November 6-8 in Orlando, FL, Ruby aficionados will gather for the Eighth International Ruby Conference (RubyConf08 to its friends).
Ilya will be presenting the snazzily named Ruby Heavy-Lifting: Lazy load it, Event it, Defer it, and then Optimize it.
And don’t forget, Ilya’s an award-winning Ruby dude, so it’s bound to be good! 
As part of the AWS Start-up Tour, entrepreneurs, VCs, and others will gather in Toronto for the AWS event on September 15th.
Ilya and Jim will be there presenting on how AideRSS has put AWS to work for us. Also, local start-ups iloverewards, Zoomii, and Polarmobile will be there as well.
Seating is limited, so you’ll need to pre-register. Come on out for what promises to be a fantastic and informative event!
We’ll be in Toronto on the evening of Tuesday, September 16th to present to this season’s inaugural Third Tuesday get together. Get all the details here: Meet the AideRSS Team at Third Tuesday Toronto
Ilya, Jim, and I will be there, hopefully providing attendees with a scintillating experience of unparalleled value! (Plus I’m totally jazzed to meet folks in person who I’ve only known via Twitter to date.)
More information can be found on the Meetup page. Hope to see you there!
We haven’t quite gotten Carol blogging yet, but she’s already managed to get herself famous on YouTube! At the recent Gnomedex conference in Seattle, she spun a fine, mobile-centric yarn and won herself a shiny, new toy!
If we had fewer users it would be a lot easier to innovate! I mean puleeze - get out of our way already. Can’t you see we’re trying to build something really cool…for our…users. Hmm.
The paradox of product development: balancing the efforts maintaining and incrementally enhancing the released stuff while continuing to evolve and innovate in a dynamic and evolving market. Its no easy task to be sure and takes equal amounts of judgment and science.
Our dev team recently completed a sprint where we knocked off a serious pile of issues for released code. During the same sprint we added significant functionality for our upcoming release. It was a great example of striking this balance - and a display of some serious productivity.
Special thanks to Andrew and Melanie for keeping us on the the line:
I keep a close watch on these bugs of mine
I keep my backlog open all the time
I keep the yellow stickies for the code that grinds
Because you whine, we walk the line
[Note from Melle: The song stylings expressed in the preceding lyrical snippet do not reflect the opinions of AideRSS, Inc. towards its community, and are merely a function of maintaining rhyming pattern. Besides, the devs here whine way more than anybody else.]
