In this episode, our guest Ryan Findley discusses doing things the Rails Way™ versus following other patterns, the case against rewriting software (and how you might anyway), the case against story points (and why you might want to use them anyway), how to measure developer productivity without triggering the wrong behavior, and bonsai gardening as it relates to software stewardship. Guests: Ryan FindleyNeomind LabsLinks: Prepare to tack: Steering Rails apps out of technical debt by Robby Rus...
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In this episode, our guest Ryan Findley discusses doing things the Rails Way™ versus following other patterns, the case against rewriting software (and how you might anyway), the case against story points (and why you might want to use them anyway), how to measure developer productivity without triggering the wrong behavior, and bonsai gardening as it relates to software stewardship. Guests: Ryan FindleyNeomind LabsLinks: Prepare to tack: Steering Rails apps out of technical debt by Robby Rus...
In this special Thanksgiving weekend episode, Fito and Alan discuss what they're thankful for this year, and then tackle why DRY is the worst programming advice ever.Links...A Brewer's Guide to Filtering out Complexity and Churn from Rocky Mountain Ruby 2024.The Case for WET Tests by Amanda BeinerLet's Not by Joe Ferris3A – Arrange, Act, Assert by Bill WakeRule of Three from Refactoring by Martin Fowler (page 58), attributed to Don Roberts"Last Responsible Moment" from Extreme Programming Exp...
The Code Gardener
In this episode, our guest Ryan Findley discusses doing things the Rails Way™ versus following other patterns, the case against rewriting software (and how you might anyway), the case against story points (and why you might want to use them anyway), how to measure developer productivity without triggering the wrong behavior, and bonsai gardening as it relates to software stewardship. Guests: Ryan FindleyNeomind LabsLinks: Prepare to tack: Steering Rails apps out of technical debt by Robby Rus...
