Estimating software: a rule of thumb
Rolling out new updates for Rails Boxcar
Alex, Director of Deployment Services, has been hard at work helping us get our new suite of hosting plans out for Rails Boxcar, a deployment environment that we’ve designed to help you get your Ruby on Rails applications running as painless and quickly as possible. With this new announcement, we’ve rebuilt the Boxcar image...
Rails Hosting Survey – 5 days left…
Wow. Thanks to all of you who have helped get the word out about the Ruby on Rails Hosting 2009 Survey. We just passed 900 people and we have about five more days left to hit the 1500 milestone that I set for myself.
If you can spare five minutes to help us reach this...
Rails and Business in the 2009 World
The past few months have been difficult for many companies and as a result, some have had layoffs and now there are developers out there looking for new opportunities. I’ve received a few emails from friends and acquaintances in the Ruby on Rails community from people who are hoping to make it as a freelancer...
RailsBoxcar.com 2.0
In case you missed the tweet from Alex ...
Our team just designed, developed, and deployed a new site for, Boxcar, our streamlined deployment environment for Ruby on Rails applications.
Feel free to take a tour to learn more about our product plans, which...
Launching Ruby on Rails projects, a checklist
As mentioned in a recent post, I’m hoping to share some lessons that were learned throughout the process of launching a client project. Over the past few years, we’ve been part of several dozen client projects and the big launch date is always an anxiety-filled, yet exciting point for the client and our team....
AlphaClone on PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails
Interviewed by Database Radio Podcast
Bob Zurek, the Chief Technology Officer at EnterpriseDB interviewed me a few months ago for their new Database Radio podcast. It finally was published last week. Bob and I had a nice conversation about PostgreSQL and it’s community, our use of PostgreSQL with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and development tools/methods.
Expanding Rails Boxcar packages
If you’re in the market for a new hosting provider for your Ruby on Rails application, you might take a look at the new options for Rails Boxcar. We recently expanded our service offerings into three pricing tiers as well as custom packages for those who need a bit more.
A few...
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