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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 11 days 16 hours 24 minutes
74: A Dip in the Connection Pool
We talk through design considerations for a user-visible custom query builder for a high volume ecommerce system.
73: Probably In My Other Pants
We discuss Pokémon Go and what its success might mean for software developers before Sean lays out his case for replacing the `pg` gem and `libpq`.
72: Surprises Cut For Time (Aaron Patterson)
Aaron Patterson joins us from RailsConf for puns, performance improvements in Ruby, and AirDropping cats.
71: It's a Total Hack
Inspired by Nickolas Means’ fantastic RailsConf keynote, we discuss the corollaries between Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works projects and our software development projects.
70: Make Small Things (Sandi Metz)
Sandi Metz joins us live from RailsConf to talk about the rules, the trouble with naming things, making the right kinds of errors, and conference speaking. A big thanks to everyone who came out to our live show! A video version of this episode is available on the thoughtbot YouTube Page.
69: No More Drills
We discuss thoughtbot's increasing use of Elixir and Phoenix and what that means for our Rails work before diving into what's new in Elixir 1.3 and Ecto 2.0.
68: Mostly Undocumented
Sean runs through a Rails bug that sits at the intersection of several magical and confusing Rails features.
67: Longtime Listener, First Time Caller (Rafael Franca)
Leading Rails contributor Rafael Franca joins us from RailsConf to talk about taking over Sprockets, the future of the asset pipeline in Rails, managing Rails dependencies, and the hard work of software maintenance. Also, Sean said you'd all "definitely" have the final build of Rails 5 by now. Whoops!
66: Make Ruby Scripting Great Again (Terence Lee)
We talk with Terence Lee of Heroku, Bundler, and mruby-cli fame about Apache Kafka and the future of mruby scripting.
65: Free as in Puppy (Katrina Owen)
While at RailsConf, we talk with Katrina Owen about finding metaphors for software development, the successes and mistakes of Exercism.io, and the benefits of providing code reviews.