Episode 22: Object-Oriented Home Renovation

First FEMA modular homes arrive in Joplin. Photo by Kansas City District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

We hit the Double Deuce this week with special guest Jim Gay. Jim is the author of Clean Ruby, the upcoming book that applies “Data, Context and Interaction” (DCI) concepts to Ruby and Rails development. Jim is clearly much smarter than us, so we took this opportunity to attack him mercilessly as a representative of the sexist Ruby community. Jim also shares his experiences as a self-published author. In addition, we talk about how True North PHP planning is going for Chris, and Ed’s experiences at Brooklyn Beta.

If you’re a true believer, you’ll do these things:

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Episode 21: The Grace Hopper Rape Whistle

The Grace Hopper Rape Whistle. Photo by Liene Verzemnieks

Twenty-one. Like blackjack. Like the gun salute. For those about to rock.

We recorded this episode just a few days after #20, because we were able to get Elizabeth Naramore as a super-special secret guest! She talks to us about Codeconnexx, an open source tech and life skills conference in Indianapolis Nov 8-9. We also talked a lot about getting women to submit talks to conferences, including the success that Jan Lehnardt has had in this area with JSConfEU. We then get into Chris’s experiments with JS testing, and what we think of App.net from a developer perspective.

If you’re support the inalienable rights of all humans, you’ll do these things:

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Episode 20: Chris Hartjes’s Kitchen Nightmare

kitchen collapse by Nate Dorr

EPISODE DOS EQUIS! Our 20th show goes out to all the haters. IN YOUR FACE HATERS.

This week we talk about how Chris sucks at cooking food, which segues nicely into a discussion of the True North PHP conference that he’s co-organizing in Toronto in November. Thankfully he will not be catering the event himself. We also talk about Ed’s move from doing PHP to Python for day-to-day work, and the plusses and minuses he’s encountered during the transition.

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