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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...
juliankamil
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Jun 3, 2008
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1174
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...
Chris Williams
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Jun 4, 2008
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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! ...
Chris Williams
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Jun 4, 2008
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1176
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...
Roberto R
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Jun 9, 2008
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1177
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...
Chris Selmer
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Jun 10, 2008
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1178
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...
Camille Bell
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Jun 10, 2008
9:35 pm
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Holy frijoles, Camille! Sounds like you just wrote an RFP for an analysis. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Evan David Light
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Jun 10, 2008
9:46 pm
1180
... 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...
David Medinets
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Jun 10, 2008
10:23 pm
1181
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...
Camille Bell
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Jun 10, 2008
11:02 pm
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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 Bell
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Jun 10, 2008
11:12 pm
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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...
Keith R. Bennett
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Jun 11, 2008
3:07 pm
1184
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...
Keith Forsythe
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Jun 11, 2008
3:09 pm
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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...
David Bock
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Jun 11, 2008
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... 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 -...
Tom Copeland
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Jun 11, 2008
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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 *...
Tom
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Jun 11, 2008
6:02 pm
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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...
Evan David Light
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Jun 11, 2008
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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...
Tom
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Jun 11, 2008
7:17 pm
1190
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...
Paul Stadig
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Jun 11, 2008
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1191
Has anyone used Redmine on a project? It looks like a decent Ruby replacement of Trac....
Tom
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Jun 11, 2008
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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. ...
Joel Nylund
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Jun 11, 2008
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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...
Chris Williams
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Jun 11, 2008
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1194
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...
Thomas, Mark - BLS CTR
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Jun 11, 2008
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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...
Tom
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Jun 11, 2008
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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...
Camille Bell
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Jun 11, 2008
11:56 pm
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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...
David Medinets
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Jun 13, 2008
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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....
Thomas, Mark - BLS CTR
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Jun 13, 2008
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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...
Paul Stadig
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Jun 13, 2008
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1200
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,...
Gray Herter
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Jun 15, 2008
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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. ...
Gray Herter
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Jun 15, 2008
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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...
David James
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Jun 16, 2008
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