094 RR Robust Ruby with Ara T. Howard

01:48 – Ara T. Howard Introduction

• CTO of codeforpeople.com
• dojo4
• NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• ahoward / map
• ahoward / dao
• ahoward / slave

10:11 – ahoward / rq (Ruby Queue)

• Jeremy Hinegardner (@copiousfreetime)
• NOAA Jet Supercomputer
• NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
• Change Detection In Satellite Observed Change Detection In Satellite Observed Nighttime Lights: 1992 – 2003

15:04 – Hurricane Katrina Image Processing

• Linux Clustering with Ruby Queue: Small Is Beautiful – Ara T. Howard
• Katrina images generated with Ruby – Ara T. Howard
• Google Search: katrina dmsp ara t. howard results
• Guy Decoux

24:21 – Making Ruby Robust

• SQLite
• Dining Philosophers Problem
• Caching
• Ruby on Rails Guides: Asset Pipeline

33:00 – Thinking and mapping problems (Design)

• An XP Guy
• Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grimm
• rescue Object vs rescue Exception

48:53 – Testing and Documentation

• ahoward / rego
• ahoward / testy
• Readme Driven Development – Tom Preston-Werner

Book Club

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler: Read along with us! We will be discussing the book with Martin himself and the episode will air on Wednesday, March 20th, 2013.