I last interviewed for a job in 2007. Since then, each new opportunity in my career has come through my network. People who knew when I was ready for something new, who could vouch for my work, who said "here's a specific person with these traits, would
At RubyKaigi 2025 we were finally able to see what Marco Roth has been building toward although if you've been watching his work it was there all along. * Rails World 2024: The Future of Rails as a Full-Stack Framework powered by Hotwire * SF Bay Area Meetup: Announcing
Design isn’t just how something looks, but how it works, how it’s used, and how humans interact with it. Many things in our built environment—alarms, control panels, mobile apps, user interfaces—lead humans to make mistakes not because we aren’t paying attention, but because they’re
There's still time to apply to speak at Rails World 2025 in Amsterdam. The Call for Papers closes on April 10th. They are looking talks about a wide variety of topics including everything from Advanced Technical talks to The Business of Rails.
Building the Depot Application Task A: Creating the Application Task B: Validation & Unit Testing
Getting Started Install Rails, craft a new application, learn the architecture, and get a refresher on Ruby.
Introduction and Overview Meet the book club cohort and discuss logistics. This is a great time to make sure that you have the right version of the book.
During the POODR Readalong Travis Spangle (LinkedIn) and Jim Remsik (LinkedIn) had a chance to catch-up. Travis has experience running book clubs and was looking forward to reading Agile Web Development with Rails 8 from Pragmatic Programmers. He was wondering if there were lessons learned from running the online
Earlier this year we started a readalong of Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby on The Storygraph. Lots of folks had suggested this is their favorite technical books of all time even if they no longer work in Ruby. The goal was to give folks some structure and read one
Kelly Sutton shared Scholarly's tech journey this year and it's a cool case study in keeping things simple. They ditched the complex React setup for a streamlined Rails and Stimulus approach that's basically proving less is more. By focusing on server-side rendering and