podcasts

S01E36: Darcy Laycock

19 Aug 2011

This week on Cloud Out Loud Darcy Laycock discusses API Smith and RailsRumble.

  • 00:10 Introduction
  • 01:35 Balancing school, work, and volunteering
  • 02:15 Current work at The Frontier Group
  • 03:13 Coding time spent pairing vs. solo
  • 04:32 Why Coffeescript? Why Javascript?
  • 08:00 Ruby as Darcy’s first language
  • 9:10 Languages used at University
  • 11:40 RailsRumble
  • 16:15 Genesis of API Smith library
  • 20:40 Pebble
  • 25:38 Smeg-Head

Links: \"Darcy Laycock\":http://sutto.net/ \"API Smith\":https://github.com/filtersquad/api_smith \"Building Structured API Clients with API Smith\":https://blog.engineyard.com/2011/building-structured-api-clients-with-api-smith/ \"The Frontier Group\":http://www.thefrontiergroup.com.au/ \"Rails Rumble 2010\":http://railsrumble.com/ \"Ruby Summer of Code 2010\":http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2010/03/26/ruby-summer-of-code-2010/ \"Youth Tree\":http://youthtree.org.au/ \"Pebble\":https://github.com/Sutto/Pebble \"Socketstream\":https://github.com/socketstream/socketstream \"Smeg-Head\":https://github.com/thefrontiergroup/smeg-head