At Pivotal Labs, one of the services we provide our clients is helping them interview and hire. Pivotal Labs and our clients place a strong emphasis on Agile development and its many aspects: Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development, rapid iterations, and frequent refactoring.

Honk, a social site helping consumers decide which car is right for them, is looking for Ruby on Rails developers to join their team in San Francisco. The full job posting follows.

Most events are written by developers to help them debug server side functionality. Semantic events are written explicitly for building analytics. Splunk allows developers to create sophisticated analytics for their system without resorting to the typical RDBMS and data cube. Chief Architect Rob Das describes what semantic events are and the best practices for creating them, and follows with a demonstration of how Splunk is used on this type of data.

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Sencha's Sr. Software Architect Ed Spencer describes and demonstrates their Touch framework. Sencha Touch is an open-source javascript app framework that helps developers build web apps for HTML5-capable touch devices like Android, iPad and Blackberry. It has an object-oriented design with a rich event-handling system and pre-built UI components like carousels and scrollable lists. Ed gives a quick conceptual introduction for orientation and then shows sample code, demos, and how to wrap your web app for app store/marketplace distribution. He also shows some of the amazing stuff you can do with CSS3 these days.

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At Pivotal Labs, one of the services we provide our clients is helping them interview and hire. Pivotal Labs and our clients place a strong emphasis on Agile development and its many aspects: Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development, rapid iterations, and frequent refactoring.

Change.org, a nationwide platform for social change, is looking for Ruby and Rails developers to join their team. The full job posting follows.

A great agile design process is complementary to a great agile development process and produces products that people love enough to generate real value.

The right amount of design, and how far ahead that design needs to occur, varies significantly by task. Knowing what it is you're building before development starts leads to a much more focused (i.e. better, faster, cheaper) product. However, high fidelity, pixel-level design work is best done with the designer pairing directly with the developer rather than producing documentation that becomes ever more stale between writing and implementation. The investment in a 500 page PRD filled with pixel-perfect photoshop comps is one that tends to bring more rigidity than value to a product. Design ideas need to be tested as quickly as possible, so that the design process, like the development process, benefits from a short feedback loop and real user validation.

A great agile design is thematic and generative. It consists of a coherent vision, and a set of rules we can apply to new problems as the application develops.

There is a tension in the agile world between the notion of ultimate flexibility that agile proposes and the need for coherency and excellence that great design provides. This talk is intended to provide a framework to help yourself ask -- as a designer or as a developer -- "What is Enough Design?", and to share our experience as to what has worked well in practice on our many projects at Pivotal Labs.

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Diego Basch and Santiago Perez Gonzales of Flaptor describe their new product IndexTank, a hosted, scalable, real-time search solution. They share the features and the API of the service and the benefits that make IndexTank an interesting choice when considering search platforms. They also show examples on how to migrate a ThinkingSphinx based solution to IndexTank.

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Maxwell Salzberg and Raphael Sofaer, two of the four founders of Diaspora, discuss the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network. Diaspora aims to put users back in control of their data and privacy, and to make sharing between the people they care about easier and more meaningful. Started by four NYU students in April of 2010, they set out on a summer of development (with a bit of help from the internet) they hope to make their first open source release in mid September, and create a free hosted joindiaspora.com around mid October.

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At Pivotal Labs, one of the services we provide our clients is helping them interview and hire. Pivotal Labs and our clients place a strong emphasis on Agile development and its many aspects: Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development, rapid iterations, and frequent refactoring.

Sequoia Capital, a Menlo Park, CA company, is looking for an Agile UI Developer to join their team. The full job posting follows.

At Pivotal Labs, one of the services we provide our clients is helping them interview and hire. Pivotal Labs and our clients place a strong emphasis on Agile development and its many aspects: Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development, rapid iterations, and frequent refactoring.

EMI Capitol Records is hiring Ruby, Java and Javascript engineers in San Francisco and New York City to build applications that help connect fans with their favorite artists. This is a chance to be a part of something very new and innovative, while representing some of the greatest musicians in history. Send us your questions and resume ASAP, we are interviewing candidates now.

Contact: eric.mittler@emimusic.com

Daniel Lieberman of BitPusher says that ten years from now, much of what we think of as "operations" will be obsolete. The current trends in operations automation, reliability engineering and cloud computing will combine and mature into a nearly-commoditized blend of operations and infrastructure. Today, the practical impact of these trends is that there are new tools and service offerings which add more complexity to operations practices, but if used well allow operations teams to manage some aspects of their environments more holistically, and sometimes do a better job with fewer resources. This talk provides a snapshot of what operations practices look like during this period of transition.

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