Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I work for Nitobi, a very small and fun shop of developers. Business started with building rich interfaces using ajax and flash and recently has grown into full out consulting in the startup space.
How did you hear about this group?
Post RailsConf blogging, etc
On May 29, 11:05 am, "Chris Conrey" <con...@chrisconrey.com> wrote:
My name is Robert Dempsey. I am the project director (and owner) of Atlantic Dominion Solutions, a Rails development firm in Winter Park, Florida. I am also the founder of Rails For All, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Ruby on Rails to the business and developer communities. All the linkage is below:
> Wow, it's been a week and we've already attracted 205 members (67 > messages!) to his new google group. I'm glad to know that there are > so many people interested in discussing these types of topics.
> Perhaps we can all take a moment to introduce ourselves to the rest > of the group.
> * Who are you? > * Where are you from? > * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one? > * How did you hear about this group? > * anything else you want to share with the group...
> I look forward to learning more about all of you. :-)
> Cheers,
> -Robby
> -- > Robby Russell > Founder and Executive Director
My name is Jean-Francois Noel. I'm from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. I do freelance work during the day and I started a Rails development firm. We do Google Maps with Rails applications. We have one site in development http://www.seeyourhotel.com and are planning more. I read about the group on Andre Lewis blog http://earthcode.com/blog/
I'm very interested in specializing my consulting operation around Rails and GIS.
* Where are you from? I've lived in New York City (West Village) for the past 5 years, but am originally from Dayton, Ohio.
* Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one? I am partner with Agile Partners (http://agilepartners.com), a consultancy based in New York and Chicago. We've been doing mostly Java work for the past 5 years, but have been increasingly taking on Rails projects (and we're always looking for more...).
* How did you hear about this group? Robby's blog
* anything else you want to share with the group... Inexcusably, I've yet to attend a ruby-nyc meeting, but will attend my first on June 12.
I'm Seth Fitzsimmons and I live in Somerville, MA. I share office space in Cambridge with a few other Rails hackers. We're trying to run things like Citizen Space and keep it as an open-environment for people to drop by and work in. (If you're in the Boston area and interested in sharing space coworking-stylee, drop me a line.) I've found that it makes working "alone" much more palatable, as it provides a place for me to go in the morning and helps me get into "work mode." I relish the idea of working from anywhere, hence the current free agent status.
At the moment, I'm primarily contracting for EastMedia in NYC and helping out with a few projects with what's left of my time. I'm interested in GIS/Rails integration and spent considerable time about a year ago working with Ferret/Solr/Lucene. While at my last job, I spent some time hacking on ActiveMessaging, which provides JMS- integration to Rails. More recently, I've been fooling around some with JRuby and Lucene.
I got here by way of Perl, PHP, and Java (Struts + Spring), so I feel like I've had representative exposure to their relative strengths and weaknesses. I've been working with Rails since around 0.13 or so and still really dig it; it hits pretty close to the sweet spot for most of the projects I've worked on.
I heard about the group from Robby's blog. Unfortunately, I missed the panel that spawned it.
* Who are you? * Where are you from? I'm Amaia Castro, from Madrid, Spain
* Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one? I'm a partner at dabne.net, we are a small firm doing primarily web development, about half of it in Ruby On Rails. We've built some custom simple cms for clients, and now we're starting to get some bigger projects in Rails.
* How did you hear about this group? Robby's RSS
* anything else you want to share with the group...
I'm part of the organizing group for the Conferencia Rails Hispana (Spanish Rails Conference), spanish speakers check it out at conferenciarails.org
thanks for creating this list, the discussions here are very interesting
greetings Amaia
-- ~*~*~ ~*~*~ Amaia Castro ~*~*~ ~*~*~ Dabne Tecnologías de la Información www.dabne.net ~*~*~ ~*~*~
Amy Newell, living and working in Brookline, MA. My husband Max, who's been doing web dev since 1994, convinced me to try programming in 1999, and I was a Java developer for a biotech for a few years before going on work hiatus to be with our kids (son 4, daughter 5 months). We're both sick of the working dad/stay-at-home mom model though, and want to each work part-time, and ideally as a team. So since February we've been working on learning rails together (just to do something new, and because it looked cool) and finding paying clients (in rails, java, perl, requirements engineering, data- warehousing, and anything else we're qualified to do). We're building our first rails app right now, for actual paying clients (yippee!) and looking for more clients. We'd love more rails work, since we are just loving the RoR community, but we'll take what we can get if it means neither of us has to go get our souls crushed into a cubicle shape. We have a site and blog in kind of a beta format at www.thirdbit.net. Heard about the group from some feed or other. (Attending railsconf was really not an option for us this year, though we did make it to the Boston Ruby User's Group hackety hack presentation, nursing infant in tow. ) I am loving writing code again, and Max is loving spending so much time with the kids and also writing code, and we really hope that we can get this consulting thing to work out for us long-term.
It's really encouraging to hear from so many other people on this list who are trying to do something a little different in their work lives.
Amy
On May 28, 3:37 pm, Robby Russell <r...@planetargon.com> wrote:
> Wow, it's been a week and we've already attracted 205 members (67 > messages!) to his new google group. I'm glad to know that there are > so many people interested in discussing these types of topics.
> Perhaps we can all take a moment to introduce ourselves to the rest > of the group.
> * Who are you? > * Where are you from? > * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one? > * How did you hear about this group? > * anything else you want to share with the group...
> I look forward to learning more about all of you. :-)
> Cheers,
> -Robby
> -- > Robby Russell > Founder and Executive Director
Chris Hall here, from Tampa, FL. I've been doing web dev since mid/late 90's with perl and then PHP while working for Sprint and then IBM for a short period. Now working at a small local company working with Rails on 100% of our new projects. So far I've developed a warehouse inventory tracking app and just recently pushed out the second phase of an 'enterprise' warehouse box tracking app. Cut my teeth on some Rails core by writing the original acts_as_modified plugin which was later rewritten by Jonathan Viney, who really did a great job.
All my work has been in-house corporate development but I'm now looking to get into consulting work and eventually become self-sufficient. If anyone's got any tips on getting started with low overhead, it would be much appreciated!
Eugene, OR for the last 5 years, originally from upstate NY. Moving to Portland in August.
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
Kinda, but not really. I work for a consulting center based at the University of Oregon. Tech consulting is not our primary focus. Our budget is 100% from federally funded grants, but we're under the umbrella of the University. I'm an IT guy, but I've been doing a lot of web development and have written a couple of internal apps, one external app, and another in development, all in Rails. Since I've found enough development to do, my department is going to let me telecommute from Portland. (don't tell anyone, but I'm on this list because my patience for university-style bureaucracy grows thinner by the day...)
> * How did you hear about this group?
Robby's bloggy
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
I've been working for a little over a year on a browser-based role-playing game written in Rails, in my spare time (it's at: http://aethora.com). Not everyone's cup of tea, I'm sure, but it keeps my Ruby/Rails-fu sharp.
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I run my own consultancy called Corkboard http://corkboardinc.com but I just started working at Geezeo http://geezeo.com so that will be taking all my time for the foreseeable future
> * How did you hear about this group?
The Rails blogosphere
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
* Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I work in a small startup company, XaoP (http://www.xaop.com), trying to shift from Java to Ruby and Ruby on Rails. We already did different kinds of projects, bur main area of expertise is document management (customization, integration,...), this mostly in large companies.
> * How did you hear about this group?
RSS !
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
