The Bike Shed

On The Bike Shed, hosts Joël Quenneville and Stephanie Minn discuss development experiences and challenges at thoughtbot with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, admiration, or ire this week.

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48: Is Everyone Trying Their Best?


Software is broken. In this episode, Derek and Sean discuss why exactly it's broken, and what we can do to make it better.

  • The origin of "software engineering"
  • The Coq Proof Assistant
  • NASA's 10 rules for developing safety critical code
  • The differences between strong and static typing
  • "If it compiles it works"
  • Derek adds IS NULL to Diesel
  • "Quickcheck in Ruby"
  • Note: Shopify is fewer than 700 developers

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 January 21, 2016  34m