CodeSherpas can develop the software you need for your business. They provide complete application lifecycle development from requirements through development, deployment, and maintenance. Already have a development team? Just need to get more work done? CodeSherpas can join your existing team and help them pull more weight. CodeSherpas also provides training in Java, Ruby/Rails, and agile project management.

CustomInk.com operates an innovative website that enables people to design and order custom decorated products such as printed t-shirts and embroidered caps for their groups and events including student groups, bands, small businesses, corporations, family reunions, and more. Their t-shirt printing operations accommodate orders of all sizes, ranging from a single t-shirt to quantities in the thousands. In 2005 and 2006, CustomInk was named to Inc. Magazine's "Inc500" list of America's fastest-growing private companies. They were also included in Washingtonian Magazine's last list of "Great Places to Work" in the DC area.

Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services - gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them. You have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you're trying to solve. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, making AWS the most cost-effective way to deliver your application to your customers and clients. And, with AWS, you can take advantage of Amazon.com's global computing infrastructure, that is the backbone of Amazon.com's retail business and transactional enterprise whose scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure has been honed for over 13 years.

Intridea designs and develops better applications for mobile devices and the web. For clients ranging from startups with just an idea to firmly established Fortune 500 companies, we build high quality software that looks as great as it performs. We know what it takes to make client projects successful in the longer term. We also have our own suite of products developed in-house, including the Present.ly microblogging platform and Scalr, our cloud computing soloution. We specialize in Ruby on Rails, iPhone, and Android development, but we are a firm proponent of choosing the right tool for the job. Interested in learning more? Check out our web site.

FGM, Inc., is an information technology company delivering sophisticated, customized solutions that improve business efficiency across the enterprise. As a trusted partner of the Department of Defense, U.S. Government civilian and international agencies, and businesses throughout the world, FGM is an agile provider of technical solutions that enable mission-critical operations and decision-making. FGM's solutions help customers improve their business performance through information technology transformation services focusing on architecture, information management, systems integration, and integrated solutions.

Arlington Independent Media (AIM) is a nonprofit public access membership organization. AIM provides the Wahington DC metropolitan area with television production training workshops, as well as professional production facilities and equipment. AIM's programming can be found on Comcast channel 69 and Verizon channel 38, the Arlington County public access cable television channels.

AIM provided extensive assistance to RubyNation in order to facilitate the videotaping of conference sessions, including training, advice, extremely cheap equipment rental, a pool of dedicated video production volunteers and access to professional facilities. RubyNation has also agreed to provide AIM with a documentary about the making of the conference, which will subsequently be aired on television.

SHOUTREEL is a simple and easy application that lets users create micro-forums about anything. These micro-forums are called Reels, they can be public or private. The ultimate goal of SHOUTREEL is to create embeddable forums that are light and nimble, which can be embedded into other platforms such as: mobile devices, social networks, and blogs/websites.

One very distinguishing aspect of SHOUTREEL is that users don't need to register or login to participate in public Reels. The user is able to shout and express anonymously. Reels that are private require a key or membership.

SHOUTREEL is built with all open source Ruby technology: Rails, Phusion Passenger, Enterprise Ruby, geokit, rmagick, paperclip, thinking-sphinx, and many more.

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