I'm excited to announce that I've been asked to be a part of a new venture called Envy Labs. It's a full-service development and media shop backed by Gregg Pollack of Rails Envy fame. We have a great team in place, and with the launch of the site today, we've also published a new blog called Lab Notes with a some great first posts:

• Set Up Your Server Right, Part 1 by Thomas Meeks — a nice introduction to getting a server configured to host Ruby on Rails applications
• The Rails State Machine by Nathaniel Bibler — an overview of the new ActiveModel::StateMachine implementation in edge Rails
• Publishing a Blog with GitHub Pages and Jekyll by me — a look at simple web publishing using the GitHub platform

Keep an eye out for more good stuff coming soon.