jcasimir

Build Developers

Brief

You cannot do it on your own. Whether you're buildings products or a consultancy, you need developers. You can't afford to outbid everyone else and, even if you do, another company will up the ante in six months. You can't rely on your network or universities to deliver fully ready Rails devs. Professional recruiters are no answer.

Your only real option is to build them. That's the situation LivingSocial faced, and in this session, we'll share lessons learned from the design, recruitment, and beginning months of Hungry Academy. Let's discuss:

• Recruiting applicants
• Evaluating aptitude

jasonrudolph

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

metaskills

%w(id foo under_score bar batz_score)

["id", "foo", "under_score", "bar", "batz_score"]

[:id, :foo, :under_score, :bar, :batz_score]

dougalcorn

# put this method definition in your .irbrc
def log_to(stream = STDOUT)
  ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(stream)
  ActiveRecord::Base.clear_active_connections!
end

mathie

# My new git commit shortcut, thanks to http://whatthecommit.com/ :-)
alias commit='git commit -m "$(curl -s http://whatthecommit.com/ |grep '<p>' |cut -c 4-)"'

jsmestad

# Make gems available
require 'rubygems'

# http://drnicutilities.rubyforge.org/map_by_method/
begin
  require 'map_by_method'
rescue LoadError
  puts "map_by_method is not installed. To enable, run: gem install map_by_method"
end