Marcel Scherf » development http://www.marcelscherf.com webdesign & development Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:09:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Announcing Railsfreelancer.org http://www.marcelscherf.com/2011/04/announcing-railsfreelancer-org/ http://www.marcelscherf.com/2011/04/announcing-railsfreelancer-org/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:09:44 +0000 Marcel Scherf http://www.marcelscherf.com/?p=143 Some days ago I started railsfreelancer.org, which aims to become the leading resource for rails freelancers and people looking to hire great talent.

I already kicked the site off with a big bang, when the amazing rails freelancer Giles Bowkett was kind enough to give me an interview for railsfreelancer.org.

You can go there and sign up for the newsletter, follow railsfreelancer on twitter, become a fan of railsfreelancer on facebook and as a special bonus for rails freelancers: get featured on the site by answering a few questions.

Happy coding! ;)

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Do you rush out and deliver product eventhough you know that it needs more polish? Do you use your customers / users as beta testers because you ran out of time polishing?

Blizzard, Ning, Apple delivered when the product was amazing. They earned their customers respect and are doing great. The famous Blizzard statement: “It’s ready when it’s ready.”

How about you? Do you want to lead the pack with amazing product or be a mediocre wannabe?

You decide.

]]> http://www.marcelscherf.com/2008/12/when-is-mediocre-good-enough/feed/ 1 Sending Email awesomely with Rails http://www.marcelscherf.com/2008/08/sending-email-awesomely-with-rails/ http://www.marcelscherf.com/2008/08/sending-email-awesomely-with-rails/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:13:48 +0000 Marcel Scherf http://marcelscherf.wordpress.com/?p=35 If you would like to send HTML Emails with all the bells and whistles that Actionpacks Actionview provides checkout my freshly released plugin awesome_email on github.

It will enable you to use layouts/templates for your HTML Emails and it will inline CSS information inside the HTML to make sure it works in almost all Email clients.

For more information see my blogpost on imedo’s devblog about awesome_email

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