Our RubyConf XI talk on Rails Services

Niranjan and I paired on a talk titled "Rails services in the walled garden" at RubyConf 2011 in New Orleans.

The video has been out for a bit courtesy the awesome folks and Confreaks, and we've (finally) posted it up on the C42 blog. As always, we'd love your feedback.

Identifying good offshore Ruby and Rails vendors - a guide.

There are many small, new Ruby consultancies all over the world that do stellar work. There are many, many more that don't. How do you tell them apart?


Tejas and I paired on a blog post that tries to answer this question over at the C42 Engineering blog. Do take a look and tell us what you think.

I'm speaking at RubyConf 2011 at New Orleans

Two of my colleagues and I will be speaking at RubyConf US this year. Srushti, lead developer on the Goldberg CI server will be pairing with Brian Guthrie of ThoughtWorks to deliver a talk titled "Ruby Software Continuously Delivered and Exhaustively Explained."

Niranjan and I will be pairing on the second talk titled "Rails services in the walled garden."
This will be our second year speaking at RubyConf, and we're really looking forward to it.

If you'd like to see our other presentations, do take a look at the videos of our talks from RubyConf US 2010 and RubyConf India 2011.

Pipelines: What are they good for?

My colleague Srushti, lead dev on the Goldberg CI server project, recently wrote an article on pipelines in the context of Continuous Integration. Do take a look.

Why Bill Taylor is wrong about great hackers

I've just posted an article in response to Bill Taylor's post 'Great people are overrated' over at the C42 Engineering Blog. Do take a look.