Sponsorship Information
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Platinum Sponsors
Morph Labs, Inc. has created the first Platform as a Service (PaaS) for Ruby on Rails that provides an enterprise quality environment to deploy, deliver and manage web applications. Based upon industry standards and open source technologies, each Morph AppSpace subscription offers a highly available, fault tolerant environment for Ruby on Rails applications that is able to seamlessly scale on-demand. This Platform as a Service pre-configures the end-to-end environment so that developers don’t have to spend a single hour downloading, installing, configuring and managing the infrastructure. In addition, the subscription includes managed services such as 7×24 monitoring, O/S patching & updating, managed data backups, auto-repair capabilities, expert recommendations & ongoing notifications. Subscriptions are priced based upon environment size and can scale on demand allowing organizations to pay as they grow.
The Morph AppSpace subscriptions are now available starting at $1/day and there are no setup charges or hidden fees. Want to try out the platform, then sign up for a FREE developer account at www.mor.ph.
Obtiva provides agile software development services for organizations that need to create custom web applications. Obtiva consultants strengthen customer teams on-site by providing specialized skill sets and languages such as Ruby on Rails, Eclipse RCP, Java, agile project management, agile and technical coaching, and training. Customers can also count on the Obtiva Studio for full life-cycle development from planning to delivery. Our experienced practitioners share their knowledge of XP, Agile, and innovative new technologies by leading scheduled and on-site training throughout North America. For information please contact us at 630-588-8622 or visit www.obtiva.com.
Gold Sponsors
CohesiveFT's Elastic Server On-Demand (ESOD) takes a process that could last hours to days, and completes it within minutes! Cohesive Flexible Technologies enable customers to build and manage custom applications for virtualized infrastructure. As a result of major trends like SOA, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, the approach to data centers is undergoing rapid change, with major ramifications on cost and business agility. CFT provides on-demand automation solutions to enable this transition in a de-risked, stable way. For more information visit www.CohesiveFT.com.
Centro provides the most comprehensive platform and services to ease the planning and buying of local online media for agencies throughout North America. Launched in 2005, Centro’s platform and services efficiently facilitate the buying and selling of online advertising among hundreds of national, regional, and local agencies and thousands of local online publishers. The company services more than 150 Fortune 500 brands along with hundreds of other businesses, both large and small, through their respective agencies and more than 6,000 local interactive publishers to simplify the complex process of buying local online media. Learn more about the services that make Centro unique at www.centro.net.
Headquartered in Chicago, Pathfinder Development specializes in software development and user experience design. Our team has a wide range of experience, including leading experts in Ruby on Rails, and several other Web 2.0 technology frameworks to rapidly deliver results. Our user driven development methodology leverages Agile best practices to lower costs, speed time-to-market and build quality software that is easy to use.
We have been providing our clients with technology to enable business breakthroughs and competitive advantage for over a decade. Our clients range from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies across a wide array of industries. For more information, visit www.pathf.com.
Engine Yard focuses on Ruby on Rails application deployments and operations support, so you can focus on developing your application and business. Customers have started during development and grown to millions of users without stress along the way. Start with one slice, grow to 16 slices, then to a dedicated cluster in our data center or yours--all without changing your code. Engine Yard supports the Ruby community, by sponsoring the development of Rubinius, Merb and other open source projects. We're here 24/7, by phone, at (866) 518-YARD, or email, at info@engineyard.com.
Silver Sponsors
Founded in 1995, Leapfrog Online, the leading independent digital direct marketing firm in the country, develops programs for Fortune 500 clients in the financial services, telecommunications and automotive industries. Leapfrog Online uses open source software such as Ruby on Rails to build high traffic web sites and web services, to manage large data sets, and to automate operations with special focus on security and test-driven development. If you're interested in working with us to develop web applications or automate software testing in an Agile, highly collaborative environment, please consider applying at www.leapfrogonline.com.
Deforest Group is a unique combination of high energy creatives, service-focused sales staff, and business-savvy partners. We take pride in delivering award winning design and photography to clients in many diverse industries. Discover… Focus… Create… Our team uses its creative energy to discover client needs, focus on their goals, and create lasting impressions of their brands through creative design and photography. For more information visit DeForestGroup.com.
Publishing Partners
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazine, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism. Visit www.oreilly.com for details.
Pathable creates an on-line community for your conference or event, making them dramatically more successful by helping attendees make quick, targeted social and business connections. Attendees tap into Pathable's on-line directory, chat rooms, people-matcher, event calendar and mail system, easily connecting with people and groups who are exactly right for their business and social networks. Event sponsors get the opportunity to participate in targeted conversations with select attendees as peers rather than pitchers. Visit www.pathable.com for details.
The Pragmatic Programmers is an agile publishing and training company. We're here because we want to improve the lives of developers. We do this by creating timely, practical books and working with The Pragmatic Studio to create the best developer training there is. The stuff we produce is timely and relevant because it's created by programmers for programmers.
We recently launched a new series of screencasts on various topics including Ruby, Rails, and Erlang. You can download and watch $5 episodes when and where it's convenient for you, in DRM-free formats. Check out some of our new screencasts at http://pragmatic.tv.