Hosted by Pivotal Labs and VentureArchetypes.
Moderated panel discussion: Competitive strategies & tactics (offensive vs. defensive…e.g., first mover vs. fast follower), Dealing with copy cats, both domestic and international, Standing out in a crowded space when resources are limited, Creative competitive research, analysis and tracking
Brian Cantrill and Adam Leventhal from Sun Microsystems give a talk on the dynamic tracing framework, DTrace.
Yehuda Katz from EngineYard talks about using JavaScript development using jQuery.
Felix M. and Aaron Peckham talk about HAML.
Ben Brinckerhoff and Dan Mayer talk about Devver, their cloud-based test acceleration platform.
Christian Sepulveda gives an overview of the Scrum development process as it applies to software.
Lewis Cirne demos New Relic’s RPM, a real-time Rails performance monitoring and analysis tool.
Ezra Zygmuntowicz talks about Vertebra, Engine Yard’s distributed cloud application programming platform.
Seth Fitzsimmons and Blaine Cook talk about Fire Eagle, a location-awareness provider for online applications. Fire Eagle is a Yahoo! venture that gives applications and websites user-configurable information about the user’s location.