<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-421dfd0e-9ac5-06a5-f008-04c181e49dd0"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi LRUG</span></p>
<br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I work for <a href="http://dxw.com/">dxw</a> and we are looking to hire a rails dev to join our team working on a mixture of client projects (mostly central government), internal tools, and products for the general public. (please excuse the awful out-of-date website - it’s on our list...).</span></p>
<br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It’s a full-time permanent role in Old Street - up to £35k depending on experience, which probably means someone a bit more junior. Details are here: </span><a href="http://dxw.com/jobs/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://dxw.com/jobs/</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
<br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Things you need to know about us:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li style><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15">We’ve got a nice airy office (wooden floors, lots of light blahblahblah)</span><br>
</li><li style><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15">There's a good atmosphere in the office - we have our own dialect and in-jokes. There's also quite a lot of good-natured swearing.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">We use Git for everything. Because we're sane. We run our own git server, and deployments are via git-push</li>
<li style><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap">We make Pink Grapefruit soda with the office sodastream</span><br></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our espresso machine sounds like Inception: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3f_8vCFOcM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3f_8vCFOcM</a></span></p>
</li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15">We’re mostly Mac users (we’ll buy you one, or something else if you like - as long as it’s not running Windows...) and we all have either 3 monitors or one huge one.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It’s a small agency (we just hired our 8th person) - a mix of dev and client people, but our founder is a developer so it’s at the heart of everything we do. Personally I’ve come from working in much larger organisations and I really appreciate the lack of big-company bullshit* and the satisfaction of doing good work with a team of really good people who actually give a crap. The focus is always on common sense: we’ve got formal processes where they’re useful, but never where simple good communication will suffice.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">While a lot of the client work we do is WordPress** (don’t worry- this role won’t involve touching any icky php) we use Rails for:<br class="">
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Client projects which require more transactional functionality - nothing still live at the moment, but there’s a big project coming up which you’d be working on, </span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Internal tools (e.g. we couldn’t find anything decent to track details of our clients and their projects, so we built one ourselves), </span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We’re also branching out into creating products for the general public - with a focus on making dev's lives easier. The first one is Citrulu (</span><a href="http://citrulu.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://citrulu.com/</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) which lets you write cucumber-style tests for live sites and get alerts when they go down.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></li></ul><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We do have a few people who know their way around the framework (myself included), but none of us are hardcore rubyists and we’re aware of the gaps in our knowledge. TDD for example: we like the idea but haven’t really had a proper stab at it. We're pretty much up-to-date with Rails 3 (asset pipeline etc.) and always open to learning new/better ways of doing things. We all love HAML, fight over SASS vs SCSS and are yet to be convinced by Coffeescript.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We've been able to get by on small client projects and internal tools (i.e. no deadlines), but now we're getting more client work which is requiring us to beef up our Rails capabilities.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Check out our GitHub - </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://github.com/dxw" style="text-decoration:none">https://github.com/dxw</a></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">We haven't been able to make many of our client projects open source, but there's a slow movement in government to make more things open.</p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000">Twitter accounts:</font></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://twitter.com/thedxw">@thedxw</a></font></p>
<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://twitter.com/citrulu">@citrulu</a></span><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<font color="#000000"><a href="https://twitter.com/dxwsecurity">@dxwsecurity</a></font></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://twitter.com/dgmstuart">@dgmstuart</a> (me)</p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<a href="https://twitter.com/harrym">@harrym</a> (founder)</p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000">Please get in touch if you've got any questions</font></p>
<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000">Cheers <br><br>Duncan</font></p><font color="#000000"><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This is our actual bookshelf</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Z1ujcbO8EfcrW30EiN0ZQKthCp4wlDiWrZMBCcfwM8ncGAhaqpCSyjLOLqbxXFMl8J7sqOnJZJCjdW8fLEppUV97aMwEUNgq8J1P7Z_wDIH4CRenqprRyygnUg" width="640px;" height="480px;">This is a terrible photo of our office</span><div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div style><span><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/uE8Ff08pTG9n6Z5XLyDnOI_9Fk0zlnn0m9ssrLbAShzlTqMo78dfTC_5p4V46DKxjaOqLaZiCHCzxgy4Iy0N-1UZjbi7mSgCigiy2HEGH7AU68R0OBwimDIntw" width="640px;" height="480px;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span>This is another terrible photo of our office.<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></span></div>
</div><div style><span><br></span></div><div style><span><br></span></div><div style><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000">*Of course, there IS occasionally client-related bullshit, but you can't fix everything.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:1.15">** We're actually really not fans of PHP and only use it in a WordPress context because the platform is so popular. Actually </span>some of the WordPress stuff the team have produced is designed to make it more Rails-y: Whippet is a WordPress development console modelled after the Rails terminal (<a href="https://github.com/dxw/whippet">https://github.com/dxw/whippet</a>), and we've got a hosting platform in the pipeline modelled after Heroku</font></p>
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