The Climbers
1109 climbers have contributed photos, maps, topos, favourite lists etc. to this website. Without their contribution this website would be useless. Please continue sharing your knowledge with the community. We work hard to provide you with the best web based software tools for this purpose.
Open Source Contributors
We use open source software written by Linus Torvalds, Yukihiro Matsumoto, David Heinemeier Hansson and thousands of other open source contributors. Our system includes
- a GNU/Linux OS assembled by the Ubuntu community and adapted for EC2 by Eric Hammond
- nginx, Passenger, Ruby and MySQL
- Ruby on Rails with plugins such as attachment_fu, Haml and Sass, GeoKit, ReCAPTCHA, Resource Controller, SSL Requirement, Validates Email Veracity Of, will_paginate and XSS Terminate
- jQuery with plugins such as Autocomplete, Color, Cookie, Example, Facebox, Form, Live Query and OEmbed
- Cucumber, RSpec, Webrat and Tarantula for automated testing
We also use
- hosting services such as EC2 and S3 by Amazon
- Exceptional and New Relic for exception notifications and performance analysis
- Capistrano and Rubber for automated deployment and server management
- Google Maps and geocoding services by Google, Yahoo, Host IP and GeoNames
Who we are
27crags.com was built by
- Jarmo Annunen (tick list application)
- Jouni Airaksinen (layout and graphics)
- Marko Kauko (initial content and marketing)
- Antti Sulkakoski (screencasts, layout and graphics)
- Ila Tuunainen (initial content and marketing)
- Karolina Witter (translation and copy editing)
- Markus Bengts (software development and all the rest)