Rails Rumble 2012 - Podcast Episode 020
It's our 20th episode! I'm not sure I ever thought the show would still be going after twenty of these, but we are, and I can't think of a better quartet of guests with which to celebrate it than Jason Rudolph, Kevin Altman, Jared Pace, and Michael Parenteau. They sat down with me and we talked about the 2012 Rails Rumble, in which they stayed awake for most of an entire weekend and produced goodmix.fm from scratch. Wow. Not only that, but out of 500 entries, they finished 10th. Double wow.
Download the episode here. I enjoyed listening to their stories of their experiences, and I think you will, too.
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Our Guests
- Jason Rudolph
- @jasonrudolph on Twitter
- On GitHub
- His blog
- His Relevance profile
- Kevin Altman
- @itg on Twitter
- On GitHub
- His Relevance profile
- Jared Pace
- Michael Parenteau
- @parenteau on Twitter
- On GitHub
- His Relevance profile
The Music
Other Notes
- Rails Rumble
- Contest rules
- 500 teams entered the competition
- Winners
- Profile page for "Goodmix" by Team "Err on the Side of Too Much Bacon"
- goodmix.fm
- @goodmixfm on Twitter (with custom "wall of cassettes" background artwork)
- Mixtapes
- Linode
- Previous podcast episodes with our guests
- Michael was our guest on episode 005
- Jared was one of our guests on episode 012
- We alluded to Jason being our guest on a previous episode. That episode was recorded but hasn't been published yet. Stay tuned!
- Grooveshark
- Grooveshark API
- Rdio
- Spotify
- CoffeeScript
- Big Design Up Front
- Iteration Zero at Relevance
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs)
- Adobe Flash
- Susie Steiner sent her brother a Goodmix for his birthday via Twitter
- Other Rails Rumble winners mentioned
- findthin.gs (1st place)
- Deploy Button (3rd place and public favorite)
- Breaking Bad
- "Build half a product, not a half-ass product", a chapter from Getting Real by 37signals
- Unit tests
- Rich Hickey compares unit tests to guard rails
- Technical debt
- Aaron Bedra
- Designers and developers pair
- Michelle Rudolph
Credits
- Jason Rudolph (@jasonrudolph), production assistance
- Kevin Altman (@itg), episode cover art
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