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Ancient City Ruby 2013
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Russ Olsen - Insight, Intuition and Programming - Ancient City Ruby 2013
We programmers tend to think of ourselves as concrete, logical thinkers. We work from step 1 to step 2 through to step N. So we say. But real life is not like that: One minute you have no idea how the new design will come together and the next, well, there it is. One minute you haven't a clue as to why the program is doing that and the next it is all just obvious. And we have all seen code that is wonderful or horrible in some indescribable way. -
Nell Shamrell - Test Driven Development: A Love Story - Ancient City Ruby 2013
Practicing Test Driven Development (TDD) is like falling in love. It may first seem like all your development problems will disappear. However, it's not all unicorns and rainbows. You have to work at it, and keep working at it, for the rest of your development life. It is hard, and it's natural to question whether the value is worth the effort.
So why do it? Why would you bother going through all that trouble, dramatically changing the way you code, learn new domain specific languages, and initially slow down the rate at which you produce code when you have no time to lose?
This talk will answer the "why" by sharing my experience of passing through the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) as I learned TDD, and how acceptance grew to love.
You will walk away from the talk with techniques for maintaining and strengthening your relationship with TDD. Test frameworks and languages may come and go, but the fundamentals and value of TDD remain. -
Chris Hunt - Impressive Ruby Productivity with Vim and Tmux - Ancient City Ruby 2013
Impress your friends, scare your enemies, and boost your productivity by 800% with this live demonstration of Vim and Tmux. You will learn how to build custom IDEs for each of your projects, navigate quickly between files, write and run tests, view and compare git history, create pull requests, publish gists, format and refactor your code with macros, remote pair program, and more, all without leaving the terminal. Come prepared to learn and ask questions; this is serious business. -
Eric Redmond - Distributed Patterns in Ruby - Ancient City Ruby 2013
Scalability today is no longer a question of which programming language you use, or (largely) which web architecture you choose. Instead, scalability is a matter of how you handle two things: data distribution and message passing. This talk is over a few ways of solving both: distributed data structures and messaging patterns.