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Fall Rumble Shakes Out Harvest of Applications
September 14, 2007 - Last weekend, September 7 and 8, Viget Labs entered two teams in the Rails Rumble, a 48-hour grueling marathon of web application development. In those 48 hours, each team had to design, develop, and successfully deploy a web application built in Ruby on Rails. Both Ben's team…
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Viget Receives Two Pixel Award Nods for Designs
October 4, 2007 - FALLS CHURCH, VA – Viget Labs, a dynamic, full-service web consulting firm based in the City of Falls Church, VA, has received two Pixel Award nominations for outstanding web design. HealthyChild received a nomination in the non-profit category, and Funside was nominated…
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Nixon to Speak at Ruby Brigade
October 9, 2007 - DURHAM, NC – Senior Developer Clinton R. Nixon will wear his speaker's hat on October 16, 2007 when he gives a talk on code extraction and re-use at the next Raleigh-Area Ruby Brigade (Raliegh.rb) meeting.In his talk, "Building Applications as Plug-ins," Nixon will…
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Scofield Wins Award, Writes Book, Presents in Italy and Charlotte
October 16, 2007 - DURHAM, NC – Viget Labs' own Ben Scofield has been extraordinarily busy lately. The Durham-based senior developer returned from RailsConf Europe in Berlin to learn that his book idea had been accepted, his work won an award, and his Rails presentation made the grade for…
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RubyConf Recap
November 8, 2007 - Several Viget Labs developers participated in RubyConf 2007 from November 2-4 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ben was once again selected as a speaker, and Patrick, Clinton, Kyle and I came along. Unlike the Ruby on Rails-oriented conferences we attended earlier in the year,…
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Recap: Refresh the Triangle Holiday Meeting
December 7, 2007 - Yesterday, I had the honor of speaking at the second meeting of Refresh the Triangle. We were hosted by Shoeboxed.com, a local start-up, and their space accommodated the crowd of about 30 people nicely. My talk was on techniques for securing web applications, and common…
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Creative Recruiting Approach Yields Passionate Results
December 15, 2007 - Recruiting is part of my job here at Viget and as everyone knows, it's hard to find great people. We know the traditional methods of recruiting often fall short and that hiring exceptional people may require exceptional methods. We recently started a recruiting experiment and…
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Recap: Refresh the Triangle January Meeting
January 25, 2008 - This past Wednesday (Jan 23rd), Patrick and I headed down to Durham, NC to attend and take part in the January meeting of Refresh the Triangle. This month's “Refresh” was hosted at Bronto's beautiful office space in downtown Durham. This Refresh we wanted to try out a new and…
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Scofield to Present at RailsConf
February 19, 2008 - FALLS CHURCH, VA – Senior Developer Ben Scofield will be taking Portland, OR, by storm in May when he presents "Advanced RESTful Rails" at RailsConf."I hope that the audience will become more comfortable using RESTful principles to model solutions to complex problems, and…
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OpenID Authentication Plugin for Rails Now Supports OpenID 2.0
April 4, 2008 - A little over a year ago, the open_id_authentication plugin for Rails made its debut, intending to make OpenID authentication simple. And it did, for a while. But, like Rails itself, OpenID is a moving target and the OpenID specification, as well as the ruby-openid library, have…