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Being someone who has always been fascinated with the behind the scenes stuff, this absolutely fascinates me. Although I live and breath it every day, it's always interesting to see it through other people's experiences.

From the site:

Four interns are brought into Manhattan and given 12 weeks to design, develop, debug and ship a program that will change the way computer geeks around the world fix their friends' computers. Boondoggle Films presents a journey through the world of software development from the perspective of a unique upstart, four quirky interns, and the world of The Geek.

Be sure to check out the trailer.

I came across this on the blog of 37 Signals and this 11 minute film which is apparently made by their office mates at Coudal. If nothing else, you guys have some very cool co-workers as I could only imagine trying to do something like this in some of the places that I've previously worked. Give it a look.

As someone who is quickly learning to love Ruby on Rails, much like the Mac, the community surrounding RoR is a largely fantastic part of the attraction -- that and the technology totally kicks ass.

Shortly, I will be moving to a new career doing RoR based applications, I read articles like this and see how the whole design of RoR (and Ruby in particular) as just a huge breath of fresh air. Making developers happy by providing them with a great language on top of a flexible framework allows them to focus more on what really matters, crafting fantastic applications for their users.

My favorite quote from the article:

In a sense, we're trying to be the Apple of Web application development. Provide and care for the complete experience. The buck stops here. Every problem is our problem. So we tend to get a lot of those small things right that fall outside of any of the major divisions.