In this week's podcast, Ben Orenstein is joined by Chad Fowler, author, speaker, and CTO of 6wunderkinder. Ben and Chad discuss Chad's recent move to Berlin and 6wunderkinder, what a CTO does, getting back to coding, the early Ruby community, who Chad wants to hire, predicting success of new hires, and what makes a truly good developer, favorite interview questions, how Chad's interviewing process has changed over time, how age and experience can change your …
- Plataformatec Blog: How we disseminate our knowledge internally - And have fun doing it
- EdgeCase - Home: Obtiva Craftsman Swap, Day Four
- How Software is Built: Interview with Chad Lucien and Parag Sheth - Hillcrest Labs
- Meta | ateM: On my way to SXSW Interactive 2011!
- SKORKS: Ruby Access Control - Are Private And Protected Methods Only A Guideline?
- jimmy.thinking: IronRuby @ RubyConf 2009 - Part 1: Summary
…pitiful weakness, when it comes to precise reading, when I described prominent Rubyist Chad Fowler as a werewolf. I used the metaphor of the game Werewolf , which Mr. Fowler had popularized at that time, and which every Ruby developer who went to a single conference that particular year had heard of, thanks to Mr. Fowler popularizing it. This game involves killing werewolves. No actual players die, because it's a game. I recommended that the werewolf in question, namely …
- Andrzej on Software: Is CoffeeScript better than Ruby?
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 377 - Least necessary person
- Ruby Inside: The Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for May 2012
- New Relic: Community News: Reflections on RailsConf and More
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Vim, you complete me
- Global Nerdy: FizzBuzz Still Works
Thousands of developers have used the first edition of Rails Recipes to solve problems known to stop even experienced programmers in their tracks. Now, five years later with Rails 3.1 released, it's time for a new edition of this tested collection of solutions, completely revised by Rails master Chad Fowler.
- Lee Munroe: Goals for 2012
- DevChix: Displaying another app's data using HTTParty and Kaminari
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial News: Chapters 7 & 8 of the Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition are out ("Sign up" & "Sign in, sign out"))
- Smile, Breath and Keep trying: They say the first post is the hardest
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: This week in open source
- Merbist: Learning from Rails' failures
Thousands of developers have used the first edition of Rails Recipes to solve problems known to stop even experienced programmers in their tracks. Now, five years later with Rails 3.1 released, it's time for a new edition of this tested collection of solutions, completely revised by Rails master Chad Fowler.
- Lee Munroe: Goals for 2012
- DevChix: Displaying another app's data using HTTParty and Kaminari
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial News: Chapters 7 & 8 of the Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition are out ("Sign up" & "Sign in, sign out"))
- Smile, Breath and Keep trying: They say the first post is the hardest
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: This week in open source
- Merbist: Learning from Rails' failures
Chad Fowler's turbulence gem does just that.
The "complexity" is some arbitrary number of how tricky the code is to read; this can range from the amount of indentation to the amount of metaprogramming, and everything in between. This is computed using flog .
"Churn" simply refers to how often a file changes; a file that's changed a bunch has high churn. Highly-churned files should be easy to modify, since people do it a ton. This is computing …
- Practicing Ruby: Sexp for Rubyists
- Rails Inside: How To Score Your Rails App's Complexity Before Refactoring
Re-thinking Software Development Education - Chad Fowler discusses the thinking behind Hungry Academy .
JRubyConf 2012 - At least they've got a splash screen, and a date ( May 21-23 in Minneapolis).
Poltergeist - A PhantomJS diver for Capybara. The amount of effort we put into test tools continues to astound.
Coffee Cereal - Just what it says.
Sprite Cow - Very cool; give it a giant image of CSS sprites and then visually …
- Merbist: Developing a Curriculum
- Headius: Announcing JRubyConf 2009
- igvita.com: State of Ruby VMs: Ruby Renaissance
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: JRuby 2010: Year In Review
…Activities or experiences
Resources. What books, website, teachers, software, etc. will help them learn more effectively and efficiently
Assessments. How you would know if the activity was helpful?
Plans . Make your plans based on the practices you've determined you've needed.
On a related topic, Chad Fowler posted an interesting blog post about what LivingSocial is doing to change the software development education .
…Kent Back, Joel Spolsky, David Parnas, Greg Wilson, Chad Fowler, Kathy Sierra, Dave Thomas, Venkat Subramanian, Jeff Atwood, Tim Bray, John Udell, Avi Bryant, Dan Ingalls, Giles Bowkett, Leah Culver, Francis Hwang, Doug Crockford, Matt Knox, Jacqui Maher, Thomas Ptacek, Reg Braithwaite, Yehuda Katz, of course Richard M. Stallman, in whose auction I made the winning bid for a plush gnu, which I paid with my Microsoft credit card .
This year's …
- Giles Bowkett: Programmers: What To Do If You Get Fired
Chad Fowler has been updating the Pragmatic Programmers' Rails Recipes book to Rails 3.1 standards. It's in beta now (as an e-book) with the full print release expected in December 2011.
Rails 3.1.1 Released: A Touch Up and Fixes Release
Spree ( Open Source Rails E-commerce System) Raises $ 1.5 Million
Spree is a popular open source Rails e-commerce system and its creator has raised $1.5m in venture capital …
- Practicing Ruby: Issue #17: Interesting Ruby Hacker-Writers
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 294 — Buy more RAM
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #713
- Transcending Frontiers: Guest Series: Peter Cooper - Capybara-WebKit: Bringing WebKit to your integration tests
- Heroku: Heroku at RailsConf in Baltimore
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: See you at PostgreSQL West
After a successful conference last year, RubyConf India is back for the second time. Like last year, the conference will be held in Bangalore, India on the 28th and 29th of May . This year, the conference promises to be bigger and better with speakers like Yehuda Katz , member of the Ruby on Rails core team and jQuery core team, Chad Fowler author of "The Passionate Programmer" and "My Job went to India" (via video), Ola Bini core-committer to JRuby…
- RubyLearning Blog: 20+ Clojurians to Follow on Twitter
- The Usware Blog - Django Web Development: Great Indian Developer Summit 2010: A Review
- » Product Launch Blog: Mobile Internet Trends from Mary Meeker
- ZURB: Why Yahoo Is Struggling: Q&A with Former Head of Product Design
- How Software is Built: Interview with Joseph Smarr - CTO - Plaxo
- High Scalability: SQL + NoSQL = Yes !