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Oh cool, that works! Hi, hi everybody, wake up! I'm Nick.
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Oh hey, those are my slides too! I'm Nick, and you can find me on Twitter as @nick.
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I'm going to talk about Open Hack. I really love programming. Programming is my favorite thing to do ever.
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When I program, I feel like this kid banging my hammer, and all of a sudden, there's stuff flying out of my machine.
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This is something I really love. One of the things I discovered while living in Boston is a simple formula: Pizza + Beer = Code.
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If you provide food and drinks, it somehow creates productivity. We used to have Boston RB hack fests, and this formula worked.
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This is how rubygems.org started, along with a bunch of other projects.
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I wanted a way to repeat that hack fest feeling after moving to Buffalo, New York.
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I wrote down some rules for doing hack fests, which I call Open Hack, and I'm going to share those with you.
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So how does it work? First, someone must organize it. This is me in Buffalo.
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One person is the point of contact.
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To keep the event organized, they arrange intros, which are super important.
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The intros build connections because when you enter a room of nerds coding, you might feel uncertain about how to introduce yourself.
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You should aim to do these intros every night since they help bring new people into the group.
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When you enter the room, just say who you are and what you are working on.
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It's okay to work alone, but you can also ask for help and pair with someone.
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You can even socialize while working.
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Most sessions wrap up after two hours, and other groups have tried longer sessions, but I get sleepy.
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Sponsors help a lot too. For instance, we have 37 Signals and Engine Yard helping out the Buffalo group.
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It's usually less than a hundred bucks to pay for pizza and maybe some beer, which helps a lot.
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We run this every two to three weeks in Buffalo.
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This has been a successful endeavor, and I discovered several local groups in Boise, Logan, Tulsa, Albuquerque, San Francisco, and Santa Barbara.
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We are currently in over 60 cities, and I aim to reach 100 by the end of the year.
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If you're interested in organizing, that would be fantastic.
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There are groups on the East Coast, plenty in Europe, and some even in Asia.
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It's mind-blowing how many groups there are just started from a few simple rules I wrote down, along with some funny gifts.
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If you're interested, please visit openhack.github.io.
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Okay, I was lying. I actually have announcements for other groups on Twitter.
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I'm throwing a Ruby conference along with other people from the Western Europe Ruby group in Buffalo, New York.
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It's happening September 20th and 21st at nickelcityruby.com. Thank you!
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Alright, I'm a professional, I can wait for my turn. There are 42 speakers and only six bowls of water.
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Anyway, I'm a big fan of what Heroku built, and unfortunately, I feel like a sad panda because we can't use that.
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So I became really interested in Cloud Foundry.
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I work at a company called Stark and Wayne, which I have been informed is the first and only company with two fictional founders.
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Board meetings are fun because I'm basically talking to myself.
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But the good news is that soon I will not be alone anymore.
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You know, I'm getting my fancy O-1 visa.
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For Americans who perhaps don't need visas, that's the alien of extraordinary ability.
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So, fancy dress day will involve pants on the outside, and it's going to be great.
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As a consultant, I worked with a large enterprise company that wanted to adopt agile methodologies.
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I felt really bad for people who've tried to do agile without proper support.
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Let me know how many careers have been destroyed by those who say, 'Yes, let's do Agile' and leave it at that.
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We have a hard rule around wanting everything in our internal private clouds across the globe, but that contradicts my belief.
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Everyone should have nice things, just because we work in cubicles doesn’t mean we can't enjoy nice setups.
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Fortunately, there is Cloud Foundry, but it isn't necessarily easy to run on your own.
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At my workplace, we outsourced it to a company called tier 3, which set it up.
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One of my pet peeves in the universe is companies claiming to be open source but leaving the execution to the reader.
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It's been a personal project to make running Cloud Foundry as easy as possible.
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I've reduced it to running two tools and five commands, and that's exciting.
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Using Bosch Bootstrap and Bosch Cloud Foundry, I won’t go into details about them.
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Instead, I just want to show you the commands to run.
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You can install a gem called Bosch Bootstrap.
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Then, you run the next command.
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If you follow along, you can execute the command that follows.
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Next, you run that command.
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Lastly, you run the other commands that I haven't mentioned.
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The commands are reasonably interactive and will ask you questions.
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For example, they'll inquire about your Amazon credentials.
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If you've used fog, it actually finds your credentials and uses them.
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At some point, it will ask you about DNS and other things.
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The reason I built this was because I grew tired of writing documentation, so I made a tool to simplify the process.
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What do you get from this tool? You get boxes—Squares.
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If you ever wondered what Amazon's boxes look like, they are square.
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Running your own Cloud Foundry for 30 cents an hour is pretty cool.
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You might want to run services, like where the Dinos run, so to speak.
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It does all of this smoothly.
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The setup typically takes about three hours, so we won’t do a demo right now.
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A show of hands: who hates show of hands at conferences?
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This talk is dedicated to all of you.
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You may have heard of technical debt, but I'm here to speak about 'Technical Intimidation'.
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Do you know Rails? Do you know all of Rails?
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Do you know why we like the word 'Active' so much?
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Can you program concurrently? Can you asynchronously stream hypermedia?
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I don't really know what that means, but Google image can help.
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Can you inject SQL into a cannoli?
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Do you know how to get closure with your monads?
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I don't really know what that implies either, but I suspect it has something to do with futility.
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Does anyone understand what this is in JavaScript?
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Do you know that they are actually putting JavaScript on servers these days?
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It reminds me—I have a Kickstarter for hosting Oracle on my browser.
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So if you've got any loose change…
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Does anybody know what Adam Keys is talking about here?
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If you take out all the buzzwords from that post, all you're left with is ASCII art of a troll face.
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All of these points were taken from recent Ruby and JavaScript weekly news editions.
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Does anyone here know all of this? If you said yes, you're lying.
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Because I made that last one up, but seriously.
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Recently, a prominent member of our industry posted a blog saying he was reluctant to ask a question.
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He didn't want to seem out of touch.
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I can relate to that, so can Kent Beck.
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Sometimes it's all just technology, and we find ourselves staring at it, feeling overwhelmed.
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And that leaves us with a feeling of shame.
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Two traits are common among people: adaptability and shame.
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When you combine these, you get hoarders.
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This illustrates how powerful shame can be in our lives.
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While it may not always play out so visibly for all of us, shame can shape our thoughts and feelings.
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Jerry Weinberg was once asked what the most important thing for a programmer is when starting a new project.
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He answered that each should ensure they are physically fit without nagging psychological problems.
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These messages are nagging psychological problems.
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As we know, shame robs our perspective and convinces us that we’re stuck.
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Software is hard; Steve McConnell paraphrased Dykstra, saying computing is the only profession where one mind spans intellectual distances of nine orders of magnitude.
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Several known figures in programming have voiced their decisions on critical issues, underscoring the difficulty of good design.
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The more closely you look at a feature, the more rough edges you will find.
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The sane approach is to iterate until it’s good enough and then move on.
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According to NPR, professionals sometimes struggle to spot problems they are trained to find.
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A whopping 83% of radiologists fail to see the gorilla in the image, while the legendary Garry Kasparov once blundered away his queen.
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So if I'm looking at two thousandth of a percent of my codebase at any time, cut me some slack.
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But what about all those things? Look, you can't learn everything, and it doesn't matter, at least not to people like Martin Fowler.
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Given someone with broad design skills and someone who knows your platform well, Martin will take the one with broader design skills.
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So what about everyone else who does seem to know everything?
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The trick is, don't be intimidated; learn from them!
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Pat Metheny advises young musicians to always be the least skilled person in the band.
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If you're the best player, find a different band.
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To summarize: we should do a much better job if we appreciate how difficult programming is.
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Stick to modest and elegant programming languages and respect the limitations of the human mind.
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Lastly, one great recommendation is to find Brandi Brown's TED talks on the topic of shame.
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This is me on the web, peace out.
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Hi everybody! My name is Jon McCartie.
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I am a Ruby developer at Life Church TV, which is a church in Oklahoma City.
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You can find me on the web at @JayMcCartie.
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At some point in your programming career, you’ll probably ask yourself, ‘What’s the point?’
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For me, this revelation came in 2010 when I was working in a B2B start-up in San Francisco.
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I remember one day on the BART train between the East Bay and San Francisco, I asked myself that crucial question.
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It was a question that profoundly shifted my perspective on what I valued.
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What matters to me? My family? Money? Notoriety? Or something else?
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It's a good question worth reflecting on.
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Each of us has an intrinsic need to feel that our work matters and that we belong.
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Embedded research shows that 75% of young people aged 25 to 30 give money to causes.
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Sixty-three percent say they give their time to volunteer, revealing a shift from previous generations.
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This suggests we are coming to terms with finding purpose in our work.
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So what is my purpose?
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When I was in San Francisco, a friend told me about a church in Oklahoma City.
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It's a Christian church that uses technology to reach people and change lives.
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We build software for these churches and give it away for free.
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For instance, we developed the YouVersion Bible app with 90 million installs to date.
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That became my purpose.
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My challenge to you is to discover your purpose.
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What motivates you and brings you fulfillment?
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The best place to start is by looking at your values.
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Identify what is really important to you.
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Prioritize those values.
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If you are a manager, make sure your developers understand why you’re doing what you do.
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Even if the project isn’t important overall, you need to communicate its value.
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Developers, if you don’t have a supportive manager find purpose.
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Even if your work isn’t fulfilling, understand the impact you’re making.
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For example, the feature you're working on might save someone time.
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Hold on to that, treasure it.
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If none of these projects fulfill you, consider what you can do outside your work.
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You have valuable skills.
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Work with a nonprofit or find ways to give back to the community.
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Your code today might not last, but the impact you create can last a lifetime.
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Hi, my name is Tanana Nakorn.
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Today, I would like to talk about the internationalization of Rails.
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I ran into a problem a while back with copying text on a website.
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For instance, if you have a button labeled ‘Sale’ and your friend from marketing wants to change it.
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They might want to change it to ‘Create’ first, and then a few days later to ‘Save.’
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This tedious process can be cumbersome and frustrating.
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Thus, I built a gem that lets you inline edit these elements on your website.
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Now, I’ll provide a demo.
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On the website, clicking on a label allows you to edit it.
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It also works for attributes.
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The edits can be saved.
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At the end, you can deactivate the edit mode.
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This approach empowers other team members to directly manipulate the website.
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This leads to greater happiness for everyone involved.
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You can easily include this JavaScript file when edit mode is enabled.
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In your Rails application, simply replace the normal functions.
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You can find out more about the gem at the URL here.
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My Twitter is @winfred.
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Now I want to share a project I've been working on.
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Good evening, my name is David.
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Let’s discuss Service Objects.
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Over the years, I’ve aimed to extract as much business logic as I can.
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This leads me to develop a service object.
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Each service only performs one action.
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Currently, they're in the app/services directory.
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The class name starts with a verb, e.g., ‘UserService’.
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It has a single method, and I can pass arguments to it.
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Using dependency injection helps with testing.
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I can validate if the method fails.
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When testing, I make sure the user should not be able to save.
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This method approach complements lambdas.
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We still gain benefits from our original design.
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Lastly, a service just shows how we can efficiently use professionalism.
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You can spot reusable code, and it's good for expanding development.
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This approach generates considerable flexibility in your code.
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That's it, so I'd appreciate any advice on it.
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Thank you, everyone. I would love your feedback.
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Hello everyone, I'm gonna talk about a few things.
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My name is David, and I am from a work where I build developer tools.
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Let me start with an overview of my work.
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It's an internship project enhancing awareness.
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Let’s dive right into a discussion about code testing.
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When testing your code, the goal is to ensure it works.
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This is crucial for maintaining user satisfaction.
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So testing helps raise confidence in the product, ultimately lowering lead times.
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Sorry everyone, this is the first time I've spoken publicly.
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It's a nerve-wracking experience but necessary for our developers.
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Thank you, everyone. I appreciate the support.
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Thank you for your attention, everyone.
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This conference has been illuminating.
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There’s so much to learn in our industry.
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With new tech emerging, it’s an exciting time.
