agile development

Sarah Worsham / Jul 23, 2009

Another Interview with James Lindenbaum, CEO of Heroku – Part 2

heroku Yesterday, we had part one of our interview with James Lindenbaum, CEO of Heroku, which provides hosting for Ruby on Rail applications. We had a great conversation with James, but there was a bit much for one post, so we divided the interview into 2. Here’s the second part of our interview….

Sarah Worsham / Jul 22, 2009

Another Interview with James Lindenbaum, CEO of Heroku – Part 1

heroku Heroku (who we’ve covered here, here and here) provides provision-less hosting for Ruby applications, letting developers focus on developing. The hosting service allows developers to just push their code and it’s up in running – no worrying about running scripts, or setting up servers. Heroku recently came out of beta and now offers commercial, paid service. A few weeks ago, I had the chance to speak with Heroku’s CEO, James Lindenbaum, about their recent developments:

Aaron Worsham / Jul 21, 2009

The geeks give back to those that Give year round

Everyone in the auditorium knew when she stood up that this was going to be an interesting weekend. Sister Mary, dressed in a stark white Habit, stood out from the crowd of faded jeans, Converse low-tops and silk screened Tee shirts with ironic catch phrases like some lost Lawrence Welk fan at a Neko Case concert. But what she told the audience, how passionately she expressed her excitement for what was in essence just a new website, was nothing new by then. They had heard the same that night from a dozen other local charities and non-profits participating in GiveCamp 2009. Each charity started the weekend thanking the programmers and developers and designers for donating the next 48 hours of their lives to creating something for their own personal cause. So unaccustomed to this kind of appreciation for their unique gifts in this world, the audience of software and computer experts were overwhelmed to tears more than once. At least I was overwhelmed to tears at the opening ceremony, cresting at the pique of the emotional wave with Sister Mary shouting thanks to God that ‘The Geeks Are Coming!’