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The New Manager's ToolkitRubyConf 20182018-11-28
A practical playbook: roughly 20 tools collected through real failures and wins, including weekly one-on-ones, a revamped interview process (first run tanks…
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The long strange trip of a senior developerRubyConf 20162016-11-10
Conference talk presents in-depth research across companies and a concrete six-point plan to keep developers contributing for decades, not just 10–15 years. It…
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Surviving the Framework Hype CycleMountainWest RubyConf 20162016-03-21
Compares the Gartner hype cycle stages to real histories like Rails and Ember and claims you can map your role — pioneers settlers town planners — to whether…
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Hacking Spacetime for a Successful CareerRubyConf 20152015-11-15
Claims a reproducible career model, builds a simple Ember.js demo and walks nine labeled trajectories over 2, 5, 10 and 30 years (Code Slinger, Cat Herder…
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Surviving the Framework Hype CycleLoneStarRuby Conf 20152015-08-15
Uses the Gartner hype cycle to decide which JS and back-end tools to learn now versus later, maps three concrete roles—Pioneers settlers town planners—to…
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My Little C Extension: Lego Robots are MagicRubyConf 20142014-11-17
I didn't know squat about C or building extensions in Ruby. But I did want a Ruby-controlled Lego Mindstorms robot to get kids excited about Ruby. We'll dive…
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My Little C Extension: Lego Robots are MagicNickel City Ruby 20142014-10-02
A hobby LEGO robot built on a Raspberry Pi and the BrickPi drivers becomes a Ruby-controlled robot by writing a C extension and packaging it as a gem. The…
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Bring Fun Back to JS: Step-by-Step Refactoring Toward EmberRailsConf 20142014-04-22
The talk shows a concrete refactor path: wrap messy jQuery in an initLegacyCode jail, write integration tests, extract computed-property models, and replace UI…
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Using TDD to Tame the Big Ball o' MudMountainWest JavaScript 20142014-03-21
Wraps legacy jQuery into a code jail component, add unit and acceptance tests, and follow a concrete five‑step refactor: extract a computed‑property model that…
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Ember on Rails: #REALTALKLoneStarRuby Conf 20132013-08-11
A developer goes from zero to shipping a UX‑centric app that pulls shared links from Twitter and becomes an animated‑gif browser, using Rails as the API and…
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