I retired from personal blogging in July 2008.
But you can find me over at http://blog.xero.com.
Just returned from a Ruby on Rails introduction night the Wellington Rails community (WellRailed) put on at the CreativeHQ incubator.
ProjectX and some of the other residents put it on. This was a great example of how industry helps themselves. We’re critically short of development resources so as a way to get people into the industry the young companies are creating introductory training courses.
I’m excited by Rails and doing a couple of Rails based startups. Still using .Net as well on some projects. Our .Net code is taking advantage of some of the Rails techniques. Its been fun watching a few hard core .Net developers test the waters and make the switch.
There is a heap of new Rails opportunities going on in Wellington so hope it encourages a few people to get out of their comfort zones and into the racy world on Web 2.0 startups.
One of the very cool things about the Wellington 2.0 initiatives is that the companies are actively looking for opportunities to work together. There is a real network effect going on.
The lack of dev resources is really slowing us down. Get Railed!
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Hey Rod, Just wanted to give some credit to Nahum Wild from LetUseIt.com who presented tonight’s session. He put in most of the hard work in making it happen. Another recent Mac convert, he blogs at http://www.esdao.net/blog/
Aye, credit where credit is due. Cheers Nahum.
It was really good to see everyone there last night. The event definitely had a strong community feel to it which is exactly what we were aiming at. My hope is that as the community grows and people come and go the strong spirit of helping each other will remain unchanged.
Well done to both Nahum Wild and Tomek “watch your head” Piatek for pulling this together. Their companies, Project X and Let Use It, are currently the only two businesses in the Creative HQ business incubator using Ruby on Rails, but we expect to see
more of them for sure. It’s great to see other Wellington companies going down this path also.
Along with some of these companies, both Nahum and Tomek will be actively involved in the Creative HQ Summer of Code, which will see at least 5 students getting
the opportunity to work on real-world Rails projects.
Kudo’s to Nahum, Tomek and Tim for organising.
FYI: There are more than 100 people subscribed to the WellRailed group. So we’re starting to see some traction.
Let’s work together to grow the rails community in Silicon Welly !
Hi Rod,
The lack of development resource for Ruby projects is what made me turn to Symfony.
Symfony is a Rails-style framework for PHP which has proven it’s worth in implementations like Yahoo! Bookmarks with 12 million users.
Here in New Zealand we’ve implemented sites like Eventfinder (a MySQL reference client) and the Leukaemia & Blood Foundation’s Shave for a Cure fundraising site (also doing well).
I’d recommend looking at it as a potential option.
Best regards,
James McGlinn