Episode 001: Taking Payments on the Web with Noel Rappin
Panelists:
Coraline Ada Ehmke | Jessica Kerr | Sam Livingston-Gray | Jay Bobo | David Brady
Guest Starring: Noel Rappin
Noel Rappin Writes Here
Table XI
Show Notes:
00:18 - Welcome to "Dread Coder Roberts!" ...we mean, "Greater Than Code!"
01:30 - Noel Rappin's Introduction (Spoiler alert! He's got a Ph.D.!)
04:31 - Take My Money: Accepting Payments on the Web
08:30 - Code Paths and Tracking Failures
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10:59 - What is the quickest path to accepting payments online? Are there drawbacks to getting something up fast? (~ David Bock)
13:17 - Testing Payment Issues
14:29 - Design Patterns and Missing Layers Between Controllers and Models
17:49 - Business Logic and Database Constraints (aka, "Why did he write the book?!")
20:14 - I Was A Developer Running HR For A Year: AMA by Noel Rappin at Madison+ Ruby: Epilogue 2016
24:02 - Practices, Problems, and Potential Solutions for Human Resources
29:34 - Team Diversity and Inclusion
Listener Call to Action: Team retrospectives and
demonstrating that it is safe to fail.
Takeaways:
Noel: The impact of our applications and how they work in real-world context.
David: How can we help introverts feel comfortable?
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Coraline: Inspiration to look at teams, meetings, and discussions and see if they are leaving room for everyone to participate equally.
Jessica: We started out talking about accepting payments on the web and we found something greater than code.
Jay: If we want to try to work with the hard stuff, the hardest problems to solve are the things that are greater than code.
Sam: Being, as Jay said, "not just allies, but accomplices."
Transcript:
CORALINE: Are we ready?
[Intro music]
CORALINE: Hello and welcome to Episode 1 of Dread Coder Roberts! I am Coraline Ada Ehmke and I am so excited to be with you today.
JESSICA: Coraline, that is not the name of the show.
CORALINE: What?
JESSICA: Dread Coder Roberts is an awesome name, but you know it's even greater than that! Greater Than Code!
CORALINE: If you say so.
JESSICA: [Laughs]
DAVID: And no one on the podcast can see all of this cheering and waving our hands on camera. I love it.
JESSICA: I'm @jessitron and I'm super excited to be on Greater Than Code today. And with us, we also have our new panelist – oh wait, we're all new panelists, Jay Bobo from Columbus, who was better than David everything.
JAY: Oh, wow! Yeah, hi! This is Jay and I am having a great time hanging out with some amazing people. I'm handing it off to Sam Livingston-Gray.
SAM: Thank you, Jay. I would also like to point out that Greater Than Code is also cheaper than therapy. And speaking of therapy, let me introduce David Brady.
DAVID: Good morning, everybody or afternoon or evening, wherever you may be. I don’t have anything ready to say which is – I'm trying out a new thing and we'll just see how it works. Probably, I won't carry them to episode 2.
CORALINE: Speaking of therapy, yes.
DAVID: I should probably just introduce our guest, shall I? Today, we've got Noel Rappin on the call and I actually wrote a thing for him, which is: Noel Rappin has written five technical books including Rails 4 Test Prescriptions and the awesomely named Master Space and Time with JavaScript. He's been through the web technology room on Obtiva and Groupon and currently works as the Director of Development at Table XI. His blog, responsibly called Noel Rappin Writes Here is at NoelRappin.com. His current book is called Take My Money: Accepting Payments on the Web. And he's here to talk to us about that today.
But before we talk about that, we need to address this shifty business of Noel holding a PhD in Educational Technology from Georgia Tech and not telling anybody. So Dr. Rappin, what's all of this then?
NOEL: I do have a PhD from Georgia Tech,
