Recurring Events
March 16, 2010 07:00 PM
Hackfest
Backchannelmedia is hosting this hackfest.
They'll provide food, wireless, & comfortable seating. You provide laptops & the ambience!
April 06, 2010 07:00 PM
Hackfest
Hackfest at the thoughtbot office. We provide food, wireless, & comfortable seating. You provide laptops & the ambience!
April 13, 2010 07:00 PM
Meeting
Sean Cribbs will be presenting Riak, a Decentralized, Internet-Scale Data Store
More details and RSVP to come.
Special events
Rails Camp New England (03/12/10) and NoSQL Workshop (03/30/10)
Users
- jcallina – @jcallina You could almost make a drinking game out of every time something is 'indescribable'
- jcallina – @lazuli Yeah, each of those stories was normally broken up into several pieces with enough moxie to force the reader to buy the next issue.
- haruska – Great talk at @dogpatchlabs from @davemcclure with good tips on customer dev. Good seeing everyone, too many to name.
- jcallina – @lazuli To me HPL is " The worlds greatest bad writer"
- jcallina – @lazuli I think if HPL was allowed a looser format it would have been better. Instead serialized in pulp magsa.
Blogs
- Superflous DSLs
- Rails 3 release notes
- Life Below 600px
- Attention, Interest, Desire, Action
- via the Dollar Redesign Project
- web agencies taking equity in their clients
- [Today] Media Piracy in Emerging Economies
- Media Piracy in Emerging Economies
- The Apple iPad reminds me of the $75 XO-3, otherwise known...
- If I was an investor...
Open Source Projects
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Apps
BuyWithMe, Carbonrally, Gradefund, Hoptoad, Ramamia, SnapMyLife, Thunder Thimble, Umbrella Today, and Widgetfinger
Jobs
Freelance RoR/JS Optimization
Looking for someone to help optimize product configuration interface written using RoR this is JS heavy.
Our biggest problem is page load time. If we could pull this down by only loading certain elements via ajax, that could probably have a significant...
About
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