A Decade under the Influence

Presented to the Atlanta Ruby Users Group in April 2016.

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1. A Decade Under the Influence Ten years writing Ruby and Rails Luigi Ray-Montanez // @1uigi
3. Or: Crafting a career in software development
4. Privilege Check!
5. Back in 2005...
10. Rails 1.0 December 2005 ActiveRecord Generators + Scaffolding Prototype + Scriptaculous
12. Rails 1.1 March 2006 RJS
19. First Rails work in 2007
20. Rails 1.2 January 2007 REST!
21. Rails 2.0 December 2007 More REST! ActiveResource
27. Rails 2.3 March 2009 Rack, Metal, Engines, Templates
28. 2009: Gem to Job
35. Rails 3.0 August 2010 Have It Your Way™ Bundler
36. Rails 3.1 August 2011 jQuery as default! Asset Pipeline (Sass + CoffeeScript)
37. Startup in 2012
42. Rails 4.0 June 2013 Russian Doll Caching Turbolinks ETags
44. Specialization in 2016
49. Rails 5.0 ??? 2016 ActionCable API Mode
50. • React + Rails • Elm + Phoenix + Elixir • Om + ClojureScript + Clojure Stacks to bet on
51. Reflections...
52. Find your niche.
54. You may have to move!
55. Work on apps that people actually use.
56. Get into the plumbing. Nothing is magic.
57. Build on your previous experiences.
58. You’re not an imposter.
60. Work someplace new every 4 years. Ask for a 15% salary bump when offered a new job.
61. Write code. Keep it clean. Share freely.
62. Questions? Luigi Ray-Montanez // @1uigi