This will be of no interest if you’re not in Portugal - my apologies to those of you who get this on your feed reader and can’t make much use of it.

If you’ve been looking for an opportunity to learn Ruby on Rails, this may be it. Our team has recently opened sign-ups for our first public Rails training session, taking place later on the 19th, 20 and 21st of May in Coimbra, Portugal. We’ll be going from basics down to a few pretty advanced topics, so this should make you happy wether you’re a beginner or already know a little bit of rails.

For more information about the 3 days of training, check out our training site or get in touch with us at training@webreakstuff.com. We hope to see you there. There are discounts for students and for those people only attending specific days, so feel free to ask.

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Here’s a few of the things that caught my eye on the blogosphere this week. This is sort of a way to apologize for the lack of proper posts (which I’ll be going back to as soon as I come up for air):

The latest ALA is all about Everyblock and some of the things their team learned building the service. There’s some genius nuggets behind the way they build maps and a few suggestions for accessible data visualization using standards.

Alex Iskold over at ReadWriteWeb wrote a great post about the new ways of Business Development, focusing on leveraging the social media and new ways of communication. I wrote a post about the new ways to engage last week as well which you may want to read if you haven’t yet. And around the same area, Brian Solis has a good post on PR 2.0.

Mike Butcher at Techcrunch UK has an insightful post about VC in Europe which you should read if you’re an entrepreneur on this side of the Atlantic. Mike says europe is still in its adolescent years when it comes to Venture Capital, although things are looking a bit better. Still, Fred Wilson calls for a new path to liquidity in this post.

Not all is business, though! Github launched and Rails moved over - which is sweet. Oh, and mod_rails (also known as Phusion Passenger - fan of the project, not the name) has launched as well. Here’s to a new era of rails availability! Anyways, I’ll get back to the regular blogging programme really soon. Have a great weekend.