Ryan Singer of 37signals talks about Rails, design, and “touching the magic wand.” From RailsConf at the Heroku booth. Sponsor

The founders of Biznik talk about business networking, their BizJam Conference, and Rails. Sponsor

A Seattle-based entrepreneur and developer talks about starting businesses. Also mentioned: Ben Curtis blog Catch the Best RailsKits Agile Web Development directory Sponsor

Consultant Ryan Norbauer talks about outsourcing vs. offshoring, social networks, and his RubyRags t-shirt site. Also mentioned: Ryan’s article on social networks at Vitamin Sponsor

Nathan Sobo of Pivotal Labs talks about Treetop, a cutting-edge parser written in Ruby. Sponsor

Derek Haynes and Andre Lewis on consulting and their side projects Scout and Placeshout. Sponsor

John Chaffee of BusyMac talks about how Rails helps their 2-man Mac development shop handle customer service easily. BusyMac received a MacWorld Best of Show award and recently passed the 10,000 sale mark. Sponsor

Ian Mcfarland of Pivotal Labs in San Francisco talks about their internal project management app, pair programming, and company culture. Sponsor

We follow Part I with a discussion of the brain in relation to sleep and gender. Somewhere, I remember a mailing list post where Why the Lucky Stiff claimed to have a dream and subsequently changed the implementation of Shoes. Does anyone have the link to that? Brain Rules website (Contains references and video samples from the DVD) Brain Rules book (Amazon affiliate link) Sponsor

Developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina talks about his new book, Brain Rules. Learn about the need for exercise, attention-grabbing events, and our inability to multitask. Brain Rules website (Contains references and video samples from the DVD) Brain Rules book (Amazon affiliate link) See also Part II. Sponsor

An eBay-funded microfinance company connects small investors with entrepreneurs in the developing world, powered by Rails. MicroPlace Muhammad Yunus Pierre Omidyar

What if your server resources were metered like your electric bill? Heroku has set out to build a metered cloud computing deployment solution for Rails. Stick around for the last 10 minutes where we talk about the economics of startups. Heroku Y Combinator Trust Commerce

A conversation with Chris Wanstrath and PJ Hyett of Err Free consulting in San Francisco. We talk about starting a profitable side project, sending and receiving email, git source code control, using JQuery, and code interfaces to databases. Also mentioned: Err the Blog FamSpam github god ambition JQuery

The co-founder of Engine Yard and author of the upcoming book on Rails Deployment talks about Engine Yard’s recent $3.5 million funding for open source Ruby projects such as Rubinius. From San Francisco.

James Cox, former PHP team member and current Rails consultant. From London. Also mentioned: Get the scoop on Rails 2.0 from Ryan Daigle’s PDF minibook at PeepCode.

Ryan Daigle talks about his blog, the upcoming Rails 2.0, and freelancing with style.

Hal Fulton, author of The Ruby Way. From RubyConf in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Robert Stevenson interviews Stuart Halloway at eRubyCon in Ohio.

A London-based developer talks about keeping government accountable in New Zealand and around the world. Also mentioned: They Work For You NZ The Sunlight Foundation