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Rubymash has been ticking along nicely as a map of freelancers and companies working with rails throughout the world. Traffic has been fairly consistent since the site was first released. However all Rubymash offered was a directory of freelancers and companies on a map.

Sticking with the on-a-map idea, we have just released a jobs section [...]

Since last week I have been working on upgrading a major project from Rails 2.3.5 to Rails 3.0.0.beta and also on moving other projects to use the latest version of bundler. Getting all to work was not easy, but this gave me a chance to look into the rails initialization code in detail. Based on [...]

Here’s a quick howto guide on installing Ruby 1.9.1, Rubygems 1.3.5 and dependencies on Ubuntu.

The apt-sources version of Ruby is not the latest version, as such it is better to compile everything from source.

First make sure your package sources are up to date and you have build essential and zlib1g-dev installed:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install [...]

Recently we have been having problems with DNS not resolving with our companies broadband provider. I looked at some open source DNS services, the best one being OpenDNS, but despite them having a couple of boxes in Amsterdam the lookups are still somewhat slow.

So the solution? Create our own DNS server

This is how [...]

Recently I have been moving a lot of our old repositories into our local gitosis from github.
There seems to be no quick an easy solution for moving all of the remote branches across too, so this is how I am currently doing this.
Below are the commands I have been using to do this:

Firstly go into [...]

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a process that can be explained in two parts: relevance and quality. Relevance is determined by onsite factors such as content and image descriptions etc. and quality is determined by links.
Returning relevant results is the main goal of a search engines. This is why you must get your onsite SEO [...]

Rate the Landlord (http://www.ratethelandlord.com) is a project we have been working on at Dynamic50 in house.

Renting property is always a minefield, you just don’t know what you are really getting until you move in. Rate the Landlord gives users the ability to see the property before they move in, find out more about the landlord [...]

Dynamic50 have moved into a brand new office in Croydon. Our new office address is: 17/21 George Street, Croydon, London, CR0 1LA

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Our offices are located within a few minutes walk of East Croydon station, which connects in 13 minutes to London Bridge and only 16 minutes to Victoria. Feel free to pop in [...]

One of the issues that keeps on rearing its ugly head, and I have never got round to fixing is the following error locally on Textmate:

env: ruby: No such file or directory

Well today I decided to put an end to it!

Textmate assumes (wrongly in my case) that Ruby is located at:

/usr/local/bin/ruby

Whereas a quick check on [...]