My Ruby Story

My Ruby Story this week welcomes Elia Schito, a senior developer for Nebulab. Elia has been working with Ruby for the past 12 years. Charles starts off by asking how Elia became a developer. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Elia Schito Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan React Native RadioCacheFly ______________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ______________________________________   Links RR 430: Opal with Elia SchitoElia's LinkedInElia's Twitter Picks Charles Max Wood: Devchat.tv Supporters Elia Schito: Devchat.tvHenry VOrthodoxy by Gilbert Keith Chestertonhttps://opalrb.com/

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My Ruby Story this week welcomes Taylor Jones, Support Engineer at Heroku. Charles asks Taylor how he ended up at Heroku. Taylor shares his journey after majoring in Computer Science at Auburn University. Taylor had a lot of downtime in his first job so he started learning Rails online. Then after he graduated he was able to get more chances working full time with Ruby. He then started speaking at conferences such as RailsConf. Charles and Taylor talk about how working at a place you really want to is not a pie in the sky but actually is doable if you position yourself correctly. For example Taylor really wanted to work at Heroku and was friends with the people at Heroku. When there was an opening his friends contacted him and Taylor was able to find a job at Heroku. Charles wonders what drew Taylor to programming and Taylor talks about how he was introduced to developing through video games. Taylor also talks about the concept " if you start out with Ruby you stick with Ruby" and how this was true for him

My Ruby Story celebrates its 100th episode. To commemorate the 100th episode host Charles Max Wood talks about how My Ruby Story podcast started and how it progressed. My Ruby Story started off as a spin-off of Ruby Rogues. Acting upon advice from a business coach he was working with at the time, Charles misunderstood her suggestion to double on Ruby Rogues and instead proceeded to create a podcast similar to Ruby Rogues. Over the years, the show proceeded to inspire many developers who are just starting out and the show developed a fan base of its own. Over the years, My Ruby Story has helped people get better jobs, shaped their careers. For those who have been positively affected, Charles requests them to send him an email sharing how My Ruby Story or any other Devchat.tv podcast. If you have any questions or are struggling with how to get a better job, how to talk to your boss, or what steps to take to better your developer career, Charles schedule a call at Schedule a 15 Minute Call with Charles Max Woo

Joe Leo joins Charles Max Wood on this week's My Ruby Story. Joe is the Founder and CEO of the agile software consultancy, Def Method. He shares his journey as a developer. Joe was tutored by his uncle and learned how to code in Basic on a command line. He wanted to be in the music industry and liked math. Joe is currently working on holistic product development and is delving into areas such as what makes a good product manager and what makes a good product design. Charles and Joe talk about difficulties in quantifying good product management skills or writing tests and other non-coding aspects that surround making a product. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Joe Leo Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan React Native RadioMy Angular Story CacheFly Links RR 423: The Well-Grounded Rubyist with David A. Black & Joseph Leo IIIThe Well-Grounded Rubyist: Covers Ruby 1.9.1 by David A. Black and by III Joseph Leo (Author)Joe's LinkedInDef Methodhtt

David A. Black, Software Engineer IV at 2U, joins Charles Max Wood on this week's My Ruby Story. David A. Black has been a Ruby user for 19 years and has been writing books about Ruby for the last 14 years as well as organizing conferences. David has been coding since he was 13 years old. He was introduced to Ruby in November 2000 when he was looking at the computer section at the old bookstore Borders and picked up the book Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt. Five years later, David, who has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University, resigned from a tenured professorship in the communication field to become a full-time programmer, trainer, and author. His book The Well-Grounded Rubyist is now in its third edition. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: David A. Black Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan React Native RadioMy Angular Story CacheFly Links RR 423: The Well-Grounded Rubyist with David A. Black & Joseph Leo IIIDav

Saverio Miroddi joins Charles Max Wood on this week's My Ruby Story. Saverio is a systems engineer and a backend programmer at Ticketsolve. He is originally from Italy and currently lives in Germany. Saverio shares his journey as a Ruby developer and also his passions outside of work such as bouldering. Saverio fell in love with programming when he was 7 years old with COmmodere 64. He didn't follow up on it however until later when he was working as a consultant working as a System Administrator where he taught himself JavaScript. Later he taught himself Ruby on the job when he was working in London. Saverio has written several articles such as Saverio Miroddi’s article, “An overview of Desktop Ruby GUI Development in 2018” and Debugging a live/stuck Ruby process. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Saverio Miroddi Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan React Native RadioMy Angular Story CacheFly Links RR 381: “Ruby GUI Development” with Saverio

Episode Summary This week's My Ruby Story welcomes Daniel Pritchett, an infrastructure engineer at Gremlin. Daniel talks about his programming journey and his life in Florida where he moved to recently. Daniel has degrees in Management Information Systems and Computer Science from the University of Alabama. He talks about the fact that even though he learned about programming in theory at school, he didn't feel confident a a programmer until he was introduced to Ruby. Daniel then talks about why he likes being an infrastructure engineer and the projects he has been working on. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Daniel Pritchett Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan React Native RadioMy Angular StoryCacheFly Links RR 422: Build Chatbot Interactions in Ruby with Daniel PritchettDaniel's LinkedInDaniel's TwitterBuild Chatbot Interactions: Responsive, Intuitive Interfaces with RubyDaniel Pritchett Picks Daniel Pritchett: Lucidchart.com Charles

Episode Summary This episode of My Ruby Story is coming to you live from OSCON. Joining Charles Max Wood is Daniel Gruesso from GitLab to talk about developing in the Open Source and the Developer Report. GitLab works with an open core model, Daniel talks about the trade - offs of having code open to public, the first of which is having everything up-to-date so any contributions made will work with the latest version. Daniel calls this the "bus-factor" where if one of the team members gets hit by a bus, the rest of the team will have everything to work with. They then talk about the GitLab 2019 Global Developer Report results. One of the most interesting results of this survey with over 4,000 respondents, was that remote teams outperformed on site teams. This ties into the current Twitter discussion about "10x Performing Engineers". Remote teams are able to work on their own most productive hours and are not disturbed by their teammates when they are doing dedicated work on a deadline. Also remote teams by

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Ruby RoguesReact Native RadioCacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Rachel Roumeliotis and Roger Magoulas Episode Summary Rachel Roumeliotis and Roger Magoulas from O'Reilly Media join Charles Max Wood at OSCON to talk about the process of content development for OSCON. Rachel is the Vice President of Content Strategy at O'Reilly and Roger is Vice President of Radar at O'Reilly. Rachel and Roger talk about the history of OSCON Conference as well as the key technologies they wanted to cover this year such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cloud-Native applications. They then talk about the future of OSCON and the highlights they wat to cover next year such as security. Links Rachel's LinkedInRoger's LinkedInOpen Source & Software Development| O'Reilly OSCON

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Ruby RoguesReact Native RadioCacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Thomas Grassl Episode Summary Thomas Grassl from SAP joins Charles Max Wood at OSCON to talk about what SAP is doing in the Open Source world. Thomas talks about SAP's recently released a UI5 Web Components. Charles wonders how the components will work with different frameworks and Thomas explains UI5 Web Components are HTML components and they should be used how regular HTML components are used. UI5 Web Components is Open Source so Thomas expects contributions from the Open Source community. Thomas then talks about UI5 Web Components' enterprise-ready functionality and scalability features as well as the security and accessibility aspects. They then talk about Thomas' position as Developer Relations in SAP and what it entails. Thomas then talks about the career opportunities that comes with customization on the enterprise scale. Final

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Leonardo Tegon Episode Summary Leonardo Tegon is a software developer at Plataformatec, the company that created the Elixir Language. Leonardo talks about how he ended up at Plataformatec. Links Ruby Rogues 416: The Difference between Devise and Warden with Leonardo TegonLeonardo's TwitterLeonardo's GitHubLeonardo's LinkedInPlataformatecDeviseEverywhereRB Ruby and Rails Community Picks Leonardo Tegon: LegionHow to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie Charles Max Wood: New podcasts are being added on Devchat.tv - Sustain Our Software Ladders with feet on them so they don't slide off - Charles had an accident while working on the roof of his father-in -law. Check out the new Devchat.tv site! If you want to be on the Devchat.tv mailing list, sign up here. Cibola Burn (The Expanse) by James S. A. Corey

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small planCacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene Episode Summary Links RR 410: Kubernetes with Kurtis Rainbolt-GreeneKurtis' TwitterKurtis' GitHubKurtis' LinkedInEverywhereRB Ruby and Rails CommunityDevchat.tv on FacebookDevchat.tv Picks Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene: Foundation | A New Era of Organic City-Building Charles Max Wood: The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moranhttps://www.notion.so/Podwrench.com - if you are thinking of starting a podcast, reach out to Charles Max WoodMany more exciting new podcasts are starting on Devchat.tv be sure to check it out: Adventures in BlockchainAdventures in DevopsAdventures in .NETData TherapySustain Our SoftwareIf you are interested in becoming a host on one of these shows reach out to Charles Max WoodOther exciting topics Devchat.tv is looking to host podcasts on are: Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningVirtual Reality/ Augmented RealityPythonWe have

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small planCacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Episode Summary Charles talks about his journey as a podcaster and his mission with Devchat.tv. Devchat.tv  is designed to home podcasts that speak to all developer communities. Charles also plans Devchat.tv to host shows for technologies that are on the verge of a breakthrough and will be a lot more widely available in the near future such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). There are new shows being added continuously to reach out to new communities, some examples of which are: a Data Science show, a DevOps show and an Open Source show. As a kid, Charles would record his own shows on a tape recorder. He was always interested in technology. While studying Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University, he worked in the University's Operations Center. Upon graduation, he started working for Mozy where he was introduced to po

Sponsors Sentry– use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Maciej Mensfeld Summary Maciej Mensfeld, a polish developer, shares his story with Charles Max Wood. Maciej starts with how he got into computers through gaming and explains how his interest depends later in school. Maciej discusses learning programming in high school and the influence of one teacher especially. Charles and Maciej share experiences working with PHP. Maciej shares his experiences in different jobs and projects, finding rails and ruby. Maciej discusses his current job, the European ruby community he is involved with and what his everyday life looks like. He loves to hike and shares some of his favorite hikes with Charles. Links https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/rr-402ruby-2-6-0-bugs-kafka-and-karafka-with-maciej-mensfeld/https://castle.io/https://allegro.pl/https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trzy_Korony_(szczyt)https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolina_Pi%C4%99ciu_Staw%C3%B3w_Po

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan.TECH– tech/MRS and 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 Guest: Igor Morozov Summary Igor Morozov shares what the ruby community looks like in Moscow, Russia and what Russian developers are doing. He talks about deciding to be a developer to make video games at 8 years old. He shares how scripting Grand Theft Auto really got him into developing. Igor and Charles Max Wood discuss university and learning through doing projects versus learning by reading books. Igor shares how he got into Ruby and what about Ruby made him stay a Ruby developer. The episode ends with Igor sharing what he is currently working on and what his everyday life looks like. Links RR 407: Functional Programming in Ruby using Dry Gems with Igor Morozovwww.morozov.is Picks Igor Morozov: Triarius military trousers by SRVVhttps://dry-rb.org/https://cstack.githu

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan.TECH– tech/MRS and 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: Lori Olson Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Lori Olson, Chief Instructor at WNDX School where she teaches software developers of all kinds to become published App authors, using RubyMotion. Lori invites all to come to her “six steps from idea to app store” webinar. Listen to Lori on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode. Lori took her high school counselor’s advice and majored in Computer Science. She then went onto establishing The WNDX Group , a software development & training consultancy. Lori describes the current projects she is working on, how her love of fantasy books  started and what a day in her life looks like both in and out of coding. Links Ruby Rogues 405: Rubymotion with Lori Olson Six Vital Steps from Idea

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: Tung Nguyen Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Tung Nguyen, President and Founder of BoltOps AWS Cloud Infrastructure Consultancy, a Bay Area based DevOps infrastructure consultancy. Tung is also the creator of Ruby on Jets. Listen to Tung on the podcast Ruby Rogues here. Tung majored in Electrical Engineering in college but didn’t really enjoy working as an electrical engineer so decided to teach himself programming. He started with Perl language and eventually switched to Ruby. Currently Tung is working full time for BoltOps consultancy and develops and maintains Ruby on Jets along with other open source projects. When he is not working, Tung takes care of his 3 children. Listen to the show to find out more about Tung’s journe

Sponsors Sentryuse the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan.TECH– tech/MRSand 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: Pedro Cavalheiro Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Pedro Cavalheiro a software engineer at Xing from Brazil, currently residing in Hamburg, Germany. He has been working with Ruby and PHP languages, and since 2015 has been working full-time with Ruby on Rails. Listen to Pedro on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode. Pedro has been interested in computers and video games since he was a child. Upon advice from his friend he attended a computer programming class. He got his first job programming in PHP language a couple of weeks after completing the course. After working for several startups in Brazil, he wanted to move to Germany where his ancestors are from and got a job at Xing in Hamburg. Currently Pedro is settling into his new po

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: Justin Searls Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Justin Searls, co-founder of Test Double, a software agency which helps developers improve their quality of the software. Listen to Justin on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode and this episode. Justin got into programming playing with his Casio Calculator when he was 10 years old. He came up with little games such as guessing the number. Later on, he added features and soon created an ephemeral checkers game. He had no knowledge about the basics of programming and everything was self-directive. Justin majored in Computer Science in college.However, he soon learned that Computer Science does not equal Application Development. The things taught to him by his professors w