Hi all, I have an opening for a full-time experienced Rails developer located in the DC Metro area to be part of my technical development team. If you are...
All, In the ever continuing quest to expand my knowledge base, I am trying to arrange a gathering of people to get together and learn a new programming...
The response was resounding, so I set up a Google Groups, please join if you are interested. http://groups.google.com/group/novalanguages Thanks you all rock! ...
Hi all, Over the last several months, our startup company has built an application that facilitates legal document reviews for law firms and corporations. The...
Weren't able to attend Railsconf 2008 and want to find out what the best talk was, the general feel of the event, or pick up some good tidbits of information...
This is a business related question, more than a technical question, but I figure you or someone you know has run into the issue. Have you or anyone you know...
... It is *never* practical to have a team of all junior developers except for the most trivial of projects. For example, using Floats in Oracle to represent...
Sorry guys. I'm not intend this as an RFP. But I figure that someone out there might know of someone who has done a study or research or has experience. Or...
No I wouldn't ever recommend a team of all junior folks either. But a lot of JEE teams over specialize and use (maybe not all) but lot of junior folks. Mind...
Camille - I am not an experienced Rails developer yet, but based on my knowledge of Ruby and my experience with software development, I do have some opinions...
My company is looking for someone to help us part-time with mobile application testing during our monthly QA cycle. Probably anywhere from 2 to 5 days of work...
Camille, I am actually working on a training course (2 days ruby, 2 days rails) specifically for Java developers to learn Ruby and Rails. I have spent a fair...
... Hehe, so true. Tough times to be writing Java web apps, I think... FWIW, with Java to Rails ports we're seeing code size reductions of around 10x-15x -...
I think some arguments can be made that RoR can achieve a favorable return on investment. * Less time to market with the obvious productivity improvements *...
Camille, Sadly, I probably know exactly which customer that you're preparing this analysis for -- as I only know one that uses LN in this area. I work for...
At my company's local Ruby meetup someone presented Gosu, a Ruby implementation of 2D game development library. It's amazing how easy it is to make stupidly...
Not to be sour about this, and this probably won't help you, Camille, but I think this whole idea is rather pointless. If an organization is so risk averse...
yes, we use it, it works great, no problems, wiki syntax is weird if your used to mediawiki, but for a free bug mgmt/wiki/project mgmt tool, it is very nice. ...
I thorough agree on this argument and would go further to say that proving the Return on Investment for any programming language is a painful and worthless...
Yes, I'm using it and I think it's great. It has some nifty features, including a bit of time and project management as well as a customizable portal-style "my...
I've started using it as a personal time management tool. It sounds kind of silly, but I've found that's a great way to learn how to use a new project...
Chris, Tom, and everyone else, My government customer actually isn't all that risk adverse (at least by government standards) and there are already successful...
http://bitnami.org/stack/jrubystack - I just learned of Bitnami today. Their JRubyStack package might be an easy way for someone to begin learning. There are a...
The simplest way to install JRuby is to install NetBeans Ruby edition (or the full edition). It comes with JRuby, which is set as the default Ruby interpreter....
My company is hiring, if you're interested, reply off list. This is a salaried full-time job. Work will be performed at our corporate office in Fairfax, and...
Get him to present it at the next NovaRUG. We all need to know how to make stupidly fun games! I only know about RRobots. I think we only have one speaker,...
They also have a Ruby/Rails stack that is apparently the replacement for InstantRails. That one was pretty easy to get going when I tried it around January. ...
I am looking for a Web developer to help with CommunityGoals (http://communitygoals.com). This is a great opportunity for a motivated developer to accelerate...