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Ernie Miller Ernie Miller WritingSpeaking No, I don't work in NYC, DC, or the valley, and I'm tomfool with that.Well-nighthe Author I'm Ernie Miller. But then, you probably knew that by looking at the page title. I'm a programmer, speaker, and often nice guy who lives happily in Louisville, Kentucky. Want to get in touch? E-mail me, or go the 140 weft route. View the archives Let's Talk! 8/2/18 - 8/3/18 Southeast Ruby Nashville, TN, USA TBD Your event? Your Location Past talks... Links RSS Feed GitHub Google+ Profile LinkedIn Tweets by @erniemiller Talk: "Stating the Obvious" Comments May 17, 2018 Conference: RailsConf Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA Dates: 4/17/2018 - 4/19/2018 Throughout much of this priming you're going to hear people state obvious things. Sometimes, they'll plane tell you that they think what they're saying is obvious. Why are they saying them at all, then? It's obvious there must be increasingly to the story, so let's examine what we midpoint by "obvious". You'll leave this talk encouraged and ready to wield what you've learned to largest empathize with others. Through application, you'll see growth in both your professional and personal life. Read more... Tagged: talk, conferences SteppingWhenComments January 19, 2017 [TL;DR: I'm not submitting to speak at any conferences this year. If you organize a priming and specifically want your attendees to hear well-nigh the things I enjoy talking about, please do get in touch, as I'm unshut to a few invited-speaker slots.] Have you overly come to the start of a new year and realized that the unshortened previous year went by in the twinkle of an eye? That happened to me this year, and while last year was full of unconfined things, I've decided to slow things lanugo a bit in 2017. Warning: rambling ahead. Read more... Tagged: life Talk: "Lies" Comments November 22, 2016 Conference: RubyConf Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA Dates: 11/10/2016 - 11/12/2016 All abstractions are lies, if they are abstractions at all, and as developers, we live our lives surrounded by them. What makes a some abstractions largest than others? This will be an opinionated and empowering squint at the value and nature of abstractions, with a jaunt through quantum mechanics and the nature of reality. You know, just your stereotype talk. Read more... Tagged: talk, conferences Talk: "Humane Development: Empathy Unpacked" Comments March 15, 2016 Conference: RubyConf Australia Location: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Dates: 2/10/2016 - 2/13/2016 We undeniability it "Computer Science." That's comforting, somehow, considering science deals with cold, nonflexible facts. We can prove the lawfulness of an algorithm, or watch our skills, and our app, modernize in measurable ways. Yet, at its core, software minutiae isn't an act of scientific triumph, but of empathy. Software's true worth isn't measured in lines of lawmaking or test coverage. It's measured by how it makes life a little bit largest for someone else. Maybe your using or library makes someone's day a little less painful, or maybe the lawmaking itself brings a smile to someone's face. It's well-nigh time we have a nonflexible talk well-nigh a soft skill. Read more... Tagged: talk, conferences Venture Released! Comments January 07, 2016 At Keep Ruby Weird last year, I tried giving a very variegated kind of talk. It was a choose-your-own-adventure-style talk entitled "Choices". It was variegated considering of the regulars participation aspect, but moreover considering I gave the talk on a custom presentation app that I built specifically for the talk, over many an wearying night and weekend. Over the Christmas holiday, I worked to wipe it up and get it into a state that would be releasable. For me, this ways "has a test suite", since otherwise, the weightier response I could manage to a pull request would be: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I've finally reached that state, and in specimen you missed the tweets over the holiday, I'd like to signify Venture! Tagged: open-source, elixir, react "Market Rate" is for Lobsters Comments December 05, 2015 Earlier this week, a friend linked me to Buffer's post well-nigh their updated salary formula, and their online calculator that uses this formula to tell you how much you would make if you worked for Buffer. One of the interesting things well-nigh the formula, and their online tool, is that plane though they're vocal well-nigh stuff a distributed team, a huge component of employee salary is based on where they segregate to work. As of this writing, a "Backend/Frontend Developer" at "Master" level will make between $82,577 and $155,535 depending on where she chooses to live. Lots of supposedly-distributed teams do this. They undeniability it "adjusting for market rate." I think it's a big problem. Read more... Tagged: salary, remote, philosophy RubyConf 2015 Wetware Track Comments November 20, 2015 This year, when people asked me what I was speaking well-nigh at RubyConf, I got to say "absolutely nothing." This is the first time in 3 years I've been to a priming and not unquestionably had to requite a talk. Instead, I was happy with the honor of curating a track of my choosing. I was remoter happy by having an wondrous selection of proposals to segregate from. My nomination was a track well-balanced entirely of "soft" talks that ask us to question the way we think well-nigh our work. Originally, I wanted to undeniability it "Harder Skills" in order to morsel the people who think "soft skills" are a waste of time into watching. In the end, at Avdi Grimm's suggestion, we renamed the track to "Wetware". I'm posting the playlist here considering I think these talks are important. The playlist is in the order they appeared throughout the day, so if you missed the conference, or missed a few of the talks, you can get a sense of the arc intended for the track. I'd like to thank the organizers for trusting me to put a track together, but most of all I want to thank Laura Eck, Amar Shah, Brandon Hays, Joe Mastey, Sonja Heinen, and NickolasWaysfor putting in all of the nonflexible work to make this track the highlight of my conference-going experience. They were incredible, and your priming would do well to invite any or all of them to speak. Read more... Tagged: conferences, happiness, life Talk: "Choices" Comments November 03, 2015 Conference: Keep Ruby Weird Location: Austin, TX, USA Date: 10/23/2015 We're faced with choices every day. Sometimes the right visualization is obvious, like "should I have a cookie?" (The wordplay is ALWAYS yes). Sometimes, less so. This is a talk well-nigh the choices we make. Come prepared to make some choices of your own, as your choices will have an impact on the direction our journey takes! Read more... Tagged: talk, conferences Talk: "How to Build a Skyscraper" Comments October 07, 2015 Conference: Full Stack Fest 2015 Location: Barcelona, Spain Dates: 9/1/2015 - 9/5/2015 Since 1884, humans have been towers skyscrapers. This ways that we had 6 decades of skyscraper-building wits surpassing we started towers software (depending on your definition of “software”). Maybe there are some lessons we can learn from past experience? This talk won’t make you an expert skyscraper-builder, but you might just come yonder with a variegated perspective on how you build software. Read more... Tagged: talk, conferences Using the ActiveRecordNatureAPI Comments June 24, 2015 I've been working on a project at nVisium that has records (of the ActiveRecord kind) with nature that are themselves a stored domain object. Until recently, I would have probably washed-up one of three things (in decreasing likelihood) to handle this situation: Use serialization to store the nature of the domain object in JSON, then wrap the AR object in a decorator to handle translations from the "bag of data" to my domain, plane though it ways doing the ActiveModel flit to indulge me to use this object in a form, and ActiveRecord will unchangingly see this symbol as "changed", meaning unnecessary database operations. Come up with some convoluted way to represent this data using ActiveRecord associations, plane though it would scrutinizingly certainly midpoint I'd find myself using has_one somewhere (ick), and probably still wrapping the whole thing up to stave using accepts_nested_attributes_for in forms. Gone the polyglot persistence route, plane though it would midpoint taking on the ongoing operational overhead of managing flipside storage backend. Thankfully, in Rails 5, the ActiveRecordNatureAPI offers a fourth option, and it's much nicer.Planebetter, we can once use this functionality in Rails 4.2. Head on over to my post on the nVisium blog to read how. Tagged: ruby, rails, activerecord, coding Rails application.rb Recommendations Comments June 16, 2015 Today's post is going to be short and sweet.ConsideringI find myself using a few settings in scrutinizingly every single Rails app's config/application.rb, I want to share them with you, withal with the rationale for each. Read more... Tagged: rails, coding Your CleverLawmakingis a Jewel-Encrusted Lobster Comments May 17, 2015 I want to share a quick story with you. It's well-nigh one of the most memorable things I saw at RailsConf this year. I saw it as I was walking when to the Westin from the institute part-way with my CTO without the first day of the conference. We were discussing the day's events, and what we would be doing that evening. Then I froze in my tracks, and asked him to hang on a second, so I could walk when and see if I saw what I thought I saw. You know how sometimes you see something wondrous and it takes a few moments to fathom its gravity? So it was with Lobby: Read more... Tagged: coding You Should be aPrimingGuide Comments May 11, 2015 I've had a couple of weeks to reflect on my RailsConf experience, and now that I have, I can safely say I enjoyed this year's RailsConf increasingly than any previous year. I started out thinking that this was largely considering I was giving a talk I was once well-appointed with, so I could relax. I'm sure that's part of it. And flipside huge part was no doubt the wonderful curation of the program by the program committee. But I think the single largest contributing factor to my enjoyment of RailsConf was my last-minute visualization to volunteer as a guide, and I sincerely hope that everyone reading this considers doing so at their next conference. Read more... Tagged: conferences, happiness Talk: "Humane Development" Comments April 30, 2015 Conference: RailsConf 2015 Location: Atlanta, GA, USA Dates: 4/21/2015 - 4/23/2015 Agile. Scrum. Kanban. Waterfall. TDD. BDD. OOP. FP. AOP. WTH? As a software developer, I can prefer methodologies so that I finger there's a sense of order in the world. There's a problem with this story: We are humans, developing software with humans, to goody humans. And humans are messy. We wrap ourselves in process, trying to trade people for personas, points, planning poker, and the promise of predictability. Only people aren't objects to be visionary away. Let's take some time to think through the tradeoffs we're making together. Read more... Tagged: talk, conferences Recent Podcast Appearances Comments April 13, 2015 It's been a rented few weeks, with a visit to St. Augustine to speak at Ancient City Ruby followed by a much-needed vacation with my family. While I was on vacation, the results of a couple of recent podcast interviews have gone online, so I wanted to share them here. In both cases, we spent a good deal of our time talking well-nigh Humane Development. Read more... Tagged: humanedevelopment, media Looking for a previous post? Check the archives.