When is it worthwhile to introduce a new language, tool, or database? And when will it likely bite you in the rearend?

02:43 - Episode Idea Background

• PolyConf
  • @polyconfhq

04:28 - Implementing Standards and Comparisons

• Minimize Entry Level / Maximizing Payoff

08:23 - “Dumb Code” and Developer Expectations

10:48 - Code Coverage and Regular Expressions

• Oniguruma
• Fizz Buzz
• Ruby Rogues Episode #120: RR Book Club: Understanding Computation with Tom Stuart

12:49 - Risk Impact/Probability Chart, Risk - Reward Matrix

24:01 - Collaboration, Communication => Constraint

• Responsibility

30:36 - Bringing It In: Process

• Databases
  • Demille Quote

38:48 - Why would you want to switch databases and when is it worth it?

• Eliminating a Technology
  • Peter Seibel: Let a 1,000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots.
• Internal vs External Motivation
  • Redis vs Memcache

46:06 - Success Cases

• Abstraction

Picks

OS4W: Open Source for Women (Coraline)

Contributor Covenant (Coraline)

Camille Fournier: Hopelessness and Confidence in Distributed Systems Design (Jessica)

Abby Bobé: From Protesting to Programming: Becoming a Tech Activist (Jessica)

Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)

TV Fool (Chuck)