Intridea - Leaders in Agile Software Development

Intridea is going to be actively involved throughout Railsconf 2008. We're sending our entire team, so you're sure to see us around if you're attending.

Official Sponsors - Come Visit Us!

Intridea is an official Silver Sponsor of Railsconf this year. Come check our booth during lunch and the designated expo times (10:00-10:45am, 12:30-2:00pm, 3:30-4:30pm on Friday and Saturday). We'll be giving away t-shirts, will have product demos, and will be announcing the release of two products. Also, be sure to sign up on the Acts As Community.

Intridea Presents Yoga on Rails

Intridea will kick off each morning of RailsConf 2008 by sponsoring a yoga session aimed at refreshing developers’ bodies and minds before a day of sessions. Kate Sanderson of Portland's Yoga Bhoga will be leading the session. Yoga on Rails will be an easy beginner’s yoga session – so don’t be shy about coming out even if this will be your first yoga experience. We hope to see you there!

Community Code Drive

Intridea will be actively involved in the Community Code Drive on the first day of RailsConf 2008. The Community Code Drive is a chance for Rails developers to give back to the Rails community by teaching others and contributing code to open source projects. The entire Intridea team will be on hand to help support this effort.

Chris and Josh Speaking on Sunday at 1:50pm

Want to build a Rails application quickly? Competitors in the Rails Rumble had 48 hours to design, develop, and deploy a complete application. Chris Selmer and Josh Owens will take attendees through the development processes of the winning four-man Tasty Planner team, and compare it with those of the one-man Your Pet Records team. The discussion will include techniques, short-cuts, helpers, and Rails plug-ins that helped speed development. Join Chris and Josh in the Portland Ballroom 256 at 1:50pm on Sunday.

UPDATE: PDF version of presentation slides available here

Intridea is pleased to announce the official release of SocialSpring, the world's most advanced white-label social networking platform. SocialSpring provides enterprise-grade solutions for social networking. Built on a modular and extensible platform, SocialSpring powered networks can easily integrate everything from photos and videos to forums and community questions. With an impressive list of features, Social Spring can power any social community.

See it in action! SocialSpring is the base of our Ruby community launched this week - Acts As Community - and we also have a demo installation available.

For more information, please visit http://www.socialspring.com

The Washington Post recently profiled Intridea and our products. The article explains our MediaPlug, Scalr, SocialSpring, and Smarkr products, and goes on to say that "Intridea may be the model company for the modern Internet economy."

Click here to read the entire article.

Intridea is going to be at the Web 2.0 Expo today through Friday, talking to people about the business of Web 2.0 and demonstrating our SocialSpring social networking platform. We're sharing an exhibition hall booth with our friends at VisualCV, so please stop on by and say hi if you're attending.

Our friend Jeff Barr did a nice blog post on the AWS Blog about our newly-launched, open-source Scalr platform. Check out the post here. We want to encourage cloud computing and disrupt the current market a bit. We have been early adopters of both S3 storage and EC2.

As you may have noticed, Intridea.com has just undergone a much-needed facelift. Our new site should be more cross-browser compliant, more informative, and more attactive. Our Services and Products get extra attention on our new site, reflecting our focus on providing high-quality web development services to clients, as well as producing an array of products. SocialSpring, our white-label, plug-in social network software, is one of the products we're most proud of. Read more at our (also) newly-launched site - www.SocialSpring.com.

Notice something funky? Any feedback, questions, or comments are welcome - please direct them to info@intridea.com

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Intridea will be represented at Railsconf 2008 by Josh Owens and Chris Selmer. They will be speaking about their experience rapidly building web applications during the first Rails Rumble, a 48-hour contest for developing a Rails site from concept to completion.

Railsconf 2008 will be held in Portland, OR on May 29th - June 1st. Stay tuned for scheduling details.

Intridea is pleased to announce the beta launch of VisualCV (http://www.visualcv.com). Intridea has been working closely with VisualCV for several months to develop their breakthrough site and bring it to market. VisualCV reinvents the paper resume into a dynamic career management tool by incorporating images, audio, and video alongside traditional resume content.

Intridea partnered with VisualCV because we believe their approach will revolutionize the way companies and professionals interact. Using cutting-edge Internet technologies, we worked with VisualCV to build a unique platform that delivers highly interactive user experience as well as a secure mechanism for sharing resume content. VisualCV partnered with Intridea because of the national reputation we've earned for our agile Ruby on Rails practices.

Check out www.VisualCV.com now

[UPDATE]

VisualCV has been generating a lot of media buzz so far - check out some of the coverage below:

• TechCrunch
• Washington Post (registration may be required)
• See the official press release

Josh Owens and Dave Naffis were the 7th and 8th leading contributors, respectively, in the October '07 Rails Hackfest. The Rails Hackfest recognizes developers who, by submitting patches, documentation, tests, and/or tickets, are actively involved in improving Ruby on Rails. Kudos to Josh and Dave for their accomplishment! Intridea is proud to give back to the Rails community, as well as other open source projects.