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2 years ago
in Start-a-Startup - Interesting Idea on RED66
Carlos, thanks for the post and the link.
Below are a few answers to your concerns.
Can they really deliver?
A list of proven examples of our previous work might be helpful here. The contract can be made to ensure that complete payment will be upon satisfactory delivery. Something like a staged payment.
How good are their coding skills? How secure is their code?
Ruby on Rails is used as the development framework. It follows strict conventions to make sure that the quality of code produced is of high quality. Its easier to follow the best practice than not to do it. For example its easier to write unit tests than not to. Most reusable code in rails is available as plugins and and security is taken care of by the community. Its always better to use maintained code from the community, than not to. Rails and subversion make this easier by allowing code in a project to be tied to code developed by the community automatically.
Who writes the program documentation?
Well, spec documentation is rarely created. The project starts of by coming up with initial screens iteratively. Only the most necessary features go in there. The application is deployed to a staging server daily. Once the initial application is built, no more screens. Tasks are raised in Basecamp/Trac and are integrated into the application. Development documentation is written inside the code itself and RDoc is used to create the documentation and diagrams from the code automatically. In all, only work that absolutely adds value to the application is performed. Also, its always better to make the application usable than to create user documentation.
Are they fluent in English (or your particular language)?
The part time project manager in the US takes care of the communication and cultural issues between the developers in India and the users in the US.
How scalable is their code?
We are developing a framework that deploys code on amazons EC2 and takes care of the scalability issue. EC2 is a reasonable cost service that amazon provides, which can deploy servers in minutes when the load on the server increases. The share nothing architecture of Rails makes scaling easier.
Feel free to call us at 404-918-1150 if we can be of any more help.
Vishi Gondi
Below are a few answers to your concerns.
Can they really deliver?
A list of proven examples of our previous work might be helpful here. The contract can be made to ensure that complete payment will be upon satisfactory delivery. Something like a staged payment.
How good are their coding skills? How secure is their code?
Ruby on Rails is used as the development framework. It follows strict conventions to make sure that the quality of code produced is of high quality. Its easier to follow the best practice than not to do it. For example its easier to write unit tests than not to. Most reusable code in rails is available as plugins and and security is taken care of by the community. Its always better to use maintained code from the community, than not to. Rails and subversion make this easier by allowing code in a project to be tied to code developed by the community automatically.
Who writes the program documentation?
Well, spec documentation is rarely created. The project starts of by coming up with initial screens iteratively. Only the most necessary features go in there. The application is deployed to a staging server daily. Once the initial application is built, no more screens. Tasks are raised in Basecamp/Trac and are integrated into the application. Development documentation is written inside the code itself and RDoc is used to create the documentation and diagrams from the code automatically. In all, only work that absolutely adds value to the application is performed. Also, its always better to make the application usable than to create user documentation.
Are they fluent in English (or your particular language)?
The part time project manager in the US takes care of the communication and cultural issues between the developers in India and the users in the US.
How scalable is their code?
We are developing a framework that deploys code on amazons EC2 and takes care of the scalability issue. EC2 is a reasonable cost service that amazon provides, which can deploy servers in minutes when the load on the server increases. The share nothing architecture of Rails makes scaling easier.
Feel free to call us at 404-918-1150 if we can be of any more help.
Vishi Gondi
2 years ago
in Exploring Amazon EC2 on overstimulateHey may be you can put a neatly configured image with Rails installed on S3 and give access to others? Some capistrano scripts will make it so easy!
I surely will pay for a neat rails setup that I can deploy my app on from my svn repo,
3 years ago
in Dave Winer working on new RSS aggregator? on Scobleizer
Tell him to wait another month. We are removing all the druggery off creating an aggregator.
3 years ago
in Google announces feed API on Scobleizer
Microsoft dosn't buy. It watches and replicates fast.
Google throws lots of stuff at the wall and sees if somethings sticks.
Yahoo looks at others throwing mud on the wall and collects mud thats about to stick.
Sorry Scoble, you would have been at better mud collection if you were at yahoo.
Google throws lots of stuff at the wall and sees if somethings sticks.
Yahoo looks at others throwing mud on the wall and collects mud thats about to stick.
Sorry Scoble, you would have been at better mud collection if you were at yahoo.
3 years ago
in MS Researchers find that typo-squatters are gaming Google on Scobleizer
A recent business2 article mentioned that as much as 10% of google's adwords revenue comes from typo squaters. The business suits from Yahoo were busy pampering them.
Poor Google what else can it do, other than overlook squatter misdoings, just like it decided to dilute its search relavance for AOL.
Poor Google what else can it do, other than overlook squatter misdoings, just like it decided to dilute its search relavance for AOL.
