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He's got a discerning eye for quality, so I trust his judgement in curating a list of great designers. Looking forward to a version for programming jobs!

Remote or New Hampshire/Boston

I'm a web developer with equal experience on the backend with Rails and the frontend with HTML/CSS/jQuery. I have been central in the development, deployment, and maintenance of 3 production websites and 1 production web app. Here is a little background on a couple of my previous projects:

At one company, I inherited the company’s existing intranet “project management” Rails web app (http://metro-tek.org). I added major functionality including timesheets for payroll (covered by unit tests), automated email reporting, model and form validation, and PDF rendering. I fixed bugs and set up automated error notifications, backups, and deployment. I also wireframed, programmed and deployed a new corporate website (http://metroelectrical.com) written in Rails. I developed an internal CMS platform to update the website, and integrated CopyCopter for production copy editing.

For my freelance website (http://soliddesigngroup.net), I developed a custom blog platform and CMS for internal use. I developed the information hierarchy and wireframed the website. I translated the website from a PSD layout file into production code, including social media integration, server and client-side form validation, and dynamic front end programming. I created custom jQuery plugins, and set up error notification, automatic backups, and automated deployment.

Here is a sampling of the "best practices" software I roll in my Rails stack:

  * web server - Nginx + Passenger
  * version control - Git + Github
  * automated deploys - Capistrano
  * error notification - Hoptoad
  * automated backup - Backup
  * cron jobs - Whenever
  * HTML/CSS templating - Haml/Sass/Compass
  * Production copy editing - Copycopter

This is by no means the limit of my abilities or experience, but a small sampling. Please contact me at the email address in my profile for a copy of my resume, and references upon request. I look forward to hearing from you and answering any questions you may have for me!

Best regards, Jonathan

Your portfolio is amazing and I'd love to work with you. I've actually stumbled upon your blog in the wild before, and your post about designers who can't code and vice versa hit home for me. Although I'm primarily a programmer, I've made it a point to cultivate an eye for design (contrast, repetition, alignment, proximity - CRAP - as one book so humorously reinforced), striving for elegantly simple user interfaces, and working closely with graphic designers to straddle the form/function fulcrum in a balanced way.

I hope to hear back from you!

Regards, Jonathan

A major reason is the massive amount of explosive growth directed through central planning by government. This has literally made most cities designed around travel by car.

>Of course, people won't change unless there's a reason to do so. What I am saying is that "market forces" will push us towards those kinds of solutions INSTEAD of towards an oil replacement. People will be better off if they can adapt to this reality rather than hang on until the bitter end to the idea that the future will involve "happy motoring" forever.

Getting rid of government subsidy to oil through lobby, tax breaks, and the military-industrial complex would go a long way toward this goal. We are bearing the full brunt of the "moral hazard" experiment.

Sure it is physically impossible, but that person will end up looking like a slob. Fit is the most important factor in style, so if you're going to "brand" your employees at least do not force them to swim in the clothing you give them!

According to the article he is "focused on major strategic initiatives"

>Page and fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who is focused on major strategic initiatives, have offices next to each other in a recently renovated building on the campus. They are down the hall from executive chairman Eric Schmidt and surrounded by engineers working at key products for Google.

Some of the positives:

* anonymous

* decentralized

* finite supply

* no transaction fees

* open source

* growing in usage

* is traded on online currency markets

I'm sure there are more, but that is just off the top of my head. BTW, I'm speaking as someone who has ZERO BTC.

My partner and I have a small design studio LLC called Solid Design Group.

I am a Rails/jQuery programmer with ops experience constructing, deploying, and maintaining many production websites/apps. I run a nice Rails stack including hoptoad/github/backup/capistrano/haml/sass/compass, etc

He is a print/web/advertising graphic designer.

We both have many years of experience working with small businesses and fortune 500 clients.

We specialize in websites, web apps, branding for small bus/startups, and print work (brochure/bus cards/letterhead/etc).

Website: http://soliddesigngroup.net Github: http://github.com/jonathanb and http://github.com/soliddesign

Apparently 1.0 is the new beta

I think this might also allow someone to type in your base URL into Google Reader, and it will pick it up.