8 Ways Engine Yard Promote their Services

by admin on August 26, 2010

NOTE: this blogpost contains my personal notes from exploring communication channels in ruby on rails space. Engine Yard, Inc. is a leading cloud hosting solution provider, which specializes in application deployment, management and scaling. Engine Yard approach to marketing is very comprehensive and every firm in rails marketplace can learn something from their  strategy. To [...]

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Rails 3 upgrade and migration services

by admin on July 31, 2010

Like with any development framework, different versions of Rails also get released over time and some people slowly migrate to the latest versions, while others prefer to continue with their version until big releases come up. The latest release, Rails 3 is a major release, which couples a large number of new features and performance [...]

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Why your rails consulting firm should be in touch with shops working in different technologies ?

July 28, 2010

While your web development shop maybe specialized into a specific technology like .net, Java, Drupal or python, like ours is specialized in Ruby on Rails, it is very important to have contacts with the Companies, which deal with different technologies. While each technology has its own pros and cons, knowing people who specialize in different [...]

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Sell results first and then educate with your Agile Process

July 27, 2010

Many rails development shops consider selling their services to the clients by showing them the various software engineering processes especially “agile methodology” that they are going to follow. The idea some people have is that the clients will be impressed with the depth of the information and give them work, but unfortunately, that is not [...]

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Three things to do after completing your web development project

July 26, 2010

While either the projects and contracts end once the work is done, or the time duration is over, there are a few things, which if taken care of can help in getting both repeat as well as more work. The checklist of things to do for smoothly ending the contract includes the following. 1. Explain [...]

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Timesheets – Never Overcharge for your web development services

July 24, 2010

Trust is a very important aspect of any relationship, be it personal or professional. Moreover, having mutual trust between people working for a project and the clients giving that project is very crucial in fostering both a smooth long-term relationship and lot of chances for getting recommendation and repeat work. What is also more important [...]

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Sponsoring Ruby Conferences is not Easy for Indian Firms

July 23, 2010

While we live in a world where there is Globalization, there exist instances when people find the fact those others who are capable of doing similar good work as a threat. This especially holds true when a Company based in India tries to support a Ruby or Rails Conference in United States. The perception that [...]

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Ruby on Rails Consulting Services – Vinsol

July 23, 2010

Based on their 5 years of experience, Vinsol just launched wide range of ruby on rails consulting services. We are not only focusing on development projects but we are diversifying into niche ruby on rails consulting areas like auditing, project rescues and deployment architecture consulting where we see a lot of potential and demand in near future.

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Debugging an Existing Rails application for Prospective Client is not a Good Idea

July 20, 2010

While working for Ruby on Rails Consulting Projects, we do come across various clients who come with their existing web applications, which either have some bugs or are incomplete. While the prospective clients offer to provide more work, they ask for checking and fixing these websites or finish the enhancement as a means to gauge [...]

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What if your clients are employees with 9 to 5 job ?

March 4, 2010

What if your clients are busy executives having a great idea ?  More often than not, you will find few  things common between them : Future of the project is directly proportional to the stability and strength of their job. What if they lose their job or decide to move to another company. The time [...]

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