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Nathan Sobo of Pivotal Labs talks about Treetop, a cutting-edge parser written in Ruby. Sponsor

Derek Haynes and Andre Lewis on consulting and their side projects Scout and Placeshout. Sponsor

John Chaffee of BusyMac talks about how Rails helps their 2-man Mac development shop handle customer service easily. BusyMac received a MacWorld Best of Show award and recently passed the 10,000 sale mark. Sponsor

Ian Mcfarland of Pivotal Labs in San Francisco talks about their internal project management app, pair programming, and company culture. Sponsor

We follow Part I with a discussion of the brain in relation to sleep and gender.
Somewhere, I remember a mailing list post where Why the Lucky Stiff claimed to have a dream and subsequently changed the implementation of Shoes. Does anyone have the link to that?

• Brain Rules website (Contains references and...

Developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina talks about his new book, Brain Rules. Learn about the need for exercise, attention-grabbing events, and our inability to multitask.

• Brain Rules website (Contains references and video samples from the DVD)
• Brain Rules book (Amazon affiliate link)
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An eBay-funded microfinance company connects small investors with entrepreneurs in the developing world, powered by Rails. MicroPlace Muhammad Yunus Pierre Omidyar

What if your server resources were metered like your electric bill? Heroku has set out to build a metered cloud computing deployment solution for Rails. Stick around for the last 10 minutes where we talk about the economics of startups. Heroku Y C...

A conversation with Chris Wanstrath and PJ Hyett of Err Free consulting in San Francisco. We talk about starting a profitable side project, sending and receiving email, git source code control, using JQuery, and code interfaces to databases. Also menti...

The co-founder of Engine Yard and author of the upcoming book on Rails Deployment talks about Engine Yard’s recent $3.5 million funding for open source Ruby projects such as Rubinius. From San Francisco.

James Cox, former PHP team member and current Rails consultant. From London.
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• Get the scoop on Rails 2.0 from Ryan Daigle’s PDF minibook at PeepCode.

Ryan Daigle talks about his blog, the upcoming Rails 2.0, and freelancing with style.