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Luigi Ray-Montanez
April 06, 2016
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A Decade under the Influence
Presented to the Atlanta Ruby Users Group in April 2016.
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Transcript
A Decade Under the Influence Ten years writing Ruby and
Rails Luigi Ray-Montanez // @1uigi
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Or: Crafting a career in software development
Privilege Check!
Back in 2005...
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Rails 1.0 December 2005 ActiveRecord Generators + Scaffolding Prototype +
Scriptaculous
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Rails 1.1 March 2006 RJS
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First Rails work in 2007
Rails 1.2 January 2007 REST!
Rails 2.0 December 2007 More REST! ActiveResource
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Rails 2.3 March 2009 Rack, Metal, Engines, Templates
2009: Gem to Job
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Rails 3.0 August 2010 Have It Your Way™ Bundler
Rails 3.1 August 2011 jQuery as default! Asset Pipeline (Sass
+ CoffeeScript)
Startup in 2012
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Rails 4.0 June 2013 Russian Doll Caching Turbolinks ETags
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Specialization in 2016
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Rails 5.0 ??? 2016 ActionCable API Mode
• React + Rails • Elm + Phoenix + Elixir
• Om + ClojureScript + Clojure Stacks to bet on
Reflections...
Find your niche.
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You may have to move!
Work on apps that people actually use.
Get into the plumbing. Nothing is magic.
Build on your previous experiences.
You’re not an imposter.
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Work someplace new every 4 years. Ask for a 15%
salary bump when offered a new job.
Write code. Keep it clean. Share freely.
Questions? Luigi Ray-Montanez // @1uigi