Thoughts worth sharing

Railscamp NZ 2012 is being held in February 2012, at the Snowline Lodge on Mt Cheeseman. It’s really quite something. It's a remote location, perched in the majestic Southern Alps of New Zealand.

Partnering with the sublime business team at Rush Labs, we have been working on the creation and delivery of MarketScout since August 2010. We submitted MarketScout as a Heroku case study to the organisers.

Continuing on this summary for Day 2. We started with Real Time Rack by Konstantin Haase, followed by Implementing Rails 3.1, Backbone.js, CoffeeScript, jQuery, Sass, and CouchDB on EC2 by Rod Cope.

This summary of Rocky Mountain Ruby is not exhaustive, not complete, but includes a few notes about what stuck in my mind. We started with Focus by Mike Gerhard. Find focus. Right/rich brain, left/linear brain.

After Metallica and will.i.am entertained the masses on Wednesday night the second keynote on Thursday morning was focused on the platform - using the salesforce technology stack to go beyond CRM.

This week Dan and Abhi have travelled to San Francisco for the Salesforce.com Dreamforce 2011 conference. With 45,000 registered attendees this is now the biggest conference in technology.

I am really passionate about creating user interfaces that are clean, simple, and intuitive to use. With the addition of a new exciting tool I have been able to deliver Force.com web applications with a much better user experience.

Trineo is now listed in the Heroku Development Partner Program. This makes Trineo the first company to achieve both Salesforce.com Registered Partner and Heroku Development Partner in Australia and New Zealand.

It was inspiring to attend the ICE Ideas conference in Auckland today. The event attracted an extremely high calibre speaker list who were to be short and sharp with only a few minutes each to speak.

On February 22nd, Abhinav had a long phone interview with Tamlyn Stewart of The Press. All of Tamlyn’s notes and materials were destroyed in the earthquake, and so we regathered again to be interviewed.

We have been working for Deloitte New Zealand for some time now, and recently we received the following references from Matthew Haigh, Head of Innovation at Deloitte NZ.

When deploying a Rails web application that connects to the Salesforce.com API on the Heroku platform, one ideally wants to achieve a few things. First: not deviating from the standard Heroku deployment process.