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Vermonster - Open Standards through Open Source

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This is the website and blog for Vermonster LLC, a small technology consulting group based in Boston, Massachusetts.

We can help design, develop and deploy your product using agile methods. You may be interested in exploring our own internal products and client work. As long-time open source advocates, we are happy to share our contributions.

Shopify_API 0.0.1 released on GitHub

Posted on May 29th, 2009 under Ruby.

The newest member of our team has released a small library for driving the Shopify.com API. It is adapted from the official Shopify Rails plugin, but simplified to allow for use in non-Rails apps. It depends on ActiveResource.

Python style with Ruby for- loops

Posted on April 21st, 2009 under Code, Ruby, Uber-techie.

I noticed that a colleague was recently using the ruby for item in items syntax in a few places during some code review. I immediately said something like “this is Ruby, not Python”, as I prefer the items.each syntax. This lead to a discussion about what is faster which then lead to writing a quick benchmark.

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Jay Powers Finishes 2009 Boston Marathon

Posted on April 20th, 2009 under Company, Lifestyle.

Vermonster co-founder Jay Powers finishes another marathon today. I think it is a PR for Jay. Congratulations!

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Rallyclock Fluid (app) Icon

Posted on April 16th, 2009 under Company, Design, RallyClock, Ruby on Rails.

Quick note today. We finally created a Fluid icon for our time tracking Rallyclock.

http://go.rallyclock.com/images/rallyclock-fluid.png