Hosted by Pivotal Labs and VentureArchetypes.
Moderated panel discussion: Expectations and the evolution of a Founder’s role as the business grows; Becoming a magnet for top talent (especially on a limited budget); The role of recruiters, consultants, contractors and outsourcing; Setting and maintaining a strong company culture
Yehuda Katz discusses MERB, the Ruby application development framework sponsored by Engine Yard.
Nathan Sobo, Brian Takita, and Nick Kallen discuss various testing methods for JavaScript, including JSSpec and JSpec.
Alan Cooper, joined by three colleagues from his renowned design firm of the same name, discusses the challenges faced and lessons learned from their forays into using a more agile process for design consulting. Questions from the audience help drive the discussion towards topics of interest specifically to developers.
Heroku founder Adam Wiggins outlines their vision of next-generation application deployment architectures. He describes the challenges and choices Heroku has made and the upcoming technologies and capabilities that are exciting in their space.
Jason Huggins, Al Sargent, and Steve Hazel from Sauce Labs describe their Selenium-in-the-cloud testing framework, including integration with CI systems like CruiseControl.
Martin McClure of GemStone answers questions and gathers audience feedback about MagLev, a Ruby implementation based on the GemStone persistence engine.
Hosted by Pivotal Labs and VentureArchetypes.
Moderated panel discussion: Generating an early base of passionate adopters and evangelists, Ramping up and expanding your business into the broader market, Defining “what you stand for” and building a defensible brand without jumping the shark, Creative marketing tactics for a Web and social media-rich world
Joseph Smarr from Plaxo discusses the rise of the Social Web and the sites and tools that enable it.
William Pietri and Amanda Willoughby revisit their Agile2008 talk “Meshing Gears: Real-world examples of how design and development integrate – and fail to”