Panel:


Charles Max Wood
Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
David Richards


Special Guests: Catherine Meyers

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses music, musicians, and programmers with Catherine Meyers. Catherine is a software engineer at Mavenlink in San Francisco and is a co-organizer of a meet-up called Women Level Up. Before getting into coding, she was actually an opera singer. They talk a lot about why she decided to change her career and how she came to be a successful coder after being a singer for many years.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:


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Catherine intro
Previously an opera singer
How did you decide to get into programming?
Who she performed for and where she performed
Her friends suggested she start coding
Tips to help those not interested in coding give it a chance
Coding is like solving a puzzle
Coding boot camps to facilitate a career change
HTML
Flatiron School
The importance of resilience
Ruby Conf
The ability to communicate with many different typed of people
Patterns
Do musicians have an advantage as a developer?
Patterns in Rails
How can music make you a better coder?
Your brain as a musician
Is there a correlation with brain activity and listening to music?
Different music affects different people
And much, much more!


Links:


React Dev Summit
Mavenlink
Women Level Up
Flatiron School
Ruby Conf
Rails
Ruby Hack Conference
@CCMeyers324
CatherineMeyers.com


Picks:

Charles


The Greatest Showman
React Round Up
React Dev Summit
Views on Vue
Elixir Podcast coming soon


Dave


Heat Shrink Tubing
Heat Gun
Eric
Pastel de Nata
The Expanse
Consensys


David


Marconi Union – Weightless
Wintergatan - Marble Machine


Catherine


Public School Music Education
Base.cs
Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy

Special Guest: Catherine Meyers.