RailsCamp is on this weekend. 40 uber-geeks gathered to immerse themselves in Ruby On Rails.
It should be pretty cool.
I haven’t prepared any materials, but might present something on Amazon Web Services - I did this for the Melbourne Ruby User Group a little while ago.
I’ve just completed work on another Facebook application: Songbook.
This was a relatively straight forward conversion of the existing application to use S3 for data storage. Songbook allows users to upload and display a song in their Facebook Profile. The original development stored the files on disk and hit limits really fast … hosting large numbers of files becomes very expensive very quickly, not to mention performance issues.
I converted the whole thing to S3 very quickly - it’s actually easier in some respects to handle storing files in S3 than to disk. The application now has essentially limitless and very cost-effective storage capacity.
S3 really is incredible.
I’ve been living in Melbourne for 7 years now, and I have decidely itchy feet.
I moved to Melbourne for work just after the dot-com crash of 2000 and it was always meant to be a temporary stop on my way to New York, which I visited and fell in love with.
I think it’s time to get that dream moving again.
I am happy to work remotely to get a foot in the door, if that suits. Happy to sign up for a short-term contract if it gets me to your fair city.
So, if you’re in New York and need a developer with lots of experience, expert skills in Java, PHP and Ruby, and a penchant for user experience, drop me a line.