My first Ruby Gem, WeatherMan, allows developers to programatically access the weather.com XML API feed. This makes it easy to quickly show the weather for any location around the world on a website or desktop application built with Ruby. You can learn more about WeatherMan by reading this blog post I wrote about it.
Lately, I've been working as the lead developer for a startup called Edison Nation. We help inventors connect with major retailers to pitch their ideas. It's been great working on a project this large as I'm always learning something new. If your an idea person, visit edisonnation.com to learn what you can do to get your ideas onto store shelves.
Insiders Abroad is a community site for english speaking people living in, working in, or traveling to Italy. The site houses a forum, community blog, hotel index, english-speaking business directory, weather, and local and world news aggregated from the Associated press. Check it out if your interested in visiting Italy: www.insidersabroad.com.
World Vision needed a donation portal to support their project '30 Hour Famine'. Their project allows for people to donate money to a student of their choice. Depending on how the student's account is set up the donation will be processed by one of two payment processors. The donation portal should launch in November 08.
Lyon Financial, one of the country's largest pool loan financing offices, needed an intranet application to replace the use of Access databases and scattered documents. This application needed to track pool dealers, products, loan officers, employee tasks, and various other dealer related documents.
Local firestopping company, R.S. Blythe, came to Codeword: Studios looking for a way to increase visibility in their market. What they got was a new corporate logo, a modern website design, and a way to manage their growing portfolio.