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Episode 62: 105: Uncut: RailsConf: The Term of 2008
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This episode was originally published on June 2, 2008.
Adam Keys talks about the term “show the whale”, which we try to add to the terminology of the Rails community in 2008.
In 2007, we successfully introduced “duck punching,” which is now in wikipedia and was validated by why the lucky stiff.
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