Ruby Rogues

Many of the author's complaints read similar to this one:

Now, people compare Backbone to Cappuccino, or Ember to Rails. Cappuccino, Backbone, and Rails all serve completely different purposes, and saying you don’t need one because you have another is just asinine.

Three questions:

1. Who are these people that compare those three frameworks?

2. Why do you let them get under your skin?

3. What does that have you do with you "being done with the web" (or web community)?

I don't understand any of these. So some morons want to compare apples and oranges? This has nothing to do with "the web" and crops up in all industries and spheres of life. Welcome to humanity, enjoy your stay.

As best I can tell, my lack of empathy must come from a different definition of "web community". When the author complains about how The community has tossed out everything we’ve learned from the last 30 years of building applications in favor of being able to put something together quickly with complete disregard for maintainability or extendability. part of me wants to agree with him, flip a table, and join the melee [1].

But at the same time, I was listening to the Ruby Rogues episode with Sandi Metz last night [2]. There is a 20-minute discussion about utility of does-it-all frameworks, their use in a project, the types of projects you use them for, and the point at which all projects will necessarily need to have designed a better solution, or massively adapted the framework, to better fit…

"I’ve been for them because they aim to help people learn to code and try to keep costs low compared to a similar degree from a university. I’ve been against them because most just take my books, teach my material, then rip off students for $15k programs that don’t actually get anyone deployed."

Isn't that what traditional education/university courses do?... but over a much longer period of time and more money?

Light is the best disinfectant, I hope your post spark some strong discussion because that rarely happens with universities and the stakeholders.

I wonder very strongly what happened to the students of Livingsocial's Hungry Academy experiment led by Jeff Casimer and JumpStartLabs in 2012. It was a initial class of 8-15 or something with promised contracts at the end. LivingSocial chose not to continue the program and I believe gschool(galvanize) spawned off of that model.

Jeff talking about his vision for teaching people to code on ruby rogues in 2012
http://rubyrogues.com/050-rr-hungry-academy-with-jeff-casimir/

I started Dev Bootcamp in early spring 2013, signing up after lamenting that http://pragmaticstudio.com/ in Reston, VA was 2-3,000 for a 3 day course. It just made sense in comparison.

I've found Dev Bootcamp to change and evolve as time moved due to student feedback(I parttime coached students there to stay in touch). The curiosity to learn everything and knowing how to find the answers was my favorite takeaway from the bootcamp.

I use to ride the train from San Francisco to Sunnyvale and was able to read a lot of books. I had to be careful though because if I got too into the book I would miss my stop.

Audio Books:

Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by
Charles Darwin -- https://librivox.org/the-origin-of-species-by-charles-darwin/

The Art of War by Sun Tzu -- https://archive.org/details/art_of_war_librivox

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift --
https://archive.org/details/gulliver_ld_librivox

Podcasts:

Ruby Rouges (ruby programming talks/programming in general)-- http://rubyrogues.com/

StarTalk with Neil Degrasse Tyson (Space, comedians, science) -- http://www.startalkradio.net/

Gobot also has sister libs in Ruby and Node! I have used the Ruby one a bit and it's a ton of fun. I've had a bear of a time with the bluetooth support under Ubuntu though. I guess I need to try Gobot with my Sphero ASAP.

Ron Evans (One of the gobot devs from the blog post linked in beliu's post) was also named a Ruby Hero a few days ago. He was tremendously inspiring in this podcast on teaching kids to program [1]. I dug it so much I wound up demoing a sphero and a "talking fruit keyboard" at a local career day a few months after I heard him.

[1] http://rubyrogues.com/141-rr-teaching-kids-with-ron-evans

Those concerns voiced with 2.0's refinements before release were why they were marked as experimental, and were the driving force behind the changes made to refinements between 2.0 and 2.1.

On the 2.1, non-experimental version, he has said: "What we’re going to have as refinements in 2.1 is a paired down version that I think still provides the bulk of the functionality people wanted out of the feature without most of the pain that I was concerned about originally."

http://rubyrogues.com/124-rr-jruby-with-charlie-nutter/

I'm a big podcast fan. Here are my favorite tech podcasts:

* ATP: http://atp.fm

* Giant Robots: http://podcasts.thoughtbot.com/giantrobots

* The Changelog: http://thechangelog.com (disclaimer: co-host)

* Ruby Rogues: http://rubyrogues.com

* Debug: http://www.imore.com/debug

Non-tech but also lovely:

* We Have Concerns: http://wehaveconcerns.com

* The New Disruptors: http://newdisrupt.org

* The Incomparable: http://www.theincomparable.com

* IRL Talk: http://www.irltalk.com