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My first gem! :) This is a simple one — a port of Perl’s Data::Faker. It’s useful for generating fake data, like names, addresses, etc. Check out Faker’s home page or install via gem install faker.

Marcelo Calbucci recently posted the Seattle Startup Index, and Catch the Best ranks near the middle of the pack. One of the things I love about being in Seattle (along with the fantastic summer weather) is being among such a great crowd of people building cool businesses.

On an amusing note, for this month’s rankings I fall immediately behind TalentSpring, a micro-startup like me that is also tackling the resume ranking problem, but from a different angle.