We are happy to announce that Glenn Vanderburg has joined Relevance as Chief Scientist. Glenn brings more than 20 years of experience developing software across a wide range of domains, and using a variety of tools and technologies. Glenn is always searching for ways to improve the state of software development, and was an early adopter and proponent of Ruby, Rails, and agile practices.
Glenn is an accomplished speaker and trainer, and especially enjoys mentoring teams as they adopt new techniques.
Welcome, Glenn!
We are happy to announce that Rob Sanheim has joined Relevance as Principal Ruby Rockstar/Coffee Ninja. Rob brings many years of experience and expertise in Ruby, Java, and Ajax applications. Like the rest of our team, Rob is passionate about programming with agility and quality, but also driven to work directly with customers to get things done. He has been active in both the Java and Ruby communities through his blog, speaking at the No Fluff, Just Stuff Java Symposium, and user groups. He has been co-editor for Ajaxian and also was co-founder of the Madison Rails group.
Rob has contributed to Rails core and has started or contributed to several open source plugins and gems. Rob shares our passion for testing, and is pushing our 100% coverage standard in new directions: continuous testing with autotest and behavior-driven development with test/spec.
Rob is a valuable addition to our team, and its great to have him on board!
This apples to oranges comparison is sure to enrage partisans of various technologies. The authors' inept analysis doesn't match the graph at all, but the graph sure is interesting, if you believe it.
JRuby was already easy to download and build. After this week's installment of This Week In Refactoring, it is a tiny bit easier. Plus a new bug is found, by accidentally squashing it.
Jim Weirich has dared people to define Dependency Injection in One Sentence. Here goes:
Dependency injection is a palliative for environments that unnecessarily couple creation, lookup, and interaction between collaborators.
We are pleased to announce that Jason Rudolph is joining Relevance as a Principal Software Engineer. Jason brings more than eight years of experience in developing software solutions for domestic and international clients of all sizes, including startups, Dow 30 companies, and government organizations. Jason is the author of the highly-praised book, Getting Started with Grails, and speaks frequently at software conferences and user groups.
Everyone on the Relevance technical team dedicates 20 percent of their time to open source projects. Jason contributes regularly to the open source community, and is a committer to both the Grails project and the Streamlined framework.
Relevance consistently delivers successful software solutions, in part by using the sharpest tools available. On recent projects these tools have included Ruby, Rails, AspectJ, Java, Spring, and Hibernate.
With the addition of Jason and Venkat, Relevance brings Groovy and Grails experience to its portfolio, further equipping Relevance with the right tools to tackle any project.
Welcome, Jason!
