In this week’s Rails TakeFive, we’ll take a slight departure and offer up a podcast interview with James Cox, founder of smokeclouds, a UK-based Ruby on Rails and scalability consultancy and contributing editor to InfoQ and Todd Barr, VP Business Development at FiveRuns. In this podcast, James and Todd discuss some of the challenges with working with Rails, talk about some of the missing pieces, and draw upon their experiences with open source projects to opine on the future of Ruby on Rails development.
Rails TakeFive with James Cox and Todd Barr
James Cox is the founder of smokeclouds, a UK-based Ruby/Rails and scalability consultancy. He focuses on the architecture and usability of web applications. He has wide-ranging experience diving into legacy code, helping small sites bloom into big trees and generally trying to stay out of the way. Lately, James has been focusing on getting to grips with best-practice techniques with performance testing and trying to define the right ways to know if an app can grow.
Todd Barr joined FiveRuns as VP of Business Development from Red Hat, where he built and grew the partnership and certification programs for ISVs, achieving over 1000 certified applications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the first two years. In his most recent role, Todd’s team was responsible for building Red Hat’s global go-to-market campaigns, along with channel and partner marketing. Previously, Todd was with the corporate venture capital group at Dell and was an early sales and marketing employee at CitySearch.com (now part of IAC). Todd blogs about open source, marketing strategy and closed-loop marketing at marketingfree.typepad.com.
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