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 [...]

Since December of 2010 I am no longer employed by imedo and am now available for freelance work.
I am focused on full stack Ruby on Rails webdevelopment including backend, frontend (css, html, jquery, design etc.) and interested in long term contracts.
For more information check out: http://www.epicrails.com

And I took some notes. A larger post will follow here and on the imedo devblog
Overall it was fun. Good presentations, but the rooms were to small and there were not enough powerplugs.

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow I will be attending RailsWayCon 2009 in Berlin

Just a quick tip:
It is possible to pass a :layout option to a render :partial call like this
<%= render :partial => ’some_list’, :layout => ‘list_widget’ %>

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 [...]

There’s a new gem called passenger which makes it very easy to deploy your rails application on a Apache2 server. Here is the website of the project: Passenger
There’s also a short screencast you can watch to see how easy rails deployment can be: Passenger Screencast (the video is made by Ryan Bates from railscasts so [...]

As some might know, I’m writing on a new persistent browserbased game that is located in space.
On the galaxynomads development blog (which I can’t access at the moment, because I have no access to my old email account) I announced in November 2006 that I was going to develop it with Ruby on Rails. As [...]