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title: thoughtbot and Hashrocket, Sitting in a Tree...
teaser:
tags: news,web
author: Tammer Saleh
published_on: 2008-10-10
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[Hashrocket](http://hashrocket.com) recently honored Joe Ferris ([no
relation](http://www.jferris.com/)) and I by an invitation to come down to
Jacksonville Beach, Florida to work on one of their 321 Launch projects as guest
star programmers.

Chris O'Sullivan actually did an amazingly accurate job of describing the
project from a technical point of view by doing an [impressively detailed
analysis of our github commits and
tweets](http://www.thechrisoshow.com/2008/10/2/a-peek-at-the-inner-workings-of-hashrocket).

We had a lot of things going for us in this project:  The clients were a breeze
to work with; Desi and Lark were both great developers, and a lot of fun to pair
with; and the end product,
[Spot.us](http://github.com/spot-us/spot-us/tree/master) was going open-source -
meaning there was no room for cowboy antics (Desi's words).

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The client was very impressed with the progress we had made, and with the
overall polish of the site.  You can read more about the reaction
[here](http://blog.spot.us/2008/09/26/first-look-at-spotus-in-action/), and the
demo video is below.

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Working at Hashrocket was a lot of fun, and in many ways was the perfect
vacation.  You're surrounded by talented coders (which fends off the normal
vacation boredom), and you get to wake up to beautiful beach views every
morning.

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