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Actually, Heroku supports all the popular NoSQL databases out of the box via their addon system.

This is really where things like Sass/Compass excel. This would make a fantastic plugin for it.

This is such a strange idea, I could definitely see this helping people, but the people it would help probably wouldn't know this existed as an option.

Free the software!

Its not really the same...this is just a useful tool for backing up your locally stored database to S3. Its not a replacement database.

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We are a really fun team to work with, just acquired our series B round of funding, Agile development/product team, Work with Ruby and Rails, looks for people who really strive to produce great consumer experiences (front-end skills a massive plus)

You should: have 3+ years of rails experience (less if you have more experience in a different language, like python or java), 4+ years of HTML/CSS/JavaScript experience (knowledge of or willingness to learn HAML/SASS a huge plus), should know your way around UNIX systems, etc etc.

read the job description here and apply! http://www.caring.com/about/senior-developer.html

I followed! @perezd.

This is fantastic!!! Poor Derrick.

Google web optimizer is a very cumbersome tool. Vanity is designed to work seamlessly in a Ruby/Rails environment. It even has a built in dashboard and reporting system! Also, its server-side, not client-side, which can really be useful in most cases.

I was very impressed with this when I saw it at RubyConf 09!

I hope they speed up temporary views in the future. MongoDB has a nice query-style language, and I think that it really helps ease some concerns for noobs to document-style data, plus, adds a nice level of flexibility.

I think thats a little to B&W. I don't think you should only ever have a video, Its important to have features in writing. You never know when you need to print something out for your boss to review.

My big point is, let people trust in and rely on a video as their first experience, make that experience priority, if it makes sense for your business.

ECM and Zumbox both offer very new strategies to dealing with a problem most people don't really conceptualize immediately.

You are right! I added a bit at the end. Reminder to always do testing when you can!

I really love the comparison between the CTA/Pitch of Zumbox compared to EarthClassMail.com. EarthClassMail is also not free, and also is far to involved to get me to be excited and sign up.

I use sass/compass everyday, changed the way I write CSS.

Add an API. That would be sweet! Then this could be integrated with any sort of collaboration web app!

blocked or not, utilizing svn export is a 101 level thing. Who runs these places??

Another reason to love git, one single .git folder in the project root.

this seems like it would take far more time than just purchasing a copy of omnigraffle and saving a file.

you should make one based off of my plugin smartmonth!

http://github.com/perezd/smart_month/tree/master

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If you love SASS you should check out Compass as well, I use them together and it makes my CSS so much easier to work with!!

http://www.compass-style.org

This language is pretty fascinating, I like its concepts quite a bit...maybe someone needs to write Cauldron, Potion's agile web framework ? :P

reminds me of a certain hub, that uses git.

George Bush doesn't care about Python people.

It really seems like the Ruby community does this to people who do great things. Another good example of this is Zed Shaw/Mongrel.

However, I'd have to say, being a loyal user of capistrano, I am not sure that I could have brought anything meaningful to the table regarding its architecture or decisions, it was just a great piece of software that I used, and will continue to use.

can't get it to run on OS X. It complains about an initialization error with portaudio :(. Maybe the MacPorts version of PA does not work with it?

I agree, its like ColdFusion...only it validates.

I'd like to know the answer to this too, I feel like there are a ton of viable options out there now, but I am waiting to see who stands out as defacto.

The ZumoDrive/iTunes integration is truly innovative, though. Majorly cool!

/me waits for web framework named: cauldron.

STOP THE PRESSES!

I swear this comes up every few months. Afterall, this site is so non-compliant, I am surprised anyone even comes here!

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