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OpenRain Founder and CEO Preston Lee is delivering a lunchtime seminar on “Best Internet Practices For Business” on September 10th at the Chandler Chamber of Commerce. Topics include an overview of Internet best-practices provided to OpenRain’s Online Business Platform customers:

• Website necessities and common mistakes.
• Email marketing and newsletters.
• Pay-per-click advertising basics.
• Tracking and analyzing website visitor traffic.
• Content writing tips for search engine optimization.

Food will be provided. Seating is limited. $5 for members, $10 for non-members. Advance online registration is required.

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http://rubyology.s3.amazonaws.com/rubyology-83-high.mp3

Roundtable discussion on Ruby IDEs and text editors. Four OpenRain developers debate the pros and cons of different IDE and editor tools for day-to-day Ruby application development.

Stream Rubyology via the web or subscribe via iTunes.

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The Arizona Republic ran a summary article of the Social Media Marketing seminars OpenRain has been doing this year. The last two have sold out, and I suspect our in-depth Twitter session in May will sell out as well. For those that weren’t able to register, you may view the slides online for free.

If you’re interested in future events like this, be sure to follow the OpenRain Twitter feed. And as always, businesses wanting to improve their web presence with a successful local company should contact us online at http://www.openrain.com, or at the shown phone number or email address.

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The OpenRain Ruby development team is hosting Rubyology episode #73, which should be available via iTunes within the next day. Primary discussion topics include..

• Unobtrusive JavaScript with Prototype and jQuery .
• Recurring problems with common CSS layouts.

After the show is released we’ll post a link to an AAC version with shownotes for those who want every last drop of Rubyology goodness! Also, you may now contribute to the Rubyology podcast by participating in supplementary  discussion, sharing relevant links, giving show feedback and suggesting Ruby-related topics for future episodes by joining the new Rubyology Google Group.

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Major thanks to the RubyConf organizers for raising the cash necessary for Confreaks to come out and record the sessions. The rest of the sessions can be viewed online for free here.

Peer Aware Desktop Application Development, by Preston Lee

Hacking With ruby2ruby, by Marc Chung

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