The Bike Shed

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Jun 9, 2015 • 39min

18: This Podcast is Rigged (But Not Animated)

Sean and Derek discuss rails asset dependencies before diving into an overview of animation techniques and C extensions. Rails Assets Gemify Assets for Rails Non-digested asset names in Rails 4 Animation Rigging Unreal Engine Unity Physically Based Rendering The Carmack Constant or Fast Inverse Square Root Bending the Curve: Writing Safe & Fast Native Gems With Rust Support The Bike Shed
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Jun 2, 2015 • 47min

17: Railing About Performance (Sam Saffron)

We chat with Sam Saffron about performance, benchmarking, and database migration strategies. Sam Saffron Discourse rack-mini-profiler stackprof RubyBench default_scope SQL Views Scenic - Database view support in Rails Grafana Docker Types of Rails schema dumps Message Bus Logster Feedback? You can tweet us, email us, or leave a comment on our website.Support The Bike Shed
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May 27, 2015 • 37min

16: Wizards Are Hard to Kill

Grab Bag! Derek and Sean talk about math, augmented reality, RailsConf wrap up, Minimum Viable Products, Accessibility... Homography Isomorphism Homomorphism Sean's Augmented Reality PoC Kerbal Space Program Derek's talk on Cultivating Code Review Culture Sean's talk on Designing a Great Ruby API Attributes API documentation Minimum Viable Product Chandra Carney's talk on Programming with Accessibility in Mind Nothing is Something by Sandi Metz Sometimes a Controller is Just a Controller by Justin Searls Support The Bike Shed
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May 19, 2015 • 31min

15: Might As Well Be About Trains (Sarah Mei)

Sean, Derek, and Sarah Mei talk about conference speaking, refactoring, and OO vs FP problems. Sarah Mei What Your Conference Proposal Is Missing Conway's Law Will Ruby 3.0 Be Statically Typed? Sarah on Twitter Support The Bike Shed
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May 12, 2015 • 55min

14: An Acceptable Level of Hassle (David Heinemeier Hansson)

This week, we're joined by DHH and discuss microservices, monoliths, shared abstractions, and the fate of Action Cable. DHH's Keynote Microservices Sacrificial Architecture Scaling Mercurial at Facebook has_secure_password BCrypt Request Forgery Protection error_messages_for removed in Rails 3 Sandi Metz on the cost of the wrong abstraction WebSockets Event Machine Faye Basecamp Support The Bike Shed
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May 5, 2015 • 53min

13: Begrudging Applause (Aaron Patterson)

Live from RailsConf, Aaron Patterson joins the show to talk about Rails 5, Rack 2, Contributing to Open Source, and cats. We also field audience questions. Video-version of this podcast! DHH's RailsConf Keynote Aaron's RailsConf Keynote Action Cable Long Polling TurboLinks Ember RFC Process Rack 2 Neko Atsume (also on Android) Ruby Together Chicken Scheme Awful Offal Node/IO Fork Agile Web Development With Rails Cells Support The Bike Shed
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Apr 17, 2015 • 32min

12: A Poor Man's binding.pry

Derek and Sean talk about naming, debugging, and the anxiety of conference talks. Sean fixes Android tooling in one line. Martin Fowler on naming objects after patterns Dash for OS X Alfred for OS X The beauty of Intellisense in Visual Studio Derek's bundle search command Ruby Mine Sean's talk at windy city rails How to talk to Developers by Ben Orenstein Support The Bike Shed
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Apr 3, 2015 • 37min

11: Form-ing Opinions

Sean and Derek talk about the state of Android tooling, refactoring journeys, and an approach to rails form objects. Dalvik executables limited to 65,536 methods ProGuard Stylesheet limits in Internet Explorer A refactoring jounrney in animated gif form. Simple Form wrappers ScalaForms Type-safe URLs in Yesod Django forms Batching up touch calls Issues with uniqueness validations Support The Bike Shed
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Mar 20, 2015 • 41min

10: I Don't Get Functional Programming

Pat Brisbin joins Derek to discuss the many advantages of Haskell programming. note: at 27:01 Pat says "referential integrity" when he meant "referential transparency"; he's very sorry. Maybe Haskell 50% off xmonad tiling window manager Learn You A Haskell Carnival - Open source, Haskell-powered commenting for the Giant Robots Blog Pointfree Style How to say dots and dollars The Maybe data type The Incomplete Guide to Lazy Evaluation (in Haskell) Building Haskell Projects with Halcyon Support The Bike Shed
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Mar 6, 2015 • 35min

9: Monorails, For the Kids

Sean and Derek discuss Monoliths, Service Oriented Architecture, and the new Adapter Specific Type Registry in Rails 5. Guest Sean Furret Haskell and tmux Upcase trails. Hashie Considered Harmful Adapter Specific Type Registry Support The Bike Shed

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