Ruby on Rails and Agile Development in Phoenix, Arizona

Over the last year, Integrum has become highly involved in the Phoenix tech community. As we compiled a list of company goals for 2008, it became apparent that giving back to the community in a non-technical way was also very important to the members of our team. We've decided to make a step toward this goal by participating in the annual Big Brothers Big Sisters bowling event, Bowl for Kids Sake.

Big Brothers Big Sisters provides a mentorship program for kids from 6 to 18. If you'd like to donate, please visit our team page. We appreciate your support and thank you in advance for your generosity!

Integrum has been sponsoring hack nights at Gangplank every Wednesday for the last month. We have seen participation slowly go up over the last month with over 15 hackers at the event last night. The community environment, excitement and fun are exactly what we were hoping for and the thing we think will help unite the creative side of metro Phoenix. We look forward to continued involvement and hope to see you there in the near future. Special thanks go out to Curtis M who has dedicated his time to consistently make sure these events are happening!

Dana has been doing some video work for us lately in her spare time and has put together a fantastic viral for Gangplank hackfest night with only 3 minutes of crappy footage given to her.

Check out Dana’s series on an Outsiders Look at Integrum as well.

A new site popped up last week called CommandShift3. The site’s tag line is “It’s like Hot or Not for web design.” What it definitely IS – is a terrific way to enjoy spending (maybe wasting?) your time.

Really… it’s plain awesome.

So, I added Integrum’s website into the battles to see how we’d fair and I’m quite proud to say we’ve done alright. More than alright, we’re in the top 7%. We’ve won 225 of 332 battles we’ve been in and we are ranked 277 out of the 3996 submitted websites. Those are numbers I can live with.