MRS 042: Josh Greenwood

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Josh Greenwood

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Josh Greenwood. Josh was recently on Ruby Rogues and he works for a consulting company called Test Double, where he works remotely with clients all across the country. He first got into programming because he was always around computers because of his Dad, and he always loved playing video games. His first real exposure to programming was when he found an HTML book on his Dad’s bookshelf and he used it to build a website. They talk about what led him to Ruby, what made him fall in love with programming, and much more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 

Josh intro
Ruby Rogues Episode 347
Test Double
How did you first get into programming?
Grew up around computers
Built a website based off a HTML book
Scripting for video games
Geocities
Exposure to the programming world
International Business degree
Didn’t always want to program as a career
Apriss
Ruby and Rails
Freelancing job
Learned Ruby at internships in college
What made you find a love for programming?
What drew you in to Ruby?
Ruby’s general approachability
Loved the Ruby community
What are you proud of contributing to the community?
What are you workn on now?
Recent talk at Code PaLOUsa
Learning Elm
And much, much more!

Links: 

Ruby Rogues Episode 347
Test Double
Apriss
Ruby
Rails
Code PaLOUsa
Elm
Josh’s GitHub
@JoshTGreenwood
Test Double blog

Picks:

Charles

Ruby Hack
Airbrake
Rollbar
DevChat.tv YouTube
ScreenFlow

Josh

The Secrets of Consulting by Gerald M. Weinberg
The Bullet Journal