The Bike Shed

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Sep 9, 2016 • 50min

78: I'm an Adult and I Choose Java

Sean and Amanda discuss the state of Android Development in 2016. Java, Kotlin, Dependency Injection, and Functional Reactive Programming, oh my! Amanda Hill on Twitter Android Debug Bridge (ADB) Android Studio - The Official IDE for Android JetBrains Kotlin Tropos Weather Runes: Monadic Functions in Swift Receiving Location Updates in Android Dagger: A fast dependency injector for Android Introducing ExpandingRecyclerView RxAndroid Marial Codex Support The Bike Shed
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Aug 31, 2016 • 33min

77: The Floors Are Not Zero Indexed

How can you get your open source pull request merged? Elevator number pad Sorry, video of Sean’s Abstractions Conference talk is not yet available Clearance PR discussion driven by contributors Module#prepend is the end of alias_method_chain - by Justin Weiss Support The Bike Shed
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Aug 17, 2016 • 41min

76: The One With Laila & Brenda

Between thoughtbot's Summer Summit and Sean's vacation, we are sadly without a new episode this week. However, we would love you all to check out thoughtbot's newest podcast, interviewing inspirational designers, developers, and other makers in tech, The Laila & Brenda Show! Give their latest episode a listen here, and if you like it subscribe to their feed however you listen to podcasts! The Laila & Brenda Show Support The Bike Shed
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Aug 11, 2016 • 34min

75: I'm Not Sure That's Better

Derek and Sean discuss hunting down intermittently failing tests, finding unused code in your application, and why you should never ever change your test framework. RSpec Bisect RSpec 3.3 Release Notes Git Bisect Unused The Halting Problem Diesel 0.7 Support The Bike Shed
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Aug 3, 2016 • 35min

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. Ransack Using Arel to Compose SQL Queries PgBouncer establish_connection AWS in Plain English ApartmentEx Underscore + Lodash Support The Bike Shed
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Jul 28, 2016 • 44min

73: Probably In My Other Pants

We discuss Pokémon Go and what it's success might mean for software developers before Sean lays out his case for replacing the pg gem and libpq. Derek on Full Stack Radio The Laila and Brenda Show Google's Project Tango devices Pokemon Go gets full access Google auth token Why your email address isn't your identity The pg gem libpq SQL Server data types Support The Bike Shed
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Jul 20, 2016 • 43min

72: Surprises Cut For Time (Aaron Patterson)

Aaron Patterson joins us from RailsConf for puns, performance improvements in Ruby, and AirDropping cats. Gorbypuff Virus UTF8 vs UTF16 vs UTF32 What happened to the Rails 4 queue API? Koichi talks about AOT compilation Aaron hates encoding. This isn't a link, just a fact. Sean's terrifying test script, slightly out of date rails.vim, the tpope jam Support The Bike Shed
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Jul 13, 2016 • 42min

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. Sean’s DXRacer Chair Skunk Works by Nickolas Means Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Big Design Up Front Kelly’s 14 Rules and Processes Rules Made Up by You - Kelly’s rules as applied to modern software development Factory, Workshop, Stage by Sarah Mei The Tyranny of Structurelessness How to Crash an Airplane by Nickolas Means Support The Bike Shed
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Jul 6, 2016 • 1h 4min

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. The Bike Shed - Episode 1: Sandi and Derek's Rules Sandi Metz' Rules For Developers Sandi on the Ruby Rogues Don't Create Verb Classes Swift Proposal for Default Final GoRuCo 2009: SOLID Object-Oriented Design by Sandi Metz How to Talk to Developers by Ben Orenstein What Your Conference Proposal is Missing by Sarah Mei 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.Support The Bike Shed
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Jun 29, 2016 • 41min

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. Jonathon Coulton: IKEA Derek's thoughtbot ♥️ Elixir tweet. Fuck Bullshit HTC Vive Office Simulator Demo ExMachina and Bamboo from Paul Smith Elixir 1.3 CHANGELOG Ecto 2.0 CHANGELOG Phoenix Presence Support The Bike Shed

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