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Ruby
Groupon
Groupon, launched in November 2008 in Chicago, features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, eat, see, and buy in major cities across the U.S. and Canada, with plans to be in 100 cities by the end of 2010. Groupon uses collective buying power to offer unbeatable prices and provide a win-win for businesses and consumers. Groupon is a project of The Point, an online community launched in 2007 for organizing group action. Groupon builds their core product with Ruby on Rails, and aggressively uses state-of-the-art methods, tools and technology to continue to rapidly improve and evolve.
Silver
10gen
10gen sponsors the open source MongoDB project, and provides commercial support and training for MongoDB. Mongo (from “humongous”) is a high-performance, document-oriented database in use at SourceForge, foursquare, Etsy, the New York Times, and more.
Couchbase
Couchbase is the NoSQL database leader, with production deployments at AOL, Deutsche Post, NTT Docomo, Orbitz, Salesforce.com, Turner Broadcasting Systems, Vimeo, Zynga and hundreds of other household names worldwide. Couchbase Server is the simple, fast, elastic NoSQL database that delivers a more scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective approach to data management than relational database technology. It is particularly well suited for web applications deployed on virtualized or cloud infrastructures, and for applications requiring real-time data synchronization between mobile devices and the cloud. Couchbase is a privately held companyfunded by Accel Partners, Ignition Partners, Mayfield Fund and North BridgeVenture Partners.
Community Partners
Deforest Group
Deforest Group is a unique combination of high energy creatives, service-focused sales staff, and business-savvy partners. We take pride in delivering award winning design and photography to clients in many diverse industries. Discover… Focus… Create… Our team uses its creative energy to discover client needs, focus on their goals, and create lasting impressions of their brands through creative design and photography. For more information visit DeforestGroup.com.
Publishing Partners
Clean Coders
Clean Coders is all about educational videos for software professionals, by software professionals. Our code-casts are rich with content and entertaining! Watch instantly at www.cleancoders.com and change the way you think about code, about design, about your disciplines, and about your profession.
O'Reilly
O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazine, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism. Visit www.oreilly.com for details.
Pragmatic Screencasts
The Pragmatic Programmers is an agile publishing and training company. We’re here because we want to improve the lives of developers. We do this by creating timely, practical books and working with The Pragmatic Studio to create the best developer training there is. The stuff we produce is timely and relevant because it’s created by programmers for programmers. We have launched a new series of screencasts on various topics including Ruby, Rails, and Erlang. You can download and watch $5 episodes when and where it’s convenient for you, in DRM-free formats. Check out some of our new screencasts at http://pragmatic.tv.