Code First, Ask Questions Later

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code ﬁrst ask questions later Rocky Mountain Ruby 2011 Tim Clem @timothyclem github.com/tclem Friday, September 9, 11

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moneycodemanagers buildingownership productivityculture automationautonomy communicationshipping Friday, September 9, 11

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and a robot named hubot Friday, September 9, 11

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but ﬁrst a word about code Friday, September 9, 11

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code == building shit Friday, September 9, 11

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build shit ﬁrst ask questions later Friday, September 9, 11

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build something Friday, September 9, 11

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build anything Friday, September 9, 11

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ownership is king Friday, September 9, 11

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take ownership take ownership Friday, September 9, 11

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give ownership Friday, September 9, 11

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run your company like an open source project Friday, September 9, 11

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no managers no pto reduce friction no vacation days no work hours no meetings Friday, September 9, 11

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be open how much money are we making right now? Friday, September 9, 11

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take charge developers and designers are given full access to everything Friday, September 9, 11

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iterate quickly ship, rinse, repeat Friday, September 9, 11

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be a skunk works team Friday, September 9, 11

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intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation autonomy mastery purpose Friday, September 9, 11

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async communication Friday, September 9, 11

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meetings suck Friday, September 9, 11

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distributed team Friday, September 9, 11

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focus focus focus Friday, September 9, 11

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pull requests are an asynchronous conversation that starts with code Friday, September 9, 11

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more on how GitHub uses pull requests http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/ github-ﬂow.html Friday, September 9, 11

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campﬁre is a public record with searchable transcripts Friday, September 9, 11

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campﬁre is a public record with searchable transcripts also robawt enhanced Friday, September 9, 11

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there were the useful presents Friday, September 9, 11

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robot.hear(/the rules/, ... Friday, September 9, 11

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robot.hear(/ci status (-v )?([-_\.0-9a-zA- Z]+)(\/([-_\.a-zA-z0-9]+))?/, ... robot.hear(/ci build ([-_\.0-9a-zA-Z]+)(\/ ([-_\.a-zA-z0-9]+))?/, ... Friday, September 9, 11

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robot.hear(/(deploy) ([0-9a-z\.\-\_]+)(\/ ([-_\.a-zA-z0-9]+))? to (production| staging|the cloud)(\/([^\s]+))?/, ... Friday, September 9, 11

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robot.hear(/(?:undeployed|not deployed| hasn't been deployed)(?: on)? ?([^ .?]+)?/ i, ... Friday, September 9, 11

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robot.hear(/^provision me\s+(linux| windows)?\s*(rackspace|aws)?\s*(.*)/i, ... Friday, September 9, 11

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go on to the useless presents Friday, September 9, 11

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robot.hear(/(image|img|picture)( me)? (.*)/i, Friday, September 9, 11

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robot.hear(/ascii me (.+)/i, Friday, September 9, 11

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robot.hear(/(?:\\W|^)(?:mo?u)?sta(?:s| c)he?(?: me)? (.*)/i, Friday, September 9, 11

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robot.hear(/(the office)|office me/i, Friday, September 9, 11

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robot.hear(/define (.*)/i ... robot.hear(/door me/i ... robot.hear(/grocery me/i ... robot.hear(/what('| i)s hot/i robot.hear(/play ... Friday, September 9, 11

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culture of shipping Friday, September 9, 11

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robot.hear(/ship it/, ... Friday, September 9, 11

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do it all the time Friday, September 9, 11

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ask the robawt Friday, September 9, 11

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hubot should I ship ____ ...? Friday, September 9, 11

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until you’ve tried to design Friday, September 9, 11

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until you’ve tried to invent Friday, September 9, 11

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until you’ve tried to create Friday, September 9, 11

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until you’ve tried to build Friday, September 9, 11

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until you’ve tried to test Friday, September 9, 11

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until you’ve tried to hack Friday, September 9, 11

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until you’ve tried to solve the problem Friday, September 9, 11

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you have nothing to talk about Friday, September 9, 11

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talk meet chat email tweet blog Friday, September 9, 11

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now your questions matter Friday, September 9, 11

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tim clem @timothyclem github.com/tclem Friday, September 9, 11