Episode 277: 271 RR Problems New Developers Don’t Realize They Have and Hidden Tradeoffs to Coding Decisions Developers Have to Make with Justin Weiss

Ruby Rogues

• Episode: Episode 277: 271 RR Problems New Developers Don’t Realize They Have and Hidden Tradeoffs to Coding Decisions Developers Have to Make with Justin Weiss
• Website: Ruby Rogues
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• Duration: 00:46:55
• Published: 2016-08-03 15:00

Rails Remote Conf

 

01:14 - Justin Weiss Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Avvo  
• Practicing Rails: Learn Rails Without Being Overwhelmed by Justin Weiss

02:15 - “Learning Rails Without Getting Overwhelmed”?

• Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson, with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, and Andreas Schwarz

02:34 - Problems New Developers Don’t Realize They Have

04:35 - Learning New Things

08:05 - What is a success?

09:02 - What can senior devs do? What shouldn’t they do?

• Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman David H. Hoover and Adewale Oshineye
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt
• Brandon Hays: The Conjoined Triangles of Senior-Level Development

15:43 - Are there still “Architects”?

20:45 - The Existential Crisis of Software Development

• Integrated Tests Are A Scam
• Emo Philips: The best God joke ever - and it's mine!

22:26 - The Responsibility of the Students

26:08 - How can new developers obtain objective evidence of their blind spots?

• Bias Blind Spot
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
• Asch Experiment

33:49 - Early Career Developers Working Together

37:03 - Learning Practices

 

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Special Guest: Justin Weiss.