087 RR Book Club: Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby with Sandi Metz
Panel Sandi Metz (twitter github blog POODR) Josh Susser (twitter github blog) James Edward Gray (twitter github blog) David Brady (twitter github blog ADDcasts) Avdi Grimm (twitter github blog book)
Published: January 09, 2013
087 RR Book Club: Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby with Sandi Metz
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Show Notes
1:35 - Introducing Sandi Metz
6:15 - The book writing process and the speech writing process
17:30 - Flow of POODR
21:35 - Why design is for everyone
24:20 - The fear of writing a book: Am I really an expert?
27:00 - Breaking the rules
34:00 - Cheat sheets, screencasts, and diagrams for POODR
42:00 - Topics beyond POODR
45:20 - Why Sandi loves Rails
51:05 - How long will Rails last?
55:30 - When should you begin introducing design?
1:01:00 - Working with an Inheritance interface
1:06:30 - Rules for testing
1:14:45 - Well-tested objects without well-tested interactions
1:18:45 - Sandi’s rules for coding and breaking them
1:26:15 - Having too many small objects versus having too big objects
Picks:
Endless Space game on Steam (James)
Infinite Monkey Cage podcast by BBC Radio 4 (Avdi)
Marked App (Josh)
Herman Miller Aeron chair (Charles)
Bubble Timer (Sandi)
Gutter Cleaning Robot (Sandi)
Special Guest: Sandi Metz.