171 RR Evaluating Yourself

02:42 – Evaluating Yourself 03:13 – Figuring Out Your Momentum Life Balance

• NoSQL
• Tournament Chess

08:09 – Learning New Things 09:42 – How To Learn

• James Edward Gray: Are We Teaching the Best Things?

10:20 – Other Types of Thinking

• Social Skills
• Pair Programming

12:57 – “Thinking Like a Computer”

• Measuring Success with Numbers

19:56 – Measuring Progress

• James Edward Gray Youtube Channel
• MUDs
• Shipping
• Barriers
• Saron’s Blog – Archives

27:14 – Areas of Interest

• Intrinsic Motivation
• Rust
  • Rust IRC Channel

29:33 – Other Metrics or Stats for Evaluation

• Typing Tutor
• Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition
• User Story
• Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) by Jon Bentley

34:22 – Getting Over Self-Doubt

• Social Coding
• Steve Klabnik
• Illusory Superiority

38:51 – Feedback

• Qualitative Feedback
• RSpec
• Binary Tree
• Inject

42:54 – Measuring Perspective

• Social Skills

47:27 – The Rogues Evaluate Themselves

• Swift
• Riak
  • 139 RR – Riak with Sean Cribbs and Bryce Kerley
• Verse
• Kindle

53:39 – Evaluating Non-Technical Skills

• Communication
• Keeping Journals
• zenspider
  • Ryan Davis

Book Club

Refactoring: Ruby Edition: Ruby Edition (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) by Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, and Kent Beck

Refactoring in Ruby by William C. Wake and Kevin Rutherford

Next Week

Extreme Deployment with Badri Janakiraman and Florian Motlik