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Micromanaging to Failure: a scary software story

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The Tale of the Hidden Consultant: a scary software story

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The Haunting of the Unreleased Migrations: a scary software story

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Software consultancy driven by purpose, not profit

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Secrets of Great Conference Talks - Practical Public Speaking Advice

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Micromanaging to Failure: a scary software story

1:44

Micromanaging to Failure: a scary software story

Просмотров 60Месяц назад

What happens when micromanagement meets a fragile CI build? 🎃 In this eerie software story, we explore a real-life consulting experience where one manager’s overbearing presence turned build breaks into a nightmare for the whole team. Expect: - Tales of Subversion and outdated CI (scary, right?) - A micromanager who haunts cubicles in real-time - Commit chaos and integration disasters Will the ...

The Tale of the Hidden Consultant: a scary software story

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The Tale of the Hidden Consultant: a scary software story

Просмотров 41Месяц назад

Hired in secret. No product manager. ColdFusion cobwebs everywhere. And months of dev effort... for HOW many transactions a month? 😱 This is the haunting story of time, energy, and resources spent on what didn’t matter-and the three developers who ghosted after learning the truth. Watch the full story now (if you dare). Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and leave a comment about your spookiest s...

The Haunting of the Unreleased Migrations: a scary software story

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The Haunting of the Unreleased Migrations: a scary software story

Просмотров 57Месяц назад

The Haunting of the Unreleased Migrations: a scary software story

Software consultancy driven by purpose, not profit

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Software consultancy driven by purpose, not profit

Просмотров 1325 месяцев назад

Test Double is a software consultancy driven by purpose, not profit. Our co-founders had a mission to improve how the world builds software. An intentional focus on sustainable growth and culture means we're now in our second decade of solving hard software problems. We used to feel like we were different, and now we know we're certifiably different: Test Double is certified Evergreen by the Tu...

Secrets of Great Conference Talks - Practical Public Speaking Advice

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Secrets of Great Conference Talks - Practical Public Speaking Advice

Просмотров 1,2 тыс.11 месяцев назад

Justin Searls has been giving presentations at conferences and meetups for over a decade, and he's designed an approach that's guaranteed to keep people's attention and leave a meaningful impact on audiences. Here are his top ten tips for everything from having your talk submission accepted in a CFP to designing a slide deck to dealing with the nervousness you might feel about getting on stage....

We're hiring a creative, get stuff done Senior Content Manager

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We're hiring a creative, get stuff done Senior Content Manager

Просмотров 129Год назад

Are you a stand out content marketer? We're seeking a marketer who is skilled in: - 💫 creative copywriting - 🔎 empathetic editing - 💻 pragmatic promotion You might be a good fit as Senior Content Manager at Test Double if ... 1. You seamlessly shift from SEO to editing video to social copy-and you're driven to navigate how content evolves. 2. You coach people to improve their content through ed...

Forecasting the Future: Intro to Machine Learning in Ruby (RailsConf 2023)

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Forecasting the Future: Intro to Machine Learning in Ruby (RailsConf 2023)

Просмотров 3,3 тыс.Год назад

Inspired by a desire to understand why more engineers weren't using Ruby for their machine learning (ML) projects, I embarked on a journey to determine if I could build a project to do something non-trivial using ML in Ruby. Once again, it turns out that you can indeed use Ruby to do amazing things! By leveraging various libraries, building machine learning models becomes a breeze. There is a l...

Zero downtime Rails upgrades (RailsConf 2023)

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Zero downtime Rails upgrades (RailsConf 2023)

Просмотров 582Год назад

No one likes working on Rails upgrades, and who can blame them? They can be thankless, time-consuming, and-worst of all-unpredictable. How long will they take? When can we get back to feature work? What’ll break when they’re deployed? It’s tempting to say, “Let’s do it later,” but later is usually never. Instead of living in fear of the big, scary Rails upgrade, your team can set up systems for...

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The end of legacy code (RailsConf 2023)

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What if you could change your relationship with legacy code, and shed the weight the name brings with it? What if legacy code disappeared? In this RailsConf 2023 talk Daniel Huss shares how. If we try to approach legacy code with a fresh perspective, we can find opportunities to smooth out the rough edges and make it easier for other devs, and our future selves to work with. If we don't, we ris...

Let's Standardize Rails (RailsConf 2023)

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Let's Standardize Rails (RailsConf 2023)

Просмотров 1,6 тыс.Год назад

At RailsConf 2023, we conducted an experiment: could attendees do the hard work for us by voting on RuboCop rules so we could publish the Standard Rails plugin? In this talk, @JustinSearls & Meagan Waller worked with the audience to lay the groundwork for Standard Ruby’s first plugin: standard-rails. Together, we crowdsourced some of the thorniest questions once and for all, saving your (and ev...

RubyKaigi 2023 - Interviewed Kokubun Just-In-Time

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RubyKaigi 2023 - Interviewed Kokubun Just-In-Time

Просмотров 375Год назад

That's it-RubyKaigi 2023 is a wrap! I sat down with Kokubun-san to discuss his talk on RJIT, things he enjoyed about the conference, and why we should look forward to traveling to RubyKaigi in Okinawa next year. I hope you'll come! For more of our coverage on RubyKaigi, check out our Field Report blog.testdouble.com/field-reports/ruby-kaigi/

RubyKaigi 2023 - Meet the Organizer, Akira Matsuda

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RubyKaigi 2023 - Meet the Organizer, Akira Matsuda

Просмотров 444Год назад

If you've never met him, Akira is a great person to know! He is the lead organizer for both RubyKaigi (@rubykaigi4884) and Asakusa.rb, the premier Ruby weekly(!) meetup in Tokyo. Over the past six years he's transformed Kaigi into a traveling conference that has introduced countless domestic and international Rubyists to new cities in Japan like Kyoto, Fukuoka, and now Matsumoto. While I couldn...

Ruby Kaigi 2023 - Aaron Patterson Interview

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Ruby Kaigi 2023 - Aaron Patterson Interview

Просмотров 1 тыс.Год назад

It's the first day of RubyKaigi 2023 in Matsumoto Japan! Before Matz kicked off his keynote, Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove) and I sat down to discuss the conference, his experience at Keyboard Kaigi, what he's looking forward to at the conference. We also went into detail about the next generation of Ruby parsers, the challenges Ractor has faced since its debut, and why UTF-8 is such a sociopoli...