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The Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots podcast is a weekly technical podcast discussing development, design, and the business of software development.
Hosted by Ben Orenstein, who is joined each week by developers and designers from thoughtbot and beyond.
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Episode #7
Something Else Was Smellier
Ben Orenstein is once again joined by Joe Ferris, CTO of thoughtbot. Joe and Ben dive right in to a technical discussion about Objects versus Structures. They then discuss what Joe does as the new CTO of thoughtbot, and how his goal is to set up a system where everybody is teaching everybody. Finally, they discuss why Joe doesn't like using rspec's let and subject, and his strategy for writing tests without them.
Notes & Links
- Object Mentor blog, Objects vs. Structures
- Robert Martin Shape Hierarchy (Open Closed Principle)
- Martin Fowler's Refactoring
- Code smell
- Case statement code smell
- Visitor pattern
- Shotgun surgery
- Method object
- Composition over inheritance
- paperclip
- Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
- thoughtbot's apprentice.io
- Parkinson's Law of Triviality (bikeshedding)
- Broken windows theory
- rspec's
letandsubject - Mystery Guest
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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.