The Ruby Rogues

The Rogues talk to Richard Schneeman of Heroku.Special Guest: Richard Schneeman. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

The Rogues talk to Sean Cribbs and Bryce Kerley of Riak.Special Guests: Bryce Kerley and Sean Cribbs. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

The RubyRep brings you a collection of sound clips from the Rogues Retreat in Austin, Texas this past July. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

The Rogues Discuss their latest book club book: Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer with Brian Marick.Special Guest: Brian Marick. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

The Rogues discuss Consulting and Product work with Steve Proctor.Special Guest: Steven Proctor. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

The Rogues talk to Ilya Grigorik of Google about the ins and outs of HTTP 2.0.Special Guest: Ilya Grigorik. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Lucas Dohmen joins the Ruby Rogues to talk about his winning Ruby Golf submission: Sharktime, and also shares his experience with Computer Science Education and Functional Programming.Special Guest: Lucas Dohmen. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

The Rogues discuss threading with Emily Stolfo.Special Guest: Emily Stolfo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

In this episode we discuss the implications of the recent NSA leaks and the role programmers play in the acquisition of data.Special Guest: Steve Klabnik. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

2:05- Are you born with talent?5:45 - Valuing effort, not ability9:20 - Getting into the discomfort zone13:30 - Do you need talent to become great?Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell 24:15 - 10,000 hours research26:50 - Practice theories30:00 - Practice by writing small methodsBrian Merick: “Programming with that Disreputable Part of Your Brain” from Rocky Mountain Ruby 2013Kathy Sierra35:35 - Developing intuition in programming41:00 - How to start learning something new (and determine what to learn)49:30 - Making mistakes53:00 - Strategies for learning by reading“Teach Yourself a New Programming Language in 21 Minutes (Or 2-3 Years, It Depends)” by David Brady72:00 - Memorization77:20 - “If you want to learn something, give a talk on it”Picks: Mastery by Robert Greene (Katrina) The Five Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward D. Burger and Michael Starbird (Katrina) So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport (Katrina) “The First 20 Hours- How To Learn Anything” TEDx Talk by Josh Kaufman (Katrina)“The Making of a

Aja Hammerly talks to the Rogues about distilling data into a graphical representation that communicates the meaning and message of your data.Special Guest: Aja Hammerly . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Ben Orenstein (@r00k) from the Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots podcast joins the Ruby Rogues to talk about adjusting and sharpening your development tools for better flow and easier development.Special Guest: Ben Orenstein. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

The Rogues talk to Avdi Grimm about his book Confident Ruby Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Erik Michaels-Ober joins the Rogues for his long overdue appearance for winning the Twitter Golf contest from last year. Erik maintains the Twitter gem and rails_admin gem among many others.Special Guest: Erik Michaels-Ober. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Sam Livingston-Gray from Living Social joins the Rogues to talk about pair programming and how to do it remotely.Special Guest: Sam Livingston-Gray. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

A discussion about David Brady's "Loyalty and Layoffs" blog posts. The rest of the Rogues weigh in with their opinions. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Charlie Nutter joins the Ruby Rogues to talk about the intricacies, power, and uses for JRuby.Special Guest: Charlie Nutter. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Piotr Solnica joins the Ruby Rogues to discuss the upcoming ORM called ROM. It looks to be very promising in that it separates the persistence layer from the object and much more. Special Guest: Piotr Solnica. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Kenneth Kalmer comes on the show and discusses the ins and outs of long running processes and when and how to manage daemons in Ruby.Special Guest: Kenneth Kalmer. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.

Adam Keys from LivingSocial joins the Rogues to talk about the tradeoffs between working for a company on their product and being a freelancer or consultant.Special Guest: Adam Keys. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.