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Chris Matthieu and Saul Mora recap day 2 of Railsconf 2009. On location.

The Heroku founders were interviewed at Railsconf 2009. We discuss their platform, niche, and business including how they came up with their name. This is probably one of our best interviews yet - hope we are getting the hang of it!

Chris Matthieu and Saul Mora recap day 1 of Railsconf 2009. DHH's keynote, tutorial, and sessions recap includes: Sinatra/Jruby on Rails/JQuery Tutorials UI Fundamentals Scaling Rails by Phusion Ruby Heroes Awards 2009 Rails Engine BlueRidge Hope you enjoy it!

Roundtable discussion on 3D GUI development with ruby-processing; Heroku overview and Q&A; AWS S3 analytics. Participants: Marc Chung, Preston Lee, Saul Mora, remi Taylor. (OpenRain Ruby development ninjas.) Google Group Alternate AAC Version

Interview with University of Phoenix Senior Software Engineer Aaron K. Hawkins. Enhanced AAC Version

Sinatra webapps and Ruby micro-frameworks. Ruby conference recommendations. Safari 4 Beta, HTML 5 and CSS 3. Participants: Marc Chung, Ben Smith, remi Taylor, Saul Mora, and Preston Lee. (OpenRain Ruby Ninjas) Enhanced AAC Version Google Group

The first in a new series of "enterprise" Ruby developer interviews. Host: Preston Lee, OpenRain Software Guest: Scott Barber, iMemories Guest: Tomasz Stechly, "Large International Bank" Production: 2009.02.25.13.30 Release: 2009.02.27.18.00 Runtime: 21:50.

Roundtable discussion on Ruby web application scalability and source control trends in the Ruby community. Participants: Preston Lee, remi Taylor, Saul Mora. Episodes are now in high-quality stereo and alternatively available in enhanced AAC with as-they-happen links. http://rubyology.s3.amazonaws.com/rubyology-74-high.m4a Episodes download speeds should now be greatly improved. Show notes: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyology/browse_frm/thread/68be10d1b4478281

The cool Ruby hackers from OpenRain (http://OpenRain.com) forwarded us a recording from their recent Ruby developer roundtable. If you are interested Javascript and Rails, you'll love this episode! UPDATE: You can now contribute to the Rubyology podcast by participating in supplementary discussion, sharing relevant links, giving show feedback and suggesting Ruby-related topics for future episodes by joining the new Rubyology Google Group.

David Koontz gave an awesome presentation at this week's Phoenix Ruby User Group meeting. The topic was lessons learned on building a Ruby-based, cross-platform, thick-client application - JotBot. This time keeping application truly looks like a native Mac application. Check it out at http://www.getjotbot.com/