The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Episode 298: 298: How to Become an Encoding Champion with DeeDee Lavinder
Show notes
DeeDee Lavinder currently works as a Backend Engineer for Spreedly and is a Director with Women Who Code Raleigh/Durham. She helped Brittany understand how encoding works, how Ruby handles encoding issues, and how to strategically debug encoding snafus.
Links for this episode:
- RubyConf 2019 - How to Become an Encoding Champion by Deedee Lavinder
- ASCII | Wikipedia
- Endianness | Wikipedia
- DeeDee Lavinder (@ddlavinder) | Twitter
- Raleigh/Durham | Women Who Code
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
- Episode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeod
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