Keeping it in Context

Site Update

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:30:44 -0500

We have consolidated our two sites, INFOETHER.COM and GETINDI.COM. The indi Beta will not be available again until the Spring when we will separate out the GETINDI site again for those that are invited to the next version of the Beta.

The current site redo now highlights our Ruby and Rails consulting practice which has really taken off in 2008. Apparently Rails has “crossed the chasm” into widespread acceptability and the interest has been significant. In one of our client engagements we replaced a non-working Java application that took 18 months and 10 people to create with a Rails implementation that worked and only took us 6 weeks with 3 people. Granted our people are very good, but this is just one of many illustrations of the power of Ruby and Rails.

Social Graph Foo Camp

Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:15:00 -0500

Rich Kilmer was among about 70 Friends Of O’Reilly to attend the first ever Foo Camp (http://sgfoocamp08.pbwiki.com/FrontPage) to explore the so-called “Social Graph”. This event was interesting because it was a vertical Foo Camp, had fewer attendees and relied more on demos of work being done than on general open topic sessions.

Some of the best known people doing the actual coding work in this area were there from the likes of MySpace, Facebook, Plaxo and others. Big topics of interest were the recent movements in OpenSocial, OAuth, data portability and the MySpace API.

The 800-pound gorilla in room was privacy - not security of data placed by people on these Web servers run by the social networks - but the control over what an individual can do with information they post.

RubyConf 2007

Thu, 1 Nov 2007 18:31:09 -0400

The annual Ruby Conference will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina over this coming weekend, November 2-4. Check out the agenda at http://rubyconf.org/agenda.html. Rich and Chad will be acting as the MC’s for the event as in the past.

Of note will be presentations by our own Marcel Molina on “What Makes Code Beautiful” and by Jay Phillips on “Next-Gen VoIP Development with Ruby and Adhearsion”.

We have been working recently with Jay on his Adhearsion platform and are enthusiastic about the possibilities of integrating with VoIP applications.

Marcel Molina, Rails Core Team Member, Joins InfoEther

Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:45:58 -0400

One of the twelve Ruby on Rails core team developers, Marcel Molina, joined us today in our growing Ruby and Rails consulting practice. Marcel is a frequent speaker at software development conferences. He will be based out of Austin, Texas.

JAOO Conference 2007

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:29:23 -0400

Rich Kilmer and Chad Fowler spoke at the JAOO conference in Aarhus, Denmark. JAOO (http://jaoo.dk/) is the premier developer conference on software technology, methods and best practices.

RailsConf Europe 2007

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:08:51 -0400

Rich Kilmer and Chad Fowler spoke at the Ruby on Rails conference held in Berlin, Germany this week. Both Rich and Chad are founders and board members, along with David Alan Black, of Ruby Central (http://www.rubycentral.org), the non-profit organization that supports the Ruby programming language with activities such as conferences and the operation of the open-source project site, RubyForge (http://www.rubyforge.org). This conference is done with cooperation with O’Reilly Media.

Rich Kilmer Online Interview

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:13:37 -0400

Rich, the co-founder and CEO of InfoEther, gives a technical interview on developing in Ruby and discusses the Beta release of indi during the International Ruby Conference a few months ago. This video-cast interview appears on the InfoQ site, which is for enterprise software developers.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/rich-kilmer-power-of-ruby

Foo Camp - 2007

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:17:30 -0400

InfoEther’s CEO, Rich Kilmer and CTO, Chad Fowler were invited to attend the annual Foo Camp hacker event hosted by publisher O’Reilly Media.

Foo Camp has evolved into an important event for “changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators”. Foo Camp attendance is usually limited to 200-300. Rich, fortunately, has been invited to every annual Foo Camp event since 2003.

Chad Fowler Joins InfoEther as CTO

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:21:40 -0400

Chad is well known in the Ruby development community as he co-founded RubyCentral along with Rich and David Alan Black in 2001 to evangelize and promote the Ruby language.

As part of that effort the founders of RubyCentral serve as the organizers and hosts for all the major Ruby events including the annual Ruby Conference and several Rails conferences held in cooperation with O’Reilly Media in both the U.S. and Europe.

Chad has published several books on Ruby and other topics and is also known for his training classes that are held in cooperation with The Pragmatic Studio.

Welcome aboard!