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Upcoming events

SEED

Two of the thoughtbot founders, Chad Pytel and Matt Jankowski, will be at the SEED ‘08 conference in Chicago this Friday, January 18th. SEED is “a One-Day Conference on Design, Entrepreneurship & Inspiration”, with Jason Fried (37signals), Carlos Segura (Segura, Inc) and Jim Coudal (Coudal Partners) as speakers.

acts_as_conference

Chad, Matt, Dan, Jared, Joe, and I will also be sunning ourselves down in Florida for the acts_as_conference Feb 8th and 9th. Having just got another 6” of snow in Boston, we’re totally psyched about this one.

MountainWest Ruby Conference

Finally, I was very honored to be accepted to talk at the next MountainWest conference on March 28th and 29th in Salt Lake City. I’m presenting on BDD techniques with Shoulda, and will likely liven things up by exploring the internals of the library.

Be sure and say hi if you’re also going to be at any of these events. We’ll be the ones wearing the “Zed’s dead” t-shirts.

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Tammer Saleh
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January 15th 03:50 PM
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January 15th 03:55 PM
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thoughtbot is hiring

We are hiring web developers and web designers in both Boston and New York, NY.

What are we up to?

We built Shoulda, an eclectic set of additions to Test::Unit; Paperclip to manage uploaded files without hassle; Jester, a REST/ActiveResource client library written in Javascript, and Squirrel, an enhancement for ActiveRecord's find syntax; — amongst some other projects.


Chad (President) and Jon (CTO) co-authored a technical book titled Pro Active Record: Databases with Ruby and Rails, which explores the ins and outs of the ActiveRecord ruby library. You can buy it today at Amazon.com.

About thoughtbot, inc.

We are a small web application development consulting business, with offices in Boston, MA and New York, NY. If you're looking to find a team for your next web development project or your new web application — get in touch.