There is a flyer for this and here are some special details if you think you’d like to take them up on this:

1. Must register by 11:59 p.m. this Friday, April 9 to qualify for the Apple iPad to be given away.
2. After April 9 the cost to register increases.
3. If anyone simply can’t pay the $39, Contact Todd Lewis at 803-240-1213 to register. They’ve set aside a fund pool to pay for anyone that can’t get the cost approved or can’t pay it out-of-pocket. They just don’t want anyone not attending because of money.
4. They’ll feed you! All attendees will receive a morning break, lunch, and an afternoon break.

You can register here.

Web Development Quickstart With Rails – Wednesday, April 14th

Along with POSSCON comes POSSDEV which is a day of development talks from some of the open source community’s biggest names. There is an opportunity for a more technical and comprehensive training session on Rails as part of all this. POSSDEV has added a Rails Jumpstart class on Wednesday, April 14th. This course is offered as a complete kickstart into the Rails ecosystem. Within the first few minutes you will have a database driven web application, and shortly after, your site will be running in a live production environment.

Then, they’ll step back and look at the foundation for Rails, the pragmatic language, Ruby.

Advanced topics include Rails 3, testing, and alternative markup languages, haml and sass.

Find a course outline here and register here.

Front-End Web Developer / Production Designer (Download Job Description)

A Front-End Web Developer at truematter will be able to understand visual Design concepts and flawlessly convert them to Front-End HTML code. The ideal candidate will possess jaw-dropping knowledge of HTML, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript and will be fully conversant on browser compatibility issues and strategies.

Interactive Designer (Download Job Description)

Interactive designers are responsible for simple, powerful visual design for Web Applications, Web sites and Mobile Devices.

Web Developer – Need .NET/C# skills (Download Job Description)

The Web Developer will work closely with the entire development team, Information Architects, Designers and other developers, to realize the optimal client solution. The ideal candidate will possess extensive, jaw-dropping knowledge of HTML, DHTML, CSS, ASP, ASP.NET, JavaScript, SQL, Section 508 compliance, cross-browser compatibility issues, and browser degradation strategies.

If interested, please goto TrueMatter.com and check out their open positions.

Here is their description:

Incumbent will design user interfaces and graphics for dynamic web applications for the Health and Demographics section. Designs and implements data driven web sites using open source technologies, including XHTML, CSS, Ruby on Rails and Ajax. Meets with clients to determine user needs and perform user testing of web applications.

I know many of these individuals personally and I can tell you it would be a great place to work and a great team of people to work with. In fact Jason Dew from this same office is slated to give a presentation/talk to RefreshColumbia in the coming months on Ruby/Rails development.