Episode Archive
514 episodes of The Ruby on Rails Podcast since the first episode, which aired on January 6th, 2009.
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Episode 162: 162: Olga Raskina - Operations Research PhD
August 6th, 2014 | 1 hr 9 mins
Olga Raskina joins Sean Devine to discuss her journey from secondary school in Soviet Russia to her undergraduate degree at Moscow State University to her PhD at Columbia University in NYC to her professional career in Operations Research and programming.
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Episode 161: 161: Peter Cooper - Ruby Weekly
July 31st, 2014 | 1 hr 7 mins
Peter Cooper (@peterc) - publisher of Cooper Press - discusses his email newsletter empire (including Ruby Weekly) with lots of side trips along the way.
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Episode 160: 160: Sean Devine - Interviewee & Pony
July 25th, 2014 | 1 hr 20 mins
Sean Devine is the interviewee and Eric Steele plays host. Topics include how Sean started to program, web scraping via Mechanize and Watir, the Ruby Quiz as therapy, the evolution of Ruby's testing culture and much much more.
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Episode 159: 159: Flo Motlik - Codeship
July 16th, 2014 | 1 hr 14 mins
Sean Devine is joined by Flo Motlik from Codeship to discuss continuous delivery, the history of Codeship and some of the biggest challenges involved in running a CI service. Plus coconuts and peaches.
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Episode 158: 158: Daniel Jalkut - Not a Ruby Programmer (Yet)
July 8th, 2014 | 1 hr 17 mins
Sean Devine talks with Daniel Jalkut (@danielpunkass) about why he develops software for the Apple ecosystem (mostly OS X) and how that experience compares and contrasts to developing software in an OSS environment like Ruby on Rails.
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Episode 157: 157: Lex Friedman is Hiring a Ruby on Rails Developer for the Midroll Podcast Ad Network
July 5th, 2014 | 59 mins 31 secs
Sean Devine talks to Lex Friedman, the EVP Sales and Development of Midroll, a large podcast ad sales network. Lex describes the full time Ruby on Rails programming position that they are looking to fill. There's also plenty of behind-the-scenes stories a
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Episode 156: 156: Eric Steele - "What Do I Test?" Book Launch Recap
June 28th, 2014 | 1 hr 19 mins
Eric Steele talks about releasing his new book, "What Do I Test?".
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Episode 155: 155: Nick Quaranto - rubygems.org, CoworkBuffalo, Nickel City Ruby, aqueousband.net
June 20th, 2014 | 1 hr 29 mins
Nick tells Sean about his rubygems fantasies, ranks his noteworthiness, clarifies the contents of concert balloons, and provides free parenting advice.
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Episode 154: 154: Greg Baugues - Twilio
June 12th, 2014 | 1 hr 16 mins
Sean Devine learns about Twilio from Greg Baugues.
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Episode 153: 153: Ben Hundley - elasticsearch & Qbox
June 5th, 2014 | 1 hr 10 mins
Sean Devine learns about elasticsearch from Ben Hundley of Qbox.
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Episode 152: 152: Oren Dobzinski - Desk.com
May 29th, 2014 | 1 hr 4 mins
Sean Devine talks with Oren Dobzinski of Desk.com about service oriented architecture, elasticsearch, immutability, working remotely and much, much more.
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Episode 151: 151: Ross Penman - 15 yr old Scottish programmer
May 23rd, 2014 | 1 hr 25 mins
Sean Devine talks with Ross Penman, a 15 year old programmer from Scotland, about what it's like to learn to program as a kid, opportunities to improve technical education, and the Scottish independence referendum.
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Episode 150: 150: Jamis Buck - Basil & Fabian (formerly of 37signals)
May 14th, 2014 | 58 mins 15 secs
Sean Devine talks with Jamis Buck about his new fantasy blog/book about algorithms - "Basil & Fabian" and his history with Rails and 37signals.
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Episode 149: 149: Chad Fowler - Wunderlist
May 8th, 2014 | 1 hr 1 min
Sean Devine talks with Chad Fowler about the early days of Ruby and Rails and the heterogeneous architecture of Wunderlist.
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Episode 148: 148: Chad Pytel of thoughtbot discusses @dhh's RailsConf 2014 keynote (and more)
April 29th, 2014 | 1 hr 24 mins
Sean Devine and Chad Pytel discuss @dhh's controversial RailsConf 2014 keynote and the current state of thoughbot.
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Episode 147: 147: RailsConf 2014 Preview
April 21st, 2014 | 1 hr 21 mins
Sean Devine and Eric Steele preview RailsConf 2014.