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MRS 027: Thom Parkin

Guests :

Thom Parkin

Hosts :

Charles Max Wood

Published : Jan 17, 2018

Duration : 47 Minutes

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood

Guest: Thom Parkin

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Thom Parkin, Thom is a return guest and interviewer on Ruby Rogues Episode 245. Thom describes the early days in his career of programming, starting with mechanical computing devices and early computers. Thom talks about working with Cobalt and other early technologies. Thom talks about his journey in programming and the developing world. As well as his contributions to the Ruby community throughout his career

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you get introduced to programming?
Old computers
Cobalt
Compuserve
AOL
When the internet was young
Learning Ruby
Learning Sinatra
Site Point
Git
Git Cheatsheet
Remote work on Rail Project - for Non-Profit
Vim
A Ruby method a day
Software development, Cyber Security, etc
Comparison to board games
Ghost in the Wires
Hacking
and much, much more!

Links:

http://ParaHacker.com
https://github.com/ParkinT
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomparkin
https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/245-rr-the-charles-max-wood-interview-with-thom-parkin
Git
wishfulthinking.com

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