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
2. LORI OLSON • lori@wndx.com • www.wndx.com • @wndxlori • Freelance developer, mentor, trainer • CANADA!
3. wndx.com
4. WORKSHOPS
5. LADIES LEARNING CODE Mentor/Instructor/Chapter Lead
6. LET ME TELL YOU A STORY
7. CAUTIONARY TALE
8. DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
9. INSTEAD OF DOING THE WORK
10. FALL INTO THE TRAP OF AVOIDING THE WORK
11. THE STORY
12. WRITE A RUBYMOTION APP
13. WIMBY Wells In My Back Yard
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.
15. BUT WHY? HOW?
16. WELLS ABANDONED IMPROPERLY
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.
18. I MUST DO SOMETHING
19. DATA. GOT THAT
20. LOADS OF DATA There are over 750,000 oil and gas wells in Canada, and of those, over 244,000 are abandoned.
21. THATS A LOT OF WELLS
22. FOR AN IOS APP THATS A LOT OF DATA
23. YOU SHOULD USE CORE DATA
24. “RESEARCH”
25. CORE DATA in RubyMotion
26. I BET THERE’S A GEM FOR THAT
27. YOU MUST BE NEW
28. SO MANY GEMS • motion-sqlite • Nitreon • Magical Record • Superbox • Motiondata • MotionModel • CDQ
29. SO MANY REQUIREMENTS SO LITTLE TIME
30. PRELOADING *LOTS* OF DATA
31. NON-TRIVIAL DATA MODEL
32. RELATIONSHIPS
33. FILTER by location
34. LIST
35. MAP
36. PART TIME
37. RESEARCH a.k.a. Yak Shaving
38. NOTHING WORKS
39. –@scottdavis99 Young C is expending an extraordinary amount of energy finding shortcuts rather than just doing the work. Future #convict or #programmer?
40. DIDN'T KNOW ENOUGH
41. DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE GEMS
42. COULDN'T MODIFY THE GEMS
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.
45. DO THE WORK back to the basics
46. LEARN THE SDK
47. READ THE API
48. READ THE EXAMPLES
49. FIND MORE EXAMPLES
50. IMPLEMENT SAMPLE SOLUTIONS
51. HARD PROBLEMS ARE HARD
53. I KNOW! I’LL WRITE A BOOK NOW!
54. DOING THE WORK
55. PERILS
56. EXPERT BEGINNER How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner
57. @SERIOUSPONY On expertise and just how deep the rabbit hole goes
58. ADVANTAGES
59. LEARNING IS ITS OWN REWARD
60. BELONG BY DOING 4P
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61. CORE DATA IN MOTION http://coredatainmotion.com
62. DO THE WORK! Thanks for listening!