Panel:


Charles Max Wood
Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
David Richards


Special Guests: Nathan Kontny

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Nathan Kontny about his video Should I use Ruby on Rails? Nathan has been a Rails developer since about 2005 when he created a startup and has since been making software and starting business. He has just recently been running the CRM Highrise and is now onto more projects elsewhere. They talk about his prior experiences as a software developer, why he chose to use Rails when creating software, and much more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:


Nathan intro
Should I use Ruby on Rails? Video
Engineer for Obama’s re-election campaign
Created Draft
Inkling using Rails
Worked ad Y Combinator
Chose Rails to create startups
Lives are better when people feel like they’re being heard
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
Why did you use Rails over something like Django?
Looking into discussion boards and the libraries already created
What made you think it would stay the hottest?
Hosting was awful
Using the hype of Rails to get good press for his startup
When did you first feel confident in your decision to use Rails?
Rackspace
Do you still use Rails or have you switched to something like Node?
Still confident in his decision and loves it as a platform
Using Rails for what it’s good for
And much, much more!


Links:


Rails
Should I use Ruby on Rails?
Highrise
Y Combinator
Draft
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
Django
Rackspace
Node
@natekontny
Nathan’s Medium
Nathan’s YouTube
Nathan’s GitHub
NateKontny@gmail.com


Sponsors


FreshBooks
Linode
Loot Crate


Picks:

Charles


The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
Life Promises for Leaders by Zig Ziglar
Spend time with the people you care about


Dave


Nest Hello
Okyere and Acheampong House Fire GoFundMe


David


The Right Stuff


Eric


ThoughtWorks Tech Radar
Amazon Echo Spot


Nathan


How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
Something Really New by Denis J. Hauptly
Bluetooth Air Filter

Special Guest: Nathan Kontny.