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Re: How to Sell a Hundred Screencasts

r00k — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:51:46 -0000

Sorry about that! I'm in the process of moving domains around and so my store is down.

The good news is Vim for Rails Developers is available at http://workshops.thoughtbot.co...

Re: How to Sell a Hundred Screencasts

Raphael — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:48:46 -0000

I'm really interested in your screencasts, and have read several glowing reviews. But the links to them are broken. Are they still available?

Re: How To Land a Rails Job with No Experience

Chas Wagner — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:23:22 -0000

You are quick my friend. Look forward to the email. Talk soon.

Re: How To Land a Rails Job with No Experience

r00k — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:17:26 -0000

Absolutely! I'm actually currently coaching Artiom and I think he'd agree that it's going well.

For folks asking about this in the future: I'm still doing this. If you have questions, you can get in touch with me with the info on my About page.
Chas - I'll email you directly.

Re: How To Land a Rails Job with No Experience

Chas Wagner — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:14:58 -0000

Hey dude. As Artiom asked as well, is this offer still valid? I wanna hop on the Ruby train.

Re: User registration pages suck

Ffion KitchenGadgets — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:02:17 -0000

Great article, couldn't agree more. I hate it when I want to add a comment to a website but have to register first. If I have to register I don't bother.

Re: How To Land a Rails Job with No Experience

r00k — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:24:42 -0000

Absolutely! I've sent you an email.

Re: How To Land a Rails Job with No Experience

artiom fine — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:31:01 -0000

Hey, just wondering if you're still offering this service since this is an old post. Thank you.

Re: How to Recruit Me

Dave Aronson — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:24:18 -0000

Could be worse. I just started a new blog at http://www.RecruitingRants.com... and the initial post is on the salutation... like "Hello Actively", "Dear Casually", "Hi Confidential", "Greetings and Felicitations, O Exalted Exploring Options". (Okay, I admit it, I made that last one up.)

Incidentally, I found this page via the Ruby Reflector -- apparently it picked up your mention of Ruby, and doesn't mind that the post is months old.

Re: Just closed more funding? My condolences.

Matt Sharper — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:19:47 -0000

he company hasn’t figured out how to pay its bills

At the end of the day, a company exists to make money. Every round of
funding (past, maybe, a seed round) is an admission that you still
haven’t figured out a business model that will keep the damn lights on.
Every startup should want each round of funding to be its last.

This. alot of SV companies don't know how to make money....

Re: Don’t get blocked

Kartz Sirasanagandla — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:51:57 -0000

Here is what I do when blocked. If my gut feel says that it is solvable by spending a little more time (anywhere between .5 or 1hr), I give it a try. More often, I do end up spending more than a hour and would then call on someone who I think can provide solution or maybe share his experience on an alternative.

Moderation is a difficult bit that takes a lot of practice with the help of feedback. And for me by personal experience and big time observation on the peer developer practices, I have found that mantra is utterly abused to the extent that people chant it as "If blocked, then hack around, complete story, get praised to be a super/smart techy"and go about writing spaghetti code as Christoph has mentioned. I have not just witnessed this but even got advised of this very own ill-found mantra. I detest people committing hacky code without discussing with the team openly on the alternatives and coming to consensus on the approach to be taken.

May I request you to kindly include in bold, the lesson that you wish to communicate in a manner that ensures that no one cites you for wrong reasons :P

Re: Don’t get blocked

r00k — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:59:49 -0000

As in nearly everything, moderation is important.

Re: Don’t get blocked

Christoph Rackwitz — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:58:35 -0000

If taken to extremes, that's a recipe for spaghetti code, unmaintainable, full of hacks and workarounds.

Re: Don’t get blocked

r00k — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:18:07 -0000

Definitely not just you! As I mentioned in the post, I think this is common behavior in lots of developers. You really need to enjoy solving problems to last long in this field.

The more-effective developer solved the problem by abandoning the library I was using and trying a different one. Nothing particularly clever, but an example of a larger trend in his work.

Re: Don’t get blocked

Scott Radcliff — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:05:30 -0000

Whew! It's not just me. I will follow the same rabbit hole for hours. I usually end up thinking either this problem is too difficult for me, and my pride just wont let me be beaten, or I think that I am not smart enough to solve the problem, and that leads to the same result of me trying to be resilient.

You mentioned that the other developer tried something else and moved on. Did the problem get solved, just in a different way, or did he just move on to something more important?

Re: Don’t get blocked

silent1mezzo — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:51:20 -0000

Ofte

Re: New In factory_girl: Callbacks

Jones Lee — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:15:20 -0000

Is there any changed in syntax of Factory Girl 2?

Re: Programmer Resumes are Deprecated

r00k — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:00:35 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Programmer Resumes are Deprecated

Andrés Mejía — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:12:26 -0000

Congrats!

Re: F*cking programming

Versaiteis — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:49:14 -0000

I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords

Re: Programmer Resumes are Deprecated

r00k — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:24:36 -0000

Quite frankly I'd be shocked if somewhere I wanted to work didn't use Github. It's just that common in the Ruby world.

In the past, I've temporarily added collaborators on my private repos when I wanted to share them.

Re: Programmer Resumes are Deprecated

Moose01 — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:01:28 -0000

How did you arrange to showcase your private repositories? What if they don't use git or github?

Re: Programmer Resumes are Deprecated

Melanio Reyes — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:29:03 -0000

Wow, that's awesome. Best line: "Leave the bullshitty bullet points to the MBAs."

Re: Programmer Resumes are Deprecated

bobz — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:25:11 -0000

Great news, congrats Ben!

Re: How To Land a Rails Job with No Experience

dan — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:30:07 -0000

Really interesting. I'm a 21 french years old student, and still bored by Java /.NET technical stuff AND community ... That's why I'm switching to Ruby...