Angela Harms gave this talk at Ruby Midwest 2011, and addressed the issues associated with pair programming. If you have ever considered pairing, but were reluctant to try it, then this talk may give you some good food for thought on the subject.
Angela Harms gave this talk at Ruby Midwest 2011, and addressed the issues associated with pair programming. If you have ever considered pairing, but were reluctant to try it, then this talk may give you some good food for thought on the subject.
Chef is a popular system for configuring, deploying, and managing servers. In this talk from Big Ruby 2013, Joshua Timberman introduces Chef, and describes how it can be used in ways that you might not have expected.
The role of women in high tech has become a topic of concern and discussion. In this talk, developers Hannah Howard and Evan Dorn discuss the current state of affairs, and what can be done to improve it — for the Ruby language, and the high tech world in general.
Gary Bernhardt gave this talk at RubyConf 2012. He discusses testing, APIs, and the different levels/aspects of programs we write. As usual, he is funny, interesting, and thought-provoking.
Stephen Wolfram is a well known scientist, thinker, and software developer. His most recent invention is the Wolfram language, which he claims will make many types of programs easier to develop and maintain. In this talk, he unveils the language, and describes parts of its implementation.
We all talk about “object-oriented programming,” but what do we mean by that? In this talk, veteran developer Josh Susser describes what an object is, and what object-oriented development means.
Mark Bates introduces the Go language to a community of Ruby programmers, pointing to the reasons why many Rubyists are using Go in high-performance situations.
Axel Rauschmayer is an expert JavaScript developer, author, and trainer. In this talk, he describes how JavaScript is evolving, what is coming in future versions, and when we can start to use these features.
Charles Max Wood, Eileen Uchitelle, and Jeremy Kemper talk about Ruby on Rails 4.2, which was released in mid-December.
Programmers in such languages as Lisp, Ruby, JavaScript, and Python have long enjoyed functional programming techniques, as well as lambda expressions. Java 8 introduces lambda expressions into the language; in this talk, Venkat Subramaniam demonstrates how these can be useful, and why Java developers would be wise to adopt them.