Rubiverse Podcast

Episode 8: Dave Hoover on Software Craftsmanship

Dave Hoover is the co-author of the upcoming Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance For The Aspiring Software Craftsman book and is active in organizing the Software Craftsmanship movement.

Here are some of the items discussed in this episode:

• Software Craftsmanship
• Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative
• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
• Mentors and Apprenticeship
• “I’m finding it spectacularly entertaining watching XP meme after meme bleed into the Ruby fraternity.” – @alancfrancis
• The Fowler Effect
• Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship
• The New Left Side
• XP: After 10 years, why are we still talking about it?
• Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance For The Aspiring Software Craftsman
• Software Craftsmanship Mailing List

Episode 7: Charles Nutter on JRuby 1.2

Charles Nutter is the co-lead for the JRuby project that implements Ruby on the Java Virtual Machine.

Here are some of the items discussed in this episode:

• JRuby
• Compiling Ruby to Java Types
• More Compiling Ruby to Java Types
• RubyConf 2008: How Ruby Can Be Fast
• Duby
• BiteScript
• RailsConf Speaker Interview: Charlie Nutter and Evan Phoenix

Episode 6: Obie Fernandez on the Rails Maturity Model

Obie Fernandez is the author of The Rails Way and started the successful Hashrocket consultancy. He recently created a bit of a stir with his proposed Rails Maturity Model. Obie was kind enough to take a few minutes and discuss RMM and the Ruby community’s reaction to it with me.

Here are some of the items discussed in this episode:

• Rails Business Mailing List
  • top rails shops by reputation?
  • Introducing RMM, the Rails Maturity Model
• Capability Maturity Model Integration
• Apology for a Rails Maturity Model
• Obie: NO
• RMM on Twitter
• Rails Maturity Model, Certification and the Rails Ecosystem
• Rails Is Not a Cult
• RMM Behind the Scenes
• Morning Standup at Hashrocket
• Rails Maturity Model

Apologies for the hammering noise during part of the episode. I tried to remove as much of it as I could.