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Realigning the Engine Yard AppCloud UI

My colleague, Andrew announced the new Engine Yard AppCloud User Experience team about a month ago. We are very excited about the ideas we have for AppCloud's UI, and are working surely and steadily toward a better user experience. Along the way, one of our priorities was to refactor the UI's HTML/CSS for better maintainability and consistency. This allows us to work more efficiently on our design and front end architecture.

Today, you will notice a major layout update: We've moved to a fixed-width layout.

Resources for Getting Started with Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is leaving the early adopter phase and becoming more mainstream. More people want to learn Rails but don't know where to begin. Well, I have come to the rescue. The resource list below is a good starting point. It includes tutorials, books, blogs, podcasts and many other educational resources that have done wonders for me throughout my Rails learning process. I hope others will find them helpful too.

I personally enjoy interactive and visual experiences. The interactive tutorials (sometimes with a live person) were very useful to me.

Fikus: Deploying Padrino to Engine Yard AppCloud

Padrino and Engine Yard AppCloud
Engine Yard AppCloud is a great platform for deploying Ruby on Rails applications quickly and easily. It's not only good for Rails, but it also makes it just as easy to deploy any application using Rack or Rack-based frameworks like Sinatra.

I'm a big fan of Sinatra and use it for both internal and personal projects.

JRuby Meetup at LinkedIn Mountain View

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.

Girl Power at Engine Yard

It was a wet and windy weekend in San Francisco - brrrrrrr! Luckily I was warm and dry - tucked up at the Engine Yard offices with 23 other women sharing a common mission to get our first taste of coding with Rails. DevChix and RailsBridge delivered another of their excellent free Ruby on Rails workshops for women and we were delighted to host them this past weekend at Engine Yard.

I am super supportive of this program as I have long been a supporter of getting more women into software engineering.

Want to join the Engine Yard Beta Program?

Deploying, automating and managing production Rails applications is always changing – new stack elements, new features in our cloud platforms, and new tools to help development. We think many of these features will be interesting to you whilst they are still in development. If you do too then welcome to the Engine Yard Beta Program!

The Pixel Brigade Has Arrived

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.

AppCloud Dashboard Performance Boost

If you are an Engine Yard AppCloud customer with a large number of environments, you may have noticed slowly degrading performance recently. Specifically, the dashboard page load time was a bit long, and live instance status & message updates sometimes resulted in a flicker.

Mitchell Hashimoto Joins Engine Yard OSS Community Grant Program

Wesley Beary and fog Promoted to the Engine Yard Open Source Program

There's a lot of muscle under the hood of the Engine Yard AppCloud and xCloud offerings providing Rails/Ruby automation, management and support. I am ecstatic to announce that a critical layer of our automation -- fog, the Ruby library for cloud computing and provisioning, along with its creator Wesley Beary -- are being promoted to the Engine Yard Open Source Program!

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