Hi Jeremy, I believe we shook hands last week, but didn't get a chance to talk.
I'd be interested in talking about contract work in the future. I'm finishing up my first paying rails project, and so will have a showpiece and a client I believe would be willing to speak as a reference. At the moment this is just moonlighting for me, but I am hoping and planning to develop it into my livelihood. I'm very eager to see what you and Robby have cooking with the Refactoring project. I've learned so much on this project and I'm certain that I'm only seeing the tip of the iceberg for how things can be done better. I've also recently become convinced by TDD. I'd tried it before, but it never stuck. This time it has. I'm surprised at how complete the transition has been: now it feels like writing code without tests against it is like trying to paint with a blindfold on... it may feel like you got it right, but how do you *know* you actually made what you intended? In any case, I won't be available until December, and depending on how this client's business is received by the market, I may have to give them priority in the following months. But I'd be very interested in keeping a line open. Hope you're settling into Portland well. I'm a refugee from the Midwest as well actually (Kansas). I moved here 7 years ago now, and have a hard time imagining living anywhere else. Jason On 11/14/05, Jeremy Voorhis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > We're not hiring anybody new at the moment… but we are getting pretty busy > and have a few Rails developers that we work with on projects who are not > part of our core team. > > Robby and I are hoping to be able to find a few select individuals that we > can call to assist us with some of our larger client projects. As things > continue to grow, this could lead to more contract work in the future and… > well, we'll see what happens in a few months. :) > > We know you know Ruby, but ideal candidates should also honor best practices > such as refactoring, TDD and version control. The typical environment for a > PA project consists of > Ruby on Rails > PostgreSQL > Linux or other Unices > Lighttpd + FastCGI > Subversion > > Although we have worked with developers from diverse backgrounds (I began > work with PA while living in Ohio), we would prefer to work with Portland > Rubyists at present. > > If interested, please send me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > introduce yourself. We can discuss things further after that. To learn more > about Planet Argon, please visit us at http://planetargon.com/. Please don't > send any resume attachments… ;) > > -Jeremy > _______________________________________________ > PDXRuby mailing list > [email protected] > IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net > http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby > >
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