Paul Grunt

Signalfire is a FREE Group Chat solution that allows you to stay in contact with your teams, family and friends. Signalfire allows you to create many Rooms for collaboration, toggle between Rooms and manage members all using a Top Down approach to chat, similar to twitter, which allows users to focus naturally on recent chat entries.

Signalfire is a RubyOnRails application baked by the creative minds at NewLeaders based in Santa Barbara, CA.

Check out Signalfire! I think you’ll like it.

Brightkite is a great location-based social network developed using RubyOnRails that has been designed to fill the niche in social networks and allow you to meet and communicate with friends in your area as well as view their current location. Best part is they’re based here in Denver, CO. We need more innovative companies like Brightkite in Denver.

“Brightkite is a location-based social network that enables people to take their online profiles with them into the real-world and make real-world friends. Users can see where their friends are and what they’re up to all while maintaining comprehensive degrees of privacy to non-friends. Depending on a user’s privacy setting they can also be open to meeting others nearby.”

If you’re looking for the best way to use Twitter on your iPhone I suggest you check out TwitterForiPhone. All you need is an iPhone and a Twitter account and you’re ready to “Get your Twit on.”

Twitter for iPhone is a RubyOnRails application baked by the creative minds at NewLeaders based in Santa Barbara, CA.

“Happy Webbies are like Happy Bunnies, but for web nerds.”

It’s nice to see the team over at SidebarCreative get listed at Happy Webbies since they’re all Very talented. Congrats SidebarCreative!

Basecamp Rules! So does Campfire! If you’re not using either you really should! Check it out here:

I’m planning on porting my site over to Mephisto which runs on Rails. I’ll be using my current mediatemple (gs), gridserver, for hosting of course and I found a great tutorial for integrating mediatemple (gs) hosting, using their ruby containers, with Mephisto over at Softamade as well as a great tutorial on Running Mephisto on OSX.

So I bought my first RoR book, Agile Web Development with Rails. I’m just starting to dig into it. All my RoR resources have mentioned to me that I should get this book so I’m following there guidance. There is even a PDF version of the book available for those who prefer that option.

Yup! It’s about that time. Time to move to Ruby on Rails. WordPress and PHP have been fun, but there are many reasons to move to Ruby for me right now… I can think of at least one RAILS! dur! Get with the times. Move to RoR! Or at least look into it. I’m going to be posting a few resources for RoR noobs like me.