From aaf at ardith.org Mon Mar 1 20:33:58 2010 From: aaf at ardith.org (Ardith Falkner) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:33:58 -0700 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] UCAR hiring Web Application Developers Message-ID: Hello all, The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) has two full time positions open for web application developers. We are a small group of developers, using Ruby on Rails for all new development. We also maintain the existing GLOBE.gov site. GLOBE.gov is a website used around the world by students, teachers, and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth system. GLOBE works closely in partnership with NASA, NOAA, and NSF. We are looking for the following positions: Interactive Web Application Developer (Web Dev III) (10093) Web Application Maintenance/Transition (Web Dev II) (10091) Currently, our group is working to launch our new website which includes: discussion forums student/teacher roles and responsibilities google earth/google maps including 27,000 schools worldwide content management system We are looking for candidates that value: contributing, while learning new skills quality, maintainable software innovation teamwork Check out the official job postings and upload resumes at: http://bit.ly/cjfV66 Thanks, --Ardith -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mbarinek at pivotallabs.com Tue Mar 2 13:23:31 2010 From: mbarinek at pivotallabs.com (Michael Barinek) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:23:31 -0700 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Pivotal Labs in Boulder is Hiring Message-ID: <761031a41003021023n4fbb2bffg7289d0bf0d8024b9@mail.gmail.com> Pivotal Labs, a premier software development consultancy, is looking for Senior Developers. If you're looking for somewhere to do serious agile development, and serious Rails development, this is the place. We're looking for brilliant developers to join our small team in Downtown Boulder on Pearl Street. If you want to share your knowledge while learning from others, work sustainably, and work on some serious projects, we think you'll have a blast working with us. Job Summary: * Developing Pivotal Tracker * Test Driven Development * Pair Programming * Aggressive Refactoring Additional Skills desired: * Experience with testing frameworks from rspec and Test::Unit to Selenium and JsUnit * SQL * JavaScript * CSS * Ruby on Rails Why join us? We're agile. That means test-driven development with tools like RSpec, Test::Unit, JUnit, JsUnit and Selenium. It means pair-programming, refactoring, and state-of-the-art continuous integration, build, and deployment infrastructure. We're good, and always improving. We have daily stand-up meetings and regular retrospectives. We figure out what we're doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we're doing right, so we can make it even better. Working here means you get better at what you already do well, every day. We've got multiple teams of Rails and Java developers working on a variety of products at our labs in downtown San Francisco and New York City and at some well known companies around the Bay Area and beyond. If you're a talented developer who's enthusiastic about agile and interested in a unique and challenging environment, get in touch with us. Interested? Email jobs at pivotallabs.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mbarinek at pivotallabs.com Tue Mar 2 18:12:45 2010 From: mbarinek at pivotallabs.com (Michael Barinek) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:12:45 -0700 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Free Pass to Mountain West Ruby Conference Message-ID: <761031a41003021512n689f650eva78e1f34b17172c@mail.gmail.com> We have an extra pass for the Mountain West Ruby Conference http://mtnwestrubyconf.org/2010/ - dm and follow @pivotalboulder on twitter if you're interested. 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More details on our meeting and Randall's talk can be found on our website. http://boulderruby.org/meetings/2010/01/28/march-2010/ Additionally, I may make a special announcement at the meeting, which I'm sure you won't want to miss. :) Cheers, Marty Haught http://boulderruby.org From james at graysoftinc.com Tue Mar 16 23:57:28 2010 From: james at graysoftinc.com (James Edward Gray II) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:57:28 -0500 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] [ANN] Red Dirt RubyConf Registration Message-ID: <354D9900-367C-4FE9-9014-A7B8191D0859@graysoftinc.com> I just wanted to spread the good word that registration is now open for the Red Dirt RubyConf. Our "early bird" special ends in ten days, so sign-up now for the best prices: http://reddirtrubyconf.com/register_to_attend I'm really proud of the program we have put together, so check this out if you haven't seen it yet: Keynotes -------- Living here in hell?Ruby and the search for perfection Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmers (Parenthetically Speaking) Jim Weirich, EdgeCase Ruby ---- Ruby and the Unix Philosophy Matt Yoho, Hashrocket Sinatra: Microapps Running on Rack Tim Gourley, Engine Yard Javascript and Friends: Scripting Ruby with JavaScript for Fun and Profit Charles Lowell, The Frontside Software, Inc Design and Modularity in Ruby Glenn Vanderburg, Relevance, Inc. Rails 3 ------- Rails in the Large: How We're Building One of the Largest Rails Apps for an Enterprise Neal Ford, ThoughtWorks Bundler: Painless Dependency Management Andr? Arko, Engine Yard Active Record Makeover: Rekindle the relationship Marty Haught, Haught Codeworks With a Mighty Hammer Ben Scofield, Viget Labs NoSQL ----- Scaling with Cassandra Ryan King, Twitter Data Driven Applications with Ruby and MongoDB Kyle Banker and John Taber, 10gen and Tiger Nassau, Inc CouchDB, Ruby, and You Will Leinweber, merge.fm Plain Old Tokyo Storage Jeremy Hinegardner, Collective Intellect Servers/Hosting --------------- Rails and Sinatra on Google AppEngine John Woodell, Google Rumble in the Jungle... Fernand Galiana, liquidrail llc Redis To The Resque Jade Meskill, Integrum Technologies The Rise of DevOps Corey Donohoe, Teamsters Trainings --------- The Ruby Your Mother Warned You About James Edward Gray II and Glenn Vanderburg, Gray Productions Software Inc. and Relevance, Inc. The Rails 3 Ropes Course Gregg Pollack, Envy Labs Introduction to Riak Sean Cribbs, Basho Living Among the Clouds Jim Mulholland and Jason Derrett, Squeejee Other Highlights ---------------- * A hackfest is planned * There will be a live recording of the Ruby5 podcast * We will have good food (seriously!) I hope you all find that as exciting as I do and I hope to see you there! James Edward Gray II From mghaught at gmail.com Wed Mar 17 18:47:04 2010 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:47:04 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Colorado Ruby Conference Message-ID: <57f29e621003171547m15f8257fqba1dfdba42821e38@mail.gmail.com> As I announced at last night's Boulder Ruby meeting, I will be organizing a Colorado-based Ruby conference in October. Though there are no hard details yet, I am planning to have it be in Boulder around the 7th-8th of October. We're going to be a bit creative for this conference so it won't be like all the other hotel conference-spaced tech conferences. We are looking to keep a Colorado feel to it. The conference is primarily for the local Ruby community but we will also make it worthwhile for out of state folks to travel here. Two prominent ideas are having an official event involve some of the local breweries and some outdoor exposure as part of the conference. It's very early so nothing's be set in stone but I wanted to share this with you now. If any of you want to assist in the organizing of this conference, please email me offlist. There's plenty to do with putting together a conference so I'm happy to have the help. As soon as we have more details I will let you all know. Cheers, Marty From alexander.t.jackson at gmail.com Fri Mar 26 14:49:35 2010 From: alexander.t.jackson at gmail.com (Alexander Jackson) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:49:35 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Pivotal Labs Event Message-ID: <1a8d90021003261149m784b887clba8db2b8acf584dc@mail.gmail.com> Thinking about working with us? Come join us for a brewery tour http://pivotallabs.eventbrite.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mghaught at gmail.com Mon Mar 29 23:19:44 2010 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:19:44 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Colorado Ruby Conference Design Message-ID: <57f29e621003292019i20acffe4p28a6d0e96c857303@mail.gmail.com> Things are progressing with the October Colorado Ruby conference. One piece that I would like some help with is finding a designer to help with the conference logo and web design. Would you please email me offlist if you know either a firm or freelancer that would be interested to take this on? Thanks. Cheers, Marty