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NASA Teamwork, Laracon, Code Reviews, Scrum Meets Reality, and The Tip of the CMS Iceberg!

We talk about Scrums and who is the scrum master! CodeReview do it not or pay later? And does the client really need a CMS?

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##News & Goings On

###NASA International Space Station Tours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kVxk6Drm2I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afBm0Dpfj_k

###Another great Full Stack Radio interview 22: Corey Haines - The 4 Rules of Simple Design http://fullstackradio.com/episodes/22/ The mention Destroy all Software https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts 4 rules of Simple Design book https://leanpub.com/4rulesofsimpledesign Design patterns come from your software not put into your software Do not pre optimize wait for 3 uses etc

###Ember Js http://5by5.tv/changelog/165 Betting the Company on Ember.js with Brian Cardarella from DockYard. One of the things in the back of my mind is would Ember be better for us as a team. For one it has opinions so as a team we move into the style guide CLI for quick building of code and workflows

###PHP[World] 2015 https://world.phparch.com/pricing-and-registration/

###Laracon 2015 http://laracon.us/ August 11th and 12th Taylor Otwell unveiling something new

###Conference Talks Follow Up http://www.laravelpodcast.com/ http://www.decksetapp.com/

Slides are markdown files

Not as customizable but much quicker

###NYC Camp Update http://nyccamp.org/ Al - good panel, the talk was hard due to not planning on being scrunched up at a desk leaning over and trying to type. Code samples over slides etc. But overall good panel. [

](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/bi7kn2shh0n9yaw/panel.png?dl=0) ###The Economics of Sleep http://freakonomics.com/2015/07/16/the-economics-of-sleep-part-2-a-new-freakonomics-radio-episode/ on FreakOnomics How early to bed early to rise might not be a out of data saying

###HoloLens Minecraft Demo - E3 2015 Microsoft Press Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNoHNTaP_Gk&feature=youtu.be&a

###The Unmistakable Creative Podcast: Unlearn Everything You Know About Business with DHH https://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/unlearning-everything-you-know-about-business-with-david-heinemeier-hansson

##Latest Readings Still the book Building Microservices this chapter Deployment Docker being the winner in this chapter and we are starting to learn eb. CI being key as well.

##Q & A

###Code Reviews and Onboarding New Developers Al - why I am paying 10x the time saved not doing it. ) :

Learning

Quality

Shared knowledge

Verify tests are included

Inspires better code

Great conversation on how to do it in a way that is not offensive and other tips with Derek Prior of ThoughtBot http://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/216-rr-code-review-culture-with-derek-prior [

](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/o5urlxdwldn83e5/code_review.png?dl=0) ###Scrum meets Our Reality Who is the Scrum Master How many Projects per Scrum/Sprint Thoughtbot and NO PM but let the Developer/Designers Talk http://www.amazon.com/60-Minute-Scrum-Book-ebook/dp/B00CZBL7CM Nathan will start our Guide to this

###Do we need a Laravel based CMS Oktober CMS and thoughts on when a CMS is appropriate http://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/list-cmss-built-laravel/

Al - my hesitation is that I do not want to build a site/app around a cms but rather see a CMS as part of the project that I can plug in as needed.