June 2009
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Internbot Chronicles #5: Training Reflections
Last week I sat in on the Training class we held here at the Boston office. I haven’t considered Ruby or Rails from the point of a greenhorn in a few years, and helping the students learn about both opened my eyes quite a bit to some aspects of our language and framework of choice here at Thoughtbot.
Ruby is natural, not simple.
This is paraphrased one of my now favorite Matz quotes....
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We've got several positions open (Developers,...
I just wanted to take a moment to remind everyone that we still have several positions open at thoughtbot.
We’re looking to hire up to 2 web designers, preferably one in Boston and one in NYC, and up to 3 developers in Boston.
Also, this summer, we’ve had Nick Quaranto in as a development intern, and he’s worked out so well that we’d like to get another, so we’re opening the internship...
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Boston neighborhood guide for tasteful Rubyists &...
I have a friend from another city who is considering a Ruby job in Boston. He asked me for advice on places to live.
Since we’re currently in the midst of hiring designers & developers & many candidates have been from other areas (we require that they move to Boston or New York), I thought I’d share publicly.
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If you’re a Rubyist or a designer, you’ve already got taste....
Documentation Demolition Derby
Who doesn’t love cars crashing into other cars? And freshly generated documentation? Well, now you can get both. Or maybe just documentation. We’ve moved our open source projects’ documentation onto RDoc.info, which uses YARD and some GitHub post-receive hooks to make sure it’s always up to date. Update your bookmarks, delicious links, cheat sheets, wikis, what have...