Introducing the Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots Podcast

Polymorphism vs. Conditionals

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Hosted by Ben Orenstein, joined this week by Joe Ferris (and the surprise special guest Seana Quental), the Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots podcast is a new weekly technical podcast discussing development, design, and the business of software development.

In episode #1 we start the series off with a very technical discussion about Polymorphism vs. Conditionals. We also answer some of the audience questions we asked for last week.

To have your questions answered on the air:

• Call us toll-free at 1-877-9-ROBOTS x198 and leave a voicemail. That’s (877) 976-2687 x198.
• Email your questions to info@thoughtbot.com
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Show Notes & Links

• CVS
• SVN
• Git
• Feature branch code reviews
• Rebasing
• Composition over Inheritance
• Objects on Rails, Avdi Grimm
• NullObject
• Rails Refactoring Example: Introduce Null Object
• #try
• God objects
• Rich Hickey’s Railsconf Keynote
• Kingdom of Nouns, Steve Yeggie
• Ruby blocks
• StrategyPattern
• CommandPattern
• Clearance
• Gang of Four Design Patterns
• Special thanks to Edward Loveall for recording and editing.