We’re ecstatic to officially announce The OpenRain Alliance: a free resource program for Phoenix’s diverse breadth of technical entrepreneurs needing a hand in getting a startup off the ground. This is a free program for bright, motivated people such as yourself to get quick and easy access to physical resources normally not available to early-stage companies. [...]
Elite OpenRain ninja Remi Taylor will be presenting his approach to test-driven Rails development tomorrow afternoon at 1:30pm at OpenRain HQ. That’s Wednesday, October 8th for approximately 1 hour. All are welcome. No reservations required. Forecast: 99 degrees with a 90% chance of awesome.
You can grab the latest presentation file here. Remi’s synopsis…
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Notwithstanding a change of heart from Apple following yesterdays announcement, the first Phoenix iPhone Developer Group meeting will be held at 6pm on Wednesday, October 22nd at the OpenRain office. We’ll have several give-a-ways, food, a presentation by iPhone application developer Brad O’Hearne, and a whole lot of fun!
New on-site Ruby/Rails training rates are now available, here, and they’re better than ever! These rate reductions mean OpenRain training is..
Cheaper than sending a team to RailsConf.
In the comfort of your own office.
Supplemented by addressing the specific needs of your company.
Able to flow into a development agreement if you would benefit from additional assistance.
We realize [...]
If Marc’s gauge of using laughter levels as a measure of event successfulness holds any truth, I’d declare it extremely successful! Major überthanks to…
O’Reilly Media for over $500 of book sponsorships that we’ll continue to distribute to the group for review at future events. If you want to see more awesome O’Reilly stuff, post a [...]
OpenRain is a U.S. company with U.S. staff. The value of direct, barrier-free, native-language communication outweighs any perceived cost savings of outsourcing our niche, not to mention it’s a lot more fun to work in the same office and time zone. For a typical 3-month project with 2 developers, it’s not uncommon in an outsourced [...]
DEFCON is an annual hacker convention event held in Las Vegas. It’s currently held at the Riviera on the North end of the strip and is happening this Friday through Sunday: August 8th-10th.
This year, we decided to rent a 15-passenger van and roll in Puff Daddy style with most of the OpenRain crew and other Phoenix [...]
On Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 we’re hosting a free event at OpenRain HQ with Refocus Phoenix to get your computer monitor rendering colors correctly. If you’re a web designer, photographer or other graphics professional that is not using a custom color profile, this is a must-do process. I mean it. You owe it to your clients. We [...]
Wow.
I don’t think the open house could have gone better. Major thanks to everyone that came out to show support, and extra-special props to Gracie (OpenRain Office Manager) for handling the catering arrangements and running it so smoothly. We had a perfect amount of food and drink and saw plenty of smiling faces. In fact, [...]
It’s time to celebrate our office upgrade to Mesa, Arizona at the OpenRain Open House this Friday with friends, family, and the Phoenix tech community over food, drink, and games. This is an open invitation to you and everyone else in the Phoenix area that enjoys the design, development, and business of web software. OpenRain is growing and [...]
