ryan_f

Ruby on Rails Developer

U.S. only - remote available depending on experience)

20spokes - Chicago,IL

Who we are

20spokes is a small and growing web development agency in Chicago. We work with a large variety of clients, from launching a new web app to expanding an existing business with a new mobile app. We're looking for #4 to join our team and help us to continue to grow!

Who we want to hire

A talented full stack Ruby developer who wants to help us build great projects.

- 2-5 years of experience as a mid to senior level engineer. - Ability to develop a feature from a concept - Understanding and experience with other web technologies such as Sass, Javascript, Rails, Postgres, React, Backbone - Team player who is respectful and looking to contribute - Pragmatic in making decisions - Passionate about learning and enthusiastic to share with the rest of the team

Why should you work with us There's a ton of great places for developers but we stand out as the little shop with great ideas. You'll have the opportunity to directly impact 20spokes. We're small with you joining as #4. Fridays are open days to contribute to our own products that are in use now, work on open source, write a blog, and more. We invest in the people who join us. Your time is also very important to us. We don't want our team to be in the office late at night but out enjoying their lives.

http://www.20spokes.com/jobs

Ruby on Rails Developer

U.S. only - remote available depending on experience)

20spokes - Chicago,IL

Who we are

20spokes is a small and growing web development agency in Chicago. We work with a large variety of clients, from launching a new web app to expanding an existing business with a new mobile app. We're looking for #4 to join our team and help us to continue to grow!

Who we want to hire

A talented full stack Ruby developer who wants to help us build great projects.

- 2-5 years of experience as a mid to senior level engineer. - Ability to develop a feature from a concept - Understanding and experience with other web technologies such as Sass, Javascript, Rails, Postgres, React, Backbone - Team player who is respectful and looking to contribute - Pragmatic in making decisions - Passionate about learning and enthusiastic to share with the rest of the team

Why should you work with us There's a ton of great places for developers but we stand out as the little shop with great ideas. You'll have the opportunity to directly impact 20spokes. We're small with you joining as #4. Fridays are open days to contribute to our own products that are in use now, work on open source, write a blog, and more. We invest in the people who join us. Your time is also very important to us. We don't want our team to be in the office late at night but out enjoying their lives.

http://www.20spokes.com/jobs

Chicago, IL Remote - Full time Ruby on Rails Developer - http://www.engageuat.com

EngageUAT is a new service that has been growing for the last 2 years. We are looking for a Ruby on Rails developer to join our team. EngageUAT is an online tool focused on user acceptance testing. We are a small team with the opportunity to gain a lot of experience and responsibility. Our main team is located in Chicago. The position is available remotely.

Our current stack is Ruby on Rails with Backbone and ReactJS for the views.

If interested or want to learn more email us at jobs@engageuat.com. Include Hacker news in the subject and tell us a little about yourself.

Be careful though. Yes, you are young and yes the world is your oyster but everything still has consequences good or bad. Passion doesn't mean you have to throw yourself at the work while ignoring other factors.

Passion may be working for 3 - 6 months to save to go to a development bootcamp or just working through it. I know several have programs to get financing to do it, if that is a possibility.

I've hired people from dev bootcamp and can say these programs are worth it. Just be smart about it.

If you are passionate, then dedicating several months to save money to go to one of the schools by taking any job while staying sharp should be worth it. To the point, you are 18 yrs old and can take the few months now of working a whole to set up the rest of your life.

Just don't go in debt. That lasts awhile, and I'm sure there's plenty of people here who have been in it through a bad startup.

EngageUAT is a new service that has been growing for the last 2 years. We are looking for a Ruby on Rails developer to join our team. EngageUAT is an online tool focused on user acceptance testing. We are a small team with the opportunity to gain a lot of experience and responsibility. Our main team is located in Chicago. The position is available remotely.

Our current stack is Ruby on Rails with Backbone. We will be migrating our front end to a new Javascript framework. We are currently evaluating all the options.

If interested or want to learn more email us at jobs@engageuat.com. Include Hacker news in the subject and tell us a little about yourself.

20spokes - Chicago, IL - Full-Time, Remote

20spokes is hiring experienced Ruby on Rails Developers. We are a Chicago-based (remote is available) development agency that has been steadily growing for the past 4 years. We are always exploring the best and right technologies for projects. 20spokes was started so that we could focus providing the best value for our clients and our people. We also have several home grown products of our own.

We are a small team with a huge priority on work/life balance. Developers at 20spokes are given a lot of responsibility of their projects and education is an important factor of our everyday work.

Our development stack is a mix of Ruby on Rails, Backbone, Angular, Ember, Java, Go, and IOS (mobile).

Check out our mission statement - http://www.20spokes.com/mission-statement/

If interested please reach us at http://www.20spokes.com/careers/ or email us at jobs@20spokes.com. Include Hacker news in the subject and tell us a little about yourself.

20spokes - Chicago, IL Ruby on Rails Developers [REMOTE dependent on experience]

We are hiring all levels of Ruby on Rails developers. We are a Chicago development agency that works with an assortment of projects. We are always exploring the best and right technology for jobs. It was started to focus on providing the best value for clients. We are also focused on several of our own products that are growing.

We are a small team with a focus on work/life balance. Developers at 20spokes are given a lot of responsibility of their projects and gain a lot of experience.

Check us out! http://www.20spokes.com/careers/

I have a short attention span for sites and after clicking around for approximately 30 seconds I have no clue what is going on. It seems to be an expanded team environment PaaS?

If I didn't click on this from hacker news, I would have bounced immediately.

The other thing is if I can't understand their marketing website, I have little faith that I would understand the product if using it.

20spokes - Chicago, IL Ruby on Rails Developers

We are hiring all levels of Ruby on Rails developers. We are a Chicago development agency that works with an assortment of projects. We are always exploring the best and right technology for jobs. It was started to focus on providing the best value for clients. We are also focused on several of our own products that are growing.

We are a small team with a focus on work/life balance. Developers at 20spokes are given a lot of responsibility of their projects and gain a lot of experience.

Check us out!

http://www.20spokes.com/careers/

I understand they have more clients to please than myself. Even a smaller window of time would be helpful or to know it is going to be done in off hours. There's no reason I should be fine with this as a paying customer.

This is rather disconcerting. They are given us a window of 48 hours where our site will be down for 60 seconds. On top of that we cannot schedule the time with them.

60 seconds may seem like a small inconvenience but it is one still the same. I host a few clients on their servers and I need to relay this information. I sound like a jackass being that I can't give more specifics on the timing of the server being down to my clients. How does Heroku not feel the same?

I am appreciative of the update but that is also what I pay them to do.

Isn't all of this just blown out of proportion? Why not focus on how to help improve ember.js than one person's response? Even if that person contributes to the documentation and to the project. Get over it already.

That's one of the reasons they are complaining because it is ridiculous there isn't anything set up. Now it might not just be one rogue star rating but maybe a collection of others. But there is no room for error when you can get fired by having a 4.6 and not 4.7 star rating.

Working of course which I am guessing you realized?

I am not debating that Uber is a huge help for getting business. I just feel that their employee conditions are not what many others expect in their daily jobs. I don't feel that is wrong.

It's not as simple as you state. Uber gets a lot of the business so the drivers won't have work without them. That 4.7 is out of 5 also and it is true about the terminations. I have witnessed the mass firings and how they are handled.

Drivers also can't dispute their ratings so it takes one person to give them a one star which could lead to being fired. And can you truly say all customers are fair in their ratings?

The best thing that could happen for these drivers is having another company open up to compete against uber. Then they wouldn't be a commodity.

If they were not "taxi drivers" than everyone would be furious at how they are treated.

I agree fully with either they are incompetent or dishonest. I hope this response gets more press because Heroku better be beyond perfect from this point on. There is no excuse for this.

These will be very helpful to the mobile community. It's great to read about larger scale services and how they tackled mobile. It was great when LinkedIn shared about their new mobile app and the development efforts.

I am interested in hearing how much was in RubyMotion. I would have been more excited to hear the whole thing was. I am not knocking the architecture. They have proven to know what they are doing when it comes to development and business. I am just waiting to hear about bigger projects for RubyMotion.

I was a little surprised to see so much dedicated to HAML in an HTML/CSS tutorial. The author's background is as an instructor at the starter league which is heavy on Rails. HAML is widely used in that community so his perspective might be slightly bias.

But it is still useful to know and see there are other ways to handle to write HTML.

And that is because it is more than "markup should be beautiful". I cringe when that is stated as the only reason. Markup that is simplified can lead to easier readability and fewer mistakes. It removes the worry if you forgot to close a tag and removes them all together.

I was hesitant at first after being so used to working with HTML but I am happy as ever after making the switch. I find my time is more productive and updating the html is much quicker.

SASS also works for ERB. They are independent but I do agree that they are great together.

I know a lot of ruby on rails developers who use HAML for their template framework instead of ERB. Some people prefer HAML's use of indentation instead of using tags to enclose everything.

I like it in my projects mostly for how clean and easy it is to read. It takes a little bit to get used to initially but it is worth it.

I totally agree with you about code not always (or never) being perfect in the real world.

You are also correct in it was disrespectful and wouldn't happen if they were face to face.

BUT I do think an apology is enough, regardless of being called out on the internet. An asshole behind a keyboard doesn't use the same keyboard to say how they were wrong.

People make mistakes and when you do it on the internet it quickly amplifies.

You may say I am a little bias because I have met Corey in person. He was boarding a plane and I ran up and introduced myself after having heard one of his talks. He took his time while others boarded and was very courteous and friendly. So I trust in his apology and that he isn't an asshole in person or behind a keyboard.

Backbone and pjax are not similar so maybe the issue is picking the right tool for the right project. PJax is great if you are looking to help navigate. Backbone is useful with managing objects and collections while keeping them separate from the DOM. It also provides its router to coexist with its views.

I agree. I know a lot of developers that will benefit having a good example to work from.

I am a happy customer of Freckle, love the product and what it does. But to hear the statements of the work that is in Freckle is a little disheartening. I have made requests in the past for updates and was happy when I was answered back about the requests. Its been already half a year and I haven't seen my request or really anything new come into the service. Small lesson here is that a simple answer back made me think of progress.

Is this a big issue? No, I am not leaving Freckle - I recommend it a lot to people. But with the little time as stated previously in development, I shouldn't hold my breath. It's just an example of how communication can be presented and perceived differently. I don't want to call it BS, but that is what I think is meant in other comments here.

Stripe is developing a lot faster than I ever expected. I was really happy with the initial product when it became available. Easy payment integration for developers was a [INSERT EXPLETIVE] dream. Their latest features have been terrific and add extra benefit. To see them partnering with Wufoo to help other developers is great.

Whoever put together Stripe's roadmap should get a beer or at least a high five.

Consider me a fanboy (and smarter at security thanks to them).

I am curious at what default on means, such as will all links use this by default?

The share everything plan for Verizon gives unlimited talk and text so there is no need for rollover minutes.

Not sure "press the button" is the case for some. I can't speak for CouchDB but I know many people finding it not so easy for MongoDB.

First, I agree with everyone on the TechCrunch coverage and it not being what it used to be.

But just as a pitch/landing page, I don't get it. If I was <insert news site> I would leave the page immediately. It doesn't show off your product. It just requests them to donate more time to find out through their own research, which seems highly unlikely.

Why not use your home page? And if that doesn't cut it, maybe that should be fixed before asking others for coverage.

Best of luck!