We just set up the new blog site for the 2008 Rails Rumble contest. This year the event will be held the weekend of October 18th. Registration should open within the next couple weeks. That is to say, we’re working on it. Read the faq ‘n rules for more info.
Greets to co-organizers Darcy, Erin, Carter, Brian, and Rodrigo.
Hey wow, author copies of my book just showed up yesterday. That’s pretty cool. My side of things has been finished for a few months now, but it’s nice to finally see it in print!
The book, Practical Rails Plugins (Apress 2008), is aimed at the beginning to intermediate Rails developer, featuring a number of recipes for using popular third party plugins in Rails projects. So it’s sort of a recipes book but with a focus on leveraging plugins to accelerate feature development, and on standalone mini-projects rather than code snippets, which I think is much more illustrative for developers who are new to the framework. Topics include video transcoding and asynchronous processing, state machine modeling, payment processing, geocoding, full text search, testing and a whole lot more.
I wrote about 50% of the content, David Berube (author of Practical Ruby Gems and Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails) is responsible for the rest. If you want to pick up a copy, you can order it via Amazon. We also put up a companion site for the book last week, if you wanna check it out.
Just wanted to take a quick moment to call attention to this TechCrunch article which announces the unveiling of LaunchBox Digital’s first nine startups.
My favorite of the group is Razume, a collaborative resume review service. But hey, I'm a little biased—we know those guys! For the past couple months, we’ve had the pleasure of helping them develop their Rails-based online resume building tools, document management, and peer review features. It’s been a fun ride and it’s great to see them finally launched and seeing some much deserved attention.
In any case, congratulations to Sam, Brian, and the rest of the team on the formal launch. Razume is sure to be an indispensable resource for recent college grads, connecting them with professional resume experts and like minded job seekers. Rock on, Wayne.