Engine Yard, Inc.

S01E36: Darcy Laycock

August 19, 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":http://www.engineyard.com/blog/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