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by Obie Fernandez.
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Feed Title: Obie On Rails (Has It Been 9 Years Already?)
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Feed Description: Obie Fernandez talks about life as a technologist, mostly as ramblings about software development and consulting. Nowadays it's pretty much all about Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
CityCliq is my current full-time client engagement. It's going well and we're very close to launching the first beta version of our site, and starting to sign up local businesses. I believe the strengths of the company (which has been around for 6 years) combined with our unique take on social networking will make us stand out in the Web 2.0 space.
For some time now, we've been working off of detailed wireframes sketched by the incredibly talented John Athayde. This week the final, beautiful UI is finally being bolted on, which makes me very, very happy. It's nothing like the old alpha version which is currently deployed.
I'm saving my personal CityCliq announcement and description of the site for the launch, which should happen within a few weeks. If you can't wait that long to find out more, then visit our blog for a bit more information.
I've been making swift progress lately on finishing my Rails book for Addison-Wesley. Over half the chapters are submitted for review and proofing and my entire draft of the manuscript is due next week. I'm getting some great help from my contributors, who are filling in places where I don't have expert knowledge to tap.
I just got some chapter proofs back yesterday and was able to do some page count estimating. I originally committed to 500 and at this moment we're already up to about 450, so that was good news too.
I'm posting daily progress reports about the book writing via twitter.
I'm really proud of the strong team of writers that Floyd and I have assembled for the InfoQ Ruby Queue. In just a year, we're up to around 130 thousand unique visitors per month. That's great exposure for our nascent Ruby community, which is still a small niche in the greater enterprise computing field. InfoQ is also getting great support from the community in the form of articles, interviews and presentations. Check out my recently posted interview with Rich Kilmer for a ton of choice quotes and Ruby adoption stories. Also, I think we currently have the best coverage of the Steve Yegge does a Rails clone in Javascript story.
I'm always on the lookout for prospective feature article writers to add to our editorial calendar. If you have a neat idea for an InfoQ article (around 1200-1500 words and of interest to professional developers and IT staff) then send me a short proposal email with an abstract and a due-date.
Some of you might already know that we have another QCon in the works. That's our InfoQ convention for IT professionals, produced in partnership with the JAOO folks. This time (November 6-9) we'll be in San Francisco. I've got a killer lineup of talks for the Ruby track, entitled The Rise of Ruby. The speaker and talk lineup will be officially announced within a few days.
That's it for now. I'm getting itchy to blog more often like I used to and I got tons of good Rails techniques to share with you soon.
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