01:15 – Announcements
- Katrina Owen/Angela Harms Episode
- Declaring Learning Bankruptcy
- Ruby Newbies Contest
06:53 – A Good Starter Project / First Ruby Projects
- PROM Image Preprocessor
14:11 – The Ruby Quiz
- Mini CMS
- Airport Mystery Shopping Rails Site
- Sequel
- Frat Girl – Email Management System for Support
23:27 – Authoring OSS
26:05 – PDI: Please Do Investigate
26:40 – Take Care to Properly Estimate the Size of the Change You Seek to Make
- Simpler Projects are Better
29:25 – ToDo Apps/Blogs
- Boilerplate
- Command Line App, maybe not Rails
- Heroku
- Simple Command Line Apps
39:05 – What should I work on?
- Do something you find interesting.
- ERB
- DRb
- MUD (Multi-user Dungeon)
- Chat Server w/ Combat
45:50 – Ideal Starter Project
- Overlaps Your Skill Area & Goes a Little Beyond
46:19 – Application for Streeteasy.com
- Ruby Sort
- Call sort_by – It Does a Schwartzian Transform
- Don’t Be Too Emotionally Connected to Your Starter Project
