EP06 - Around the Rails World: Amsterdam, Bucharest, Asheville and Greenville

Episode Summary

This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Jeremy Smith, Owner, Designer and Rails Developer at HYBRD. During the episode, Barry and Jeremy talk about Ruby on Rails, unexpected challenges of freelancing, starting the Blue Ridge Ruby Conference in Asheville, NC, visting Friendly.rb in Bucharest, Romania followed by Rails World in Amsterdam and the upcoming Rails World: Greenville watch party on November 9th.

“I decided last year to start going all out and doing a lot of conferences. That was an intentional choice to start investing that way.”
- Jeremy Smith

Episode Notes

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Ruby on Rails since 2009 (2:08)

• Challenges of going freelance…twice (6:16)

• River tubing and the Blue Ridge Ruby Conference (21:11)

• Conference planning energy, doing the next one (34:00)

• Friendly.rb in Bucharest, Romania(40:15)

• Rails World in Amsterdam (51:25)

• Upstate Ruby Meetup - Rails World: Greenville (57:18)

Links

• HYBRD

• Jeremy Smith on… Web, LinkedIn, Twitter/X

• Indie Rails Podcast

Carolina Code Cast is a podcast that covers a wide variety of topics in the coding and data space. Learn more about this year’s Carolina Code Conference at carolina.codes.

Developed with assistance from Heard Media.