After a successful JRuby Meetup in San Francisco after JavaOne last month, we've decided to put on another. This time we'll be taking the good times to the valley. The great folks at LinkedIn have offered up meeting space at their headquarters in Mountain View. Pizza, drinks and some great conversation will be provided. All you need to do is show up.

Hi there! My name is Andrew Collins, and I'm here to tap dance with Photoshop and markup like vaudeville in its prime. Jazz hands!

Engine Yard recently hired me and Ms. Jina Bolton to work on Engine Yard AppCloud User Experience, and we're thrilled by the opportunity—it's an awesome team here at Engine Yard, let me tell you.

There's plenty of work ahead of us, and we'll be continually rolling out improvements just as fast as our fingers can massage those style sheets. You may have already noticed some of our handiwork—shiny new buttons and prettied-up text, that sort of thing.

Need a new Ruby or Rails job? They're getting posted daily on jobs.rubynow.com but we've got 8 special ones of our own that have come in via the Ruby Inside jobs board. Jobs this month come from the United Kingdom and the US and, as is proving typical, are Rails heavy.

Phusion Passenger and Ruby Enterprise Edition developers Ninh "Hernandez" Bui and Hongli Lai travelled to San Francisco last week and gave a 35 minute Google Tech Talk called Building A More Efficient Ruby Interpreter.

We’ve hit a snag deploying a JRuby application on the OC4J app server. We’re having all sorts of issues getting our application running (it works fine, but there are strange errors are deep within the stack).

I need a consultant to come onsite in San Francisco for a day or two to fix our deployment issues and help us fix or re-set up the production servers. Please contact me (courtenay @ entp.com) if you can help some time in the next 1-2 weeks.