These episodes feature guest chefs
Category: Guest Episodes

Episode #580
Savon & SOAP APIs
Learn how to build well-tested interfaces to legacy SOAP-based legacy web APIs from your Ruby application, from guest chef Beth Haubert!

Episode #579
Aphorism to Empiricism
Join guest chef Kerri Miller for a whirlwind tour of three essential utilities for evaluating specific qualities of a Ruby codebase. See how to map out the dependencies in a …

Episode #578
Performance Testing – Scaling with Inputs
When we feed large quantities of data to our algorithms, we start having to worry about their performance scaling characteristics. Join guest chef Piotr Murach and learn how characterize algorithms …

Episode #577
Performance Testing – Staying Fast
Join guest chef Piotr Murach to learn how algorithm performance can be analyzed and characterized using "Big-O" notation. Then, be amazed at his tools for programmatically verifying our algorithmic performance!

Episode #576
Part 2: Telling Git Your Intentions
Guest Chef Nadia Odunayo returns to show us a little-known trick for incorporating newly-created files into an efficient Git patch workflow.

Episode #575
Part 1: Patching with Git
Have you ever had to wade through a large git commit full of miscellaneous unrelated changes? In today's episode, guest chef Nadia Odunayo is going to show you how you …

Episode #574
LIKE Injection in SQL
PostgresQL gives us powerful tools for enabling text search, but if we're not careful we can accidentally expose our app to attacks. Join guest chef Alex Piechowski, for a quick …

Episode #573
Roda – Part 2
Join guest Federico Iachetti to learn how to work with HTML views, in the lightweight but deceptively powerful Roda web toolkit.

Episode #572
Roda – Part 1
Sometimes Rails is overkill! Roda an elegantly designed lightweight alternative, and in today's episode Federico Iachetti is going to show you how to get started using it.