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Calling all geeks!

It’s time to band together and drop the funk.

Geek is the new hip, haven’t you heard?  Geek tattoos are chic.  Librarian glasses are sexy.   Weird is in.  And you can be, too.

Oddly Zen is seeking collaborators and guest-bloggers for full-time, part-time, or one-off content contributions in the areas of:

• Ajax (tips, tricks, tutorials, or opinion)
• Apple
• Blogging (the business, the practice, or general coverage)
• Books (ebooks, free chapters, or book reviews)
• Business
• CMS (reviews, open-source projects, WordPress, etc.)
• Community (open source, Ruby or Rails, social media, etc.)
• CSS (tips, tricks, tutorials, or opinion)
• Design (UI, HCI, UX, etc.)
• Graphics (Photoshop or Fireworks tips, tricks, tutorials, or opinion)
• Humor (geek is funny)
• Linux
• Marketing
• Microsoft
• Open source software
• Pimp that App (case studies, tips, tricks, tutorials, or opinion)
• Politics (active and apathetic)
• Programming (mainly Ruby & Co. — possibly C#, Lisp, Erlang, etc.)
• Stranger than Fiction (truth be told, geeky situations are weird and funny)
• WordPress (development, customization, plug-ins, etc.)
• Your Ideas (if it’s geek, or plain good, we’ll post it)

Increase your reach.  Enhance your image.  Be flagrantly geeky.

And get some link-backs all from the comfort of your cube.

Note:  Think of this as an open-source blog.  Contribution should make you feel good. 

Also, I’m looking for someone (preferably one other person) to build a Rails application with.  It will be a gift to the community as well — and if it makes any cheese, we’ll donate it.

I visited one of my favorite sites today — A List Apart. I was excited to see an article entitled “Getting Started with Ruby on Rails.” Like the name suggests, it is a solid introduction to Ruby on Rails and programming with the framework. Through Rails has already won many converts, it is still just being picked up by scads of developers… those who thought it best to wait until it was more supported or more mature.

I began experimenting with Rails fairly early due to a coworker’s suggestion. Then I dove in head-first when I started working for a firm specializing in Ruby on Rails development. And I’ve loved every minute of this wild ride. It is more fulfilling than previous frameworks I’ve used — ASP.NET, in particular. This feeling is due in heavy measure to the eloquence of Ruby the language, it’s natural feel, but also to the design considerations of the Rails framework. It is true that constraint can spawn creativity… ask anyone who has written a Sonnet and followed the appropriate conventions including Iambic Pentameter and the rhyme scheme. In this way, Rails allows me greater creativity and flexibility through its constraints. More ⊕