My Ruby Story

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan.TECH– tech/MRS and use the coupon code “MRS.TECH” and get a 1 year .TECH Domain at $9.99 and 5 Year Domain at $49.99. Hurry!CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Stefan Wintermeyer Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Stefan Wintermeyer, a freelancer developer from Germany focused on Ruby on Rails, Phoenix Framework, and web performance. Listen to Stefan on the podcast Ruby Rogues here. Stefan got into programming when he was 8 years old. He started with Basic and Pascal and moved onto other languages. Even though he never received a formal programming education, he liked solving problems with software and was able to make money programming so he became a developer. Currently Stefan is working on a project called vutuv which is an open-source alternative to LinkedIn. He has also written books and gives talks, ones that are well know in the Ruby community are Learn Rails 5.2: Accelerated We

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plank.TECH - Go.tech/MRS and use the coupon code “MRS.TECH” and get a 1 year .TECH Domain at $9.99 and 5 Year Domain at $49.99. Hurry!CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Sebastian Sogamoso Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Sebastian Sogamoso, a software developer from Colombia. Sebastian now lives in Panama City and works for CookPad. Listen to Sebastian on the Ruby Rogues podcast here. Sebastian first started coding in high school with Pascal. Upon graduating with a Systems Engineering degree from National University of Colombia, he continued developing in Ruby.js. Sebastian will be a track director in RailsConf2019 which will take place in Minneapolis at the end of April. He is also on the organizing team for RubyConf Colombia scheduled to take place in Colombia in September 2019. Links RR 349: The Overnight Failure with Sebastian SogamosoSebastian's Websitehttps://medium.com/@sebasogaSebastian

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small planTriplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonusCacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Genadi Samokovarov Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles chats with Genadi Samokovarov, a software developer who loves using Ruby. Genadi has also been a guest on the podcast Ruby Rogues, you can listen to it here. Genadi was born in Bulgaria and grew up playing video games. During his high school years he was the “go-to guy” for computers in his neighborhood. In his university years he got interested in Python and afterwards in Ruby. He then applied for Google Summer of Code and continued developing his coding skills there. He is now working for the company Receipt Bank. Genadi is also on the organizing team for the Balkan Ruby Conference which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria in May 2019. Links RR 386: Web Console Internals with Genadi Samokovarovhttp://gsamokovarov.com/https://libraries.io/github/gsamokovarovhttps://twitter.c

Sponsors: Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small planCacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest:  Josh Justice Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Josh Justice, software engineer at Big Nerd Ranch, a Mobile app development, training and design firm. Listen to Josh on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode. Josh wanted to be a software developer ever since he was very young, his father worked in IT so he had access to computers from very early on. After studying computer science, he started working as a developer in JavaScript, PHP and in Ruby. His specialties include Ruby on Rails, Ember, Vue.js and React Native. Josh really enjoys content creation for other developers and is currently streaming React Native TDD Fridays 2pm EST at Twitch.tv. Josh and his family recently adopted a baby boy in addition to his two daughters. Listen to the podcast to hear more about this miraculous adoption story! Links Ruby Rogues 391: Frontend Testing Like a Rub

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small planCacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest:  Chandan Jhunjhunwal Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Chandan Jhunjhunwal, a tech lead at Coupa Software from Pune India. Listen to Chandan on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode. Chandan studied electronics in university but was hired as a software engineer at IBM after university and really liked programming. He then continued working as a developer for a startup before founding his own startup. Chandan is now working for the procurement department at Coupa Software. Chandan feels that no matter what your background is, nothing is too hard and  if you like something you should dive in and do it. He also points out that especially in technology there is always a learning curve. Links Ruby Rogues 314: DynamoDB on Rails with Chandan JhunjhunwalChandan's GitHubChandan’s Twitter Chandan's LinkedIn https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/https://www.faceb

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small planCacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest:  Vladimir Dementyev Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Vladimir Dementyev, a backend engineer at  Evil Martians and a mathematician who found his happiness in programming Ruby and Erlang. He is also the author of Author of AnyCable, TestProf and ActionPolicy. Listen to Vladimir  on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode. Vladimir studied mathematics in university and started programming with ActionScript in an internship during his university education. He then went onto developing with Ruby and became heavily involved in open source projects. He is originally from Moscow but is currently based out of Brooklyn, NY working for Evil Martians, a web development consultancy company that supports open source projects. Vladimir will be a speaker at the RailsConf 2019. Links  Ruby Rogues: Cables, Concurrency, and Ruby 3×3 with Vladimir DemEvil MartiansVlad

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small planCacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest:  Radoslav Stankov Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Radoslav Stankov, the head of the engineering team at Product Hunt. Listen to Radoslav  on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode. Radoslav was interested in technology from a young age, he was recruited by a company at a youth community center for IT support. He was interested in web development so he started to coding in PHP.  He then started learning Ruby on Rails and started working for a company which sells trucks where he built the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system  in Rails. The user interface for this ERP system was very successful and Radoslav stresses any software that can’t be used by the client can not be considered very good. Radoslav then started working for a startup which failed but there he met the team  which eventually led him to the job at Product Hunt. Radoslav and Char

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan.TECH– tech/MRS use the coupon code “TECH” and get a 1 year .TECH Domain at $9.99 and 5 Year Domain at $49.99. Hurry!CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Sihui Huang Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Sihui Huang, a software engineer at Gusto, which is a startup that works with payroll, benefits, and HR for companies. Listen to Sihui on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode. Before taking programming classes in university, Sihui didn’t know anything about programming. In fact, she had originally planned to study accounting and switched her major on the first day of classes. Read Sihui’s blog piece “From Hello World to Six Job Offers From Facebook, Airbnb, Salesforce…” to learn more about a step by step account of her programming studies. Sihui did a couple of internships to figure out exactly what kind of a work environment she wanted to be in and Gusto fit that environment the best. S

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan.TECH– tech/MRS use the coupon code “TECH” and get a 1 year .TECH Domain at $9.99 and 5 Year Domain at $49.99. Hurry!CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Luca Guidi Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Luca Guidi, Senior Software Developer at DNSimple and creator of Hanami ( previously Lotus framework) from Italy. Listen to Luca on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode and this episode. Luca grew up playing video games and took his first programming class when he was 12. His dream was to become a programmer. After studying Information Technology, Luca started working as a programmer and Ruby felt the most natural to him. He found that Rails was a great to start off applications with but not necessarily maintain with. So he created Ruby web framework Lotus which he renamed as  Hanami after IBM created software named Lotus as well. Luca is currently working on Hanami preparing for a 2.0 alp

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” to get 2 months free on Sentry small planTripleByte offers a $1000 signing bonusCacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Andrew Mason Summary Charles Max Wood introduces the newest panelist for Ruby Rogues, Andrew Mason. Andrew shares his background and how got into computer programming. Andrew and Charles share their stories of first using ruby and the sense of wonder they felt. Andrew talks about what he has done in Ruby and shares his excitement to learn while on Ruby Rogues. Links https://github.com/andrewmcodeshttps://twitter.com/andrewmcodeshttps://www.andrewmason.me/https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/ Picks Andrew Mason: https://undraw.co/Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Charles Max Wood: Modern medicine & antibioticsInflatable donut pillowshttps://purple.com/seatcushionsThe Kingfountain series by Jeff WheelerThe Covenant of Muirwood Series by Jeff WheelerPomodoro Timer 

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Kerri Miller This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Kerri Miller who is a developer who resides in Seattle! Chuck and Kerri talk about her background, how she got into programming, software, and much more. Check it out! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:00 – Get A Coder Job! 0:52 – Chuck: Hello! Our guest is Kerri Miller – say Hi! 1:00 – Guest: Hi! 1:06 – Chuck: Tell us who you are and where you work? 1:13 – Guest: I live in Seattle. 1:36 – Chuck: We had you on past episodes RR 191 and RR 261. Tell us about your work! 2:10 – Guest: I have been a remote-worker for about 5 years now.  2:30 – Chuck: Let’s focus on you and how you got into programming and what you’ve contributed into the community.  How did you get into programming? 2:45 – Guest: I had early access to computers. We also had the Thermal Printer! I went into theater and dance and then came back into programming. Kerri talks about sound boards that were using computers through her art world.

Panel: Charles Max Wood   Guest: Olivier Lacan    This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Olivier Lacan who works for Pluralsight remotely while living in France.  Chuck and Olivier talk about his background, his education, and how he got into Ruby. Check it out!    In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:00 – Get A Coder Job!   0:55 – Chuck: Hi! Can you update people where you are at now?   1:21 – Guest: I work on the Pluralsite remotely from France. (Check it out here!)   2:20 – Chuck: It feels like Pluralsite is offering new things for students. That’s nice!    2:30 – Guest: Yes, everyone has their own unique way to learn new things. Whether it’s through podcasts, reading, etc.    3:25 – Chuck.   3:32 – Guest.   4:01 – Chuck: RR 364 was the last episode that you’ve been on.    4:20 – The guest is talking about the changes that have occurred in only 7 months!   4:58 – Chuck: Let’s talk about you! How did you get into programming?   5:12 – Guest: Frustration is how I got into

Panel: https://twitter.com/cmaxw?ref_src=twsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Eauthor Guest: https://twitter.com/markbates?ref_src=twsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Eauthor This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with https://github.com/markbates who is a consultant, trainer, entrepreneur, co-founder of PaperCall, and an author! Chuck and Mark talk about https://www.papercall.io/speakers/markbates GO, Ruby, JavaScript, and helping others within the community. Check out today’s episode to hear more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:00 – http://getacoderjob.com/ 0:59 – Chuck: Hi! I saw we were on Episode 198! We talked about Ruby and different communities. 1:25 – Guest: Yes, we were talking about the conference we were trying to start, which never took-off! 1:50 – Chuck: You talked about how you are working with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language) now. You are an author, too! 2:06 – Guest: That came out in 2009. My 2nd son was born the day before th

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Michael King This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Michael King who is a developer, an enthusiast for natural languages, developing, and mathematics. Charles and Michael talk about his background, and past/current projects that Michael is working on right now. Other topics of discussion include Ruby, Rails, Audacity, PHP, RubyMotion, and React Native. Check it out! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:00 – Get A Coder Job! 0:58 – Chuck: Say “hi” Michael! Introduce yourself. 1:12 – Michael: I am a big language learner: Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese. I learned through T.V. and music. I decided to build an app that helped with languages. I started doing it. 1:50 – Chuck: You hired a developer and had no idea what the developer what was doing. How do you make that transition? They just go with it – right? How did you decide: no, I have to understand THIS. 2:25 – Guest: It’s either I am really into it or I am NOT into it. I have been always very good with mathema

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Paweł Dąbrowski This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Paweł Dąbrowski who is a coder and author who resides in Poland. He is a blogger and writes about the Ruby language, Ruby on Rails, and related technologies. To read more about Paweł, please visit his ABOUT ME via his blog. Today, Chuck and Paweł talk about Ruby, Paweł’s background, and much more! Check it out. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:00 – Get A Coder Job! 0:55 – Chuck: This week I am talking with Paweł Dąbrowski who was on episode 366. Give us a brief description of who you are, please. 1:25 – Guest: I run a company and I am here b/c of the article I wrote. It was a nice introduction to...programming. I write in my blog and have written a few gems. I created a course how to build Ruby Flow. Also, I create Ruby code every day. I think that’s it. 2:19 – Chuck: I am curious, how did you get into programming? 2:30 – Guest: It all started in school when he asked me to create a website using HTML co

Panel: https://twitter.com/cmaxw?ref_src=twsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Eauthor Guest: Jérémie Bonal This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with https://medium.com/@aquajvalin who works at https://ekylibre.com. He is a web developer and he has been using Ruby for the past few years now. They talk about Jérémie’s background, Ruby, Ekylibre, past/current projects, and so much more! Check it out! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:00 – http://getacoderjob.com/ 1:05 – Chuck: We are talking with https://medium.com/@aquajvalin today. Tell us who you are! 1:21 – Guest: I am a web developer and I’ve been writing Ruby for about 2 ½ years now. I’ve been writing code now for 5 – 6 years. 1:54 – Chuck: I love writing in Ruby, too. Let’s get into your story. What’s the Ruby community like in France? 2:23 – Guest: It’s pretty dispersed in the town that I am living in right now (Bordeaux). We meet up through Meetups and chatting about everything and drinking beer. There are more Ruby communi

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Daniel P. Clark This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Daniel Clark who is a Ruby and Rust enthusiast, blogger, and freelancer. Daniel and Chuck talk about Daniel’s background, and his past/current projects. Check out today’s episode! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0.00 – Advertisement – GET A CODER JOB! 0:58 – Guest: Hi! 1:01 – Chuck: Introduce yourself real quick, please, and what are you known for? 1:08 – Guest: My blog posts – I write about about Ruby. I have a few projects that are well known: Faster Path among others.  1:35 – Chuck: We had you on a past episode, 368 Ruby Rogues. Where do you write? 1:49 – Guest: I am a contractor and I write blog posts for them. 1:58 – Chuck: Let’s talk about you! How did you get into programming? 2:07 – Guest: My dad is a programmer and before 5th grade I got a computer and no Internet. I tried things to see how things worked. I wrote from the top down – recipe style. I really enjoyed programming back then. Later

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Nassredean Nasseri This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Dean who is a senior software engineer at VTS, Inc. in New York City. Dean uses Ruby and is an advocate for the software. He and Chuck discuss his background, current projects, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:00 – Dean: Hi, Everyone! 2:07 – Chuck: E363 of Ruby Rogues is your past episode. 1:13 – Dean: I am a Ruby developer and out in NY City. I have been developing Ruby for the past 6 years now. 1:42 – Chuck: What made you want to do something like Fir? 1:50 – Dean: I love developing developer tools and using something that I can use in my day-to-day work – I like that. I am constantly debugging and trying new things. That’s how I operate. I wanted to build a tool that would take the concepts that were missing from IRB and...put in a shell like FITCH. That was the motivation to that project. 2:42 – Chuck: Check out his past episode to get into the nitty gritty. Let’s roll back – how did y

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Nell Shamrell-Harrington This week on My Ruby Story, Chuck talks with Nell who is a principle engineer at Chef. Check them out at Chef.Io. She also works with Operation Code. This organization helps veterans to learn code, and helps them get a technical job. Check out today’s episode where Chuck and Nell discuss Ruby, Rust, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 2:00 – Chuck: Episode 105 is another episode you’ve been on before. 2:25 – Chuck: I want to spotlight you and talk about what you are working on. How did you get into programming? 2:38 – Nell: I was a theater major in college. I graduated in 2007 and the big financial crisis hit in 2008. I found work at the Physics Department in Seattle. Once they found out that I knew how to code, they gave me more coding to do. When you are doing just the mathematics portion – you don’t see how this applies to real life. I didn’t pursue it because I didn’t see how it worked in the real world. Then I saw eventually

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Nathan Kontny This week on My Ruby Story, the panel talks with Nathan Kontny who has been in the Ruby community since 2005. He once was a chemical engineer, and then got into programming after a broken ankle incident; after that...the rest is history! Today, Nathan and Chuck talk about Ruby, how to begin a startup company, Rockstar Coders, balancing life, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:05 – Chuck: E365 is the past episode you’ve been featured on. 1:14 – Nathan comments. 1:20 – Chuck. 1:56 – Nathan: Been in the community since 2005. I am a developer and entrepreneur. I do a lot of YouTube and videos nowadays. 2:50 – Chuck: How did you get into this field? 2:55 – Guest: It’s weird. I was a chemical engineer in the past. Back in the day 1996 I was learning... My love for it started through an internship. It was kind of a scary place dealing with harmful materials. Make sure you aren’t carrying uranium with you, and wear multiple gas masks at all t