Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
Yet another +1 for Heroku. I've had great experiences with it so far. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Ross Singer wrote: > Have you looked at Heroku (http://heroku.com/)? I've only used their > freebie plan (so I have no idea how they compare pricewise), but it's > been fantastic to get Ruby apps running there. > > Dreamhost also provides Passenger to their customers > (http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Passenger) so that might be an option, too. > > -Ross. > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Kevin Reiss > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've > had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost > but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops > just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The > applications we are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 > -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. > > > > Regards, > > > > Kevin Reiss > > > > > > > > > > >
[CODE4LIB] T-Shirt Voting Ending Soon
Hello All, This is just a quick reminder that t-shirt voting will be ending at 5pm EST. That's in one hour. So if you've haven't had a chance to vote, you might want to do so now. Rosalyn
[CODE4LIB] DASH Open Access repository developer position
The Office for Scholarly Communication of the Harvard University Library (http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/osc.php) has a job opening for a Digital Library Software Engineer to work primarily on DSpace development of our DASH open access repository (http://dash.harvard.edu/). The DASH repository implements Harvard's Open Access policies for making the scholarly output of Harvard faculty and staff available to the world. If interested in this position, please see the job posting for details: http://jobs.harvard.edu/jobs/summ_req?in_post_id=43042
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
> If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a > referral key :)). A number of customers have switched to them since > Slicehost was sold to Rackspace. +1 for linode, based on personal experience. Ben
[CODE4LIB] Karen Coombs Named as Product Manager for the OCLC Developer Network
Karen Coombs, former Head of Web Services at the University of Houston Libraries, has been named as Product Manager for the OCLC Developer Network effective 1/19/10. http://bit.ly/83Jg4V -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://bit.ly/Z6HFx
[CODE4LIB] Karen Coombs joins OCLC Developer Network Team
Karen Coombs, well-known librarian and Web developer, has accepted a position with OCLC as the product manager for the OCLC Developer Network. [1] Currently a part-time Web Application Specialist for LISHost and library Web technology consultant, Ms. Coombs previously served for four years as Head of Web Services for the University of Houston Libraries in Houston, Texas. Her primary responsibilities in this newly-created role at OCLC are twofold: to help library and consumer developers make best use of OCLC¹s suite of Web Services, and to continue and expand OCLC¹s commitment to libraries¹ own development of services that use WorldCat data. "We are thrilled that Karen is joining the team," said Don Hamparian, Director of OCLC's Developer Central portfolio and co-founder of the Developer Network. "She brings energy, enthusiasm and firsthand knowledge of working with all the available APIs and Web Services from OCLC." Fellow co-founder of the Developer Network Roy Tennant adds, "Her expertise will expand the breadth and depth of Developer Network activities, and help further our efforts to expose OCLC data to make it easy to use in other systems through mashups and applications." Ms. Coombs is a librarian and self-confessed geek coder with an interest in mash-ups, Web services, library Web sites and interfaces. She has an MLS and an MS in Information Management from Syracuse University, and has presented at many national and international conferences including ALA Annual, Internet Librarian, Access and ELAG. In addition, she has written numerous articles for Computers in Libraries, Library Journal, Library Hi Tech, and Journal of Academic Librarianship. She and Jason Griffey co-authored the book Library Blogging, and she is currently at work on another book about open source Web applications for libraries due out later this year. Named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker in 2009, Ms. Coombs is past-chair of the LITA Special Interest Group for Blogs, Wikis and interactive media, a former member of the LITA Top Technology Trends panel, and prolific author of her own weblog, Library Web Chic. She will maintain her blog presence at Library Web Chic, in addition to joining the OCLC Developer Network blog. Karen is ready to begin official activities with the OCLC Developer Network on 19 January 2010. Roy Tennant OCLC Research [1] http://www.oclc.org/news/announcements/2010/announcement421.htm
