Bytemark started in 2001 as a consulting firm based in York, UK.
Its directors are Matthew Bloch and Peter Taphouse — experienced network
and software engineers who combined their expertise to build one of
the UK’s 'nerd hosting outfit of choice'. www.bytemark.co.uk
The Rackspace Cloud provides on-demand and scalable website, application and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support®. Through an integrated suite of cloud solutions – Cloud Sites™, Cloud Files™ and Cloud Servers™ – The Rackspace Cloud enables astute developers and IT managers to trade the hassles, upfront investments and high costs for a hosting environment that scales easily when traffic fluctuates. www.rackspacecloud.com
PeepCode Screencasts are a high-intensity way to learn professional development topics like Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Git, Objective-C and Clojure. A new hour-long video screencast is released each month, sometimes more frequently. peepcode.com
RubyMine — intelligent IDE for Ruby and Rails from JetBrains,
the creator of software solutions that make developers more productive
by simplifying the challenging tasks, automating the routine ones and
developing the best development practices. JetBrains is also famous
for its IntelliJ IDEA for Java, ReSharper for .Net and other products. www.jetbrains.com/ruby/
Spreedly handles everything you need to make money - initial signup, upgrades, cancellations, etc. - so you can build your business and not a billing system. One of the best ways to get new signups is to offer a free trial, and Spreedly makes it a cinch to set up and enforce that initial engagement. To keep making money you have to charge the right people at the right time, and get it right every time. Spreedly's got you covered. spreedly.com
Paul Klipp has helped teams around the world improve their performance through agile methodologies. Whether you need advice, training, or coaching, Paul can get your team on the road to success with Scrum. www.paulklipp.com
Rails Kits is here to bring you great ready-made Rails code for you to use in your projects. More than just plugins, these starter kits can act as the foundation of your new Rails application. You can save hours of time, skipping the boring stuff and diving right into the code that makes your application different from all the rest. railskits.com
BDDCasts produces screencasts on Behavior Driven Development techniques. The first series is the soup to nuts creation of a Brand Monitoring tool created using Cucumber, rSpec, ruby on rails while remotely program. It goes from setup to deployment, showing outside-in development driven by features. www.bddcasts.com
Heroku is a completely novel approach to deploying web applications. Forget about servers; the fundamental unit is the app. Use the Heroku client gem to create and manage apps from the command line. Then deploy your code with Git, and control the running app with the remote Ruby console and rake commands. www.heroku.com
GitHub is the easiest (and prettiest) way to participate in that collaboration: fork projects, send pull requests, monitor development, all with ease. Get up and running in seconds by forking a project, pushing an existing repository, or starting fresh. No approval is necessary.
GitHub was written for public, open source projects and private, proprietary codes — if you use Git, GitHub is for you. www.github.com
MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions. Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. In brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or just in different rooms) can simultaneously work on the same mind map and see each other's changes as they happen. www.mindmeister.com
Email is the dominant communication service on the Internet. We spend most of our time online working with email. Email lets us share anything, at anytime, with practically anybody — qualities that no other communication medium can claim. Shareflow is our newest service. It works synergistically with email, enabling teams and businesses to collaborate on their most important topics in a shared communication space. zenbe.com
Freelance Total is web based software that takes care of your clients, projects, time, invoices and sales - So that you can focus on doing work. www.freelancetotal.com
