Noel Rappin Writes Here

I love this cover, by the way. My new book, Take My Money: Accepting Payments on the Web, is available today. If you have a Rails application that touches money, this book will help you. I hope that this book will help you build your payment application with less stress and fewer mistakes. Here’s why I wrote it: My favorite books and blog posts to write are the ones that I wish I had been able to read when I was starting a new project.

Yikes! So I was giving my talk at Madison Ruby: Epilogue, or “this really is the last one, we mean it everybody”. Watch the whole talk, about doing HR in small consulting shops. About five minutes in I was making a very incisive point about annual reviews when: Gravity is very effective And suddenly, nobody remembers my incisive point about annual reviews. (Which was, for the record, that editing them for a year is kind of soul-destroying, even if everybody involved is basically nice and good at their jobs.