Rails3 BugMash RPM Gold Winner is WMNF Radio
16 February 2010 at 9:30 am | In Events, News, RPM in the News | Leave a Comment
WMNF is a community radio station in Tampa, Florida (and available online at www.WMNF.org.) Community radio is commercial-free and listener supported, which pretty much means they are always in need of financial help. WMNF plays eclectic music — jazz, blues, rock, polka, bluegrass, and lots else — and independent, progressive news and public affairs programming.
Matt Cowley is a part-time staffer at WMNF and is a Rails developer. As Matt says “I’m half-time staff at WMNF as the web manager, and built their site using Ruby on Rails. I’m also a freelance developer. My lame coding blog is at http://www.madcowley.com/madcode.”
Matt took part in the RailsBridge Rails3 BugMash a couple weeks ago. RailsBridge is a project put together by Mike Gunderloy, Dana Jones, Sarah Mei, Sarah Allen, Michael Breen, Eric Davis, and Sam Elliott to foster and support a sense of community with Rails. The BugMash was in support of Rails3, the major release of Rails in beta and due for GA any day now.
To support the BugMash effort, New Relic offered a prize of one year of RPM Gold for one of the participants chosen at random by RailsBridge. The lucky winner was Matt Cowley and he has donated the prize to WMNF. Great gesture Matt and congratulations to WMNF Radio. Rock on!
Twitter addresses are @wmnf and @madcowley.
IT ops teams should adopt Agile practices to match dev teams. See why at our live webcast on Nov. 19 at 11 am PT
10 November 2009 at 12:08 pm | In Agile, Cloud Computing, Events, RPM in the News | Leave a CommentLive Webcast: “Agile IT: A Better Approach to Application Development, Deployment, and Management”
When: November 19, 11:00 am PT/14:00 pm ET
Speakers: Julie Craig, analyst, EMA; Ward Cunningham, CTO, AboutUs.org; Mike Malloy, vp marketing, New Relic
Registration: http://www.enterprisemanagement.com/newrelic
Agile development and Cloud computing are enabling application development teams to become faster, more responsive, and more cost efficient. However, these development teams often finish their new web applications in record time only to wait weeks to go into production. In this one-hour webcast, the speakers will propose that IT operations adopt Agile techniques to ensure better collaboration with application development teams, improve time-to-market for business-critical systems, and keep pace with rapidly-changing market conditions.
Join us for a live webcast titled “Agile IT: A Better Approach to Application Development, Deployment, and Management” and find out how IT Operations teams can benefit from Agile practices. The live event will be held on November 19 at 11:00 Pacific Time/14:00 Eastern Time. Speakers include veteran industry analyst Julie Craig of Enterprise Management Associates and Ward Cunningham, CTO of AboutUs.org and co-author of “The Agile Manifesto.” They are joined by Mike Malloy, vice president of marketing at New Relic.
Attendees will learn:
•How some organizations are moving new business software features into production in days, not months.
•How Operations and Applications teams can work together to form an “agile alliance.”
•How the on-demand SaaS model, which has transformed business applications, is now poised to change IT application management as well.
•How Cloud-based application management improves your team’s agility and cost effectiveness—but also demands a new approach to application management and support.
Register today for “Agile IT: A Better Approach to Application Development, Deployment, and Management” on Thursday November 19, 11 a.m. PST/ 14:00 p.m. EST.
Free Pass to Cloud Computing Expo from New Relic
15 October 2009 at 6:15 pm | In Cloud Computing, Events, Partners, RPM in the News | Leave a Comment
As a sponsor of Cloud Computing Expo, New Relic snagged a promo code for free admission to both the sessions and the expo. If you are in the Bay Area November 2-4, come and join us at the Santa Clara Convention Center. There are several tracks focused on cloud such as Enterprise-class computing, Cloud Platforms, Storage, Management and Testing, and others. On Wednesday, at 9:10 AM, New Relic will be presenting “To stop the Cloud Blame Storm, You Must See Inside the Running Cloud Application.” When the cloud-based application’s performance is poor, who’s at fault? The cloud provider, the application developer, or the platform tool? In our presentation, we discuss how to end this blame game.
To get free admission to sessions and the Expo click on the Cloud Computing logo above and on the registration page enter the promo code newrelicVIPgold [case sensitive]. Enjoy the show. Stop by and see us in Booth 120.
Sign up for our webinar: “Optimizing Your Online Store for the Holidays,” Thursday, 9/24
17 September 2009 at 10:00 am | In Events, Java, Performance Tuning, Rails | Leave a CommentWeb Seminar: Optimizing Your Online Store for the Holidays
Thursday, September 24, at 10:00 PDT/ 13:00 EDT.
Register today! The first 20 attendees will be entered in a drawing to win a new 8GB iPod Nano.
The Holiday season is just around the corner—a time of year when online retailers can experience a doubling or tripling of sales, and an even greater spike in traffic. With peak online traffic, the risk of losing customers becomes greater if you cannot rapidly respond to change. Did you know that most online shoppers consider response times longer than 2 seconds to be a poor experience? And that 30% of users who have a poor experience will abandon their shopping carts in favor of your competitors? What strategies will you put in place this holiday season to ensure that new features can be added smoothly and that your team can react to problems quickly?
Join New Relic, the leading provider of on-demand application management tools, and leading online retailer SheetMusicPlus.com for a free webinar “Optimizing Your Online Store for the Holidays,” on Thursday, September 24, at 10:00 PDT/ 13:00 EDT. Sheet Music Plus is the nation’s leading online provider of sheet music with with a Rails application utilizing the Java-based Solr search engine. During this fast-paced, 30-minute session, Brian Doll, manager of software development at Sheet Music Plus, will share his tips for better application performance, capacity and scalability during the peak season and throughout the year.
Who should attend:
- Ruby and Java web application developers
- IT operations personnel responsible for application monitoring
- E-commerce store owners concerned about customer experience
On the Road Again; Rails Performance in the Cloud Roadshow
16 September 2009 at 12:37 pm | In Cloud Computing, Events, Partners, Performance Tuning, Rails | Leave a Comment
Our friends at Engine Yard have created a seminar series called Rails Performance in the Cloud Roadshow. Beginning October 26 in Boston, we are going on the road to share best practices for deploying and managing high performance apps in the Cloud. If you are considering moving your Rails apps to the cloud, you must come to one of these half-day events.
Speakers will include Tom Mornini, CTO and Co-Founder of Engine Yard; Willie Wang VP of Products with CVS Dude; and our very own Steve Hudson. The tour goes from Boston to Chicago, Austin, L.A., and Seattle. Come and join us for breakfast and then sit back while we address topics like deployment platforms for the cloud, how Amazon’s AWS and EC2 work, monitoring and performance management, and version control in the cloud.
Make sure you register at the Rails Roadshow site. When the seats are gone, they’re gone, so sign up early to make sure you can join us.
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