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Panelists
- Avdi Grimm (twitter github blog book)
- Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Summer Camp)
- James Edward Gray II (blog twitter github)
- Josh Susser (twitter github blog)
- Peter Cooper (site twitter github The Ruby Show Ruby Inside)
- David Brady (blog twitter github ADDcasts)
Mentioned in this Episode
Why Beautiful Code?
- You know your code is written correctly by looking at it.
- Knots metaphor – If it’s shaped right, you know it’ll hold.
- The shape in your mind matches the shape on the page
Evaluating code:
- Eric Hodel – Audio evaluator of code
- rubygems-sing
- Reveals the intention to someone
Practices:
- 80 character limit
- 1 statement per line
- Comments are code smells
- Red-green-refactor
- Engage more senses-use more parts of the brain
- Short functions/methods
- Morph the language into the language of the problem domain (DSL’s)
Picks
- Laser (Peter)
- Laser Thesis (Peter)
- Minitest (Dave)
- Minitest/spec (Dave)
- Simplecov (Dave)
- hasmanythrough.com (James)
- virtuouscode.com (James)
- The Psychopath Test
(James)
- Dropbox (Chuck)
- metric_fu (Chuck)
- metrical (Dave)
- fixture_builder (Josh)
- cast of characters pattern (Josh)
- vivo barefoot shoes (Josh)
- guard (Avdi)
- Object-Oriented Programming: An Objective Sense of Style (Avdi)
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