Sponsors

• AT&T Interactive

  

  AT&T Interactive is devoted to creating compelling experiences that connect people, businesses and places so everyone can more easily engage with their world, wherever they work, live or play.

  We have a passion for the Internet, mobile applications and emerging media platforms, and are proud to nourish a collaborative, tech-driven culture that promotes innovation, the entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to enhance everyone's daily lives.

  As a tech-driven company, AT&T Interactive is always looking for passionate talented individuals who can solve difficult problems and develop new and existing products to exceed consumer expectations and drive value for our advertisers - whether it's online, mobile, interactive TV, video or other media platforms.

• Engine Yard

  

  Rely on Engine Yard: 70 people, two data centers, and easy access to the cloud.

  Engine Yard came about in early 2006 because we saw a genuine need: customers were developing business-critical Rails apps, but they didn't want to worry about deployment issues, nor did they want to hire IT staff to manage servers. Instead, customers wanted Rails-focused 24/7 operations support, great infrastructure, and a smooth path from one to one million users.

  We handle deployment and maintenance, so you can focus on building your application and running your business. Our deep roots in the Ruby and Rails communities, combined with our commitment to driving the next generation of Ruby technologies, offer our customers the peace of mind of knowing their applications are managed by a team of true technical experts.

  Engine Yard is invested in the future of the Ruby and Rails communities, and is helping foster and lead development by supporting open source projects like Rails, Merb and Rubinius.

• Integrum

  

  Integrum emphasizes business value, speed to market and open communication to build remarkable Ruby on Rails web applications.

• JSConf 2009

  

  JSConf 2009 is a conference devoted to the programming language we all love to hate and hate to love, JavaScript. This is conference will be thoughtful, content driven, and exemplify the very nature of JavaScript. The core focus of this conference is to expose some of the details about JavaScript that are often overlooked and present them more as a discussion with the audience. The content of the conference should cater to all types of JavaScript users from client interfaces to server development to testing. No matter which programming language you love, you know of the pleasure and pain of JavaScript programming.

• Marakana

  

  Marakana is a San Francisco-based open source training company. We were first to run Ruby on Rails training classes on the west coast. Marakana provides hands-on, instructor-led training to software teams of large corporations and government organizations. Unlike other training companies, Marakana focuses exclusively on open source technology. Our courses can also be customized to your specific needs, and delivered on-site, at your location for groups of 3 or more participants. For more info, visit marakana.com.

• New Relic

  

  New Relic is the leading provider of application performance management tools for Rails. Time spent looking for Rails performance problems is time not spent writing code. We want you to fix those problems fast—so you can get back to what you love. More than 1200 customers use RPM to monitor more than 12,000 Rails application instances, detecting performance problems and drilling down to their root cause. For a free, fully-supported version of RPM go to www.newrelic.com.

• Pivotal Labs

  

  Pivotal Labs: Discipline, collaboration, results.

  At Pivotal Labs, we believe software development should enable your innovative vision, not constrain it. Our sustainable development practice combines our diverse and brilliant team of Pivots with the very best in agile software management techniques. Pivotal Labs partners with you in a collaborative and iterative process that not only produces the highest quality software, it also spreads our wealth of experience to your development team. Let our focus, expertise, and perspective inform and improve your development process throughout and beyond our partnership. Pivotal Labs: come for the best software, leave with the best practices.

• RailsKits

  

  Rails Kits provides developers with ready-made and well-tested code for getting projects off to a quick start. Developers can save time, skipping the boring stuff and diving straight in to the fun stuff. Get your project done in less time with less work.

• RubyRun^CE

  

  RubyRun^CE is a free, GEM installed performance diagnostic tool for Ruby and Ruby-on-Rails applications. It generates RSS/HTML reports/charts; traces code by method and SQL automagically including code you don’t know; diagnose hanging, slow, and leaking code. Comes with pdf/html documentation, and you OWN everything IN HOUSE.

• Scout

  

  Scout is a dead-simple server monitoring solution powered by open-source plugins. Built by (and for) Rails developers, Scout shows what you need to care about and not the stuff you don’t. Start monitoring your first server for free at scoutapp.com.

• Scribd

  

  Scribd is the world's largest social publishing network, changing the way tens of millions of people discover and share original writings and documents. Our innovative document reader technology, iPaper, turns written works into web documents, which can be shared on Scribd.com or embedded on any other website. Many of today's leading companies and organizations are using Scribd — including the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign Team, The New York Times, Simon & Schuster, Random House, the World Economic Forum, FOXBusiness.com, Harvard University, Ford, Duke Medicine, and The Atlantic. Launched in 2007, Scribd is backed by Charles River Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Paul Graham's Y Combinator, the Kinsey Hills Group and several prominent angel investors.

Media Sponsors

• Addison-Wesley Professional

  

  Addison-Wesley Professional is a leading publisher of high-quality and timely information for programmers, developers, engineers, and system administrators. Our mission is to provide educational materials about new technologies and new approaches to current technologies written by the creators and leading authorities. Addison-Wesley is a part of InformIT, the online presence of the family of information technology publishers and brands of Pearson, and publisher of the Professional Ruby Series with Obie Fernandez, series editor.

• Apress

  

  Apress is a technical publisher with more than 700 books in print and a continually expanding portfolio of publications. Apress provides high-quality, no-fluff content in print and electronic formats that help serious technology professionals build a comprehensive pathway to career success. Apress is part of Springer Science+Business Media.

• Manning

  

  Manning Publications publishes computer books for professionals—programmers, system administrators, designers, architects, managers and others. Our focus is on computing titles at professional levels. We care about the quality of our books. We work with our authors to coax out of them the best writing they can produce. We consult with technical experts on book proposals and manuscripts, and we may use as many as two dozen reviewers in various stages of preparing a manuscript. The abilities of each author are nurtured to encourage him or her to write a first-rate book.

• PeepCode

  

  PeepCode Screencasts are a high-intensity way to learn Ruby on Rails website development.

  Experienced developers have said that PeepCode is "fantastic and the price is a steal." Designer/developers have said they are "exactly the type of instruction I need to pick up new things and understand how they work."

• Pragmatic Screencasts

  

  Pragmatic Screencasts help you quickly get up to speed on timely topics including Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Objective-C, iPhone, and Erlang. In these video tutorials, you'll learn directly from the experts. You can download and watch DRM-free episodes when and where it's convenient for you.

  In the words of one viewer: "I'm extremely impressed with the quality of the video as well as the contents. All I can say is that you should try them out for yourself, especially at $5 per episode, there’s really nothing to think about."

• Wiley

  

  With over 200 years experience in the publishing business, Wiley has been a leading source of information and understanding for generations of customers. From computers to cooking, travel to technology, and everything in between, Wiley has a book for you. If you can dream it, we’ll help you do it.

Advertisers

• ELC

  

  Founded in 1991, ELC Technologies is powering the hottest Ruby on Rails web applications. From Cisco to ESPN to Live Nation, ELC Technologies is bringing Ruby on Rails to business-critical applications. Our work and speed of implementation has received praise from the Rails core team. To learn more, visit elctech.com.