i am a graduate of tealeaf academy. i took all 3 courses, which took about 4 months to complete. I got my 1st dev job about 2 mo. later. They did help find a job by introducing me to their rails/ruby contacts in the city i was living in. I didn't have any OOP experience prior to the course. I totally recommend this if you want to learn rails to bootstrap your own product or change careers and become a dev. I did this for both.
you should sign up for your competitor's online bootcamps. See what they do, how they approach teaching the subject matter, etc... 2 years ago, michael hartl owned the marketshare for learning rails. Now, theres dozens of online courses teaching rails.
source: myself...I am an expert at "Learning Ruby/Rails"
There's also http://insightdatascience.com/ . This is a little bit different; it's a program aimed at training postdocs in various fields to be data scientists.
Better hurry up. Condo construction is taking over the city. Rental market is skyrocketing. There are 82 people relocating to Austin everyday, according to my realtor friend.
I've heard it as high as 100 people a day, but it's also a part of the whole 'the sky is falling'/'welcome to Austin, please don't move here' attitude that pervades the entire city's culture. Also, 'Austin was great before you got here.' So I take those statistics with a grain of salt.
"according to my realtor friend" - a reliable source of "supplies are limited" messages.
Austin experiences relatively mild boom/bust cycles. The metro area is not that big and there is still a great deal of undeveloped land so developers are always ready to build more, thus holding prices stable. The biggest problem the area faces is water supply. High property taxes of 2-3% annually offset most any gain from not having a state tax. Racial diversity is about 50 years behind most major cities.
