Nikos D.

I just recently discovered LearnHub, a really nice idea (and implementation) of an online learning (and teaching) community. Taken from LearnHub's about page:

LearnHub in 30 Words:

LearnHub: for people who love learning and sharing knowledge with others. It is a set of tools that make learning online fun and engaging, and teaching online easy and effective.

The site is growing day by day (and I've been a member for only one week) and you can find learning communities for every taste (including of course Ruby, Rails, Merb, CS and company) some with plenty resources and others with less. Also the people behind LearnHub seem to be active members of the Ruby/Rails ecosystem (too bad their blog has been inactive for some time) and the site itself is built with rails which is one more reason to visit it if you are engaged somehow with ruby yourself :)

Now, two general, non-technical but quite interesting lessons I recently discovered there:

• World's Best Rails Hiring Process
• Ruby Coding Convention

Go check the site and see yourself if you like it or not. If you like it why don't you write some lessons, tests or add trivia questions? Feel free to add me as a contact there if you want!

I'm somewhat in the search for a job so I was surfing around the net trying to find some Ruby/Rails jobs listings preferably in Europe and these are the sites I found most useful (in not particular order):

General job-seeking sites with plenty (or some) Ruby/Rails postings:

• Startuply: Startup companies. Startup jobs
• Smashing Jobs
• Freshwebjobs.com
• StartupJobs.eu
  
• Monster
• Careerjet.co.uk
• IT Jobs at CWJobs
• Totaljobs.com
• JumpToJobs.co.uk
• Job offers starting at € 60,000 and Headhunters on Experteer.com

Ruby/Rails specific:

• 37Signals Job Board: Programming
• 37Signals Gig Board: Programming
• jobs.rubynow.com: Ruby and Rails jobs!
• Working With Rails - Jobs
• RailsPays
• JobsOnRails
• Ruby on Rails Jobs - Agile Web Development (list with links to other sites)

Recruiters:

• Ruby on Rails (RoR) jobs and recruitment in UK and Europe - RubyPeople
• Ruby on Rails Recruiters at RoR Power - The Ruby on Rails Recruiting Specialist - RoR Recruitment Staffing Firm
• Ruby50 - Ruby On Rails Recruitment in the UK
  

+Bonus link:

• London Ruby on Rails Jobs, Average Salary for Ruby on Rails (RoR) Skills

Feel free to add more links!

Ok, these are from the previous week (at least) but in case you missed them be sure to check them out:

• Ubiquity from Mozilla Labs


• Chrome: Google's brand new browser based on WebKit


• Google may add a "social" touch in search results


• Asynchronous Ruby driver for MySQL (this is BIG!)


• Presentations from OSCON 2008 (interesting at least)