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Full Day Ruby on Rails Workshop in Vancouver on September 8th

Update: The date has been changed to Friday, September 8th, in light of the Labour Day weekend.

Nathaniel Brown will be teaching a full day Ruby on Rails workshop in Vancouver, BC. This workshop will be an in depth guide covering all of the core Ruby on Rails gems.

The cost is only $195 for this full day - 9 hour workshop which will be held in the BCIT downtown campus at 555 Seymour Street, Vancouver. We recommend the Hotel LeSoleil for accomodations.

For more details on this event read more at Rails Workshops.

Busy Bees

It has been over 8 months since the last update here at Inimit and that is definately not to say we haven't been busy. On the contrary, we have been busy as ever and have made some huge acomplishments.
First off, the Canada on Rails conference, produced by Inimit Innovations Inc. which was previously mentioned went off extremely well. Close to 300 people attended this sold-out event at BCIT's downtown campuses. We had not only the 9 initial speakers promised, but 6 more totalling 15 world-wide experts who spoke during this two day event.

We have tons of video of this event, and are currently working on getting it professionally edited to release in DVD format which is planned for sometime in late August to hit the shelves.

In other news, Inimit was incorporated back in January, which marks a much needed milestone. Inimit Innovations has been in business since June of 2003 under a sole proprietorship, and is now incorporated under the new legal name of Inimit Innovations Inc.

Inimit has been working diligently on expanding our core focus of Ruby on Rails, and have since launched a very functional and eye-opening SR&ED Calculator with our client Technology Incentives Inc.. We are currently working on Phase 2 of this calculator, and a number of other major enhancements to the site. Stay tunned for that.

Blueprint Counselling's Tori Rayne is leading a Sacred England Tour coming up in May 2007, and she requested we update her site to add the functionality to manage banners letting her visitors know about this special event. In addition, we also implemented a dynamic component allowing her to report on her latest insights on the Blog.

The cool cats over at Knotty Boy Dreads have been making the most out of Canada Post's automated tools. Inimit has been working closely with their team, and had recommended some major advancements in business process automation to save labour costs and subsequently directly increase their profits.

Inimit's President, Nathaniel Brown was contracted by E-xact Transactions, a local Vancouver merchant procesing company, to be a hired gun as the Ruby on Rails, AJAX & CSS expert to assist with an internal prototype for a meeting which resulted in making the presentation a major success.

On the Ruby on Rails front, Inimit has expanded our Open Source education system and are now providing professional grade workshops through Rails Workshops. In addition to the two successful workshops which have come and gone, we have several upcoming which may be of note. The soonest being Nathaniel Brown's free mini-workshop "Getting Really Started with Ruby on Rails" to be presented by the Vancouver Ruby Association which has over 50 attendees already RSVP'd for this event happening next week on Wednesday the 26th of July at 6:30pm.

Other major news, we have moved! Our new offices are located close to the beautiful Jericho and Kitsilano beaches in Vancouver.

As always, if you have a desire to automate any part of your business, expand into online sales, or increase your organizations exposure, please do contact us.

Our commitment is simple. If we don't help you generate more value than the cost of development, we haven't succeeded.

Canada on Rails

On April 13th and 14th, David Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, and 9 other speakes will be speaking throughout this massive two day event.

Speakers from all around the world will be flown in to this unique, first ever conference on the ever popular Ruby on Rails framework. Inimit Innovations is proud to be a Diamond sponsor for this event, and will be donating as much technology as needed to ensure this event goes off without a hitch.

For more information, check out the temporary Wiki page by visiting www.canadaonrails.com

CSS Presentation at Van Web 2.0

As CSS designs are becoming more and more popular, designers are finding themselves needing to brush up their skills and learn the new methodology of creating a CSS based design. Traditionally, tables were the element of choice when it came to designing a web page, but today, with Search Engine Optimization, Caching, and basic browser understanding leaning more and more towards the interpretation of CSS designs, designers must adapt.

On October 27th, Nathaniel Brown, CEO of Inimit Innovations, guided 25 attendees through his personal process of starting from a PSD design to launching a fully designed CSS layout.

Check out the full details of this presentation at Vancouver Web 2.0 Forum

1Click2Shop CSS Design

With search engine optimization at the key nearly every online business, having a light-weight CSS design ensures that your website is loaded quickly, and efficiently understood by Google, Yahoo, MSN, as well as the other major search engines. Inimit was contracted to take a brand 3rd party design and convert it into a CSS centric design.

Come check out the new site at www.1click2shop.com

VanRuby Debuts with 50+ Attendees

On September 25th, Alex Burnardzic spoke about Ruby on Rails and drew in more than 50 attendees to hear what all the hype is about. VanRuby is the association founded by Nathaniel Brown, CEO of Inimit Innovations, to promote the education and networking of Ruby developers within Western Canada.

Vancouver Ruby Association

Nathaniel Brown, president of Inimit Innovations, has founded a new open source initiative for Vancouverites looking to get acquainted with the ever popular Ruby programming language. VanRuby will host monthly meetings held on the fourth Wednesday of every month. Each meeting will feature a presentation by local, and featured global Ruby developers talking about various things such as Ruby on Rails and Test Driven Development.

For more information, visit: www.vanruby.com

Inimit Shifts to Ruby

Inimit has been a long time developer with PHP, since the early days of 3.0.1 in fact, and we have worked with many technologies over the years. During our investigation into Ruby, we have found that our development time can be radically reduced which leads to lower cost of deployment and investment by our clients. To find out more information, check out the radical new development framework built on Ruby, titled Ruby on Rails.

Cost Efficient Template Design

Inimit has been working on putting together a online eCommerce shop to offer organizations a cost efficient solution looking to have high quality designs for next to nothing.

Check out our library of templates online and see which Web Site Template would be best suited for your next project.

We also offer advanced customization for any template you see, so if its not 100% what you want, contact us and we can work together and get the minor details just right for you.

Lightning Fitness Online Opens

Lightning Fitness Repairs Inc. and Inimit Innovations have teamed up and launched their online store featuring over 20,000 products. The new store allows distributors and retail customers to shop with fully integrated customized price points.

With security at the forefront of this implementation, customers can be assured that the data sent over the internet is safe through the use of SSL technology. In addition to launching the fully featured eCommerce solution, Inimit designed a brand new identity for Lightning Fitness which is will provide clients greater awareness through ease of identification when spoting the new logo on letterhead, business cards, and other such media.

Take a look around the new shop at www.lightningbc.com.

Vancouver Web 2.0 Forum Open

The Vancouver Web 2.0 Forum, founded by Gerald Bauer only four weeks ago, has grown in size to 50 members signed up for the mailing list. The boom in growth has drawn Inimit in to get the organization online with a Brand Identity, and a solid and appealing layout to inspire more organizations within Vancouver to adopt and be informed of the Web 2.0 concepts.

Inimit deployed their customized open source Content Management with such features as new content notifications, event listings, RSS aggregator, and full search capabilities. Ensuring that this site adhered to the Web 2.0 ideal itself, the layout was designed using XHTML 1.0 Strict and is completely CSS driven.

Take a look at the new site by visiting www.van2.ca.

Blueprint Counselling Redesigned

Upgrading from a static website, Blueprint Counselling has now gained the ability to manage new event listings which enables Dana to create a complete timetable of where she is in the world giving her readings. See the new Blueprint counselling website at www.blueprincounselling.com.

Vancouvers New Vegetarian Community

Vancouver's new vibrant community where Vegetarians come to find out the latest news around town. With event listings for several organizations, VanVeg is one of the most all inclusive Vegetarian resources in Vancouver.

Inimit came up with the brand and uses inhouse photos to design the fresh website design.

Check out this new initiative at www.vanveg.com.

Pacific Office Solutions

Starting with the brand, and working our way through the design of the website, Inimit tackled the entire package for a this old company looking to get a new face online. Inimit is still working with Pacific Office to get all the content ready for the site, so check back soon to see when we launch the full site.

Youngblood Newsletter

Youngblood is a Vancouver Coaching organization with Stephan Wiedner, a member of the International Coach Federation, as the principle coach. Youngblood works with those under 30 looking to get more out of life and helps them live full, exciting lives. Check out his latest Newsletter - The 4th Law of Karma.

Inimit Redesigned

Inimit has launched a completely redesigned version of their business website. The newly designed site features a significant improvement with respect to usability and interoperability. With XHTML 1.0 and CSS standards in place, as well as search engine friendly links across the site, browsers and applications are now able to read and parse the site extremely fast as well as allow for future integration of applications to read the data as XML.

PHP and Open Source Security Conference

Inimit has finalized sponsorship with OSEvents to be on board as a Platinum sponsor. This reaffirms Inimit's ongoing commitment to the education of Open Source technology. Inimit's staff will be attending each of the speakers talks to ensure that future solutions offered by Inimit are secure as possible.

Visit the Open Source Events website at www.osevents.com

Lighting Fitness Repairs, Inc.

Inimit will be developing a new website and identity for an exclusive fitness repair shop. Lightning Fitness Repairs, Inc. is the one of the exclusive repair shops of Precor manufacturered fitness equipment and will benefit from a newly design image and a fully functional e-commerce website.