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Steinbauer.de

2008-06-16T12:46:00Z

Workflow integration, design coordination, CMS implementation, and hosting for a full service real estate agent.

Steinbauer Immobilien KG is a Germany-based commercial real estate broker with further specialization in project development, re-structuring and revitalization.

limited overload was contracted by Steinbauer Immobilien KG to implement a versatile content management system with an attached real estate database to host the company’s real estate portfolio. Additionally, the portfolio should be maintainable from the company’s internal customer relationship management system, talking to the web application over XML and the OpenImmo protocol.

In addition to the development work, limited overload coordinated the web design services for Steinbauer Immobilien until a final layout and design were chosen to re-unite the different approaches for print and web that had been in use at the company in the past.

Simply Rails 2

2008-06-01T08:29:00Z

The 2nd edition of the highly-ranked practical hands-on guide for first-time Ruby on Rails programmers written by our founder, Patrick Lenz, and published by SitePoint, Ltd.

Simply Rails 2 is an easy-to-follow, practical and fun guide to Ruby on Rails for beginners. It covers all you need to get up and running, from installing Ruby, Rails and SQLite to building and deploying a fully featured web application.

This book will:

show you how to install Ruby on Rails on Windows, Mac, or Linux
walk you, step by step, through the development of a Web 2.0 social news application, just like digg.com
show you how to test, debug, benchmark, and deploy your Rails application

Unlike other Rails books, this book doesn’t assume that you are an experienced web developer, or that you’ve used Ruby before. An entire chapter is devoted to learning Ruby in a fun way, using the interactive Ruby console, so you can follow along at home.

This book has been written by our founder, Patrick Lenz, and is published by SitePoint, Ltd. It is currently available for order as a hard-copy and PDF from SitePoint, Amazon, and others.

Debug Your Rails App With ruby-debug

2007-10-23T03:35:00Z

This hands-on guide about debugging Rails applications with the latest tool for this purpose, ruby-debug, was written as a replacement chapter for the Rails book written by our founder, Patrick Lenz, and published by SitePoint, Ltd.

Every now and then, application developers need to take a deeper look at their application’s inner workings, either because something isn’t working the way they intended or they would like to play around with (potentially new) functionality in sort of a live fashion.

This is where debuggers come into play. They halt execution of an application at a pre-defined point and allow the developer to execute existing snippets of application code either on a line-by-line basis or just interact with an application’s objects in real time.

For a long time, the debugger of choice for Ruby (and Rails) applications has been the breakpointer client, which offered little beyond letting you stop an application’s execution and start interacting with your objects. With Ruby 1.8.5, however, this tool stopped working.

In the meantime, Kent Sibilev released ruby-debug to the world, providing the Ruby developer community with a powerful and comprehensive tool similar to GDB found in the C world. In a practical hands-on article for SitePoint.com, Patrick Lenz explores what ruby-debug can do for you and how you can use it to debug real problems in a Rails application.

Read the full article at Sitepoint.com

Golfish.TV

2007-04-16T19:23:00Z

Backend development, database design and system architecture consulting for a modern web-based TV station on a Rails-based platform.

Golfish is a modern, web-based TV station which delivers high-quality streaming video content to its users. Content ranges from venue reviews to training videos.

limited overload was contracted by Webware Lab GmbH to do the backend development of the platform using the latest Ruby on Rails technology and techniques to build a feature-packed yet simple to use site in minimal time. All frontend design and Flash work was performed by Webware Lab.

Cosmonited Ltd.

2007-01-25T11:13:00Z

Planning and executing development of a fully-featured social networking site using the latest and greatest in Rails technology and techniques.

Cosmonited is an invite-only social networking site with an international target audience. limited overload was chosen as the technology partner to plan and deliver a feature-complete software product in minimal time using Ruby on Rails as the development platform.

limited overload and Cosmonited settled on a long-term agreement to ensure proper product evolution, growth and scaling after the offcial launch.

Rails Talk at Open Source Meets Business

2007-01-25T11:01:00Z

Rails presentation held at the Heise conference Open Source Meets Business in Nuremberg, Germany on January 24th, 2007 describing Rails’ strength and potential weaknesses to a mixed developer and decision maker audience.

Our founder and CEO Patrick Lenz gave this 20 minute talk at the Heise conference Open Source Meets Business taking place in Nuremberg, Germany on January 24th, 2007. The target audience were developers and decision makers alike. Patrick outlined the strength and weaknesses of developing rich web applications with Ruby on Rails as a platform.

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Scaling Talk at Rails Konferenz

2006-11-03T21:10:00Z

A presentation held at the German Rails Konferenz in Frankfurt on November 3rd, 2006 outlining the steps involved in scaling eins.de.

This whirlwind presentation was given by our CEO Patrick Lenz at the first German Rails Konferenz taking place in Frankfurt, Germany on November 3rd, 2006. Although he suffered from a bad cold and had to make do with barely any voice, he rocked the audience with an entertaining journey through what steps limited overload took when scaling the Rails application powering eins.de.

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The Adventures of Scaling

2006-10-09T20:47:00Z

4 article series outlining the route of scaling of the Rails application powering eins.de.

The Adventures of Scaling is a 4 article series published by our founder, Patrick Lenz, on his weblog in March 2006.

In these articles, Patrick outlines the route of scaling we took when deploying the Rails application powering eins.de to its current performance, delivering 1.4 million dynamic page impressions a day. Also included are detailed configuration examples, hardware setup, and database tuning advice.

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adrivo Sportpresse GmbH

2006-09-23T13:15:00Z

Content management system, deployment consulting

A recent addition to the limited overload portfolio, Adrivo Sportpresse is a content provider for all things racing covering most if not all of the national and international challenges from formula 1 to rallye.

limited overload join the development efforts in 2006 by expanding the feature-set of the existing content management system and provided consulting services for future development and deployment strategies.