Introduce yourself
Robby Russell
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
PLANET ARGON, LLC
Ruby on Rails Development, Consulting & Hosting
www.planetargon.com
www.robbyonrails.com
+1 503 445 2457
+1 877 55 ARGON [toll free]
+1 815 642 4068 [fax]
Diego Lapiduz
I am Diego Lapiduz, from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I run a small development firm here and our clients are mainly in the
US. We develop our project in Rails, not because fanaticism but
because we like it. We also like to develop some projects from our
own ideas and Rails makes it possible.
I heard about this group in some RSS feeds (i have lots of them) and
immediately signed up. One of my top interests is the IT business and
all around it.
Salute you all,
_____________________
Diego Lapiduz
Sinai IT
dl...@sinai.com.ar
robert....@smokejumperit.com
I'm Robert Fischer from Minnesota (USA).
I'm a consultant: my tag line is "IT Firefighter", which pretty much sums
up what I do. My primary interest is in the leadership of technology
development teams -- how do you get geeks to produce the software that
customers want in a way that keeps management happy? That bridge position
between technology, management, and the customer is a pretty rough one,
and I spend a lot of time looking at how to make it more manageable.
My interest in Rails is twofold. One, I'd like to start a small web
application, and Rails seems far and away the easiest to do that. Two,
its approach to development is one that I really like, and it's
interesting to see things like Ruport leveraging the Rails approach in
other areas.
~~ Robert.
Anthony Eden
I'm Anthony Eden, owner of Aetrion LLC. I spoke on ActiveWarehouse at
RailsConf this year. I am currently living down in Melbourne, Florida.
During the day I work for a government contracting company and during
"off-hours" I have my own company doing data warehouse development
with Rails. I heard about this group on the Rails list. I'll be
speaking again on ActiveWarehouse at erubycon, so if you didn't make
it to RailsConf then I hope to see you there (even if you *did* make
it to RailsConf it'll still be lots of fun I'm sure).
I also developed and maintain Gemtacular ( http://gemtacular.com/ )
which is the place to find out about RubyGems, new and old, and I'm a
regular attendee at ORUG, the Orlando Ruby User's Group. Oh, and I'm
learning Erlang now...whee!
Side note: I think Robby should tell us all about himself too, don't
ya think? ;-)
V/r
Anthony Eden
--
Cell: 808 782-5046
Current Location: Melbourne, FL
John Athayde
On May 28, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Robby Russell wrote:
> * Who are you?
John Athayde
boboroshi on irc
www.boboroshi.com
> * Where are you from?
Arlington, VA (Basically Washington, DC)
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
Run Meticulous (www.meticulous.com) with Justin Hankins and my
sister. We are a design, programming, and film group. We launched ten
rails sites in 2006, half of them utilizing RadiantCMS, and the other
half being custom content systems for various clients. Currently
working on (whenever I have free time) a production pipeline
management application for the visual effects industry.
I also work with Amy Hoy on various projects including the not-yet-
launched "Pimp my Rails"
> * How did you hear about this group?
Robby's post on his site.
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
I play in various music groups, uh, and I like noise. Yes. Noise.
--
John Athayde M. ARCH
PARTNER
Meticulous
Design | Effects
801 N Monroe Street
Suite 711
Arlington, VA 22201
703.294.4832 (office)
202.285.3544 (mobile)
jm...@meticulous.com
www.meticulous.com
Benjamin Curtis
On May 28, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Robby Russell wrote:
> * Who are you?
I'm Benjamin Curtis (stympy on irc): I blog at http://
www.bencurtis.com/, and I maintain the Rails plugin directory at
http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins.
> * Where are you from?
Seattle (Kirkland, really), WA
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I'm a freelancer doing Rails development, consulting, and training.
I also crank out products with Rails on a somewhat regular basis:
Tesly, Tesly Jr. (recently made open source), ConferenceMeetup, and
CatchTheBest (coming soon).
> * How did you hear about this group?
Robby's blog post.
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
I have discovered recently that I really enjoy marketing and
promotion. :)
Robby Russell
> Side note: I think Robby should tell us all about himself too, don't
> ya think? ;-)
Indeed! ;-)
I was planning on waiting until tomorrow, but I have a few extra
minutes to respond to my own set of questions. :-)
On May 28, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Robby Russell wrote:
> Perhaps we can all take a moment to introduce ourselves to the rest
> of the group.
>
> * Who are you?
Robby Russell (robbyonrails on IRC)
> * Where are you from?
Grew up near San Jose, CA... been in Portland, OR for the past seven
years.
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
Currently, I'm the Exec. Director of PLANET ARGON. We have two
departments within our company, one that focuses on Rails deployment
and hosting (and is launching a new product in the coming weeks!)...
and the other, which is where most of our revenue comes from, is our
Design and Development department. We focus on Interaction Design and
the User Experience... and use Rails as our platform for web
development.
> * How did you hear about this group?
Honestly, I was taking a shower last Monday before heading to work
after a long weekend of conferencing'n... and thought, "I should
start a group." I have a lot of "in the shower" ideas that I make a
reality within a few hours. I've heard of some people installing
whiteboards in their showers... haven't gotten that far myself yet.
Someday soon though...
If there is more that you'd like to know about me, feel free to
respond with more questions. I encourage you all to ask each other
lots of questions! :-)
Off to enjoy the rest of my "day off"... which really means that I'm
in the office by myself for half the day trying to catch up on some
paperwork and managerial tasks. :-p
Cheers,
Warren Seen
> * Who are you?
Hi, I'm Warren Seen. you can find me online at http://warrenseen.com/
In the event that I ever appear on an irc channel near you, I'll be
warren_s.
> * Where are you from?
Australia - the city of Launceston to be more precise. 41.442 S,
147.145 E to be even more precise.
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I'm a freelancer these days, specialising in rails programming, web
app development and software consulting - I know this because it says
so on my biz card. I work from home almost exclusively, (I have a
nice new office set up here), and have done remote work for the last
4 years for clients in the US, Singapore, and other parts of Australia.
In a past life I worked for a local web dev consultancy, which I quit
in 2004 to start contracting, partly because I was sick of writing
PHP - I swore I would never do web work again until I saw Rails!
> * How did you hear about this group?
the magic of RSS and the intarweb, Robby's feed and others mentioned it.
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
Ummmm. well... OK, here's 3 random facts about me:
* I nearly started a PhD - before I came to my senses.
* I am married and have a 10 month old son who stays at home with me
while I work.
* If I had never discovered programming in the 6th grade, I probably
would have become a chef.
Pat Allan
> * Who are you?
Pat Allan - I generally go by the nick freelancing_god on irc. No
blog online at the moment.
> * Where are you from?
Melbourne, Australia
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
Starting web development freelancing next week - prior to that I was
coding in Rails for a design studio since the start of this year, and
with ASP.NET before that for a few years (*shudder*)
> * How did you hear about this group?
A friend and fellow ruby/rails coder pointed it out to me.
Cheers
--
Pat
e: p...@freelancing-gods.com || m: 0413 273 337
discworld: http://www.ausdwcon.org || skype: patallan
Mike Gunderloy
On May 28, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Robby Russell wrote:
>
> * Who are you?
Mike Gunderloy. Fairly well known in .NET land; I've been in the
Microsoft universe since the DOS 2.0 days, but I'm bailing out this
year. Rails is my most likely landing spot at the moment.
> * Where are you from?
All over the place - currently eastern WA state; before that, lived
full-time in an RV for about 3 years, before that Seattle, VA, New
York City, upstate NY, Boston, LA...
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
Self-employed at the moment. I've been largely self-employed since
1992, with a couple of startup and consultancy stints. I'm utterly
ruined for big company work at this point. Being far out in the
sticks, and with four small kids to help take care of, I'm working
100% off-site (which is one reason for one of my side gigs, writing
for http://webworkerdaily.com)
> * How did you hear about this group?
Picked it up off some blog in the aftermath of RailsConf. I'm a
voracious blog reader.
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
The continuing story of my transition to a reinvented career is over
at http://afreshcup.com . At this point I've got my first Rails app
for a client about ready to go live and I'm actively hunting around
for more clients or subcontracting opportunities. Working in the .NET
universe would be preferable to starvation, but I'm hoping not to
have to make that choice.
Mike Gunderloy
http://afreshcup.com
Wes Gamble
I'm the sole proprietor of Bison Consulting, and have been in business
off and on for about 4 years (most recently for the last 14 months).
Been doing Rails work since March '06 (doing a bit of Java stuff but not
much and don't plan to increase it).
Heard about this (I think) on the Yahoo! group that got started at
RailsConf by the independent contractor BoF.
I am doing all the wrong things from a business standpoint (I'm a sole
proprietor and don't have a lawyer or accountant yet), and I hope to
rectify those within the year.
On the other hand, I am profitable and am enjoying the work that I'm doing.
Wes
brasten
> of the group.
>
> * Who are you?
Brasten Sager!
> * Where are you from?
Seattle
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I run Nagilum LLC (www.nagilum.com) doing Ruby/Rails consulting, maybe
a little Java here and there, yadda yadda!
> * How did you hear about this group?
Robby's blog.
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
The fastest moving land snail has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
Marston A, SugarStats.com
I'm Marston Alfred, originally from San Diego / San Fran / Hawaii but
am currently working out of Rotterdam, Netherlands.
I'm the founder of my startup; www.SugarStats.com which is a web app
that allows diabetics to manage their blood sugar and diabetes
online. We're launching our of private BETA in June but we've been a
little over a year in development. Built completely on Rails (I
actually learned it from scratch to get started) using the latest
RESTfully CRUDy goodness and Ajax in all the right places.
I'm pretty sure I read about this group in one of the 232 RSS feeds in
my feed reader :-X and I think its great.
Other than that, I look forward to some good discussions and meeting
new people in this group :-)
On May 28, 9:37 pm, Robby Russell <r...@planetargon.com> wrote:
> 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
---
Marston Alfred
mar...@sugarstats.com
Sugarstats, LLC - Founder
www.sugarstats.com
nic
* Who are you?
Nick Coyne
* Where are you from?
Cape Town, South Africa
* Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I'm a partner in Glasshouse Multimedia (www.glasshouse.co.za), a web
design and development agency. We use Rails for most of our back-end
stuff - so far we've done CMS's, intranets and various other web apps,
all for clients. When we find time we hope to build some things for
ourselves.
* How did you hear about this group?
Robby's blog
* anything else you want to share with the group...
If you're ever in Cape Town I'd love to meet and chat about Rails, the
web and anything else interesting :)
Cheers
Nick
On May 28, 9:37 pm, Robby Russell <r...@planetargon.com> wrote:
Michael Breen
My name is Mike Breen and I'm currently living outside Boston, MA. I've lived in or around Boston my whole life (except for a brief stint in Manhattan, NY).
I currently works as a freelancer with most of my work coming from .NET clients. Half of my clients are ASP.NET projects and the other half are mobile projects using the .NET CF.
I heard about this group from Mike Gunderloy's blog http://afreshcup.com.
I'm really excited to start my first Rails project, which will kick off next month. Although I've only run through the tutorials I feel like I've finally found a framework that fits my style. I really love the philosophy behind the Rails framework.
Mike Pence
I am Mike Pence. I spoke at the first Rails conference and have been
doing Rails exclusively for almost 2 years. Prior to that, I was a
cubicle whore in the Fortune 500 realm.
* Where are you from?
I grew up a Jehovah's Witness punk rocker in Doylestown, PA, a suburb
of Philly that is also home to Pink and Bam Margera -- but I am cooler
than them. I still believe in punk rock, but not that other crap.
* Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
Currenly, I work with a bunch of Ivy League brats at DormAid.com. They
are my sole client for now.
* How did you hear about this group?
Robby. He is a great guy.
* anything else you want to share with the group...
My blog, Mike Does Tech is fairly popular
(http://mikepence.wordpress.com). I interviewed Avi Bryant prior to
Rails conference and have also interviewed some semi-famous people who
I have a lot of admiration for, like Dennis Kucinich and Amy Hempel. I
am a writer at heart.
Jared Haworth
Jared Haworth
jardeon on various Rails forums/IRC
> * Where are you from?
Currently: Raleigh, North Carolina
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I work for a company whose business is not software development, but
I am fortunate enough to be employed by them as a full-time Rails
developer, building a new generation of web applications to support
their business. I also take some freelance development work in my
free time, but I'd like to move into self-employment.
> * How did you hear about this group?
One of numerous mentions on planetrubyonrails.org
Damien McKenna
I'm Damien, a 31 geek by nature, web developer by trade.
I've been doing web development since '99, in 2002 made it my career,
I've mostly done PHP work in the past and got into Rails due to it
being a logical continuation of my framework usage & knowledge. I've
always been interested in frameworks: I wrote several in PHP over the
years, when my job took me down the ColdFusion path I discovered that
Fusebox was a natural continuation of my own frameworks development,
and now I see Rails as the next step beyond that. Of course the
simply wonderful Ruby language helps too.
> * Where are you from?
Ireland originally, moved to the US almost ten years ago and currently
live near Orlando, FL (ack, the heat!).
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I've got a day-job with a wonderful company that has allowed me to
start writing some apps/sites in Rails (yet to be started). I also do
side work, where I do PHP, ColdFusion and now Rails too.
> * How did you hear about this group?
The usual: somewhere in my unending collection of RSS feeds.
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
I first started into Rails in December 2005 by reading the Agile Web
Dev book cover-to-cover; I started my first app in February of 2006
but have yet to complete it. My first real Rails app was started
about two weeks ago and will hopefully be launched in another two-ish
weeks. Oh, and Redmine (redmine.org) has made me a better developer.
Damien
Tim Case
I'm originally from Southern California, and have recently moved to
Seattle. I've spent the bulk of my rails career living and working in
Florianópolis Brazil. It was the best thing that ever happened to me
as I worked for clients in the states while living on the beaches of
Brazil. I've fallen in love with the idea of working in the location
that you choose and will not only return to Brazil in six months but
I'm looking at other places to work at around the world in the future.
I work for myself, and I'm spending time in Seattle to completely
revise my business practices as a freelancer. I worked previously
without contracts and without much thought into what I was doing on
the business end. Now, I'm looking to incorporate and make my rails
freelancing a much improved business.
I heard about this group through Mike Gunderloy's blog and after
attending the Business of Rails session at Railsconf myself thought
this was a great idea for the rails community. There are a lot of us
out there who are good developers but are still new to the business
side of things and I think we have a lot to gain collectively if we
pool are ideas and resources much the same way we do with rails.
Thanks, Robby for starting this group!
Tim Case
timot...@gmail.com
aso...@gmail.com
Let me introduce myself.'
* Who are you?
I´m a software developer with more than 12 years of experience, a
started with c++, passing through tcl/tk, expect and now I am
developing software using J2EE architecture.
* Where are you from?
I´m from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
If someday you´d like to do a Ruby on Rails Business Meeting here I´ll
appreciate :))))
* Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I´m working for concrete solutions, here in Rio, developing BEA
portals, and now I´m starting to learn Ruby on Rails, cause I´m
planning to offer a extra consultant service.
* How did you hear about this group?
I hear about this group through Robby on Rails blog.
Robby Russell escreveu:
Myles Braithwaite
I am Myles Braithwaite.
> * Where are you from?
Toronto, Ontario
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I currently am working for my self as a rails developer.
> * How did you hear about this group?
http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/05/29/ruby-on-rails-gets-down-to-business
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
Nothing much... I am currently working on a OpenID rails thing.
Matt Parrish
I'm Matt Parrish. My personal blog is http://parrish.pearware.org
> * Where are you from?
Born and raised in Columbus, OH USA
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I'm a full-time employee doing Java in my daytime, although I have my
own web development company, pearware llc (http://www.pearware.org),
in which I do Ruby on Rails and Java web freelance development.
> * How did you hear about this group?
I follow along with the Ruby/Rails communities, so how could I not
know about Robby? :) I also attended RailsConf '07 in Portland and
"The Business of Rails" session, in which Robby was a panel member.
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
I really look forward to the discussions on this list as I have
questions about these topics as I grow my company. I've been looking
for communities like these lately, so I'm excited that Robby started
this one. I think it's a very important niche that needs to be filled
as more Rails developers are making it their business.
Bill Turner
> * Where are you from?
Howdy! I'm Bill Turner from Pittsburgh, PA.
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
Since last February I've been working for myself after working for
about 10 years for broadcast.com (which was then bought by Yahoo!). It
was pretty much and ALL MS shop (IIS, MSSQL, ASP, .NET, etc) but
taught myself Rails on the side.
Now, I have one primary client where I manage/build a Rails app that
encompasses just about every aspect of a growing Dallas company. It's
been a new experience, but it's been fun.
> * How did you hear about this group?
Heard about it via the robbyonrails weblog.
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
I rarely keep up my weblog here: http://brilliantcorners.org/ but I'm
getting better at updating. Looking forward to what goes on in this
group!
Bill
Chris Conrey
> * 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?
http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/05/29/ruby-on-rails-gets-down-to-business
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
Fernando Allen
My name is Fernando Allen. I'm from Goiania, Brazil.
I run a small IT consulting firm with my two brothers. I'm using Ruby
and Rails since mid 2005 and those two are our preferred choice for
any web projects we do.
I heard about this group while reading some RailsConf related blog
posts. I'm really enjoying this group.
--
Fernando Allen Marques de Oliveira
http://www.aef.com.br
A&F Serviços Alternativos LTDA
(62) 3247-2832, 8125-3305
2007/5/28, Robby Russell <ro...@planetargon.com>:
Brian Leroux
Brian LeRoux
http://westcoastlogic.com
http://nitobi.com
Where are you from?
Vancouver, Canada
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:
> > * Who are you?
>
> Chris Conrey - Human/Geek Relations at Integrum (http://integrumtech.com)
>
> > * Where are you from?
>
> Chandler AZ
>
> > * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
>
> I work for Integrum - a rails development shop.
>
> > * How did you hear about this group?
>
> >http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/05/29/ruby-on-rails-gets-do...
Robert Dempsey
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:
ADS: http://www.techcfl.com
ADS blog: http://www.techcfl.com/blog
Rails For All: http://www.railsforall.org
I am glad to see a group like this put together (read about it on
Robby's blog), and look forward to reading the interesting
discussions.
- Robert
richcollins
Co-Founder Quiblz.com
San Francisco
I was doing consulting before I started Quiblz
I found out about the group on Robby's blog
On May 28, 12:37 pm, Robby Russell <r...@planetargon.com> wrote:
> Hey all!
>
> 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...
>
jfno
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.
--
Jean-François Noël
http://www.seeyourhotel.com
1-418-261-4111
John Berry
* Who are you?
John Berry
* 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.
--
John Berry
Agile Partners Corporation
http://agilepartners.com
Seth Fitzsimmons
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.
seth
Amaia
* 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.n...@gmail.com
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:
> Hey all!
>
> 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
>
> PLANET ARGON, LLC
> Ruby on Rails Development, Consulting & Hosting
>
> www.planetargon.comwww.robbyonrails.com
>
> +1 503 445 2457
> +1 877 55 ARGON [toll free]
> +1 815 642 4068 [fax]I am
Chris Hall
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!
Chris
Jason LaPier
Jason LaPier. I blog about Rails and Linux a little at http://offtheline.net
> * Where are you from?
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.
- Jason L.
Jordan McKible
Jordan McKible
http://jordan.mckible.com
> * Where are you from?
Bow, NH
> * 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...
I write a blog called Grinding Rails at http://tuples.us
Spint
* Who are you?
Stijn Pint
* Where are you from?
>From Brussels, Belgium
* 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...
euhm, not atm ;-)
Regards,
Stijn
russellc
My name is Russell Christopher,i've been a backend C++/Java developer
for 10+years. I stared to learn Ruby and ROR about a year and a half
ago. I always had a need for simple (mostly) front ends to monitor/
simulate the backends I was writing. I used several rich client
toolkits over the years but I was never satisfied as much as I am
with ROR. The combination of Ruby and the philosophy of Rails really
appeal to me. So much so that I want to focus my career on Ruby and
ROR solutions as a free lance consultant. I'm interested in apps that
consume and/or create RESTful web services.
I'm from Raleigh, NC.
I heard about this group from a blog about RailsConf 2007 that
mentioned it.
I'm leaning toward creating an S-Corp for myself, although I think the
window of opportunity for that may be closing soon (until next year).
I'm evaluating various API's including the large e.g. Google, Yahoo,
Amazon, and the small e.g. Basecamp, etc. I'm looking at how I might
build on these services or how to feed them if possible.
There are many obstacles/pit falls and I thank this list for providing
some food for thought.
Russell
On May 28, 3:37 pm, Robby Russell <r...@planetargon.com> wrote:
> Hey all!
>
> 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...
>
David Parker
My name is David Parker.
* Where are you from?
Raised half my life in Portland, Oregon, then the other half in
Denver, Colorado. Since those last two halves, I'm currently residing
in Montgomery, Alabama.
* Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
Neither. I'm currently a government contractor (Java) by day, masked
Rails assassin by night (well, learning to become one, anyway).
* How did you hear about this group?
Heard about it in one of my many RSS feeds.
* anything else you want to share with the group...
Having done Java for 5 years and Rails for just a few months, I can
honestly say that Rails is the future and I love learning it...
hopefully I will be launching my own applications in the not too
distant future.
shooperman
I am Shao-Pin Hoo (aka Shoop) from Singapore.
I run a small web development firm with 6 Rails developers (myself
included). I found out about Rails in Oct'05 and has since been
converting our clients (mostly Singapore-based business and
government) to Rails. The process has surprisingly been easy since the
basic offering of bigger, better & faster is really an offer one
simply cannot refuse.
I heard about this group from Robby's blog and I hope to be able to
contribute to this forum!
Cheers!
Shoop
--
Hoo Shao Pin
Director, Spiragram Pte Ltd
Matt Smith
> * Who are you?
Matt Smith
> * Where are you from?
Huntsville, AL
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I currently work for a subcontractor to NASA developing with
Rails, SAP, and some Java.
I also am a partner in CodeAspects.com (an attempt to work for
myself).
As part of this effort we have release "Ruleby, the Rule Engine
for Ruby"
> * How did you hear about this group?
I attended RailsConf and heard about it shortly there after.
Dominik Wei-Fieg
* Who are you?
Dominik Wei-Fieg
* Where are you from?
Freiburg i. Br., Germany
* Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
Currently still working for a consulting company that doesn't do rails at all (*sigh*), but preparing for several options...
* How did you hear about this group?
--
--------------------------------------------
Contact:
dominik...@gmail.com
http://typo.ars-subtilior.com
--------------------------------------------
Tom Klaasen
My name is Tom Klaasen, living in Belgium. Together with Koen Van der Auwera, I've started a business - 10to1 - at the beginning of this year.
At the moment, we're doing Java consulting during the day to get a sound financial foundation. At the side, we're developing some projects based on Ruby on Rails ( http://shareomatic.com is an example)
Our goal is to migrate our interests from Java more and more to Ruby, meaning that we would start using Ruby for our day task too. This could be either on a consultancy basis (we get paid by the hour, the customer reaps all benefits) or a partnership (two partners reap the benefits together - of course, this means sharing the risk too).
Speaking of which: if anybody has experience with partnership, I would be very pleased to hear about them.
Oh, and for statistics purposes: I read about this group on Robby's blog.
Hope to share and learn a lot on this group,
--
Tom Klaasen
www.10to1.be
www.tomklaasen.net
Hey all!
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...
Bobby Santiago
the Philippines. I'm a full-time Rails designer/developer, and I can
explain that term easily: my former life as a creative director in an
ad agency had me dabbling in design, then I found Rails. So now I am
this weird mutation straddling left and right brain, which just means,
thanks to Rails, I can design UI AND code the backend by my lonesome.
A team of one, as it were.
I have been lucky enough to make Rails apps my full time job, and I
work on my own Rails apps after my "day job" (i.e., when I get home
from Starbucks).
All in all a nice way to live, watching my kids grow whilst loving my
job.
Amos....@gmail.com
My name is Amos. I'm from Missouri, USA. I've been working with
Rails for roughly a year.
I've worked for Ramped Media on http://ImThere.com. I also have been
helping out on http://mysportorganizer.com.
I recently started my own developing and consulting company. Right
now I haven't taken that leap to quit my day job,. I'm too afraid of
not being able to provide for my family, but I'd love to build up
enough that I feel safe making that jump.
I hope that I can share what I've learned, and learn from everyone
here. Maybe I can get that boost I need to feel comfortable leaping
into the unknown.
Amos King
A. King Software Development and Consulting, L.C.
cook...@gmail.com
I work for a small .NET shop, though I've been trying to use Rails on
a project for the last year.
Though I only work with Rails a little on the side, I try to follow
the movement of the community as much as possible.
dysinger
My name is Tim Dysinger and I'm doing Ruby & Rails freelance work. I
have 10 years consulting experience in web applications and 15+ years
writing software.
I moved to Hawaii a year ago from Portland, Oregon. I am currently
working on a Rails project for EC2/S3 deployment for a client,
consulting with the local government on possible Rails projects and
developing a Rails app for a start-up with a partner.
Always looking for work!
dramsay
Washington, DC. I've been in the DC area for about 14 years now. Prior
to working at Revolution, I worked at the NFL Players Association,
running the website for their marketing arm (in .NET).
RevolutionHealth.com is a health portal running on Ruby on Rails. I
heard about this group from the Robby on Rails blog.
dastels
On May 28, 4:37 pm, Robby Russell <r...@planetargon.com> wrote:
> Hey all!
Hey Robbie & all
> Perhaps we can all take a moment to introduce ourselves to the rest
> of the group.
>
> * Who are you?
Dave Astels, dastels pretty much everywhere online except yahoo, where
I'm astelsd.
> * Where are you from?
Nova Scotia, Canada.
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
Freelance, working in ruby/rails. Rails, etc hosting as well.
> * How did you hear about this group?
Robbie's post on his blog
Jade Meskill
Jade Meskill
http://iamruinous.com
ruinous on IRC
> * Where are you from?
Chandler, AZ
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I am the founder of Integrum Technologies, LLC
(http://integrumtech.com) a Ruby on Rails consultancy.
> * How did you hear about this group?
From Robby's blog, or something like that.
Keith
My name is Keith Veleba, and I'm from Sandusky , OH, USA.
I run a one man consulting company and have clients all over Ohio.
I do web design and development, custom software development and
general IT work.
I started using Rails when I was part of a startup that needed a large
development done in a short time. I originally was going to go down
the Java or the Python road, as I had more experience with them than
Ruby. After reading about RubyOnRails, I dove in, and gave it a try.
With little Ruby and even less Rails knowledge, I was able to complete
the project in 70 days, which completely blew my mind.
I try to use Ruby and Rails on any project where it fits, but I also
do Java and C# development as well.
I saw some discussions on health care and naming your business on one
of my Ruby/Rails RSS feeds, so I thought I'd check it out. A lot of
the things you're discussing are not restricted to Rails
consultancies, but being a freelancer in general. I welcome some
lively discussions.
Keith Veleba
President
IntelliTek Services Ltd
http://www.intellitekservices.com
On May 28, 3:37 pm, Robby Russell <r...@planetargon.com> wrote:
> Hey all!
>
> 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?
Rowan Hick
Good idea for a group, sub'd this week.
> * Who are you?
Rowan Hick
> * Where are you from?
Originally New Zealand, but met a Canadian in New Zealand - now live
in Toronto.
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
Have worked for one, now run an in house web team (myself, one other
full time rails dude, plus some database guys that are starting to get
real keen on rails..). Also been working with one client long term
after hours to keep things varied.
> * How did you hear about this group?
RSS feeds..
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
I've started up a blog discussing web application/business analysis
client interactions etc... My way of giving back to the community.
I've been a nerd for a good solid decade now so hopefully there's
something of interest I can impart - http://work.rowanhick.com or for
your readers http://feeds.feedburner.com/rowanhick.
A good article for the group that's very much on topic - how to
improve interactions with your clients -
http://work.rowanhick.com/2007/05/31/good-to-great-rules-to-live-by/
Enjoy!
--
Rowan Hick
web: http://work.rowanhick.com
skype: rowanthenerd
Chris W
Chris Williams
* Where are you from?
Melbourne, FL
* Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I am one of those that still has a normal day job (C++ and Java). I
am learning rails on the side.
* How did you hear about this group?
Robby on Rails RSS feed...
On May 29, 2:06 pm, "Fernando Allen" <allen7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> My name is Fernando Allen. I'm from Goiania, Brazil.
>
> I run a small IT consulting firm with my two brothers. I'm using Ruby
> and Rails since mid 2005 and those two are our preferred choice for
> any web projects we do.
>
> I heard about this group while reading some RailsConf related blog
> posts. I'm really enjoying this group.
>
> --
> Fernando Allen Marques de Oliveirahttp://www.aef.com.br
> A&F Serviços Alternativos LTDA
> (62) 3247-2832, 8125-3305
>
> 2007/5/28, Robby Russell <r...@planetargon.com>:
>
>
>
> > Hey all!
>
> > 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...
>
Jamey
I read about this group on Planet Rails and decided to join. My name
is Jamey Cribbs and I live in Farmington Hills, Michigan. For the
past two years, I've been moonlighting as a Rails developer, looking
for a chance to start my own business. Well, two weeks ago, I quit my
day job and went to work full-time for myself as a Rails contractor.
I have a full-time contract with a company on the east coast and a
smaller gig with another company here in Michigan. I get to
telecommute for both. I am both scared shit-less and having the most
fun I've had in years!
I'm very happy to find this group, as I can see that you have already
been discussing a lot of the questions that I am starting to encounter
myself. Thanks for starting this group!
Jamey Cribbs
www.netpromi.com
On May 28, 3:37 pm, Robby Russell <r...@planetargon.com> wrote:
Matt Aimonetti
Matt Aimonetti, Rails developer in San Diego County, California
blogging at http://railsontherun.com
* Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I'm working for an employer but planning on starting my own consulting
shop.
* How did you hear about this group?
Josh knowles: http://joshknowles.com
* anything else you want to share with the group...
I'm ready to get started with my own clients and projects, I'm looking
forward to sharing my experience and learning form others.
Matt
On May 29, 11:06 am, "Fernando Allen" <allen7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> My name is Fernando Allen. I'm from Goiania, Brazil.
>
> I run a small IT consulting firm with my two brothers. I'm using Ruby
> and Rails since mid 2005 and those two are our preferred choice for
> any web projects we do.
>
> I heard about this group while reading some RailsConf related blog
> posts. I'm really enjoying this group.
>
> --
> Fernando Allen Marques de Oliveirahttp://www.aef.com.br
> A&F Serviços Alternativos LTDA
> (62) 3247-2832, 8125-3305
>
> 2007/5/28, Robby Russell <r...@planetargon.com>:
>
>
>
Micah Martin
Good call. It'd be good to know who's on the list.
> * Who are you? Where are you from?
>
Micah Martin, founder of 8th Light, based in Chicago land.
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
>
I started the company, along with my partner Paul Pagel, back in
September 2006. Our company currently consists of 5 people.
> * How did you hear about this group?
>
Paul Pagel pointed me at the list.
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
>
We're not strictly a Ruby/Rails shop. We definitely love Ruby and
think Rails is neat, but out focus is high quality software whether
in Ruby, Java, C++, or what ever is the right tool for the job.
I'm pleased to be on the list and look forward to many great
conversations with you all.
Micah
Brian Hogan
My main focus, though, is to do what I can to help others be successful in whatever they do.
Matthew Cowley
> * Who are you? Where are you from?
Matt Cowley, from Tampa Fl.
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I work part-time on staff as the webmaster for a community radio
station, and fill as much of the rest of my time as I can with
freelancing.
> * How did you hear about this group?
Robby's blog; the radio station site is hosted at planet argon.
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
Great discussions, coming at just the right time for me. Thanks!
<lurk>
Dave Myron
Don't forget to include your website address - could be handy if you're
looking for work.
OK, back to lurking...
Dave
Matthew Cowley
Here's current projects:
http://www.wmnf.org (rails)
http://www.xigi.net (php/wordpress; working on porting to rails)
htttp://www.environmentalexperts.org (rails)
quasi-current: http://www.alonovo.com (rails/drupal)
Placeholder personal site: http://www.madcowley.com
Clarence Westberg
I am from Bloomington, MN.
I work for iXmatch. Our software is used in knowledge management,
document search, business intelligence, human capital management,
retail e-commerce, logistics, and many other enterprise applications.
We have used rails to develop these applications for the last few
years.
I found out about this group from my many RSS feeds.
Paul Robinson
0.9.3 :-)
I am the owner/founder of Vagueware Ltd, which works mostly in Ruby
and Rails but also general Unix, tech comms and open source
consultancy. I'm based in Manchester in the North West of the UK.
Over the last 18 months I have been working mostly on intranet and
bespoke development projects for clients, but am now working more and
more on my own projects. I'm shortly launching a web hosting business
with a new take on the revenue model, which will of course cater for
Rails customers as much as anybody else.
I found out about this list thanks to various RSS feeds flagging it up,
Blog: http://blog.vagueware.com
--
Paul Robinson
Software R&D :: Unix/Linux :: Consultancy :: Open Source :: Comms
http://vagueware.com :: pa...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746
Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421
Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W. Yorkshire, LS29 8SU
Correspondence: 55 Velvet Court, Granby Row, Manchester, M1 7AB
sishen
I'm sishen, from China.
I heard the group from the robby's blog.
It's great that so many people interested in the topic. Recently i
have several projects using rails. It's still in development. After
the release, I hope you alll will like it.
Robby Russell 写道：
> Hey all!
>
> 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...
>
John Hornbeck
John Hornbeck, CEO/developer 42squared,LLC
I have been a Ruby/Rails guy since March of '05 and have ran my own development house since March of '06. Having mainly worked with startups most of my projects have been decently longterm and have included some form of equity. I am migrating away from this form of work and looking to do smaller projects that have quick turn around. That is me in a nut shell, I am also located in Lawton, OK.
<JFH>
"Work hard to find something that fascinates you." - Richard Feynman
Scott
Scott Roth
scott...@agilepartners.com
> * Where are you from?
Chicago, IL
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
> * How did you hear about this group?
I'm an independent developer that works with John Berry (who
introduced himself earlier) at Agile Partners (http://
www.agilepartners.com). John mentioned the group to me a while back
and I am finally finding the time to introduce myself.
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
I've been toying around with RoR for a while now and have started
getting serious about it (both the code and business side) in the last
few months, so this group is perfect timing for me. Great discussions
so far.
matthew deiters
Matthew Deiters (owner of the now relatively dormant www.theagiledeveloper.com)
I have been working with rails for about two years now. Prior to being
independent I worked with ThoughtWorks helping clients adopt agile
practices i.e. TDD. Currently I have been helping large organizations
embrace rails in an enterprise environment.
* Where are you from?
Chicago "Area"
* Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
Independent Consultant
Matthew Deiters
mdei...@msn.com
262-620-3100
gustin
I am Gustin Prudner and am owner of a recently launched software
venture called entryway.
I've been in the development world for about 12 years working on
projects small to large ranging from scientific computing to
international media corps.
Sick of the inefficiency and ethics of big business I founded a
company focused on supporting positivity in the world.
We've been in business for six months and have obtained some great
clients doing cool stuff: organic tshirts company, green building
supplies, organic box delivery, environmental clean-up company,
holistic based non-profit etc.
We are technologically agnostic to some degree but are using
rails and ruby wherever possible because we feel the methodology and
aesthetics of rails, and ruby particularly, are pure joy.
I look forward to learning and sharing on this forum!
~)o
gustin
On May 29, 2:06 pm, "Fernando Allen" <allen7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> My name is Fernando Allen. I'm from Goiania, Brazil.
>
> I run a small IT consulting firm with my two brothers. I'm using Ruby
> and Rails since mid 2005 and those two are our preferred choice for
> any web projects we do.
>
> I heard about this group while reading some RailsConf related blog
> posts. I'm really enjoying this group.
>
> --
> Fernando Allen Marques de Oliveirahttp://www.aef.com.br
> A&F Serviços Alternativos LTDA
> (62) 3247-2832, 8125-3305
>
> 2007/5/28, Robby Russell <r...@planetargon.com>:
>
>
>
> > Hey all!
>
> > 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...
>
gustin
Mountains, Floyd Virginia. Our team is half distributed and our main
base is out of an artist-co-op barn. Yep, we are surrounded by potters
and photographers doing "high-tech": http://www.jacksonvillecenter.org/
Chris Wanstrath
I recently started Err Free, LLC with PJ Hyett after a few years
working for CNET Networks.
I'm trying to find a way to work on cool projects while still having
time to contribute to open source.
This group is a great idea, kudos to Robby & co for getting it off the ground.
- Chris
--
Chris Wanstrath
http://errfree.com // http://errtheblog.com
Cloves Carneiro Jr
I am Cloves Carneiro Jr, I am a Canadian/Brazilian Rails developer
living in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. I run a web development firm
called SpinBits - http://spinbits.com -, our clients are mainly from
the region so far. I and my partner, Rida Al Barazi - http://ridaalbarazi.com
- only develop our projects in Rails, and have been able to take a few
projects since starting SpinBIts in January 2007. The business
environment here is totally different from North America, and I
sometimes have a hard time adapting to some practices; but overall,
we've been able to keep busy all the time and work on interesting
projects.
I've been following the group for the last few weeks, and I'd love to
participate actively in some discussions from now on. BTW, we are
hiring a Rails Developer and a Web Designer for a 2-month contract,
for details go to http://spinbits.com/jobs.
I've also just finished writing the 'Beginning Rails' book for Apress
with Jeff Hardy.
Cheers,
--
Cloves Carneiro Jr
SpinBits - http://spinbits.com
Blog - http://ccjr.name
Book - http://beginningrails.com
snacktime
home for the last 6 years.
Started in the industry back in 94 with my own company, worked for
someone else for a few years, now kind of coming back full circle and
working for myself. Most of my time was spent developing online
payment/ecommerce systems and I still love doing that. I'm with Wes
I'm completely unsuited for corporate work and grew tired of following
someone else's dream. Currently I'm doing contract/consulting jobs
while I work on my own project.
Now days I usually work with ruby and rails, but also still do some
stuff in perl and even python on occasion. Been playing around with
jruby (and learning java for the first time) lately.
Cheers all,
Chris Ochs
ch...@ochsnet.com
tmor...@gmail.com
> 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.
Thanks for starting this, Robby. Great idea!
> Perhaps we can all take a moment to introduce ourselves to the rest
> of the group.
>
> * Who are you?
Tom Mornini
> * Where are you from?
Sacramento, California
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I'm CTO of Engine Yard and shareholder of Quallity Humans, Inc. which
is a human services business devoted exclusively to Ruby on Rails. We
do contract, contract-to-hire, and straight hiring.
> * How did you hear about this group?
Rails Mailing List
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
Rails rocks.
--
-- Tom Mornini, CTO
-- Engine Yard
jim.fr...@gmail.com
Let me introduce myself.'
* Who are you?
My name is Jim Fritchman and I am currently employed by Gateway
Ticketing Systems in Boyertown, PA. We are a MS shop and develop
access control, admission control, and ticketing software for the
attraction, amusement, and intercity bus transportation industries and
my role is Lead Architect.
More importantly, I am also starting my own software company utilizing
Ruby and more specifically Rails to be new web applications.
Initially the applications are going to be in the sports entertainment
industry but I have plans to branch into other areas as well. I also
have a consulting side to the company as well. If anyone is
interested in hearing more about the company please let me know
because I am currently looking for other developers.
* Where are you from?
I live in Hatboro, PA which is a suburb of Philadelphia.
* How did you hear about this group?
I saw this group when I was reviewing other Rails groups.
Regards,
Jim Fritchman
Jonathan_N
My name is Jonathan Nelson, and I recently moved to San Jose, CA. My
day job is as an ER nurse, but I've been a geek my whole life. I'm
finally changing careers to work with what I love: computers. I
have 30 credits left to get my degree in Software Engineering through
the University of Maryland's distance education program.
My long-term goal is to have serial start-ups. Right now, I'm
planning on working part-time as a nurse and developing web apps with
the rest of the time.
I've got some Java and Perl under my belt, but neither language is a
good fit for me. I've noodled around a tad with Python, Scheme and
OCaml as well. After looking around at different Languages/
Frameworks, I settled on RoR. I really like Ruby, Rails is very
cool, and the community is top notch.
I've been spending my summer learning RoR, and I'm working on my first
startup idea. Cuuute.com. It's going to be a social news site like
reddit, but for cute things. I've just started on it, so we'll see
how it goes.
I just found out about this group through the Ruby on Rails discussion
group, and I've really liked what I've read so far.
steve....@gmail.com
* Who are you?
My name is Steve Eichert and I live in the tiny little town of
Jenkintown PA...which is located about 20 minutes outside of
Philadelphia. I'm a Principal Engineer at a software company located
in Philly building "enterprisey" software on the .NET platform.
* Where are you from?
Whoops, I suck at this game....Jenkintown PA. :)
* Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
As mentioned above I work at a software company by day, but I also
have my own one many consultancy which is what has me lurking on this
and many other Rails related lists.
* How did you hear about this group?
Word on the street is that all the cool kids hang out here. I think I
heard about it first via Robby's blog.
* anything else you want to share with the group...
I'm married, with 3 wonderful children. I'm also working on a book on
LINQ (http://www.manning.com/marguerie/) which should further cement
myself as the .NET imposter on this list :)
Cheers,
Steve
Phlip
Phlip.
> * Where are you from?
Carlsbad, north of San Diego.
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I have a day gig doing e-commerce with Rails and pure XP, and an evening gig
doing an MMPORG, Web2.0 style.
> * How did you hear about this group?
The Rails group.
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
I have one wife and one daughter, I play harmonica, drums, & vocals, and I
draw weird cartoons when I'm not ... busy.
This story is for anyone who understands that programming is an adventure:
http://flea.sourceforge.net/EAP_1.html
I also dabble in computer art; here's my first Ruby project (from like 2001,
folks!):
--
Phlip
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/
"Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)"
assert_xpath, assert_javascript, & assert_ajax
Raul Murciano
> * Who are you?
Raul Murciano
> * Where are you from?
Madrid, Spain
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I'm a freelance developer, working for both final clients and as
outsourcing resource for software companies.
> * How did you hear about this group?
Well, where I didn't? ;-) I think that Robby's blog was the first place
where I heard about it.
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
Keep the good work!
Greetings,
Raul Murciano
--
Raul Murciano - Web developer
http://workingwithrails.com/person/5988-raul-murciano
Rafael George
>
> As Steve said, I've also been lurking long enough ;)
>
> > * Who are you?
>
>
> > * Where are you from?
>
>
> > * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
>
working at night i was checking Rails, but im trying Symfony framework
for PHP, im trying to create my own web agency using the best
technology for me.
Im running a news related site for my country, http://www.kakareo.com,
built on top of Askeet a question/answer application built on top of
Symfony.
I have a question regarding this, why is better to pick Rails over
Symfony PHP or any other web framework around usnig another language
and not Ruby, i made some little test and i find that the two can make
the same thing in more or less the same way.
>
> > * How did you hear about this group?
>
Searching for Rails groups
>
> > * anything else you want to share with the group...
>
Excelent group.
>
> Greetings,
> Raul Murciano
>
> --
> Raul Murciano - Web developer
> http://workingwithrails.com/person/5988-raul-murciano
>
>
> >
>
--
Rafael George
http://bandw.tumblr.com
Spacemonkey
> > > * Who are you?
Mitch Pirtle, but everyone calls me Spacemonkey so instead of denial
I'm going to embrace it.
> > > * Where are you from?
New York City, via Zuerich, Basel, Seattle, San Francisco......
> > > * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
Currently running my own business, and working on a high-traffic site
here in Times Square at the moment on a project/consultant basis.
> > > * How did you hear about this group?
Robby's site, IIRC. Forgot I'd even subscribed, sure wished I could
figure out how to send posts to my real email address instead of gmail
*sigh*
> > > * anything else you want to share with the group...
Coming over from the PHP world where I worked on Mambo and then co-
founded Joomla. I'm bored, looking for something new to play with and
I have to say I'm having a hell of a lot of fun. Writing for PHP
magazine, we'll see how popular my rails articles are over there ;-)
-- Mitch
Sean O'Steen
> * Who are you?
Sean O'Steen
> * Where are you from?
Pleasant Hill, California
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I'm a freelance developer doing business as Tech Monkey Design. I'm
coming from an ASP.Net background. Before that it was all Perl & raw
CGI stuff.
> * How did you hear about this group?
Either through Mike Gunderloy (http://www.afreshcup.com) or through
Brian Eng and Softies on Rails (http://softiesonrails.com)
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
I'm really enjoying the open discussions that I've read so far. I've
lurked for long enough so you can expect to start seeing my two cents
whenever I can offer to experiential points of view.
Kindest Regards,
Sean O'Steen
http://techmonkeydesign.com
http://geekularity.com
Frederic Jean
> * Who are you?
>
Frederic Jean. Web developer spending way too much time in Java-land
> * Where are you from?
>
Denver, CO.
> * Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
>
large company. This is a contract to hire. I am considering starting my
own business though and find this list very instructive.
> * How did you hear about this group?
>
Symposium.
> * anything else you want to share with the group...
>
I might be a Java head, but all my personal sites run on dynamic
languages. My blog is hosted on typo, my photo gallery is running
Gallery (PHP app). I dabbled with Rails and Camping.
Jose Hurtado
* Who are you?
I am Jose Luis Hurtado, a web developer and project manager who just loves technology and business innovation. I have been involved with computers since the Commodore 64 became the first affordable microcomputer. From then I have used and "evolved" from the Amiga, to the PC and lately to the Mac. I still use Windows at work and like Linux since it makes a solid server environment.
* 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 like the "soft side" of programming very much, so things like development methodologies, software patterns, and information architecture are topics I enjoy. Lately I am reading Crystal Clear, one of the best Agile Methodologies out there.
Ruby on Rails fits all of this topics like a glove, so no wonder I like it so much.
Signing off, from Toronto!
Jose Luis Hurtado
Project Manager / Web Developer
Trumpet Interactive
Toronto, Canada
Chris Wanstrath
> Robby's site, IIRC. Forgot I'd even subscribed, sure wished I could
> figure out how to send posts to my real email address instead of gmail
> *sigh*
Go to the Google Groups site, 'log out', then 'log in' / 'create an
account' with your "real" e-mail address.
Josh Knowles
> Robby's site, IIRC. Forgot I'd even subscribed, sure wished I could
> figure out how to send posts to my real email address instead of gmail
> *sigh*
Go to the Google Groups site, 'log out', then 'log in' / 'create an
account' with your "real" e-mail address.
Since you helped him so nicely... I sure wish I had a pony... ;-)
--
Josh Knowles
joshk...@gmail.com
http://joshknowles.com
Eric Davis
* Who are you?
My name is Eric Davis.
* Where are you from?
Beaverton, Oregon. It is about 20 minutes west of Portland, Oregon.
* Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
I just recently started my own consultancy/software company, Little
Stream Software.
* How did you hear about this group?
Robby's blog.
* Anything else you want to share with the group...
I graduated with a Business Administration degree from college so I can
try to help answer some "business-side" questions about freelancing.
--
Eric Davis
Little Stream Software
www.LittleStreamSoftware.com
888.499.2510