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Panel
Discussion
- RubyQuiz
- Learn by Play
- Code Kata
- Learn something new by convincing your boss to have it deployed
- Ship something critical
- RubyMotion
- Dig into or try refactoring an existing project
- Modify the Rails repository
- “If you’re not having fun, you’re doing it wrong!”
- Teach other people
- Experimentation while writing books
- “All Code is Experimental” ~ Dan Kubb
- Code Retreats
- International Conference on Functional Programming Contest
- Play =? Timeboxed Spike Iteration
- Pair Programming Playtime
- Project Euler
- RubyKoans
- Puzzle Node
- NPR’s Sunday Puzzle
- Rubeque
- Webster’s Dictionary word list on the Mac/Linux at /usr/share/dict/words
- Bookworm (Online Game)
- What do you think about the pointlessly stupid problems like writing a Ruby quine?
- Code Golf
- Reading Code
- Learning to solve problems
- Confidence in your coding skills
- David’s blog post on Mandelbrot sets
- Top Coder
- Code Brawl
- remotepairprogramming.com
- SFMTA clipper card
Picks
- InfoWorld Hello World quiz (Josh)
- Enumerable by Inject (Josh)
- wideteams.com (Avdi)
- @codewisdom on Twitter (James)
- Owning Rails course (James)
- Mike Clark’s online Ruby course (James)
- Monkey patched rubykoans (Chuck)
- TextExpander (Chuck)
- Qlobe (David)
Programming Challenge
Write some cool and executable Ruby code that fits in a single tweet! Tweet a link to the code tweet to @rubyrogues. Use the hashtag #roguesgolf.
The winner gets their choice of a book from pragprog.com (both electronic and dead tree).
Book Club
We’re reading Working with Unix Processes by Jesse Storimer. You can get the book at http://workingwithunixprocesses.com and get $5 off by using the code BOOKCLUB.
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