Episode Archive
515 episodes of The Ruby on Rails Podcast since the first episode, which aired on January 6th, 2009.
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Episode 211: 211: Physical Challenges
February 11th, 2016 | 1 hr 7 mins
Sean is falling apart! We talk about the physical challenges of programming and how to prevent and deal with wrist, hand, back, eye, leg, and other challenges.
No Shipped It! segment this week, but we'll be back with a new one next week. Shipped It! is
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Episode 210: 210: Rails 5 Preview
January 29th, 2016 | 1 hr 16 mins
Kyle and Sean talk about Kyle's trip to Dean Kamen's house/hanger and preview Rails 5. Plus, a new Shipped It! episode about Kyle's ongoing quest to removed a complicated serialized attribute.
Shipped It! is an ongoing series about what it takes to man
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Episode 209: 209: Shipped It!
January 6th, 2016 | 1 hr 16 mins
Sean and Kyle are back to talk about Sean's Little Professor replica in Ember, plus the debut of Shipped It!, a new segment about managing applications that have already been shipped. There's also a bit of time at the end for a good mailbag question.
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Episode 208: 208: Ship it!
November 25th, 2015 | 1 hr 19 mins
Kyle and Sean talk about Sean's experience this week moving an application out of development and into production.
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Episode 207: 207: Choosing the Right Systems for the Job with Sam Lambert
November 16th, 2015 | 1 hr 25 mins
Sam Lambert, Director of Systems at GitHub, joins Sean and Kyle to talk about how to choose the right systems for the job. The conversation gets interesting right quick!
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Episode 206: 206: Stress Management
November 9th, 2015 | 1 hr 1 min
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Episode 205: 205: Webhooks 101 & 202
October 28th, 2015 | 1 hr 10 mins
Kyle teaches Sean some lessons about implementing and scaling webhook APIs.
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Episode 204: 204: Money and Open Source Software
October 18th, 2015 | 1 hr 19 mins
Sean and Kyle talk about the economics of open source software.
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Episode 203: 203: Behind the Scenes Peek at the New GitHub Integrations Directory
October 12th, 2015 | 58 mins 27 secs
Kyle returns from GitHub Universe and tells Sean all about the new GitHub Integrations Directory, a service that he's been working on this year that just shipped. Plus, a teeny sneak peak at the upcoming money-in-open-source-software conversation.
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Episode 202: 202: Behind the Scenes at Product Hunt with Mike Coutermarsh
October 4th, 2015 | 1 hr 37 mins
Mike Coutermarsh from Product Hunt joins Sean Devine as guest cohost to give a behind-the-scenes look at Product Hunt. Topics include Product Hunt's new features, its technical architecture and transition to an API-first development style, and their succe
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Episode 201: 201: API-First, Planning-Second
September 22nd, 2015 | 1 hr 20 mins
Sean and Kyle debrief on the successful (phew!) API-First training seminar, and talk about the upcoming GitHub Universe conference.
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Episode 200: 200: The User Interface is the Exception State + Listener Audio Questions Part 1
September 8th, 2015 | 1 hr 20 mins
Sean and Kyle talk about differences between enterprise applications and consumer applications, and treating the human UI as the exception state. They also answer a handful of questions from listener Colin Rubbert.
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Episode 199: 199: Memorable Tips for Working Remotely
August 24th, 2015 | 1 hr 12 mins
Sean and Kyle discuss how to be an effective remote team member, and how to build an effective remote team. Plus a bit of a twins update.
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Episode 198: 198: Overcoming Legacy Code and Building Rails Engines
August 16th, 2015 | 1 hr 4 mins
Two primary topics this week:
- Overcoming legacy code.
- Building Rails Engines.
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Episode 197: 197: Your Personal _Brand_
August 9th, 2015 | 1 hr 29 mins
Kyle and Sean discuss the unavoidable existence and importance of your personal brand as a programmer. Plus the usual follow up and dog barking.
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Episode 196: 196: Recruiters, Bootcamps, and Technocrats
August 4th, 2015 | 1 hr 41 mins
Sean and Kyle talk mostly about programming-related employment and labor topics including recruiters, bootcamps, 10X developers, and technocrats. You'll either love it or hate it!