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Wow, what a difference a day makes.

Yesterday I decided to skip the Daily Review. It was a bit past midnight, hadn’t seen much on the tubes that I wanted to pass along and had just finished pumping a bunch of tasks into Redmine for my VA, that I just hired. I had spent a bit of time getting Redmine to send email through google mail for apps, receive mail with a bit of fetchmail/imap magic and mostly parse them into issues.

Today, during our daily standup we find out that VC for our client wasn’t looking good, they were going to stop, regroup and figure out what it was that they needed to do to have a kick ass product. I won’t say I convinced my buddy to leave his full time gig for this contract work with a start up, but I’m sure I had a pretty heavy hand in it. I also filled basically the rest of the team with colleagues and contacts and myself.

So, come Friday I know a trio of developers that are ready to help you kick some serious ass on your next rails project. Or, we could give your rails project a serious kick in the ass if it’s that kind of project. Get in touch, or pass my contact information to someone that might need some help.

Interesting tidbits from around the web
No more kicking or asses.

• Logo Design – I’ve used LogoSamurai, eLance, 99designs and a few other places that probably have a few of you turning up your nose, or giving me the finger. I’ve had pretty good experiences with the ones I’ve used, most of the issues are failings on my part communicating my ideas (or not having a clear idea).
• Budget – An envelope budgeting system for Mac.
• Command line tricks for smart geeks – I still need to figure out grep or search in place through history, my shell-fu is weak there.
• MetaProgramming Ruby – Patrick McKenzie gives a real life example of using Metaprogramming.
• Cheap DIY Boxee MC – Interesting, but after my recent hardware experience I’d rather buy something that works and pay someone to fix it (or have the person I bought it from fix it for free).
• 25 Tips for Intermediate Git Users – Because you can never get enough git tips (I know, it was almost as painful to write as read).
• Promoting your Facebook Fan Page – Do people use these for good? I get a request almost weekly to join a fan page for a local company (from the company itself). Seems like most people try for a pretty strict divide between personal (Facebook) and professional (LinkedIn). I don’t know if they’re that useful for me, I certainly wouldn’t spend $25/day on targeted Facebook ads…
• Essential Project Management and Collaboration Tools for Freelancers – Surprisingly Wave isn’t on there. A pretty good list of the usual players. I’m only kidding about Wave.
• Magntize – I guess the world needs another profile.
• Consistency – Alton Brown said something on the Chili (with an I) episode to the effect of “A feller expects what he’s expecting”. Same idea here; buttons, or things that resemble buttons, should do button like things.
• Jammit – Because Dammit is too obvious? Another asset packager for rails.
• 25 Awesome Tools for Choosing a Website Color Scheme – 25 should just counteract my design deficiencies.

Remember: You can hire me and my team, just get in touch.