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A Decade under the Influence

Avatar for Luigi Ray-Montanez 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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Luigi Ray-Montanez

April 06, 2016

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Transcript

  1. A Decade Under the Influence Ten years writing Ruby and

    Rails Luigi Ray-Montanez // @1uigi
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  3. Or: Crafting a career in software development

  4. Privilege Check!

  5. Back in 2005...

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  10. Rails 1.0 December 2005 ActiveRecord Generators + Scaffolding Prototype +

    Scriptaculous
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  12. Rails 1.1 March 2006 RJS

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  19. First Rails work in 2007

  20. Rails 1.2 January 2007 REST!

  21. Rails 2.0 December 2007 More REST! ActiveResource

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  27. Rails 2.3 March 2009 Rack, Metal, Engines, Templates

  28. 2009: Gem to Job

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  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

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  42. Rails 4.0 June 2013 Russian Doll Caching Turbolinks ETags

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  44. Specialization in 2016

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  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.

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  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.

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  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