RoRCraft, Ruby on Rails Sydney Australia, China, Hong Kong http://blog.rorcraft.com We're a virtual team of ruby on rails development specialists spread across Sydney Australia, Hong Kong and Hangzhou China. We speak fluent English, Cantonese and Mandarin Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:13:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 en New social network site launched for “The Big Question” conference. http://blog.rorcraft.com/2008/11/27/new-social-network-site-launched-for-the-big-question-conference/ http://blog.rorcraft.com/2008/11/27/new-social-network-site-launched-for-the-big-question-conference/#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:13:33 +0000 Rex Chung RoRCraft social network work http://blog.rorcraft.com/2008/11/27/new-social-network-site-launched-for-the-big-question-conference/ My Big Question

]]> http://blog.rorcraft.com/2008/11/27/new-social-network-site-launched-for-the-big-question-conference/feed/ RoRCraft 中文 and Zendesk 中文 庆祝北京奥运 ! Celebrate the Beijing Olympics http://blog.rorcraft.com/2008/08/08/rorcraft-chinese-and-zendesk-chinese-on-080808/ http://blog.rorcraft.com/2008/08/08/rorcraft-chinese-and-zendesk-chinese-on-080808/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:21:15 +0000 Rex Chung RoRCraft zendesk http://blog.rorcraft.com/?p=30 为了庆祝今天08北京奥运会开幕，我们非常兴奋地宣布我们将与Zendesk的合作开发helpdesk 2.0并在chinese.zendesk.com推出中文版的禅宗服务台。禅宗服务台（Zendesk）是一个web2.0风格的在线桌面帮助方案。我 们之前曾帮助他们发行iphone接口，现在我们已经实现了禅宗服务台中文市场的本地化。如须协助建立汉化版禅宗客户服务台，请电邮致 rex@rorcraft.com 与我們联络。

同时我们非常高兴地宣布我们终于建立了自己的中文站点 - http://www.rorcraft.com/zh

We are very excited to announce our cooperation with Zendesk - helpdesk 2.0 and the launch of a Chinese version of Zendesk at chinese.zendesk.com to celebrate the start of Beijing Olympics 08. Zendesk is a online helpdesk solution in web2.0 style. We’ve previously helped them release their iphone interface and now we have localized it for the Chinese speaking market.

For assistance in setting up your own chinese localized version of Zendesk please contact us at rex@rorcraft.com.

We are also very happy to announce that we’ve finally localized our own site - http://www.rorcraft.com/zh/

熱烈慶祝2008北京奧運

]]> http://blog.rorcraft.com/2008/08/08/rorcraft-chinese-and-zendesk-chinese-on-080808/feed/ We’ve been hard at work. http://blog.rorcraft.com/2007/12/15/weve-been-hard-at-work/ http://blog.rorcraft.com/2007/12/15/weve-been-hard-at-work/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:05:59 +0000 Rex Chung RoRCraft http://blog.rorcraft.com/?p=19 Hard at work

It has been very busy in the past few months. We were involved in a redesign project, Beautyheaven.com.au, which was subcontracted by Different Solutions. The client was very happy traffic has jumped 4 folds after the launching the new design with SEO and usability improvements. Usually a newly launched redesign would see a slight dip in traffic, but this has not been the case because there’s so much more generated from search engines.

Meanwhile, we’re finding time to work on an inhouse project in the space of video encoding. Our target is to develop a scalable low cost video encoding API based on Amazon’s S3 and EC2. We’re also evaluating the use of SQS and SimpleDB. We already have a simple demo going, let me know if you’re interested to have a look. We will update with more news about our development progress. Have a lovely Christmas and best of luck for the new year!

]]> http://blog.rorcraft.com/2007/12/15/weve-been-hard-at-work/feed/ FullCodePress - a website in 24hrs competition. http://blog.rorcraft.com/2007/08/20/fullcodepress-a-website-24hrs-competition/ http://blog.rorcraft.com/2007/08/20/fullcodepress-a-website-24hrs-competition/#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:15:16 +0000 Rex Chung RoRCraft http://blog.rorcraft.com/?p=17 fullcodepress.jpg

On Saturday 18 August 2007, teams from Australia and New Zealand competed to build a fully-operational website for a non-profit organisation in 24 hours. I was a representative member for the Australia team. I am proud to say we came 2nd in this competition and I’ve made some amazing new friends. We produced a very useful website for “The Ripple Effect“, the organisation we’re working for. I hope this website can help them expand their network and get more exposure. I really admire what they are doing for the 3rd world children.

For a full coverage of the event you can follow the youtube videos, flickr stream and all blog posts on fullcodepress.com.

Congratulations to the NZ team, I know how difficult it would be to build a CMS from scratch in 24hrs. It was lovely to meet some cool developers from NZ as well. Here’s a link to their winning entry for the Grampians disAbility Advocacy Association.

]]> http://blog.rorcraft.com/2007/08/20/fullcodepress-a-website-24hrs-competition/feed/ New site - The Property School http://blog.rorcraft.com/2007/04/12/new-site-the-property-school/ http://blog.rorcraft.com/2007/04/12/new-site-the-property-school/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:23:59 +0000 Rex Chung RoRCraft sites http://blog.rorcraft.com/?p=14 screenshot.png

We launched the new website for “The Property School” just in time for the Property & Investment Expo.

This site is our first attempt at using RadiantCMS on production website, and it has been quite stable on MediaTemple. We’re still experimenting with this lightweight CMS as it still lacks alot of vital features like file upload and menu generation. There’s some obvious resource disadvantage with using Rails for this type of small content website. It is a decision to make between productivity and stability.
Anyhow, it was a fun little project for us.

]]> http://blog.rorcraft.com/2007/04/12/new-site-the-property-school/feed/ Ruby on Rails job board relaunched. http://blog.rorcraft.com/2007/01/24/ruby-on-rails-job-board-relaunched/ http://blog.rorcraft.com/2007/01/24/ruby-on-rails-job-board-relaunched/#comments Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:48:30 +0000 Rex Chung RoRCraft sites http://blog.rorcraft.com/?p=4 We have redesigned and launched www.railsjob.com. This is something we want to give back to the Rails community for free. The rubyonrails wiki had just too much spam and isnt a good way to search for Rails developers. We’ve a list of most recently updated ruby developers taken from workingwithrails.com. Anyone can post a job there for free and have their own account to edit and delete jobs. It also has a rss feed feature for job hunters to keep updated easily.

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]]> http://blog.rorcraft.com/2007/01/24/ruby-on-rails-job-board-relaunched/feed/ Welcome to our new website. http://blog.rorcraft.com/2006/12/29/welcome-to-our-new-website/ http://blog.rorcraft.com/2006/12/29/welcome-to-our-new-website/#comments Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:20:06 +0000 Rex Chung RoRCraft http://blog.rorcraft.com/?p=3 This is our first post to this brand new blog for our company. We’ve been busy working on a international ruby on rails application in the past few months. It’s very exciting and we’ve learnt alot from building a multilingual application as well. It is expected to launch first in Japan by mid January. We’ll post more information about it when we can tell more :) .

RoRCraft will be our new brand focusing on Ruby on Rails development. We are a small team with strong skills in web development. Our philosophy is “value driven development” which means creating the most value for both customers and business. We take a balanced and practical approach to online business development. We are also working on our own product and looking forward to a beta release soon. Please keep track on this blog and we’ll have more updates soon.

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