Do The Work - Madison Ruby, The Epilogue

Have you ever run into that problem you are trying to solve, that is tangential to your core business? It’s easy to run off, look for a gem, and use it.

What is harder is when that gem … isn’t quite right. Maybe you should look for an alternative. Maybe you should fix the gem. Or if your problem is different enough, you can fork the gem.

Or maybe you should just stop wasting so much time looking for the “easy” solution, and just DO THE WORK.

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1. DO THE WORK
   Madison+Ruby : Epilogue
   Lori Olson
   

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2. LORI OLSON
   • lori@wndx.com
   • www.wndx.com
   • @wndxlori
   • Freelance developer,
   mentor, trainer
   • CANADA!
   

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3. wndx.com
   

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4. WORKSHOPS
   

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5. LADIES LEARNING CODE
   Mentor/Instructor/Chapter Lead
   

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6. LET ME
   TELL YOU A STORY
   

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7. CAUTIONARY TALE
   

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8. DOWN
   THE
   RABBIT
   HOLE
   

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9. INSTEAD OF
   DOING THE WORK
   

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10. FALL INTO THE TRAP OF
    AVOIDING THE WORK
    

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11. THE STORY
    

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12. WRITE A RUBYMOTION APP
    

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13. WIMBY
    Wells In My Back Yard
    

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14. CALMAR, ALBERTA, CANADA
    "According to the records, they believed that
    somewhere in that vicinity was a well site," recalled
    Ms. Beaudry, 45, a mother of two. They guessed right.
    In her backyard, a yard from her house, crews found
    a broken, leaking, 50-year-old natural gas well.
    

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15. BUT WHY? HOW?
    

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16. WELLS ABANDONED
    IMPROPERLY
    

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17. HOMES TORN DOWN
    The re-abandonment of the I-36 wellbore required
    the acquisition and removal of five Evergreen
    Crescent properties to accommodate the safe
    operation of a drilling rig.
    

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18. I MUST DO SOMETHING
    

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19. DATA. GOT THAT
    

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20. LOADS OF DATA
    There are over 750,000 oil and gas wells in Canada, and of
    those, over 244,000 are abandoned.
    

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21. THATS A LOT OF WELLS
    

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22. FOR AN IOS APP
    THATS A LOT OF DATA
    

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23. YOU SHOULD USE
    CORE DATA
    

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24. “RESEARCH”
    

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25. CORE DATA
    in RubyMotion
    

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26. I BET THERE’S A
    GEM
    FOR THAT
    

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27. YOU MUST BE NEW
    

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28. SO MANY GEMS
    • motion-sqlite
    • Nitreon
    • Magical Record
    • Superbox
    • Motiondata
    • MotionModel
    • CDQ
    

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29. SO MANY REQUIREMENTS
    SO LITTLE TIME
    

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30. PRELOADING *LOTS*
    OF DATA
    

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31. NON-TRIVIAL DATA MODEL
    

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32. RELATIONSHIPS
    

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33. FILTER
    by location
    

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34. LIST
    

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35. MAP
    

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36. PART TIME
    

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37. RESEARCH
    a.k.a. Yak Shaving
    

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38. NOTHING WORKS
    

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39. –@scottdavis99
    Young C is expending an extraordinary amount of
    energy finding shortcuts rather than just doing the
    work. Future #convict or #programmer?
    

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40. DIDN'T KNOW ENOUGH
    

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41. DIDN'T UNDERSTAND
    THE GEMS
    

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42. COULDN'T MODIFY
    THE GEMS
    

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44. –@bketelsen
    spent 6 hours researching a way to do it the easy way,
    when I could have written it in 3, the hard way.
    

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45. DO THE WORK
    back to the basics
    

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46. LEARN THE SDK
    

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47. READ THE API
    

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48. READ THE EXAMPLES
    

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49. FIND MORE EXAMPLES
    

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50. IMPLEMENT SAMPLE
    SOLUTIONS
    

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51. HARD PROBLEMS ARE HARD
    

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53. I KNOW!
    I’LL WRITE A BOOK NOW!
    

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54. DOING THE WORK
    

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55. PERILS
    

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56. EXPERT BEGINNER
    How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner
    

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57. @SERIOUSPONY
    On expertise and just how deep the rabbit hole goes
    

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58. ADVANTAGES
    

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59. LEARNING IS ITS OWN
    REWARD
    

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60. BELONG BY DOING
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61. CORE DATA IN MOTION
    http://coredatainmotion.com
    

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62. DO THE
    WORK!
    Thanks for listening!
    

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