The Ruby on Rails Podcast

This episode was originally published on March 12, 2006.

Popular designer and PHP developer Shaun Inman tries Ruby and talks about developing Mint.

See him in Boston next month at a Carson Workshops seminar on developing extensible PHP web apps.

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This episode was originally published on June 12, 2007.

From Ruby en Rails, Amsterdam

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Nancy Sheleheda, Senior Director of Application Development at PCT, joined Brittany to discuss why it is important to learn SQL, to engage in a debate on differences between a developer and a DBA and introduce some great resources to leveling up on SQL.

Links for this episode:

• SQL Server Row Level Security
  
• SQL Server Central Beginning T-SQL Stairway
  
• SQL PASS local and virtual groups
  
• Itzik Ben-Gan’s T-SQL Fundamentals Third Edition
  
• SQL Saturdays
  
• Brent Ozar's Site
  
• Brent Ozar | Fundamentals of Database Administration
  
• Brent Ozar | DBA Training Plan
  
• RBAR: ‘Row By Agonizing Row’
  
• Nancy Sheleheda on Twitter (@pbjnancy)
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Sean Devine is the interviewee and Eric Steele plays host. Topics include how Sean started to program, web scraping via Mechanize and Watir, the Ruby Quiz as therapy, the evolution of Ruby's testing culture and much much more.

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Returning after seven years and back by popular demand, Mike Coutermarsh is a software engineer at PlanetScale, where he’s building a serverless relational database. After catching up and sharing their adoration of Flash, Brittany and Mike nerd out on home fitness: equipment, routines and goals.

Show Notes & Links:

• 202: Behind the Scenes at Product Hunt with Mike Coutermarsh
• PlanetScale - The Database for Developers
• GitHub - vitessio/vitess
• CrossFit Games: The Open
• Rogue Stock Bot - Real Time Restock Alerts - YouTube
• Brianna Lamb - Functional Bodybuilding
• TrueCoach: #1 Personal Trainer Software
• WHOOP | Your Personal Digital Fitness and Health Coach
• ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::ConnectionPool
• Mike Coutermarsh (@mscccc) · Twitter

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