Enlight’s own development partner, Jonathan Follett, will be presenting his thoughts at an upcoming New England Web Developers’ Association Meeting in Hudson, MA. He’ll be speaking about how we utilize web tools to build virtual teams on Wednesday, March 25th @ 7pm in Hudson, MA.

Having worked with Jon, and after reading his articles at A List Apart, I can say it will be an interesting and informative talk. Working with Jon and Hot Knife Design has been a great experience. He brings great creative leadership to virtual teams.

For further details, refer to the NEWDA site

Last night I did a talk on Thinking Sphinx at Boston.rb.

The slides are below.

Evan’s blog post with the benchmarks can be found here. There are links to other benchmarks and details.

The process library I alluded to is called God.

Other links

• Thinking Sphinx
• Sphinx
• Delayed Job (for delta indexing)
• Workling Delta Indexer
• Workling
• Starling
• Pat Allen

Let me know what you thought of the talk and the slides. I hope you found it helpful!

Jon Follett and I did a lightning talk on swooping in to save projects from epic failure at Ignite Boston 5. It seems to be a topic that the audience had an interest in. We looked at our experiences and set out to provide some useful tips.

We had 5 minutes to get our points across. It was challenging but fun. It was a great event and there were lots of other great talks.

The slides are below.

To place further emphasis on the message – communication is a vital part of every project. We’ve inherited so many projects going wrong just because people aren’t being honest and open with each other. Communicate to educate, define norms, and demonstrate progress. These are not nice to haves in your projects – they’re requirements.

Do you have a project that needs rescuing? Contact us so that we can make your software idea a reality.