Dave, Luke, and Chuck dive into their development setups. They talk through the different Operating Systems, IDEs, text editors, command lines, desks, chairs, etc. we all use to build our Ruby and Rails applications. Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Luke Stutters Sponsors Forest Admin Dev Heroes Accelerator Links Empowering App Development for Developers |…

This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues. Here’s the original link https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/131-rr-how-to-learn/ Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial

Chuck has been fighting an authorization system in an application he’s building in his spare time. John, Dave, and Chuck dive into the current authorization gems and talk about their strengths and weaknesses and discuss how and when to use or build alternatives to them. Panel Charles Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Sponsors Next Level…

The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they’re doing and how to recognize them. They start out discussing how mid-level developers can move up and how developers can grow in more ways that technical skills. Panel Charles Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Sponsors Linode Next Level Mastermind Links Devchat.tv | Dev Rev…

We discuss the value of bootcamps and whether new developers should consider them. We also touch a little bit on related topics like interviewing. Panel Charles Wood John Epperson Luke Stutters Sponsors Next Level Mastermind  Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links The Eccentricities of Hammer and Nail by…

This is a repeat of Ruby Rogues Episode 428. Here’s the Link: https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/rr-428-arming-the-rebels-with-rails-6-featuring-david-heinemeier-hansson/

Richard Feldman – author of Elm in Action – joins the Rogues to discuss the advantages of Functional Programming and using Elm. Elm is a programming language that is a functional programming language built for the front-end that compiles to JavaScript. Due to its set of enforced assumptions, it leads to clean code and powerful…

Onboarding and leveling up Junior developers can be tricky. Emily Giurleo joins the Rogues to discuss the process for creating autonomous, competent developers when you hire someone who doesn’t have as much experience. She walks us through setting expectations for the new hire, giving feedback, and assessing their performance. Panel John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest…

Hilary Stohs-Krause addresses the things that we have strong emotional reactions to as developers that maybe we shouldn’t worry about them. She also leads a discussion with the panel around when fear is a good thing. Panels Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Hilary Stohs-Krause Sponsors Audible.com Links Cognitive behavioral therapy Win–stay, lose–switch Picks…

Paul Zaich from Checkr tells us about a critical outage that occurred, what caused it and how they tracked down and fixed the issue. The conversation ranges through troubleshooting complex systems, building team culture, blameless post-mortems, and monitoring the right things to make sure your applications don’t fail or alert you when they do. Panel…

Jesse Spevack tells us about a conference topic he gave where big mistakes were made at his company. Having lived through the choices that they made, we chat about the lessons learned. Links https://railsconf.com/2020/video/jesse-spevack-mistakes-were-made https://akka.io/ https://love.devchat.tv/you-dont-know-js-yet-challenge40653095 https://www.driftingruby.com/learning_paths/stimulus-js https://rails-hosting.com/2020/#javascript-rails https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrqIgMxLKkw Picks Luke Amerliorated Windows 10 John – Among Us Dave – Bamboo Flooring Elgato Key Light…

2,049 members of the Rails community from 92 countries kindly contributed their thoughts on tools, frameworks, and workflows in their day to day development lives. From these responses we hope to get an understanding of where Rails stands as a framework in 2020. Sponsors Audible.com CacheFly Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Charles Max Wood Links…