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Panel
- Russ Olsen (twitter russolsen.com eloquentruby.com designpatternsinruby.com)
- Avdi Grimm (twitter github blog book)
- Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code)
- James Edward Gray (blog twitter github)
- Josh Susser (twitter github blog)
Discussion
- Eloquent Ruby
- Design Patterns in Ruby
- until
- Eloquent Ruby is aimed at being your second Ruby book
- metaprogramming
- Beginner vs. Advanced
- Method length
- Explicit returns
- The Weirich rule
- Design Patterns
- closures
- around filter metaphor
- dragging along scope variables
Picks
- think like a git (Avdi)
- weekly standup with non-team members (Avdi)
- e-mealz.com (Chuck)
- iWork (Chuck)
- The art of speaking (James)
- Green Day Blue Grass
- Zoe Keating
(James)
- Once Cello X 16: Natoma
(James)
- Marian Call: Got to Fly
(James)
- Balsamiq Mockups (Josh)
- Skitch (Josh)
- Drag to Pivotal Tracker (Josh)
- Get out with people who are trying to learn Ruby (Russ)
- WriteRoom (Russ)
- Ukulele (Russ)
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Regarding next month’s book: Land of Lisp is not only fun, but stretches the mind (interestingly, I just finished Eloquent Ruby and am working my way through Land of Lisp; it would be fantastic to hear another complementary set of opinions).
Good call on Zoe Keating, James.
+1 on LoL for next month. Been thoroughly enjoying it. Thanks for having Russ on the show this week. His comment on “making books as interesting as the programmers” comes to life in LoL.
Link to the art of speaking James mentions: http://tekpub.com/productions/ft_speaker
I’d love to hear you guys discuss GOOS sometime: http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com/