Cascadia Ruby is shaping up to be another great community gathering for the Pacific Northwest. Aquo is proud to be a Cascadia company and we're proud to be sponsoring the event. Check out the awesome lineup of speakers and then go register. And a huge thanks to Ben...
Miles Forrest interviews Avdi Grimm on his new book "Exceptional Ruby". Dealing with unexpected failures in code is tough, and oftentimes error processing is dealt with in a haphazard way. Hear the 5 questions you need to ask before writing code to handle unexpected...
A well-deserved congratulations to the team at CiviData on the Beta launch of their new local government data aggregation and comparison tool. After several months of iteration, the product is being launched to invitees only. If you are an employee of a local or state...
Well, Ruby on Ales came and went. Based on the feedback I received from attendees and speakers, everyone had a pretty good time. I'm pretty amazed that the whole thing came off without a hitch... whew! We are planning a repeat performance next year. And, we are...
Piotr Solnica, one of our team members, has just been added to the DataMapper Core Team. Dan Kubb, the team lead, wrote: "Piotr has been involved in DataMapper for several years now, and has been doing some amazing work on the DataMapper Property API, heading up our...
Following the massive earthquake off the North East coast of Japan, hundreds of thousands are without shelter, power, food or water. Japan is the birthplace of Ruby. Matz and the Ruby core team have made our lives better. It's now our turn to help. Rubyists for Japan...
Matt and I have been talking about doing a software conference here in Bend for quite some time. After all, there's a lot of people that have never heard of Bend, Oregon, not to mention the exceptional technical talent that this community has attracted. So while we...
We're pretty stoked to be sponsoring RubyConf 2010. This is our first sponsorship and it kinda feels like we're all grown up... nah! But seriously, Matz's keynote should be fun and overall this should be a great event. Matt and Mike will be there. So if you're gonna...
RailsConf was great this year. Got to meet a bunch of new people that I hope to keep in touch with. After a crazy flight back to the west coast - 15 hours of flying, circling, diverting, waiting, unloading, loading, sitting, waiting for a pilot from Baltimore to...