Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Corey Haines

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Corey Haines. Corey first got into programming because when his father shifted over into programming in the late 70’s, that meant that there was always a computer in the house when he was growing up. He grew up playing games on his father’s computer, and from there gained interest in code and programming. He talks about his love for Ruby and Rails as well as his proudest contributions to the Ruby community, such as the different communities of learning that he has impacted over the years.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 

How did you first get introduced into programming?
TRS 80 and WordStar
Games
C and C++
Getting a job as a web developer
HTML
Microsoft IAS
Visual Basic and C#
Java to Ruby
How do you become a good mentor?
Background in Math and English
Was it hard to get back to programming?
Excel and VBA in Hungary
Index files
The importance of learning from others
Not having a CS degree didn’t hold him back
Programming as a creative outlet
Widgets
How did you get into Ruby?
Switching over to Ruby and Rails
Heroku
Really sticks to Rails and Ruby now
Learn how to cash
What are the highlights of your Ruby career?
And much, much more!

Links: 

Linode
@CoreyHaines
Corey’s GitHub
CoreyHaines.com
FreshBooks
 

Picks:

Charles

Food Smoker
Keto diet

Corey

Elm language
The Beyond Burger

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