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Hosted by Ben Orenstein, who is joined each week by developers and designers from thoughtbot and beyond.
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Episode #30
Giant Year-End Extravaganza
Ben Orenstein is joined by Chad Pytel, the CEO of thoughtbot to take a look back at some of the things thoughtbot did in 2012. They then answer a bunch of listener questions.
Notes & Links
January
- Trajectory Redesign
- Open source releases every two weeks
- Factory Girl 2.4 (refactoring, speed increase) and 2.5 (custom constructors)
- shoulda-context gets a new maintainer
February
March
- thoughtbot goes to Stockholm
- Paperclip 3.0
- FactoryGirl 3.0
- Apprentice.io opens up to all employers
- Copycopter goes open source
- Trajectory gets Campfire integration
April
May
June
July
- Playbook: Video Edition
- Version 3.6.0 of factory_girl, memoization to the names of attributes which adds a 33% speed increase on factories with override
August
September
November
December
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The Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots podcast is sponsored by thoughtbot, hosted by Ben Orenstein, edited by Edward Loveall, and produced by Chad Pytel.