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8 Ruby and Rails Jobs for May 2010

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.

Ruby Job Opening

I’ve got a Ruby Software Engineering position open on my team at Leapfrog Online, in Evanston, IL.

The ideal Rails candidate has:

12 Interesting Upcoming Ruby and Rails Events (That Aren’t Sold Out)

Wanted to go to JRubyConf or RubyConf this year? Tough - they're sold out already. Luckily, though, there are some interesting upcoming events that you can still get in to - some online, some in multiple cities, some held in youth centers, some in hotels, and even one on a tropical island. Whew!

(Update: Removed Aloha on Rails as it has sold out - thanks to Tammer Saleh for the note.)

Announcing the Rails Performance in the Cloud Roadshow!

As always, we’ve been busy busy busy at Engine Yard!

While the engineers have been working on code, and the support guys have been helping customers, the rest of us have been hard at work behind the scenes too. We’ve been brainstorming about different ways to get out there and help businesses build and maintain top-performing Rails applications. We’ve also been planning ways to continue evangelizing the Ruby projects and products we love to the Ruby community, and the programming community at large.

6 Ruby Jobs To Check Out for September 2009

Looking for a Ruby/Rails job in Texas, California, Florida, Illinois, or Texas? We might have want you want in this post. This is perhaps the most diverse set of states featured in a Ruby Inside job post - usually it's just California and New York! It seems Ruby and Rails are now finding a full-time billing in a whole new set of companies.

Upcoming Late 2009 Ruby and Rails Events (With Tickets Ready To Buy)

Here's a list of some prominent forthcoming Ruby and Rails events scheduled through to the end of the year. Only events with tickets ready to buy right now are included - events which have already sold out are not included.

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August Itineraries – See You There!

Somehow, August is upon us! The Engine Yard Cloud Flex Beta plan is out the door and doing really well, and we can barely keep up with all the great feedback our beta customers are sending our way. Things are just getting better and better every day!

Programming Contest! And The Winners are…

Now that everyone’s CPU and GPU clusters have cooled down, we’re ready to announce the contest winners!

Everyone can still sleep well at night: SHA1 was brutally assaulted, but its walls remain inviolate. The winning Hamming Distance was 30 — which given the time and resources available was a terrific achievement. That means the winner generated a hash that matched 130 bits of the 160 bits of the challenge hash!

Quack Attack: Making Your Code More Rubyish

I’ve been doing some FFI work recently, which means that I’ve needed to wrap underlying C libraries so that I can call them from Ruby. While I won’t get into how the low level wrappers work, I can show you what the raw API calls look like for just a few functions:

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