Devnology Podcast 045 - Dick Wall and Avdi Grimm

In this episode we bring you a special interview with two
well-known podcasters: Dick Wall and Avdi Grimm. Dick Wall, also
known as the sheriff of the Java Posse, works as a Scala trainer
and consultant at Escalate Software. Avdi Grimm, one of the Ruby
Rogues, is a Ruby code hacker, Chief aeronaut at ShipRise and
head chef at RubyTapas.com. In the interview we cover a wide
range of subjects like joy and courage in software development,
siloing in the software community, an idea for a conference by
Avdi that he'll never ever organise and working self-employed.


This interview was recorded on the morning after the Joy of
Coding conference in Rotterdam at March 7th.
Interview by @freekl and @arnetim
Links for this podcast:

The slides of the presentations that Dick and Avdi gave at
the Joy of Coding conference can be found on SpeakerDeck. Video
recordings will follow soon on InfoQ.

Avdi creates short screencasts for Ruby developers, twice a
week: RubyTapas.

Dick's talk on courage in software development can be seen on
Parleys.

A bunch of Ruby Koans that we mention in the podcast can be
found here.

The statement has to learn a new language every year stems
from the Pragmatic Programmer book.



 


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