Ruby Rogues

Also material like Ruby Rogues podcast ( http://rubyrogues.com/ ) contain great episodes to give a newcomer a tour of the ecosystem.

I'm a big podcast fan. Here are my favorite tech podcasts: * ATP: http://atp.fm * Giant Robots: http://podcasts.thoughtbot.com/giantrobots * The Changelog: http://thechangelog.com (disclaimer: co-host) * Ruby Rogues: http://rubyrogues.com * Debug: http://www.imore.com/debug Non-tech but also lovely: * We Have Concerns: http://wehaveconcerns.com * The New Disruptors: http://newdisrupt.org * The Incomparable: http://www.theincomparable.com * IRL Talk: http://www.irltalk.com

> with totally separated right and left hand keyboards The latest Ruby Rogues podcast discussed a new "Ergodox" split ergonomic keyboard with open hardware. You can build them yourself and customize them. http://ergodox.org/ The discussion is at 1:08:30 in Episode 147 (March 12, 2014) at http://rubyrogues.com/

I really like the Ruby Rogues Parley http://rubyrogues.com/parley/ and ruby weekly http://rubyweekly.com One is great just to get up to date and the other has really great discussions with all kind of people involved with Ruby in one or the other way.

Ruby Rogues podcast discussed it with the author (1hr mp3, transcript available): http://rubyrogues.com/043-rr-book-club-land-of-list-with-conrad-barski… Incidentally, the author (Conrad Barski) says in that discussion that Clojure is his favorite Lisp now and he finds it much more elegant than Common Lisp. I have a similar background (CL programming, now doing Clojure) and I agree.

Ruby Rogues: http://rubyrogues.com/ Ruby Tapas: http://devblog.avdi.org/rubytapas/

Russ is one of the best technical writers I've read. I've only gotten through half of this book, but I've read his design patterns book cover to cover and it is fantastic. He recently did an appearance on Ruby Rogues for their book club episode on Eloquent Ruby: http://rubyrogues.com/033-rr-book-club-eloquent-ruby/ That's definitely a good primer if you on the fence about purchasing this book.

"I’ve been for them because they aim to help people learn to code and try to keep costs low compared to a similar degree from a university. I’ve been against them because most just take my books, teach my material, then rip off students for $15k programs that don’t actually get anyone deployed." Isn't that what traditional education/university courses do?... but over a much longer period of time and more money? Light is the best disinfectant, I hope your post spark some strong discussion because that rarely happens with universities and the stakeholders. I wonder very strongly what happened to the students of Livingsocial's Hungry Academy experiment led by Jeff Casimer and JumpStartLabs in 2012. It was a initial class of 8-15 or something with promised contracts at the end. LivingSocial chose not to continue the program and I believe gschool(galvanize) spawned off of that model. Jeff talking about his vision for teaching people to code on ruby rogues in 2012 http://rubyrogues.com/050-rr-hungry-academy-with-jeff-casimir/ I started Dev Bootcamp in early spring 2013, signing up after lamenting that http://pragmaticstudio.com/ in Reston, VA was 2-3,000 for a 3 day course. It just made sense in comparison. I've found Dev Bootcamp to change and evolve as time moved due to student feedback(I parttime coached students there to stay in touch). The curiosity to learn everything and knowing how to find the answers was my favorite takeaway from the bootcamp.

Many of the author's complaints read similar to this one: Now, people compare Backbone to Cappuccino, or Ember to Rails. Cappuccino, Backbone, and Rails all serve completely different purposes, and saying you don’t need one because you have another is just asinine. Three questions: 1. Who are these people that compare those three frameworks? 2. Why do you let them get under your skin? 3. What does that have you do with you "being done with the web" (or web community)? I don't understand any of these. So some morons want to compare apples and oranges? This has nothing to do with "the web" and crops up in all industries and spheres of life. Welcome to humanity, enjoy your stay. As best I can tell, my lack of empathy must come from a different definition of "web community". When the author complains about how The community has tossed out everything we’ve learned from the last 30 years of building applications in favor of being able to put something together quickly with complete disregard for maintainability or extendability. part of me wants to agree with him, flip a table, and join the melee [1]. But at the same time, I was listening to the Ruby Rogues episode with Sandi Metz last night [2]. There is a 20-minute discussion about utility of does-it-all frameworks, their use in a project, the types of projects you use them for, and the point at which all projects will necessarily need to have designed a better solution, or massively adapted the framework, to better fit…

http://rubyweekly.com/ http://rubyrogues.com/

I don't want to misrepresent him, so I'll just point you to these links: - http://signalvnoise.com/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to-be-so-damn… - http://rubyrogues.com/056-rr-david-heinemeier-hansson/ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LfmrkyP81M

Gobot also has sister libs in Ruby and Node! I have used the Ruby one a bit and it's a ton of fun. I've had a bear of a time with the bluetooth support under Ubuntu though. I guess I need to try Gobot with my Sphero ASAP. Ron Evans (One of the gobot devs from the blog post linked in beliu's post) was also named a Ruby Hero a few days ago. He was tremendously inspiring in this podcast on teaching kids to program [1]. I dug it so much I wound up demoing a sphero and a "talking fruit keyboard" at a local career day a few months after I heard him. [1] http://rubyrogues.com/141-rr-teaching-kids-with-ron-evans

I use to ride the train from San Francisco to Sunnyvale and was able to read a lot of books. I had to be careful though because if I got too into the book I would miss my stop. Audio Books: Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin -- https://librivox.org/the-origin-of-species-by-charles-darwin/ The Art of War by Sun Tzu -- https://archive.org/details/art_of_war_librivox Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift -- https://archive.org/details/gulliver_ld_librivox Podcasts: Ruby Rouges (ruby programming talks/programming in general)-- http://rubyrogues.com/ StarTalk with Neil Degrasse Tyson (Space, comedians, science) -- http://www.startalkradio.net/

Those concerns voiced with 2.0's refinements before release were why they were marked as experimental, and were the driving force behind the changes made to refinements between 2.0 and 2.1. On the 2.1, non-experimental version, he has said: "What we’re going to have as refinements in 2.1 is a paired down version that I think still provides the bulk of the functionality people wanted out of the feature without most of the pain that I was concerned about originally." http://rubyrogues.com/124-rr-jruby-with-charlie-nutter/

The Ruby Rogues podcast had an episode devoted to starter projects recently: http://rubyrogues.com/070-rr-what-is-a-good-starter-project/

Laurent Sansonetti (creator of RM) was on the Ruby Rogues podcast (http://rubyrogues.com/055-rr-rubymotion-with-laurent-sansonetti/) and made a compelling case for the current pricing scheme. I won't paraphrase Laurent, but if you're interested, listen for yourself.