Tuesday 1/17 at noon I’ll join friends Roz Lemioux from Fission Strategy and Ryan Seashore from CodeNow to talk about “learning to program” on WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi show. You can listen live at http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2012-01-17/training-where-tech-jobs-are-coding

Yesterday at CodeMash 2012 in Sandusky, Ohio, I gave a five minute lightning talk about something that’s been in my mind: the developer’s life of priviledge. Here’s the text of my talk…

The developer shortage is a serious problem. Hungry Academy is training developers for LivingSocial, but we’re doing much more than that.

If you want to learn what we’re learning, do what we’re doing – you’re invited.

As part of the Hungry Academy planning I’m building several reading lists. The one I’m most excited about I named “Culture & Self for Developers.” The Ruby community is special because of the people and their understanding of the world, these are books that explain that ethos…

A few months ago, my friend Chad Fowler, VP of Engineering at LivingSocial, asked “If you could design a program to turn 24 people into excellent developers, what would you do?” …

jQuery Air: First Flight, our introduction to jQuery on CodeSchool is now free! Did you know that our text tutorials have always been free under a Creative Commons license?

Technical training resources naturally have a short lifespan, so it only makes sense…

Rails views have, more or less, stayed exactly the same since 2005. The only thing we’ve changed is the file extension (formerly .rhtml, now .erb). I believe simplifying and improving the view layer is one of the next areas of emphasis for the community…

LoneStar 2011 just wrapped up here in Austin, Texas. I taught a class in VA on Friday so missed that half, but Saturday was great.

I kicked the day off at 8:45 with the latest iteration of Blow Up Your Views (slides here) which I was really happy with. I got some of my favorite feedback ever:

"Your talk is going to change my life with Rails."