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This week my team is wrapping up final development of the DSL-flavored Ruby project for our bank client in Delaware. Everyone is thrilled with the product. Anyone at RailsConf interested in hearing first hand about the type of Rails work ThoughtWorks can do for you should track me down and I'll introduce you to Robert, one of the client managers who sponsored the project. Also, I hear an official press release or two are in the works and will be released soon.

In other news, one of our star developers in Bangalore finally released his Rails project to the world, Stockhive. It is a consumer-facing stock analysis tool crafted specifically for the Indian stock market investor and it is the app that Martin Fowler recently described as:

A project that looks like a standard web app in many ways, but involves a great deal of munging data from different formats and some very fancy graphs and charts.

I think StockHive is pretty interesting, not just because it is Rails-based, but also because ThoughtWorks is essentially one of the backers of the project.

I spent Monday and Tuesday of this week in San Antonio and made friends with Brett and Dirk Elmendorf of Rackspace Managed Hosting, providers of premium hosting environments to folks like 37Signals. Dirk is one of the founders of Rackspace and a big fan of Ruby. His article about RubyGems is part of the big Ruby issue just released.