233: Software Development in Ancient Rome (Joël Quenneville)

On this week's episode, Steph is joined by Joël Quenneville. It's the season for CFPs (call for proposals) and Joël shares insights about his past conference talk submissions, both the accepted and rejected. They also discuss writing habits that help increase blogpost frequency and helping teams upgrade their Rails application. Joël's "Rolling Random Romans" talk (https://youtu.be/YxGWQdFo2Yc) Steph's "Building Compliant Health Tech Products" Workshop (https://info.thoughtbot.com/building-compliant-health-tech-products-recording) Joël's "Working with Maybe" talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43eM4kNbb6c) Joël and Rachel's "Beyond the Whiteboard" talk (https://youtu.be/8FkkMkeJKU8) elm-conf (https://twitter.com/elmconf) Joël's "Conference talk proposal examples" (https://thoughtbot.com/blog/conference-talk-proposal-examples) Sarah Mei "What Your Conference Proposal Is Missing" (http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2014/04/07/what-your-conference-proposal-is-missing/) Noel Rappin's "What I Learned from Reading 429 Conference Proposals" (http://www.noelrappin.com/railsrx/2014/3/17/what-i-learned-from-reading-429-conference-proposals) Supercharge your product with a Code Audit (https://thoughtbot.com/services/code-audit) Addressing technical debt (https://thoughtbot.com/blog/addressing-technical-debt) Strong parameters gem (https://github.com/rails/strong_parameters) Blogposts by Joël (https://thoughtbot.com/blog/authors/joel-quenneville)