Official project sites should set the benchmark for standards relating to that project in terms of the best quality and most up to date news updates, documentation, download links, tutorials, and so forth. On this front, Ruby’s official site at ruby-lang.org is doing a bad job (in the English language variant, at least).
Update: Since making this post, people have begun to volunteer and existing volunteers have started to update the site. The Download page now lists alternative implementations :-) Congratulations to everyone who stepped up. This means this article may progressively become out of date, so please read it in that context, since the problems may get fixed soon :-)
The site’s footer says it’s “proudly maintained by members of the Ruby community” and links to the homepage of the rather anonymous Ruby Visual Identity Team who redesigned it 5 years ago. Read More

Over on the
I don’t like being negative on Ruby Inside without good reason. Trivia like
Over at the always-riveting official Ruby blog, Shota Fukumori
The Ruby and Rails job scene continues to grow through 2011 and we’ve got *drumroll* 13 (lucky for some) jobs to share from the
Amazon has unveiled 
Ruby Inside wouldn’t be what it is without you but it’s time for me to thank the companies who also help to keep Ruby Inside going by sponsoring my work. Thanks!

Messaging in the context of application architecture (grandly referred to as
I hang out in #nwrug on Freenode, the IRC channel of
A few days ago I told 
The topic of ‘hiring’ always generates a lot of discussion. And why not? Talking about hiring is a convenient way to pass judgment on large groups of people while keeping a professional, detached demeanor.. Ouch! But the topic has enough technical basis to warrant the interest of experienced developers, so here we are.