Podcast appearances and mentions of David A Black

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Corey Martin is a Customer Solutions Architect at Heroku. On this episode of Code[ish], he’s interviewing Joe Leo, the founder and CEO of Def Method, a service-oriented software consultancy based out of New York City. The conversation begins with Leo providing his personal definition of legacy software as being any software that is not currently in the process of being written. He emphasizes that this does not mean something is immediately obsolete once it’s been written, but that at that point an individual or company must shift its energy and focus to maintenance and improvement. From there Martin and Leo move on to discussing how customers Def Method helps customers find solutions to their software issues. Whether a company is dealing with brownfield, greenfield or minefield software, Def Method attempts to help them determine how to deal with the problems they are faced with and how they can keep their system healthy as they continue to evolve. As Leo points out, no piece of software is future-proof or bug-free, so honesty and openness are required if a company wants to succeed. It’s Def Method’s goal to help its customers get to this point. The pair round out the conversation by talking about Leo’s recent book, The Well-Grounded Rubyist. The text, which was originally penned by Leo’s close friend David A. Black, is considered one of the most influential pieces of writing on Ruby and Leo was brought in to help co-author the third edition, which is published by Manning Publications. Leo views The Well-Grounded Rubyist as a text book with a philosophical bent and says that his primary focus was capturing the how the language has developed throughout its history and the very real tectonic shifts it has undergone during that time. Links from this episode Def Method is Joe Leo's consultancy that focuses on rescuing legacy software Def Method has also been featured as a Heroku Customer Success case study Code Climate is a code analyzer that runs as part of CI to ensure the quality of your code The Well-Grounded Rubyist is the Joe's book, available from Manning

Joe Leo joins Charles Max Wood on this week's My Ruby Story. Joe is the Founder and CEO of the agile software consultancy, Def Method. He shares his journey as a developer. Joe was tutored by his uncle and learned how to code in Basic on a command line. He wanted to be in the music industry and liked math. Joe is currently working on holistic product development and is delving into areas such as what makes a good product manager and what makes a good product design. Charles and Joe talk about difficulties in quantifying good product management skills or writing tests and other non-coding aspects that surround making a product. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Joe Leo Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan React Native Radio My Angular Story CacheFly Links RR 423: The Well-Grounded Rubyist with David A. Black & Joseph Leo III The Well-Grounded Rubyist: Covers Ruby 1.9.1 by David A. Black and by III Joseph Leo (Author) Joe's LinkedIn Def Method https://devchat.tv/blog/what-really-makes-a-10x-engineer/ Picks Joe Leo https://www.kobee.io/ ACR 2019 Ruby·Rails·React Conference Charles Max Wood Sign Up on Devchat.tv for our weekly episode round-up How to Stay Current in Technology Effectively in 2019 All In by by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton For Men Only by Shaunti Feldhahn, Jeff Feldhahn  

Joe Leo joins Charles Max Wood on this week's My Ruby Story. Joe is the Founder and CEO of the agile software consultancy, Def Method. He shares his journey as a developer. Joe was tutored by his uncle and learned how to code in Basic on a command line. He wanted to be in the music industry and liked math. Joe is currently working on holistic product development and is delving into areas such as what makes a good product manager and what makes a good product design. Charles and Joe talk about difficulties in quantifying good product management skills or writing tests and other non-coding aspects that surround making a product. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Joe Leo Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan React Native Radio My Angular Story CacheFly Links RR 423: The Well-Grounded Rubyist with David A. Black & Joseph Leo III The Well-Grounded Rubyist: Covers Ruby 1.9.1 by David A. Black and by III Joseph Leo (Author) Joe's LinkedIn Def Method https://devchat.tv/blog/what-really-makes-a-10x-engineer/ Picks Joe Leo https://www.kobee.io/ ACR 2019 Ruby·Rails·React Conference Charles Max Wood Sign Up on Devchat.tv for our weekly episode round-up How to Stay Current in Technology Effectively in 2019 All In by by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton For Men Only by Shaunti Feldhahn, Jeff Feldhahn  

Joe Leo joins Charles Max Wood on this week's My Ruby Story. Joe is the Founder and CEO of the agile software consultancy, Def Method. He shares his journey as a developer. Joe was tutored by his uncle and learned how to code in Basic on a command line. He wanted to be in the music industry and liked math. Joe is currently working on holistic product development and is delving into areas such as what makes a good product manager and what makes a good product design. Charles and Joe talk about difficulties in quantifying good product management skills or writing tests and other non-coding aspects that surround making a product. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Joe Leo Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan React Native Radio My Angular Story CacheFly Links RR 423: The Well-Grounded Rubyist with David A. Black & Joseph Leo III The Well-Grounded Rubyist: Covers Ruby 1.9.1 by David A. Black and by III Joseph Leo (Author) Joe's LinkedIn Def Method https://devchat.tv/blog/what-really-makes-a-10x-engineer/ Picks Joe Leo https://www.kobee.io/ ACR 2019 Ruby·Rails·React Conference Charles Max Wood Sign Up on Devchat.tv for our weekly episode round-up How to Stay Current in Technology Effectively in 2019 All In by by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton For Men Only by Shaunti Feldhahn, Jeff Feldhahn  

David A. Black, Software Engineer IV at 2U, joins Charles Max Wood on this week's My Ruby Story. David A. Black has been a Ruby user for 19 years and has been writing books about Ruby for the last 14 years as well as organizing conferences. David has been coding since he was 13 years old. He was introduced to Ruby in November 2000 when he was looking at the computer section at the old bookstore Borders and picked up the book Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt. Five years later, David, who has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University, resigned from a tenured professorship in the communication field to become a full-time programmer, trainer, and author. His book The Well-Grounded Rubyist is now in its third edition. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: David A. Black Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan React Native Radio My Angular Story CacheFly Links RR 423: The Well-Grounded Rubyist with David A. Black & Joseph Leo III David's Twitter David's LinkedIn 2U The Well-Grounded Rubyist: Covers Ruby 1.9.1 by David A. Black David A. Black Books https://www.davidablack.net/ Picks Charles Max Wood Nikon D5600 Digital SLR Camera RØDE Microphones

David A. Black, Software Engineer IV at 2U, joins Charles Max Wood on this week's My Ruby Story. David A. Black has been a Ruby user for 19 years and has been writing books about Ruby for the last 14 years as well as organizing conferences. David has been coding since he was 13 years old. He was introduced to Ruby in November 2000 when he was looking at the computer section at the old bookstore Borders and picked up the book Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt. Five years later, David, who has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University, resigned from a tenured professorship in the communication field to become a full-time programmer, trainer, and author. His book The Well-Grounded Rubyist is now in its third edition. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: David A. Black Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan React Native Radio My Angular Story CacheFly Links RR 423: The Well-Grounded Rubyist with David A. Black & Joseph Leo III David's Twitter David's LinkedIn 2U The Well-Grounded Rubyist: Covers Ruby 1.9.1 by David A. Black David A. Black Books https://www.davidablack.net/ Picks Charles Max Wood Nikon D5600 Digital SLR Camera RØDE Microphones

David A. Black, Software Engineer IV at 2U, joins Charles Max Wood on this week's My Ruby Story. David A. Black has been a Ruby user for 19 years and has been writing books about Ruby for the last 14 years as well as organizing conferences. David has been coding since he was 13 years old. He was introduced to Ruby in November 2000 when he was looking at the computer section at the old bookstore Borders and picked up the book Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt. Five years later, David, who has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University, resigned from a tenured professorship in the communication field to become a full-time programmer, trainer, and author. His book The Well-Grounded Rubyist is now in its third edition. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: David A. Black Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan React Native Radio My Angular Story CacheFly Links RR 423: The Well-Grounded Rubyist with David A. Black & Joseph Leo III David's Twitter David's LinkedIn 2U The Well-Grounded Rubyist: Covers Ruby 1.9.1 by David A. Black David A. Black Books https://www.davidablack.net/ Picks Charles Max Wood Nikon D5600 Digital SLR Camera RØDE Microphones

Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments: Try Cloud 66 Rails for FREE & get $66 free credits with promo code RubyRogues Panel Charles Max Wood Andrew Mason With Special Guests: David A. Black and Joseph Leo III Episode Summary David A. Black has been a Ruby user for 19 years and has been writing books about Ruby for the last 14 years. Joseph spent 12 years in software and started the company Def Method Inc. Together, they co-authored the book The Well-Grounded Rubyist, which will soon have its third edition released. They give some of the history behind The Well-Grounded Rubyist. Joseph talks about his experience being brought into the project. David and Joseph talk about how The Well-Grounded Rubyist is different from other books on Ruby. This book is helpful because a lot of people begin by understanding Ruby more than Rails, and this book talks about ways to think about Ruby and understand how it’s structure. Joseph and David talk about how The Well-Grounded Rubyist 3rd edition differs from the 2nd edition. The book has been updated so that a lot of the code and solutions for the exercises are available online and there is an additional chapter in part 3 about Ruby dynamics and how one would write functional programming with Ruby The panel discusses how important it is to learn Ruby before starting a job in Rails 2. They agree that if you are a Ruby developer, even if you’re working on Rails apps, so you should know your tools. They discuss how far down that road The Well Grounded Rubyist would get readers. They panelists talk about other books that are a natural prequel or sequel to the The Well-Grounded Rubyist. Joseph and David talk about their approach to reading books and how The Well-Grounded Rubyist should be read. Their goal in making the book was not to have people work on an overarching application while reading the book, but rather there are exercises and examples that you are encouraged to work through. There are some lessons in the book that you won’t write often, but you still need to know how to do it. While the book doesn’t have everything about Ruby, but the examples are designed to give you the best returns for you study. David and Joseph conclude by giving their final thoughts on the book. Links The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition Perl Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide (The Facets of Ruby) 4th Edition Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby (2nd Edition) by Sandi Metz String mutability Follow DevChat on Facebook and Twitter Picks Andrew Mason: Default Gems Charles Max Wood: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins David A. Black: Pragmatic Programmer 2nd edition Davidablack.net and @david_a_black on Twitter Joseph Leo III:  Barbarians at the Gate Firehydrant.io @jleo3 and defmethod.com

Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments: Try Cloud 66 Rails for FREE & get $66 free credits with promo code RubyRogues Panel Charles Max Wood Andrew Mason With Special Guests: David A. Black and Joseph Leo III Episode Summary David A. Black has been a Ruby user for 19 years and has been writing books about Ruby for the last 14 years. Joseph spent 12 years in software and started the company Def Method Inc. Together, they co-authored the book The Well-Grounded Rubyist, which will soon have its third edition released. They give some of the history behind The Well-Grounded Rubyist. Joseph talks about his experience being brought into the project. David and Joseph talk about how The Well-Grounded Rubyist is different from other books on Ruby. This book is helpful because a lot of people begin by understanding Ruby more than Rails, and this book talks about ways to think about Ruby and understand how it’s structure. Joseph and David talk about how The Well-Grounded Rubyist 3rd edition differs from the 2nd edition. The book has been updated so that a lot of the code and solutions for the exercises are available online and there is an additional chapter in part 3 about Ruby dynamics and how one would write functional programming with Ruby The panel discusses how important it is to learn Ruby before starting a job in Rails 2. They agree that if you are a Ruby developer, even if you’re working on Rails apps, so you should know your tools. They discuss how far down that road The Well Grounded Rubyist would get readers. They panelists talk about other books that are a natural prequel or sequel to the The Well-Grounded Rubyist. Joseph and David talk about their approach to reading books and how The Well-Grounded Rubyist should be read. Their goal in making the book was not to have people work on an overarching application while reading the book, but rather there are exercises and examples that you are encouraged to work through. There are some lessons in the book that you won’t write often, but you still need to know how to do it. While the book doesn’t have everything about Ruby, but the examples are designed to give you the best returns for you study. David and Joseph conclude by giving their final thoughts on the book. Links The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition Perl Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide (The Facets of Ruby) 4th Edition Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby (2nd Edition) by Sandi Metz String mutability Follow DevChat on Facebook and Twitter Picks Andrew Mason: Default Gems Charles Max Wood: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins David A. Black: Pragmatic Programmer 2nd edition Davidablack.net and @david_a_black on Twitter Joseph Leo III:  Barbarians at the Gate Firehydrant.io @jleo3 and defmethod.com

Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments: Try Cloud 66 Rails for FREE & get $66 free credits with promo code RubyRogues Panel Charles Max Wood Andrew Mason With Special Guests: David A. Black and Joseph Leo III Episode Summary David A. Black has been a Ruby user for 19 years and has been writing books about Ruby for the last 14 years. Joseph spent 12 years in software and started the company Def Method Inc. Together, they co-authored the book The Well-Grounded Rubyist, which will soon have its third edition released. They give some of the history behind The Well-Grounded Rubyist. Joseph talks about his experience being brought into the project. David and Joseph talk about how The Well-Grounded Rubyist is different from other books on Ruby. This book is helpful because a lot of people begin by understanding Ruby more than Rails, and this book talks about ways to think about Ruby and understand how it’s structure. Joseph and David talk about how The Well-Grounded Rubyist 3rd edition differs from the 2nd edition. The book has been updated so that a lot of the code and solutions for the exercises are available online and there is an additional chapter in part 3 about Ruby dynamics and how one would write functional programming with Ruby The panel discusses how important it is to learn Ruby before starting a job in Rails 2. They agree that if you are a Ruby developer, even if you’re working on Rails apps, so you should know your tools. They discuss how far down that road The Well Grounded Rubyist would get readers. They panelists talk about other books that are a natural prequel or sequel to the The Well-Grounded Rubyist. Joseph and David talk about their approach to reading books and how The Well-Grounded Rubyist should be read. Their goal in making the book was not to have people work on an overarching application while reading the book, but rather there are exercises and examples that you are encouraged to work through. There are some lessons in the book that you won’t write often, but you still need to know how to do it. While the book doesn’t have everything about Ruby, but the examples are designed to give you the best returns for you study. David and Joseph conclude by giving their final thoughts on the book. Links The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition Perl Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide (The Facets of Ruby) 4th Edition Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby (2nd Edition) by Sandi Metz String mutability Follow DevChat on Facebook and Twitter Picks Andrew Mason: Default Gems Charles Max Wood: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins David A. Black: Pragmatic Programmer 2nd edition Davidablack.net and @david_a_black on Twitter Joseph Leo III:  Barbarians at the Gate Firehydrant.io @jleo3 and defmethod.com

The focus of today's show is the recent discussion between Sandi Metz and David A. Black about continuously learning as a lead developer.

In this sixth episode of Hoi Polloi, Abidan Shah interviews Dr. David Alan Black, professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest. Te focus of this episode is New Testament textual criticism. Dr. Black studied under text-critic Harry Sturz. The Sturzian approach favors the reading that has the most text-type support. We will discuss 3 examples under this approach. If you have any questions or topics you would like to be discussed, tweet them to @hoipolloiradio.

In this week's podcast, Ben Orenstein is joined by Chad Fowler, author, speaker, and CTO of 6wunderkinder. Ben and Chad discuss Chad's recent move to Berlin and 6wunderkinder, what a CTO does, getting back to coding, the early Ruby community, who Chad wants to hire, predicting success of new hires, and what makes a truly good developer, favorite interview questions, how Chad's interviewing process has changed over time, how age and experience can change your perspective, how Chad built a great team, and what he might write about in the future. They also discuss Chad's new tattoo, his regrets, meditation, therapy, gaining control over your mind, and much, much more. Wunderlist David A. Black Rich Kilmer Dave Thomas Hilary Mason, Speaking: Entertain, Don’t Teach Befunge Ook! a programming language designed for orangutans LivingSocial Gains Wealth Of Ruby on Rails Expertise With InfoEther Acquisition Ben Scofield Evan Pheonix The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job Martin Fowler Clojure Scala Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are (Power Posing) Railsberry Power Posing! Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @chadfowler on twitter.