Ruby on Rails Screencast - Iteration 2 - Amy Hoy

In the previous screencast David Heinemeier Hansson impressed upon me the importance of deciding what it is I want to build. It's difficult to learn programming in the abstract. By building something I need and care about I can learn piecemeal, asking just the questions I need to solve the next step.

So I wrote down what I want to build and showed it to my next guest Amy Hoy. It became clear pretty quickly that I need to go back to the drawing board - literally! Amy's advice is to separate the design and coding phases. Then design first. Her pragmatic approach put me at ease and I learned it's not all about the tools. It's about being creative and getting ideas out of my head and in front of me so they can be worked and reworked into something cool.

The screencast itself ran into some technical problems...no - scratch that - it was self-inflicted again. That being said, I hope you get as much out of the conversation as I did (plus it was a whole lot of fun :)

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• Hoy

[SharpDiamond]

I have been listening for more that 35 minutes, I didn't hear RoR talk yet !! Nice talk but a bit long and off topic.

[coderpath]

Fair comment, however the focus on design isn't an off-topic discussion. In fact DHH and 37signals recommend you design first (tinyurlDOTcom/2hey86) If you're only interested in programming Rails and not the process of building a web application this discussion will probably not interest you.

[pulsedr1ver]

tech talk shouldn't be put into song =\

[coderpath]

why not?

[pulsedr1ver]

it's just weird. i'm a programmer, and hearing the technical stuff in a song, was just... weird

[coderpath]

ah. well. good then! mission accomplished ;)

[seymores]

That song freak me out, seriously guys, the nerd juice is overflowing on this one. :-O

[anuzis]

way too much time spent on the green/blue/black rating system... I recommend listening to it yourself so you can feel how excruciating it is to listen to & develop a better sense of what to edit out for future screencasts. no offense intended; just constructive feedback.

[iloveyourclit]

After 30 minute I didn't hear RoR talk yet !. I heard a personal conversation, jokes and personal live, so please tell me in which minute you talk about RoR, thanks.

[Croaky]

That song was awesome.

[pulsedr1ver]

haha. this ruby on rails seems interesting though. i'm a NET programmer, but i'd definitely use this stuff i was was going the *nix route