Posted by brendan
on Wednesday, June 18
Well, it's only taken me about half of a month to write my post RailsConf 2008, and don't worry, this is not going to be much of a post either. I had a great time at my first RailsConf, especially since I was with my buddies/co-workers from
Intridea (read Intridea's full
RailsConf 2008 recap). It was great being in the presence of so many big name individuals from the Rails and Ruby community.
It was also my first time in Portland, Oregon and one word of advice is not to smoke in public -- the homeless there can smell you and will hunt you down for a cigarette, which I didn't have many of since I am too nice and gave most of them away. Overall, I had a great time, learned some great things from the sessions and met many people.
Posted by brendan
on Friday, April 25
Just thought I'd echo an article about
Intridea that was recently posted in the Washington Post TechBlog. You can checkout the article by
going here.
Intridea has borrowed some ideas from the big guys, such as Google's 20 percent time, which allows workers to spend a day a week dreaming up new products as side projects. It's also took an innovative approach to recruiting, reading the blogs of developers to find out what they are doing.
"We want to get the sharpest guys and give them infinite flexibility," Upender said. "We find the smartest guys. They already proved themselves by launching some ideas, they're already blogging about some technology that interests them, ... and within a day they're being productive. They're checking in code. They're building new functionality."
