Episode 49: The psychology of work :
In this week's episode, recorded at RailsConf 2013, Ben Orenstein is joined by Gregg Pollack and Nathaniel Bibler from EnvyLabs and codeschool.com. Gregg shares what he's learned running his business, when not to be transparent, how to deal with compensation, and how the EnvyLabs compensation structure has changed over the years. Nathan, Gregg, and Ben also discuss Code School, yearly payments to a subscription, making …
- Envy Labs: Rails 3 Beautiful Code
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: [RailsConf 2010] - Video Interviews - Part 2
- Riding Rails - home: Rails 3.0: Beta 4 now, RC in days
- Ruby News: Red Dirt RubyConf 2010
- PeepCode Products: Ruby 1.9 Part II
- Jason Seifer: Rails Envy
Episode 47: Two hours per minute :
In this episode, recorded at RailsConf 2013, Ben Orenstein is joined by Ryan Bates of RailsCasts. Ben and Ryan discuss Ryan's transition to working on RailsCasts full time, staying up to date on the latest technology, how his coding style has changed, maintaining his open source, the process of producing RailsCasts, why he doesn't speak at conferences, the latest technology he is excited about, and much more
- Blog on Applicake's ideas, Ruby on Rails and Internet start-ups: Top 10 blogs read at Applicake HQ
- redemption in a blog: Railscasts Xcode theme
- David Bolton Strikes Again: My Vim Setup
- Patrick Lenz: Syntax Highlighting for a Rails Blog
- Ruby Inside: Rails 3.0 Released (And 22 Free Videos To Bring You Up To Speed)
- Riding Rails - home: Rails Has Great Documentation
If I were running a conference, here's how I'd approach the talk selection process:
Skip the call for proposals entirely.
Advise those interested in speaking to prepare both a 3-minute and full version of their talk.
At the start of the conference, candidate speakers give their 3-minute lightning talk.
Other attendees rate each speaker immediately after they present.
After this first round, the top N speakers are offered the chance to present their full talk.
- Opscode Blog: Announcing #ChefConf 2013
- Ruby Inside: This Week's Ruby News: Ruby 1.8.7-p370, Rubyist Text Editor Poll Results, MagicRuby and More
- interblah.net: Weeknotes 1805
- Article RSS Feed: December 2010 Meeting
- MySQL Performance Blog: Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 - News from the Committee - Part 1
- RubyFlow - Search for jruby: JRubyConf. Back in Europe - Berlin, 14 - 15 August
DHH's latest post on DI is bad writing and thinking, and I'm concerned about its effects on the Ruby community.
Through much trial and error, I've learned that every programming concept has advantages and disadvantages; nothing is purely good or bad. Global data can be good. Reducing duplication can be bad. To present anything as purely one or the other tends to be the realm of novices who haven't yet grasped the subtleties involved. Worthwhile discussion of programming ideas takes a fairly neutral view, and focuses on tradeoffs.
- Ruby Inside: A Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for July 2012 in 97 Links
- Merbist: I did it wrong
- ZURB: New Amazon Homepage Performs Significantly Worse
- RubyLearning Blog: RPCFN: Cycle Tracks (#12)
- Comments on: blog: Link dump for May 30th
- The Majestic Sea Creature: I always have insanely huge goals
…New York, New York]
Ruby engineer at profitable established company at Concierge Live [ New York, New York]
Last but not least..
Write Faster Rails Tests: Insights via E-mail
Get an infrequent e-mail from Thoughbot's Ben Orenstein packed with battle tested advice for speeding up your Rails apps' tests.
- The Majestic Sea Creature: Ruby Mendicant: Progress Report #11
- Tea-Driven Development: Hexagonal Rails - Introduction
- RubyLearning Blog: Why don't you use and review these useful Ruby Gems?
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1001
- alexjsharp.com - Home: Goals for 2010
- Giles Bowkett: Rails Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript
Thoughtbot's Ben Orenstein takes a brave approach of ditching slides and going with live coding to boldly refactor where no presenter has refactored before.
Amazon Adds Ruby Support to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk service provides a way to quickly deploy and manage apps within AWS's cloud of services ( EC2, S3, etc.) It now supports Ruby apps by using Phusion's Passenger (I hope Amazon are paying Phusion handsomely for …
- Plataformatec Blog: Eager loading for greater good
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryGirl's Cucumber Steps
- The Pug Automatic: SendGrid metadata and Rails
- A Fresh Cup: What's New in Edge Rails #27
- Viget.com Blogs: A Better Way to Add a ‘selected' Class to Links in Rails
- New Relic: Rails Machine Adds APM from New Relic to its App Management Platform for Rails
…Marc-André Cournoyer, the RailsEnvy guys, the Pragmatic Programmers, Ben Orenstein, Antonio Cagiano, and others. I quickly found it very easy to make money with a programmer career coaching program and video sales on a wide range of topics.
Speaking of these videos, a few months back, I put out a video called Internet Marketing For Alpha Geeks . A lot of people told me they liked the video and learned from it, which I'm very happy to say always happens with my videos; however, …
- Giles Bowkett: "Starcraft 2 Secrets" eBook: Caveats
- Giles Bowkett: Sinister Satanic Sales Spectacular!
- How Software is Built: Interview with Chad Lucien and Parag Sheth - Hillcrest Labs
- Opscode Blog: Christopher Brown (VP of Engineering, Opscode, Inc.) interview at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2010
- Jason Seifer: Microsoft deems Ruby on Rails a competitor
- High Scalability: GEO-aware traffic load balancing and caching at CNBC.com
…Peepcode, Pragmatic Screencasts, Envycasts, Amy Hoy, Ben Orenstein, 37Signals' first book, Marc-André Cournoyer - but by and large, the VC culture still reigns supreme.
The VC culture annoyed the hell out of me a few years ago, back when I still thought it at least made sense; but today, with the knowledge of so many simple, proven ways to make money on the Internet, the VC culture mystifies me. In a sane world, it'd be normal for everybody to establish a simple, …
- Opscode Blog: Tuesday Crunchie Nominations for Chefs
- Kalzumeus Software: What My User Survey Taught Me
- How Software is Built: Interview with Chad Lucien and Parag Sheth - Hillcrest Labs
- Rails Dog: Using Rack to Combine Sinatra and Word Press
- Yan Pritzker: Hulu's long form ads and the future of pull advertising
- Junior developer: Applying the Rails XSS vulnerability patch
Given the required level of familiarity with vim, it's also weird that Ben spends the first 5 minutes of the screencast emphasizing the importance of being able to type quickly and presenting tips on how to bring up your words per minute.
But There's More Good Than Bad..
Once Ben gets on to the Vim and Rails specific knowledge, though, his style is well suited to the screencast format. The sound quality is good and Ben is very easy to understand. He avoids needless jargon …
- Codeulate.: New In factory_girl: Callbacks
- Jerrett Taylor: My Vim setup for Rails development on OS X
Adarsh Pandit, Ben Orenstein, George Brocklehurst, Harlow Ward, and Prem Sichanugrist are giving talks:
Tuesday at 11:30am: TDD Workshop: Outward-in Development, Unit Tests, and Fixture Data
Tuesday at 12:20pm: TDD Workshop: Mocking, Stubbing, and Faking External Services with Harlow Ward and Adarsh Pandit :
thoughtbot are creators of the open-sourced testing tools FactoryGirl and Shoulda Matchers.
We recognize Test-Driven Development…
- ronin coder: Django for Rails devs
- New Relic: Take a deep dive tour of New Relic monitoring for Python/Django, now officially available today!
- High Scalability: Strategy: Caching 404s Saved the Onion 66% on Server Time
- DevInterface Blog: How to install MySQL and Rails on Osx Snow Leopard
- Opscode Blog: Deploy Django CMS with Chef
- Videos related to 'Ruby on Rails - Part 1: Hello World': django: Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines