http://www.pivotallabs.com/talks en-us 2007 - 2012 Pivotal Labs. All rights reserved Informal technical presentations hosted by Pivotal Labs Pivotal Labs A series of informal technical presentations hosted by Pivotal Labs, focusing on the Agile, Rails, and Ruby communities. Pivotal Labs techtalks@pivotallabs.com no Davis W. Frank This year Pivotal Labs enlarged the definition of Movember to include mohawks, a mustache for your head. Watch as the SF Pivots get their heads shaved for a good cause! We're so happy to have raised $40K for prostate and testicular cancer research. This year Pivotal Labs enlarged the definition of Movember to include mohawks, a mustache for your head. Watch as the SF Pivots get their heads shaved for a good cause! We're so happy to have raised $40K for prostate and testicular cancer research. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/11-29-2011_Mohawk-Movember.mp4 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:30:00 -0800 2:43 movember no Kevin Lacker Many mobile developers find themselves rewriting the same server code for every app. Co-founder Kevin Lacker talks about Parse, a service that helps you build mobile applications without writing any backend code. Many mobile developers find themselves rewriting the same server code for every app. Co-founder Kevin Lacker talks about Parse, a service that helps you build mobile applications without writing any backend code. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/10-26-2011_Kevin-Lacker_Parse.mp4 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:30:00 -0700 29:39 mobile app, framework no Loren Siebert Is your MySQL groaning under too much data? Tired of waiting hours for analytics rake tasks? Loren Siebert discusses leveraging your existing Ruby codebase by building Hadoop Map/Reduce jobs using Hive and plugging in your own Ruby mappers/reducers. Is your MySQL groaning under too much data? Tired of waiting hours for analytics rake tasks? Loren Siebert discusses leveraging your existing Ruby codebase by building Hadoop Map/Reduce jobs using Hive and plugging in your own Ruby mappers/reducers. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/11-02-2011_Loren-Siebert_Hadoop.mp4 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:30:00 -0700 35:18 map/reduce, hadoop no Erik Michaels-Ober Erik Michaels-Ober, Fellow at Code for America, discusses Travis CI, a modern distributed open-source build system for continuous integration. Erik Michaels-Ober, Fellow at Code for America, discusses Travis CI, a modern distributed open-source build system for continuous integration. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/10-19-2011_Erik-Michaels-Ober_Travis.mp4 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:30:00 -0700 42:55 continuous integration, open source, distributed no Evan Tahler, Jennifer Suit, Kate Zimmerman The analysts and engineers at ModCloth.com spent the past year building business intelligence tools to measure their business. Evan Tahler, Jennifer Suit, and Kate Zimmerman describe their agile approach to BI problems and share their process and tools. The analysts and engineers at ModCloth.com spent the past year building business intelligence tools to measure their business. Evan Tahler, Jennifer Suit, and Kate Zimmerman describe their agile approach to BI problems and share their process and tools. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/10-05-2011_Evan-Tahler_Business-Intelligence.mp4 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:30:00 -0700 38.22 business intelligence, datamining no Pete Hodgson Frank allows you to write automated acceptance tests for native iOS apps using cucumber. You could describe it as Selenium for iOS. Pete Hodgson from ThoughtWorks shows some Frank tests and demonstrates additional tools that Frank provides. Frank allows you to write automated acceptance tests for native iOS apps using cucumber. You could describe it as Selenium for iOS. Pete Hodgson from ThoughtWorks shows some Frank tests and demonstrates additional tools that Frank provides. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/09-21-2011_Pete-Hodgson_Frank.mp4 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:30:00 -0700 44:47 mobile, acceptance test, automated test, iOS no Keith Rarick Keith Rarick of Heroku introduces the Go programming language, including code examples and discussion of its motivation, design, and philosophy. He covers Go's syntax, type system, concurrency model, and fun features from its tool set and build system. Keith Rarick of Heroku introduces the Go programming language, including code examples and discussion of its motivation, design, and philosophy. He covers Go's syntax, type system, concurrency model, and fun features from its tool set and build system. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/20111824_Go_KeithRarick.mp4 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:30:00 -0700 47:42 go, no Chris Westin Chris Westin from 10gen discusses more in-depth uses of mongoDB and answers questions from the audience. Chris Westin from 10gen discusses more in-depth uses of mongoDB and answers questions from the audience. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/08-17-2011_MongoDB_Chris-Westin.mp4 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:30:00 -0700 39:49 nosql no Joe Moore Long-time Pivot Joe Moore had to learn how to effectively remote pair with developers across the country. He shares the lessons he's learned about the technologies and personal interactions that allow him to remote pair 8 hours a day without going mad. Long-time Pivot Joe Moore had to learn how to effectively remote pair with developers across the country. He shares the lessons he's learned about the technologies and personal interactions that allow him to remote pair 8 hours a day without going mad. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/07-27-2011_Joe-Moore_Remote-Pairing.mp4 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:30:00 -0700 1:01:43 pair programming, telecommuting no Christian Sterner, David Overcash In this talk, David Overcash and Christian Sterner of Framesocket make the business case for hosting your own video content and then lay out the key elements of a successful video integration. Video is a business asset, like any other type of content, that can and should be leveraged by development and product teams. In this talk, David Overcash and Christian Sterner of Framesocket (a video platform used to tackle video projects of any size) make the business case for hosting your own video content and then lay out the key elements of a successful video integration via topics such as encoding, content delivery, viewer experience, seo and analytics. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/6-22-11_TacklingTheVideoProblem.mp4 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:24:00 -0700 49:14 video hosting encoding analytics no Jesse Andrews, Jared Cosulich Jared Cosulich of Irrational Design recently started a new music site, SoundSeed.Me. He discusses the process as he launches a new product, getting it built, finding the first users, iterating, testing, and trying to get the right market fit. Jared Cosulich of Irrational Design recently started a new music site, SoundSeed.Me. He discusses the process as he launches a new product, getting it built, finding the first users, iterating, testing, and trying to get the right market fit. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/06-15-2011_Soundseed_Jared-Cosulich.mp4 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:30:00 -0700 42:35 no Coda Hale If you don’t measure it, you can’t optimize it. Coda Hale of Yammer talks about service-level performance metrics, how they use them to guide their development strategy, and how you can improve the transparency of your own software. If you don’t measure it, you can’t optimize it. Coda Hale of Yammer talks about service-level performance metrics, how they use them to guide their development strategy, and how you can improve the transparency of your own software. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/06-08-2011_MetricsMetricsEverywhere_Coda-Hale.mp4 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:30:00 -0700 46:43 metrics no Jay Phillips Backbone.js is a lightweight MVC framework for organizing JS code and simplifying common AJAX and event-driven DOM update use cases. Pivot Jay Phillips shows how to get started with Backbone.js and demonstrates how he uses it on projects. Backbone.js is a lightweight MVC framework for organizing JS code and simplifying common AJAX and event-driven DOM update use cases. Pivot Jay Phillips shows how to get started with Backbone.js and demonstrates how he uses it on projects. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/06-01-2011_Backbone-js_JayPhillips.mp4 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:30:00 -0700 1:01:23 backbone, javascript no David Stevenson Veteran Pivot David Stevenson gives his thoughts on the when, why, and how of performance optimization in Rails. He touches on a few of the approaches that make sense and the best tools for each approach. Veteran Pivot David Stevenson gives his thoughts on the when, why, and how of performance optimization in Rails. He touches on a few of the approaches that make sense and the best tools for each approach. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/05-18-2011_Performance-Scalability_David-Stevenson.mp4 Wed, 18 May 2011 12:30:00 -0700 59:55 scaling, performance no Nick Pinkston We see the power of cheap cloud hosting, OSS, and incubators to make building a web app cheap, and now the same is happening to hardware. The means of production is becoming democratized and agile hardware startups are popping up to solve problems IRL. We see the power of cheap cloud hosting, OSS, and incubators to make building a web app cheap, and now the same is happening to hardware. The means of production is becoming democratized and agile hardware startups are popping up to solve problems IRL. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/03-23-2011_Hardware-Is-New-Software_Nick-P.mp4 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:30:00 -0700 38:22 3D printing, hardware no Jesse Proudman For most applications autoscale is not fire-and-forget, but it shouldn’t require a fancy PaaS, either. Jesse Proudman of Blue Box shows how to combine the New Relic API with the Fog gem to build your own autoscale system using any cloud infrastructure. For most applications autoscale is not fire-and-forget, but it shouldn’t require a fancy PaaS, either. Jesse Proudman of Blue Box shows how to combine the New Relic API with the Fog gem to build your own autoscale system using any cloud infrastructure. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/03-16-2011_AutoScaleDemyst_Jesse-P.mp4 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:30:00 -0700 50:58 autoscale, new relic, no Joe Ruscio Joe Ruscio, CTO of Librato, demonstrates Silverline, an app-centric monitoring and workload management service. He shows how Silverline improves capacity planning, continuous deployment, RCA, alerting, and provides predictable degradation under load. Joe Ruscio, CTO of Librato, demonstrates Silverline, an app-centric monitoring and workload management service. He shows how Silverline improves capacity planning, continuous deployment, RCA, alerting, and provides predictable degradation under load. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/03-09-2011_Librato-Silverline_Joseph-R.mp4 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:30:00 -0800 39:53 application management, metrics, autoscaling no Manish Shah Rapleaf is an aggregation service for personalization data. Manish Shah describes how they help companies gain insight into customers, engage them more meaningfully, and deliver timely messages. They also help consumers understand their online footprint. Rapleaf is an aggregation service for personalization data. Manish Shah describes how they help companies gain insight into customers, engage them more meaningfully, and deliver timely messages. They also help consumers understand their online footprint. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/02-16-2011_Artful-Personali_Manish-S.mp4 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:30:00 -0800 32:59 personalization no John Woodell John Woodell, a JRuby developer from Google, describes the 1.4.0 release of Google's AppEngine, which includes JRuby support. John focuses on the how AppEngine differs from other managed cloud hosting environments for Ruby web apps. John Woodell, a JRuby developer from Google, describes the 1.4.0 release of Google's AppEngine, which includes JRuby support. John focuses on the how AppEngine differs from other managed cloud hosting environments for Ruby web apps. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/01-26-2011_JRuby-AppEngine_John-Woodell.mp4 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:30:00 -0800 57:09 jruby, appengine no Kevin Kelly Kevin Kelly, Founding Executive Editor of Wired Magazine and noted technologist, presents ideas from latest book, What Technology Wants. "[T]echnology as a whole is...a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies." Kevin Kelly, Founding Executive Editor of Wired Magazine and noted technologist, presents ideas from latest book, What Technology Wants. "[T]echnology as a whole is...a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies." http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/01-13-2011_What-Tech-Wants_Kevin-Kelly.mp4 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:30:00 -0800 1:27:18 no Luke Kanies Luke Kanies, Puppet's original author, talks about how Puppet relies on modeling and why. Luke also discusses Puppet's DSL, resource types, the acyclic graph at the heart of everything, and the guarantees about simulation mode, auditing, and logging. Luke Kanies, Puppet's original author, talks about how Puppet relies on modeling and why. Luke also discusses Puppet's DSL, resource types, the acyclic graph at the heart of everything, and the guarantees about simulation mode, auditing, and logging. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/01-12-2011_Puppet_Luke-Kanies.mp4 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:30:00 -0800 51:16 configuration management, no Shelly Roche Shelly Roche of Wordchuck.com discusses the i18n and l10n of web apps. She'll cover the basics of i18n, common pitfalls, hidden challenges, and what she's learned building Wordchuck, a service that streamlines the localization process. Shelly Roche of Wordchuck.com discusses the i18n and l10n of web apps. She'll cover the basics of i18n, common pitfalls, hidden challenges, and what she's learned building Wordchuck, a service that streamlines the localization process. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/01-05-2011_Internationalization_i18n.mp4 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:30:00 -0800 42:37 internationalization, localization, translation no Patrick Vlaskovits addresses some fallacies around customer development and describes multiple approaches on how to hack "Getting Out of The Building" such that product development decisions can be made with better, higher-quality data. Patrick Vlaskovits addresses some fallacies around customer development and describes multiple approaches on how to hack "Getting Out of The Building" such that product development decisions can be made with better, higher-quality data. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/12-01-2010_Hacking-Customer-Development_Patrick-V.mp4 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:30:00 -0800 49:35 no David Smith, Jon Meredith Want to get on the NoSQL bandwagon but don't know where to start? Riak is one of the lesser known entrants into the NoSQL horserace. Learn about what Riak is and how you can design Riak schemas to store your data. Want to get on the NoSQL bandwagon but don't know where to start? Riak is one of the lesser known entrants into the NoSQL horserace. Learn about what Riak is and how you can design Riak schemas to store your data. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/pivotal_boulder_riak_120710.mp4 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:15:00 -0800 1:00:21 no Jared Brandt Vintner Jared Brandt was a technical product manager before the first dot-com crash. He and his wife spent a year in France learning biodynamic wine production methods before returning to Berkeley to found their winery. Vintner Jared Brandt was a technical product manager before the first dot-com crash. He and his wife spent a year in France learning biodynamic wine production methods before returning to Berkeley to found their winery. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/12-08-2010_Donkey-Goat-Winemaking_Jared-Brandt.mp4 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:30:00 -0800 56:55 wine, biodynamic no Rusty Klophaus Riak is a fault tolerant, highly-scalable key/value store. This talk focuses on the origins of Riak, the high level architecture decisions, the problems it solves, and what to consider when using it to build applications. Riak is a fault tolerant, highly-scalable key/value store. This talk focuses on the origins of Riak, the high level architecture decisions, the problems it solves, and what to consider when using it to build applications. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/11-04-2010_Riak_Rusty-K.mp4 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:30:00 -0700 54:54 nosql, databases, key/value store no Laura Klein Qualitative Research expert Laura Klein helps you garner valuable feedback from current and potential users. She covers appropriate research for the various stages of the development cycle and what questions qualitative research can answer effectively. Qualitative Research expert Laura Klein helps you garner valuable feedback from current and potential users. She covers appropriate research for the various stages of the development cycle and what questions qualitative research can answer effectively. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/11-10-2010_Qualitative-Research_Laura-K.mp4 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:30:00 -0800 55:39 qualitative research, user research no Ariya Hidayat As a popular web rendering engine, WebKit is mostly used via browsers. Sencha Engineering Director Ariya Hidayat presents a different angle: using WebKit as a library to write web development tools. Includes how to get and compile the WebKit code. As a popular web rendering engine, WebKit is mostly used via browsers. Sencha Engineering Director Ariya Hidayat presents a different angle: using WebKit as a library to write web development tools. Includes how to get and compile the WebKit code. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/10-27-2010_Writing-Tools-Webkit_Ariya-H.mp4 Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:30:00 -0700 41:22 webkit no Brian O'Rourke, Chris Van Pelt CrowdFlower enables a quality, fast, large, global workforce to complete simple tasks. Brian O'Rourke and Chris Van Pelt create a sample app to demonstrate the API and the quality analysis tools. They also discuss lessons learned in its development. CrowdFlower enables a quality, fast, large, global workforce to complete simple tasks. Brian O'Rourke and Chris Van Pelt create a sample app to demonstrate the API and the quality analysis tools. They also discuss lessons learned in its development. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/10-20-2010_Crowdsourcing-CrowdFlower_Brian-O_Chris-P.mp4 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:30:00 -0700 50:55 crowdsourcing, crowdsource no Adam Abrons, Jared Cosulich The founders of Irrational Design present Insightster, an app to help you encourage, discuss, iterate on, rediscover, prioritize, and execute on ideas from all over your organization. They demo a "Clean out your Icebox" Pivotal Tracker integration. The founders of Irrational Design present Insightster, an app to help you encourage, discuss, iterate on, rediscover, prioritize, and execute on ideas from all over your organization. They demo a "Clean out your Icebox" Pivotal Tracker integration. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/09-29-2010_Insighter_Adam-A_Jared-C.mp4 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:15:00 -0700 48:11 product management, tracker no Rob Das With Splunk, developers can create sophisticated analytics for their system without the typical RDBMS and data cube. Rob Das from Splunk discusses what semantic events are, how Splunk works, and the best practices in creating semantic events. With Splunk, developers can create sophisticated analytics for their system without the typical RDBMS and data cube. Rob Das from Splunk discusses what semantic events are, how Splunk works, and the best practices in creating semantic events. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/09-15-2010_Splunk_Rob-Das.mp4 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:30:00 -0700 1:00:56 splunk, logging, semantic events, events no Ed Spencer Sencha Touch is an open-source javascript app framework for building web apps for HTML5-capable touch devices. It has an object-oriented design with a rich event-handling system and pre-built UI components like carousels and scrollable lists. Sencha Touch is an open-source javascript app framework for building web apps for HTML5-capable touch devices. It has an object-oriented design with a rich event-handling system and pre-built UI components like carousels and scrollable lists. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/09-08-2010_Sencha-Touch_Ed-Spencer.mp4 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:30:00 -0700 29:24 html5, javascript, framework, tablet, touchscreen no Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer Diaspora is 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. Diaspora is 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. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/08-18-2010_Diaspora_Max-S_Raphael-S.mp4 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:30:00 -0700 53:02 facebook, social network, privacy no Ian McFarland There is tension in the agile world between the ultimate flexibility that agile proposes and the need for coherency and excellence that great design provides. This talk helps designers and developers ask themselves: "What is Enough Design?" There is tension in the agile world between the ultimate flexibility that agile proposes and the need for coherency and excellence that great design provides. This talk helps designers and developers ask themselves: "What is Enough Design?" http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/08-11-2010_Enough-Design_Ian-McFarland.mp4 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:30:00 -0700 58:25 design, agile, product no Diego Basch, Santiago Perez Gonzales Diego Basch and Santiago Perez Gonzales of Flaptor demonstrate their new product IndexTank, a hosted, scalable, real-time search solution. They demonstrate the API and show how to migrate a ThinkingSphinx-based solution to IndexTank. Diego Basch and Santiago Perez Gonzales of Flaptor demonstrate their new product IndexTank, a hosted, scalable, real-time search solution. They demonstrate the API and show how to migrate a ThinkingSphinx-based solution to IndexTank. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/07-28-2010_IndexTank_Diego-B_Santiago-G.mp4 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:30:00 -0700 34:44 search, solr, sphinx no Ian McFarland Ian McFarland, Principal and VP of Technology for Pivotal Labs, reprises his popular RailsConf 2010 talk. Ian describes the technical and social aspects of how Pivotal practices agile software development. Ian McFarland, Principal and VP of Technology for Pivotal Labs, reprises his popular RailsConf 2010 talk. Ian describes the technical and social aspects of how Pivotal practices agile software development. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/06-23-2010_Agile-Pivotal-Way_Ian-McFarland.mp4 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:30:00 -0700 49:45 pivotal labs, agile, tdd, pair programming no Daniel Lieberman Daniel Lieberman of BitPusher says current trends in automation, reliability engineering, and cloud computing will combine and mature into a nearly-commoditized blend of operations and infrastructure. He describes ops practices during the transition. Daniel Lieberman of BitPusher says current trends in automation, reliability engineering, and cloud computing will combine and mature into a nearly-commoditized blend of operations and infrastructure. He describes ops practices during the transition. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/06-16-2010_Managing-App-Eco_Daniel_L.mp4 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:30:00 -0700 56:06 operations, cloud computing, bitpusher no Ryan Dy Pivot Ryan Dy leads a discussion on upcoming HTML5 and CSS3 features. Ryan talks about how best to take advantage of the new features in the most modern browsers. Slides available at http://ryandy.com/html5 Pivot Ryan Dy leads a discussion on upcoming HTML5 and CSS3 features. Ryan talks about how best to take advantage of the new features in the most modern browsers. Slides available at http://ryandy.com/html5 http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/05-26-2010_Ryan-Dy_HTML5-CSS3.mp4 Wed, 26 May 2010 12:30:00 -0700 59:17 html5, css3, markup no Ross Boucher Cappuccino is an open source framework for building browser-based apps. It is designed exclusively for building apps, not websites, which lets the framework focus on high-level tasks and specialized performance optimizations. Cappuccino is an open source framework for building browser-based apps. It is designed exclusively for building apps, not websites, which lets the framework focus on high-level tasks and specialized performance optimizations. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-28-2010_Cappuccino.mp4 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:30:00 -0700 59:43 cappuccino, framework no Jose de Castro Jose de Castro uses Rails and Sinatra to demonstrate the Tropo API for building real time communications apps. He discusses how media servers, SIP Servlets, and JRuby are used to create a standards-based stack for cloud communications. Jose de Castro uses Rails and Sinatra to demonstrate the Tropo API for building real time communications apps. He discusses how media servers, SIP Servlets, and JRuby are used to create a standards-based stack for cloud communications. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-14-2010_Designing-Comm-Platform_Jose-de-Castro.mp4 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:30:00 -0700 1:01:24 real-time stack, voxeo, tropo no John Boykin John Boykin teaches us to recognize the seven most common sources of confusion and how to avoid them. Using case studies, John dissects each pattern, proposes a redesign to reduce confusion, and offers guidelines for making your website more intuitive. John Boykin teaches us to recognize the seven most common sources of confusion and how to avoid them. Using case studies, John dissects each pattern, proposes a redesign to reduce confusion, and offers guidelines for making your website more intuitive. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/03-31-2010_Top-7-Recipes_John-Boykin.mp4 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:30:00 -0700 56:22 website design, no Ryan Carver @font-face in CSS creates new possibilities for web typography but there are technical and legal hurdles. Ryan Carver describes Typekit, a service addressing the problems with a centralized, updateable font-serving platform and web-savvy licensing model. @font-face in CSS creates new possibilities for web typography but there are technical and legal hurdles. Ryan Carver describes Typekit, a service addressing the problems with a centralized, updateable font-serving platform and web-savvy licensing model. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/03-24-2010_Typekit_Ryan-Carver.mp4 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:30:00 -0700 52:42 tyepkit, fonts no John Allspaw John Allspaw often sees stability and productivity benefits from deploying small code changes more frequently. This talk describes how to determine the right balance for your environment, as well as how effective your current operational processes are. John Allspaw often sees stability and productivity benefits from deploying small code changes more frequently. This talk describes how to determine the right balance for your environment, as well as how effective your current operational processes are. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/03-10-2010_Operational-Metrics_John-Allspaw.mp4 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:30:00 -0800 57:53 deployment, agile operations, metrics no Carl Coryell-Martin Making truly awesome stuff is hard. Pivot Carl Coryell-Martin proposes we identify common physiological responses and condense their design solutions into a pattern language. He presents a draft set of patterns in the context of crafting an iPhone app. Making truly awesome stuff is hard. Pivot Carl Coryell-Martin proposes we identify common physiological responses and condense their design solutions into a pattern language. He presents a draft set of patterns in the context of crafting an iPhone app. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/03-03-2010_Make-Stuff-People-Love_Carl-Coryell-Martin.mp4 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:30:00 -0800 27:19 design pattern, birdseye no David Pollak, Martin Odersky David Pollak maintains Lift, a Rails-like app framework for Scala. In this talk, he and Martin Odersky, author of Scala, live-code a 30-line, real-time, web-based chat application and discuss the Scala constructs that allow for such concise apps. David Pollak maintains Lift, a Rails-like app framework for Scala. In this talk, he and Martin Odersky, author of Scala, live-code a 30-line, real-time, web-based chat application and discuss the Scala constructs that allow for such concise apps. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/02-17-2010_Scala-Lift_David-P_Martin-O.mp4 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:30:00 -0800 55:14 scala, lift no Isaac Hall Isaac Hall of Recurly.com describes many of the hidden challenges in managing recurring billing online. He offers step-by-step tips, tricks, and firsthand experience on how to better architect and more easily deploy billing in your application. Isaac Hall of Recurly.com describes many of the hidden challenges in managing recurring billing online. He offers step-by-step tips, tricks, and firsthand experience on how to better architect and more easily deploy billing in your application. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/01-20-2010_Demystifying-Online-Billing_Isaac-Hall.mp4 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:30:00 -0800 59:01 credit card, payments, recurring billing, payment gateway no Davis W. Frank Pivot Davis W. Frank presents Pivotal's experience writing apps for Palm's webOS. Including a live test-driven coding exercise, Davis covers agile development practices, our testing framework Pockets, and good development patterns. Pivot Davis W. Frank presents Pivotal's experience writing apps for Palm's webOS. Including a live test-driven coding exercise, Davis covers agile development practices, our testing framework Pockets, and good development patterns. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/01-23-2010_Palm-webOS-MoJoJava_Davis-Frank.mp4 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:00:00 -0800 2:12:30 webos, palm no David Stevenson Pivot David Stevenson introduces RSpec tools Remarkable and Contextually. Remarkable makes testing ActiveRecord and ActionController more declarative. Contextually simplifies testing the behavior of controllers against a variety of roles. Pivot David Stevenson introduces RSpec tools Remarkable and Contextually. Remarkable makes testing ActiveRecord and ActionController more declarative. Contextually simplifies testing the behavior of controllers against a variety of roles. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/02-03-2010_Contextually-Remarkable_David-Stevenson.mp4 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:30:00 -0800 44:51 TDD, rspec no Michael Dirolf MongoDB is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database. Mike Dirolf of 10gen, the company behind MongoDB, will discuss the features that make it an interesting choice as a datastore for web applications. MongoDB is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database. Mike Dirolf of 10gen, the company behind MongoDB, will discuss the features that make it an interesting choice as a datastore for web applications. He will give examples of how to interact with MongoDB from Ruby and discuss how MongoDB's auto-sharding allows it to provide infinite scalability. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/11-20-2009_Intro-mongoDB_Michael-Dirolf.mp4 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:30:00 -0800 53:04 database, schema no Jon Dahl Jon Dahl links philosophical ethics and ideas to the processes, tools, and methodologies of software development. Is successful development primarily a matter of finding the right rules, creating the right outcomes, or cultivating the right virtues? Jon Dahl ponders the big questions. What can programmers learn from the thought of Aristotle, Kant, and Mill? More than you might think. He links philosophical ethics and ideas to the processes, tools, and methodologies of software development as we discuss a critical question: is successful development primarily a matter of finding the right rules, creating the right outcomes, or cultivating the right virtues? http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/11-18-2009_Aristotle_Art_Soft-Dev_Jon-Dahl.mp4 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:30:00 -0800 46:23 philosophy, software, utilitarianism no Nathaniel Talbott Nathaniel Talbott introduces Experiment Driven Development. Too much focus on TDD can miss the bigger picture and drive changes that negatively impact the overall business. Nathaniel discusses EDD, why you should do it, and what Ruby tools can help. Terralien Founder Nathaniel Talbott introduces Experiment Driven Development, or EDD. Exclusive focus on TDD and BDD can miss the bigger picture and drive optimizations that negatively impact the business as a whole. Part business talk and part technical talk, Nathaniel discusses what EDD is, why you should be doing it from day one, and what cool Ruby tools you can leverage to make it happen. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/10-29-2009_How-TDD-Misses-Point_Nathaniel-T.mp4 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:30:00 -0700 56:02 tdd, bdd, testing, metrics, edd no Carl Smith Carl Smith, founding member of nGen Works, breaks down the steps to understanding, building and keeping trust with your users. Trust is becoming vulnerable based on a positive expectation. It's about the promises you make in subtle and obvious ways. Carl Smith, founding member of nGen Works, breaks down the steps to understanding, building and keeping trust with your users. Trust is becoming vulnerable based on a positive expectation. It's about the promises you make in subtle and obvious ways. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/10-16-2009_Matter-of-Trust_Carl-Smith.mp4 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:30:00 -0700 47:52 trust no Misko Hevery, Adam Abrons Pivot Adam Abrons and partner Misko Hevery introduce Angular, a platform for building data-backed applications with browser technologies. Applications are written in HTML, javascript, and CSS, and then Angular connects up a JSON database in the cloud. Pivot Adam Abrons and partner Misko Hevery introduce Angular, a platform for building data-backed applications with browser technologies. Applications are written in HTML, javascript, and CSS, and then Angular connects up a JSON database in the cloud. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/10-14-2009_Rapid-Dev-Angular_Adam-A_Misko-H.mp4 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:30:00 -0700 1:12:48 framework, web development, cloud no Scott Chacon In a special evening event, Scott Chacon from GitHub gives an excellent overview of Git for developers, with a lively back and forth from the audience. In a special evening event, Scott Chacon from GitHub gives an excellent overview of Git for developers, with a lively back and forth from the audience. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/10-08-2009_GIT-101_Scott-Chacon.mp4 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:30:00 -0700 1:10:32 git, scm, github no Yehuda Katz Yehuda Katz, member of the Rails core team, describes the many new ways to extend Rails 3, including the overall philosophy of extending ActionController and how to use ActiveModel to better integrate your non-ActiveRecord Ruby objects and Rails. Yehuda Katz, member of the Rails core team, describes the many new ways to extend Rails 3, including the overall philosophy of extending ActionController and how to use ActiveModel to better integrate your non-ActiveRecord Ruby objects and Rails. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/09-02-2009_Extending-Rails3_Yehuda-Katz.mp4 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:30:00 -0700 1:06:14 rails, plugins, merb no Jeff Lawson CEO Jeff Lawson introduces Twilio, a cloud-based pay-as-you-go HTTP API platform that allows web developers to build scalable, reliable voice applications without dedicated hardware or the complexities of PBX scripting. CEO Jeff Lawson introduces Twilio, a cloud-based pay-as-you-go HTTP API platform that allows web developers to build scalable, reliable voice applications without dedicated hardware or the complexities of PBX scripting. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/08-26-2009_Twilio-Telephony-in-the-Cloud_Jeff-Lawson.mp4 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:30:00 -0700 41:06 pbx, telephony no Edward Goldberg Ed Goldberg of Rightscale discusses and demonstrates their AWS cloud management offering, with tuneable dynamic instance scaling both up and down, GUI administration, and a library of custom config scripts. Ed Goldberg of Rightscale discusses and demonstrates their AWS cloud management offering, with tuneable dynamic instance scaling both up and down, GUI administration, and a library of custom config scripts. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/07-15-2009_RightScale-Cloud-Computing_Edward-Goldberg.mp4 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:30:00 -0700 1:01:27 cloud computing no Wolfram Arnold Wolfram Arnold shares his experiences implementing full-text search in a Rails-based translation application. The searching had to support multiple languages and matching on common word roots. Wolfram Arnold shares his experiences implementing full-text search in a Rails-based translation application. The searching had to support multiple languages and matching on common word roots. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/07-22-2009_Full-Txt-Search-Rails_Wolfram-Arnold.mp4 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:30:00 -0700 39:50 rails, full text search no Jesse Donaldson, Mitch Allen, Davis W. Frank Palm's Jesse Donaldson intros Palm's webOS™ showing the architecture and lifecycle for a simple app. Pivot Davis W. Frank shares Pivotal's experience writing webOS apps using agile practices. Slides: http://bit.ly/EMj6a and http://bit.ly/axfsd Palm's Jesse Donaldson intros Palm's webOS™ showing the architecture and lifecycle for a simple app. Pivot Davis W. Frank shares Pivotal's experience writing webOS apps using agile practices. Slides: http://bit.ly/EMj6a and http://bit.ly/axfsd http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/07-21-2009_Agile-Dev-Palm-webOS_Mitch-A_Jesse_Davis-F.mp4 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:30:00 -0700 1:34:22 palm, webos no Ezra Zygmuntowicz Ezra Zygmuntowicz of Engine Yard details their new Flex cloud hosting product, including the extensive use of Chef for automated deployment. Ezra also discusses the feature roadmap for Flex. Ezra Zygmuntowicz of Engine Yard details their new Flex cloud hosting product, including the extensive use of Chef for automated deployment. Ezra also discusses the feature roadmap for Flex. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/07-01-2009_Engine-Yard-Cloud-PDP-Ezra-Zygmuntowicz.mp4 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:30:00 -0700 58:12 flex, cloud hosting, engine yard no Drew McManus Drew McManus of Road 3 shares his advice on managing agile projects. Drew describes when and how much to plan, the right way to share the plan, and how to keep the product and the engineering team properly focused while not losing the grand vision. Drew McManus of Road 3 shares his advice on managing agile projects. Drew describes when and how much to plan, the right way to share the plan, and how to keep the product and the engineering team properly focused while not losing the grand vision. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/06-24-2009_Agile-Product-Management_Drew-McManus.mp4 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 45:06 agile, product management, project management no Elisabeth Hendrickson, David Goudreau Elisabeth Hendrickson of Quality Tree Software demonstrates live exploratory testing on Pivotal's own Tracker application. Elisabeth Hendrickson of Quality Tree Software demonstrates live exploratory testing on Pivotal's own Tracker application. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/05-20-2009_Exploratory-Testing-Live_Elisabeth-H_David-G.mp4 Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 48:52 exploratory testing no Damon McCormick, Josh Susser Pivots Josh Susser and Damon McCormick share their experiences scaling a Rails app with a Postgres backend. Learn optimization techniques and how Postgres differs from MySQL when tuning a Rails application. Pivots Josh Susser and Damon McCormick share their experiences scaling a Rails app with a Postgres backend. Learn optimization techniques and how Postgres differs from MySQL when tuning a Rails application. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/05-13-2009_Scaling-Postgres-Rails_Damon-M_Josh-S.mp4 Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 1:01:32 postgres, scaling, rails no Bosco So GoGaRuCo Lightning talks emceed by Bosco So. Presenters: Jeff Smick, Tim Connor, Wolfram Arnold, Yehuda Katz, Andy Delcambre, Erik Michaels-Ober, Mislav Marohnić, Bryan Helmkamp, Pat Nakajima, Chris Lee, Max Horbul Lightning talks emceed by Bosco So. Presenters: Jeff Smick - Blather: simple XMPP; Tim Connor - Rack Middleware; Wolfram Arnold - Cache Money; Yehuda Katz - Moneta; Andy Delcambre - DataMapper adapters; Erik Michaels-Ober - Merb admin console; Mislav Marohnić - autotest and rspactor; Bryan Helmkamp - Rack::Bug; Pat Nakajima - Slidedown; Chris Lee - Floxee; Max Horbul - PiMP http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-18-2009-7_Lightning-Talks.mp4 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:15:00 -0700 59:02 no Nathan Sobo Nathan Sobo presents Unison, a relational modeling framework for Ruby, and June, a JavaScript version of the Unison API. Together they enable in-browser applications with consistent views of database-backed content and dynamic interaction. This talk introduces two symbiotic libraries that leverage properties of the relational algebra to enable elegant client/server web applications. On the server, there's Unison, with an API similar to ActiveRecord's, but more general. In addition to has_many and friends, Unison adds relates_to_many and relates_to_one, allowing custom associations to be constructed through the composition of relational operators. For the browser there is June, which offers a JavaScript version of the same API, along with a relational object-store, through which clients can securely pull arbitrary datasets from a Unison-based server, treating it like a relational database. We'll also explore the nexus of the relational model with event-driven programming and the actor model of concurrent computation. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-18-2009-9_Unison-A-Relational_Modeling-Framework_Nathan-Sobo.mp4 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:30:00 -0700 38:26 no Greg Borenstein The Ruby Arduino Development project brings the beauty and power of Ruby to the Arduino platform. RAD uses declarative syntax and sensible defaults. It compiles Ruby scripts for execution on the Arduino microcontroller development board. Just as Rails did for web development, the Arduino project combines powerful layers of abstraction with sensible defaults, making it easy to build hardware devices that sense and manipulate the physical world. So easy that artists, social workers, scientists, and even simple web programmers who lack electrical engineering degrees can do it. The Ruby Arduino Development project attempts to extend these virtues by bringing the beauty and power of Ruby to the Arduino platform. RAD compiles Ruby scripts for execution on the Arduino microcontroller development board. In addition to the syntactic elegance and simplicity gained by getting to program in Ruby instead of C++, RAD provides a set of declarative Rails-like conventions and helpers that reduce boilerplate and simplify often-byzantine hardware APIs. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-18-2009-8_Arduino-is-Rails-for-Hardware-Hacking_Greg-Borenstein.mp4 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:45:00 -0700 25:21 no Bryan Helmkamp Webrat changes the acceptance testing ROI equation. By implementing an invisible, fast browser simulator you can use from within your test framework of choice, it sidesteps most of Selenium's drawbacks while retaining the coverage value. Webrat, a Ruby DSL for interaction with web applications, changes the acceptance testing ROI equation. By implementing an invisible, fast browser simulator you can use from within your test framework of choice (Test::Unit, RSpec, Shoulda or Cucumber), it sidesteps most of Selenium's drawbacks while retaining the coverage value. This talk, delivered by the maintainer of Webrat, will describe the value of acceptance testing for Rails apps, common pitfalls, and Webrat's solutions. We'll look at techniques for writing maintainable acceptance tests, and maximizing their value over the lifespan of an application. Finally, we'll explore advanced techniques like applying Webrat to ease some of the pain of in-browser testing when it can't be avoided (JavaScript/AJAX, primarily). http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-18-2009-6_Webrat-Rails-Acceptance-Testing-Evolved_Bryan-Helmkamp.mp4 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:30:00 -0700 30:25 no Jacqui Maher In August of 2008, Jacqui Maher visited Baobab Health in Lilongwe, Malawi. Baobab is a dedicated group of programmers, clinicians and administrators developing public health and patient data administration systems. They use a variety of hardware and software technologies, but their main applications are written in Ruby on Rails. In August of 2008, Jacqui Maher visited Baobab Health in Lilongwe, Malawi. Baobab is a dedicated group of programmers, clinicians and administrators developing public health and patient data administration systems. They use a variety of hardware and software technologies, but their main applications are written in Ruby on Rails. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-18-2009-4_Using-Ruby-to-Fight-AIDS_Jacqui-Maher.mp4 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:00:00 -0700 37:18 no Tim Elliott Shoes is a tiny graphics toolkit that embeds ruby. It allows you to do anything. You can draw squares and circles and they can move about and say "Good Morning" when they chance upon each other. Shoes lets you add layouts to your applications with ease. It borrows ideas from Processing, Lua, and HTML to make an intuitive language to convert your ideas into programs that you can share with your friends. Shoes is a tiny graphics toolkit that embeds ruby. It allows you to do anything. You can draw squares and circles and they can move about and say "Good Morning" when they chance upon each other. Shoes lets you add layouts to your applications with ease. It borrows ideas from Processing, Lua, and HTML to make an intuitive language to convert your ideas into programs that you can share with your friends. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-18-2009-3_Using-Shoes-to-Have-Fun_Tim-Elliott.mp4 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:15:00 -0700 22:17 no Jon Crosby Learn about the architecture and construction of CloudKit, an Open Web JSON Appliance. Along the way, see how the emerging Open Stack — including OpenID and OAuth+Discovery — can be used to build open and discoverable web services in Ruby. Other topics of exploration will include cooperative Rack middleware stacks, non-relational storage with Tokyo Cabinet, new IETF drafts covering HTTP Discovery, online/offline synchronization with plain old HTTP, and more. Learn about the architecture and construction of CloudKit, an Open Web JSON Appliance. Along the way, see how the emerging Open Stack — including OpenID and OAuth+Discovery — can be used to build open and discoverable web services in Ruby. Other topics of exploration will include cooperative Rack middleware stacks, non-relational storage with Tokyo Cabinet, new IETF drafts covering HTTP Discovery, online/offline synchronization with plain old HTTP, and more. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-18-2009-2_CloudKit-Hacking-Open-Stack-with-Ruby-and-Rack_Jon-Crosby.mp4 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:30:00 -0700 29:40 no Josh Tyler, Rusty Burchfield Every site based on a RDBMS will eventually hit a database scalability bottleneck. In this session we will introduce Hypertable, an open-source implementation of BigTable, and HyperRecord, an extension of ActiveRecord using Hypertable for storage. We will demonstrate Zvents' use of these technologies to scale a high-traffic, data-intensive consumer web application, writing billions of cells daily. Every site based on a RDBMS will eventually hit a database scalability bottleneck. In this session we will introduce Hypertable, an open-source implementation of BigTable, and HyperRecord, an extension of ActiveRecord using Hypertable for storage. We will demonstrate Zvents' use of these technologies to scale a high-traffic, data-intensive consumer web application, writing billions of cells daily. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-18-2009-1_Hypertable-and-Rails-DB-Scaling-Solutions-with-HyperRecord_Josh-Tyler_Rusty-Burchfield.mp4 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:45:00 -0700 23:46 no Nick Kallen Nick Kallen uses live coding demos to show how to scale your massive web application with distribution, balance and locality. Building a massively scaled, fault tolerant web service isn't easy, but it's definitely easier if you know which architectures work and which don't. In this talk we'll survey the architecture and complexities of a scalable web service including edgeware, middleware, message systems, load balancing, cache hierarchies, queueing theory, coordination primitives for distributed computation, designing for latency, inter-process communication, load balancing versus locality, write versus read throughput, non-relational datastores, database replication topologies, logging distributed computations, fault tolerance, deployment at scale, forensics, and the merits of suicide. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-17-2009-9_Magic-Scaling-Sprinkles_Nick-Kallen.mp4 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:30:00 -0700 42:28 no Carl Lerche It has been said that Ruby is a slow language, but that is not true. Numerous Ruby projects have shown that it is possible to write fast, scalable software using Ruby. Merb, for instance, is faster than any major PHP web framework. In this talk, Carl will show how to take the many available tools, such as ruby-prof, RBench, and kcachegrind, and turn any old Ruby into a speed machine. The tips and processes will be demonstrated with real world examples of optimizations that have been done to the Merb and Rails 3 projects. It has been said that Ruby is a slow language, but that is not true. Numerous Ruby projects have shown that it is possible to write fast, scalable software using Ruby. Merb, for instance, is faster than any major PHP web framework. In this talk, Carl will show how to take the many available tools, such as ruby-prof, RBench, and kcachegrind, and turn any old Ruby into a speed machine. The tips and processes will be demonstrated with real world examples of optimizations that have been done to the Merb and Rails 3 projects. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-17-2009-8_Writing-Fast-Ruby-Learning-from-Merb-and-Rails3_Carl-Lerche.mp4 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:45:00 -0700 35:53 no Blake Mizerany, Greg Borenstein, Jay Phillips, Josh Peek, Tim Elliott, Yehuda Katz Many of us discovered Ruby because of Rails, but there are many more frameworks for both web development and other application domains. We have assembled authors and contributors from six of the major application frameworks written in Ruby: Rails, Merb, Sinatra, Adhearsion, RAD and Shoes. We'll get to hear what they have to say about what makes Ruby good (or bad) for building frameworks, and what opinions they have of other frameworks. Come with your questions, and demand answers! Many of us discovered Ruby because of Rails, but there are many more frameworks for both web development and other application domains. We have assembled authors and contributors from six of the major application frameworks written in Ruby: Rails, Merb, Sinatra, Adhearsion, RAD and Shoes. We'll get to hear what they have to say about what makes Ruby good (or bad) for building frameworks, and what opinions they have of other frameworks. Come with your questions, and demand answers! http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-17-2009-7_Discussion-Panel-Ruby-Application-Frameworks.mp4 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:15:00 -0700 1:04:35 no Ilya Grigorik A high-performance proxy server is less than a hundred lines of Ruby code and it is an indispensable tool for anyone who knows how to use it. In this session we will walk through the basics of event-driven architectures and high-performance network programming in Ruby using the EventMachine framework. A high-performance proxy server is less than a hundred lines of Ruby code and it is an indispensable tool for anyone who knows how to use it. In this session we will walk through the basics of event-driven architectures and high-performance network programming in Ruby using the EventMachine framework. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-17-2009-6_Building-Custom-Web-Proxies-Ruby_Ilya-Grigorik.mp4 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:30:00 -0700 38:20 no Hampton Catlin Have you ever tried to catch a train running at a million miles an hour? Jumping into the traffic stream at Wikipedia is an insane adventure I've been going through. Exactly how do you launch a new platform that could instantly have millions of hits in a few hours? How do you do that and not spend 3 years researching? A fun tour of how I got Ruby at Wikipedia and did it with confidence, bravado, and alcohol. There will be cussing and lots of funny stories that should be highly educating and an insight into my technical philosophies. Have you ever tried to catch a train running at a million miles an hour? Jumping into the traffic stream at Wikipedia is an insane adventure I've been going through. Exactly how do you launch a new platform that could instantly have millions of hits in a few hours? How do you do that and not spend 3 years researching? A fun tour of how I got Ruby at Wikipedia and did it with confidence, bravado, and alcohol. There will be cussing and lots of funny stories that should be highly educating and an insight into my technical philosophies. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-17-2009-5_There-Will-Be-Ruby_Hampton-Catlin.mp4 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:45:00 -0700 28:19 no Gregory Miller This talk will present the TrustTheVote project and the "I count!" movement. It will cover the technology roadmap, progress so far, and next steps, including expansion of development efforts and opportunities for involvement in design and construction of trustworthy voting technology that everyone will be able to see, touch, and try—technology that will be fully federally certified and have the endorsement of the States' elections directors through a unique approach that can ensure widespread adoption. If you have ever wanted to know what you can do to make a difference in our electoral process, then this talk is for you. This talk will present the TrustTheVote project and the "I count!" movement. It will cover the technology roadmap, progress so far, and next steps, including expansion of development efforts and opportunities for involvement in design and construction of trustworthy voting technology that everyone will be able to see, touch, and try—technology that will be fully federally certified and have the endorsement of the States' elections directors through a unique approach that can ensure widespread adoption. If you have ever wanted to know what you can do to make a difference in our electoral process, then this talk is for you. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-17-2009-4_TrustTheVote-Open-Source-Voting_Gregory-Miller.mp4 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:00:00 -0700 31:40 no David Stevenson In this session, David Stevenson explores how to run untrusted code inside a ruby application using a sandbox. With this powerful technique, users can upload code that integrates as part of a larger application, making it ideal for custom business rules, dynamic games (think SecondLife), and science/math applications. Ruby's english-like syntax and ease of creating DSLs makes it a good scripting candidate for non-technical people. In this session, David Stevenson explores how to run untrusted code inside a ruby application using a sandbox. With this powerful technique, users can upload code that integrates as part of a larger application, making it ideal for custom business rules, dynamic games (think SecondLife), and science/math applications. Ruby's english-like syntax and ease of creating DSLs makes it a good scripting candidate for non-technical people. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-17-2009-3_Playing-With-Fire-Running-Uploaded-Ruby-Code-in-a-Sandbox_David-Stevenson.mp4 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:15:00 -0700 28:40 no Aaron Quint Sinatra has been getting a lot of attention lately as the next great (micro-)framework. In writing apps, diving in, and contributing the reasons for its existence have become more clear. Sinatra is not just a toy or a neat trick, its the best way to create simple and non-obtrusive web interfaces to sit on top of a new or existing Ruby codebase. I'll walk through the whats, whys, and tools for getting started with Sinatra. Sinatra has been getting a lot of attention lately as the next great (micro-)framework. In writing apps, diving in, and contributing the reasons for its existence have become more clear. Sinatra is not just a toy or a neat trick, its the best way to create simple and non-obtrusive web interfaces to sit on top of a new or existing Ruby codebase. I'll walk through the whats, whys, and tools for getting started with Sinatra. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-17-2009-2_Sinatra-Framework-Within_Aaron-Quint.mp4 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:30:00 -0700 26:42 no Rich Kilmer MacRuby is an implementation of the Ruby language that runs on the Objective-C runtime under OS X. MacRuby is based on Ruby 1.9 but contains substantial modifications including the merging of object models, using the Objective-C 2.0 generational garbage collector, moving core types atop their Objective-C counterparts and replacement of standard libraries to more optimally integrate with OS X. MacRuby also includes a new library, HotCocoa, a thin, idiomatic Ruby layer that sits above Cocoa and other frameworks. This talk introduces MacRuby and HotCocoa and demonstrates how to use them to quickly build OS X desktop applications with Ruby. MacRuby is an implementation of the Ruby language that runs on the Objective-C runtime under OS X. MacRuby is based on Ruby 1.9 but contains substantial modifications including the merging of object models, using the Objective-C 2.0 generational garbage collector, moving core types atop their Objective-C counterparts and replacement of standard libraries to more optimally integrate with OS X. MacRuby also includes a new library, HotCocoa, a thin, idiomatic Ruby layer that sits above Cocoa and other frameworks. This talk introduces MacRuby and HotCocoa and demonstrates how to use them to quickly build OS X desktop applications with Ruby. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-17-2009-1_Mac-Ruby-Hot-Cocoa_Rich-Kilmer.mp4 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:45:00 -0700 34:56 ruby,macruby,hotcocoa no Jeff Lindsay Web Hooks evangelist Jeff Lindsay describes the powerful simplicity of integrating web hooks with your application. The canonical example is a post-commit hook for source control, but Jeff shows many other examples. Web Hooks evangelist Jeff Lindsay describes the powerful simplicity of integrating web hooks with your application. The canonical example is a post-commit hook for source control, but Jeff shows many other ways to allow programmers to chain functionality without building an entire API. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-22-2009_Using-Web-Hooks_Jeff-Lindsay.mp4 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:30:00 -0700 1:01:42 integration no Mislav Marohnic Author Mislav Marohnic discusses Coral, a way to pull in and organize Git repositories that extends and partially replaces RubyGems. Although still in the early stages, Coral aims to brings sanity to maintaining your own third-party forks across projects. Author Mislav Marohnic discusses Coral, a way to pull in and organize Git repositories that extends and partially replaces RubyGems. Although still in the early stages, Coral aims to brings sanity to maintaining your own third-party forks across projects. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-15-2009_Managing-Git-Resources-w-Coral_Mislav-Marohnic.mp4 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:30:00 -0700 50:26 git, fork no Chris Eppstein Compass author Chris Eppstein shows how Compass and Sass can untangle stylesheets and allow reusable styles, classes, and designs without imposing on the markup. Compass author Chris Eppstein describes a new trend in the stylesheet framework world towards adhering to semantic markup and maintaining the separation between content and style. He shows how Compass and Sass can untangle stylesheets and allow reusable styles, classes, and designs without imposing on the markup. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/03-18-2009_Compass-Sass_Chris-Eppstein.mp4 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 52:05 compass, sass, css, blueprint no Lewis Cirne Lew Cirne, CEO of New Relic, outlines how they use their own RPM product to maintain and improve the performance of their application, which processes billions of transactions per month with the average response time under 40ms. Lew Cirne, CEO of New Relic, outlines how they use their own RPM product to maintain and improve the performance of their application, which processes billions of transactions per month with the average response time under 40ms. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/03-11-2009_IntPerOptRailsDev_Lewis-Cirne.mp4 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 45:19 new relic, performance no Blake Mizerany Blake Mizerany of Heroku talks about building lightweight RESTful web services with his Ruby framework Sinatra. Blake Mizerany of Heroku talks about building lightweight RESTful web services with his Ruby framework Sinatra. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/03-04-2009_Sinatra-Overview_Blake-Mizerany.mp4 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 58:47 sinatra, rest no Andrew Cantino, Kyle Maxwell Andrew Cantino and Kyle Maxwell talk about Parselets.com, a cross-language toolset for developer-generated APIs, and SelectorGadget, their bookmarklet that finds the minimal CSS selector for elements on the page. Andrew Cantino and Kyle Maxwell talk about Parselets.com, a cross-language toolset for developer-generated APIs, and SelectorGadget, their bookmarklet that finds the minimal CSS selector for elements on the page. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/02-25-2009_Parselets-and-Selector-Gadget_Kyle-M_Andrew-C.mp4 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 33:34 parselets, selectorgadget no Tammer Saleh Tammer Saleh of thoughtbot demonstrates Hoptoad, their Rails exception notification service. By aggregating repeat error notifications Hoptoad stops the email onslaught from a production bug while still providing appropriate notification and escalation. Tammer Saleh of thoughtbot demonstrates Hoptoad, their Rails exception notification service. By aggregating repeat error notifications Hoptoad stops the email onslaught from a production bug while still providing appropriate notification and escalation. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/02-18-2009_Ride-the-Toad_Tammer-Saleh.mp4 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 47:03 exception, hoptoad no Ezra Zygmuntowicz Ezra Zygmuntowicz of Engine Yard demonstrates Solo, their new cloud offering for the deployment and management of lightweight Rails, Merb, or Rack apps. Ezra Zygmuntowicz of Engine Yard demonstrates Solo, their new cloud offering for the deployment and management of lightweight Rails, Merb, or Rack apps. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/02-11-2009_Engine-Yard-Solo_Ezra-Zygmuntowicz.mp4 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 51:01 solo, engine yard, cloud no Chris Tong, Corey Innis, Ryan Dy Pivots Ryan Dy, Chris Tong, and Corey Innis lay out the current conventions and standards for CSS and introduce some organizational techniques and recipies for common tasks. See code examples at http://pivotallabs.com/labs/css. Pivots Ryan Dy, Chris Tong, and Corey Innis lay out the current conventions and standards for CSS and introduce some organizational techniques and recipies for common tasks. See code examples at http://pivotallabs.com/labs/css. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/01-28-2009_Consistent-Effective-CSS.mp4 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 1:11:37 CSS, style no Jeff Dean Pivot Jeff Dean describes the technical and process benefits offered by the functional testing framework Cucumber, a replacement for Story Runner. Pivot Jeff Dean describes the technical and process benefits offered by the functional testing framework Cucumber, a replacement for Story Runner. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/02-04-2009_Cucumber_Jeff-Dean.mp4 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 58:17 cucumber, dsl, functional test no Bryce Roberts, Max Shapiro, Max Ventilla, Sven Strohband Hosted by Pivotal Labs and VentureArchetypes. Moderated panel discussion on best practices for building your team, including the evolving role of the founders and attracting top talent at the right time. 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 http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/12-02-2008_PS_Talent-and-Team.mp4 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:49:00 -0800 1:24:20 projectstartup, recruiting, team-building no Nathan Sobo, Nick Kallen, Brian Takita Nathan Sobo, Brian Takita, and Nick Kallen discuss various testing methods for JavaScript, including JSSpec and JSpec. Nathan Sobo, Brian Takita, and Nick Kallen discuss various testing methods for JavaScript, including JSSpec and JSpec. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/03-05-2008_JS-Testing.mp4 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:30:00 -0800 50:59 javascript, testing, jsspec, jspec no Alan Cooper, David Fore, Lane Halley, Tim McCoy Alan Cooper and colleagues from his renowned design firm discuss the challenges faced and lessons learned from their forays into using a more agile process for design consulting. 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. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/12-10-2008_Cooper-Panel.mp4 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:30:00 -0800 63:36 cooper, design, interaction design, agile no Adam Wiggins 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. 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. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/12-17-2008_Heroku_Adam-Wiggins.mp4 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:30:00 -0800 1:05:07 heroku, mesh, cloud no Al Sargent, Jason Huggins, Steve Hazel 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. 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. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/11-11-2008_SauceLabs_Jason-H_Al-S_Steve-H.mp4 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:30:00 -0800 1:07:25 selenium, cloud, continuous integration, ci no Martin McClure Martin McClure of GemStone answers questions and gathers audience feedback about MagLev, a Ruby implementation based on the GemStone persistence engine. Martin McClure of GemStone answers questions and gathers audience feedback about MagLev, a Ruby implementation based on the GemStone persistence engine. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/12-01-2008_MagLev_Martin-McClure.mp4 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:30:00 -0800 59:33 maglev, persistance, ruby no Akash Garg, Ethan Beard, Philip J. Kaplan, Robert T. Coneybeer, Scott Raney Hosted by Pivotal Labs and VentureArchetypes. Moderated panel discussion on building a brand and attracting and rewarding your best users, with a focus on social media and sustainable expansion. 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 http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/09-16-2008_Project-Startup.mp4 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 1:13:47 ProjectStartup no Joseph Smarr Joseph Smarr from Plaxo discusses the rise of the Social Web and the sites and tools that enable it. Joseph Smarr from Plaxo discusses the rise of the Social Web and the sites and tools that enable it. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/11-28-2007_Plaxo_Joseph-Smarr.mp4 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 47:30 plaxo no Amanda Willoughby, William Pietri William Pietri and Amanda Willoughby revisit their Agile2008 talk "Meshing Gears: Real-world examples of how design and development integrate - and fail to" William Pietri and Amanda Willoughby revisit their Agile2008 talk "Meshing Gears: Real-world examples of how design and development integrate - and fail to" http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/10-22-2008_Meshing-Gears_Amanda-W_William-P.mp4 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 1:26:46 agile, design no Adriana Gascoigne, George Zachary, Jonathan Abrams, Mike Speiser, Rahim Fazal Hosted by Pivotal Labs and VentureArchetypes. Moderated panel discussion on competitive strategies & tactics, dealing with copycats, standing out in a crowded space, and creative competitive research. 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 http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/10-21-2008_PS-Competitive-Strategy.mp4 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 1:11:12 projectstartup no Adam Leventhal, Bryan Cantrill Brian Cantrill and Adam Leventhal from Sun Microsystems give a talk on the dynamic tracing framework, DTrace. Brian Cantrill and Adam Leventhal from Sun Microsystems give a talk on the dynamic tracing framework, DTrace. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-02-2008_DTrace_Bryan-C_Adam-L.mp4 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 29:28 dtrace no Yehuda Katz Yehuda Katz from EngineYard talks about using JavaScript development using jQuery. Yehuda Katz from EngineYard talks about using JavaScript development using jQuery. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/02-20-2008_JQuery_Yehuda-Katz.mp4 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 57:29 jquery, engine yard no Aaron Peckham, Felix M Felix M. and Aaron Peckham talk about HAML. Felix M. and Aaron Peckham talk about HAML. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/08-06-2008_HAML_Felix-Morio_Aaron-Peckham.mp4 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 25:22 HAML no Ben Brinckerhoff, Dan Mayer Ben Brinckerhoff and Dan Mayer talk about Devver, their cloud-based test acceleration platform. Ben Brinckerhoff and Dan Mayer talk about Devver, their cloud-based test acceleration platform. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/07-16-2008_Devver_Ben-Brinkerhoff_Dan-Mayer.mp4 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 44:04 devver no Christian Sepulveda Christian Sepulveda gives an overview of the Scrum development process as it applies to software. Christian Sepulveda gives an overview of the Scrum development process as it applies to software. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/08-13-2008_SCRUM_Christian-Sepulveda.mp4 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 1:14:27 scrum no Lewis Cirne Lewis Cirne demos New Relic's RPM, a real-time Rails performance monitoring and analysis tool. Lewis Cirne demos New Relic's RPM, a real-time Rails performance monitoring and analysis tool. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/07-23-2008_New-Relic-RPM_Lewis-Cirne.mp4 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 41:51 new relic, monitoring no Ezra Zygmuntowicz Ezra Zygmuntowicz talks about Vertebra, Engine Yard's distributed cloud application programming platform. Ezra Zygmuntowicz talks about Vertebra, Engine Yard's distributed cloud application programming platform. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/07-30-2008_Vertebra_Ezra-Zygmuntowicz.mp4 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 41:54 vertebra, engine yard no Evan Phoenix Evan Phoenix answers questions about Rubinius, a Ruby virtual machine and compiler written as much as possible in Ruby. Evan Phoenix answers questions about Rubinius, a Ruby virtual machine and compiler written as much as possible in Ruby. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/04-16-2008_Rubinius_Evan-Phoenix.mp4 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 1:02:03 rubinius no Blaine Cook, Seth Fitzsimmons 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. 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. http://assets.pivotallabs.com/talks/08-27-2008_Fire-Eagle_Seth-Fitzsimmons_Blaine-Cook.mp4 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 44:35 fire eagle, yahoo, location no