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The job market for Ruby on Rails is heating up. I've been hooking up companies with developers left and right. And now, it seems, even the #rubyonrails IRC channel has turned into a potential job interview. We got quite a few firm owners hanging out and one of them just hired a developer off the channel. Thijs van der Vossen writes:

This is probably the most nerdy thing I did this month: I just hired Marten Veldthuis as a freelance Rails developer in the #rubyonrails IRC channel without ever meeting him in person.

That's pretty cool! Congratulations to both Marten and Thijs for hooking up like this.