The New Relic .NET team will be represented at Visual Studio Live! Chicago next week!
Next Week in Chicago
We're excited about going to Visual Studio Live! and looking forward to meeting current and future users of our .NET agent at the conference exhibit hall.
At the Visual Studio Live! Demonstration Theater on Tuesday, May 14th, you can learn even more about our application performance monitoring for .NET and what we call ‘performance-driven development.' …
…traces, and recording slow SQL calls. See these docs for full details.
You can still try New Relic Pro free for 30 days. For more information, see our RailsConf page. Here is to another great year ahead. See you in Chicago for RailsConf 2014!
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…and said, "That is exactly what my problem is." The other way I did, was I went home to Chicago, which is where my family is from, and took out $ 400 from an ATM, and walked around downtown Chicago and looked for salons and other massage therapists, that sort of thing.
I walked in and said, "Hey, do you take walk‑ins?" "Yeah." "Are you free right now?" "Yeah." "Are you the business owner?" "Yeah." " OK, I've …
There's a flash flood warning for all of Chicago today. Unfortunately there's water in my basement (like other Chicago home owners)...
The flood fixing company U.S. Waterproofing has a cool feature on their website. Look at who we've helped in your neighborhood. As you can see, they get around! Gives me confidence to give them a call—which I might do right now.
There's just a month to go until Lean Kanban North America ( Chicago, April 28 - May 2) and it's time for a little teaser to my talk Kanban through its values .
Exploring Kanban from the perspective of its values has helped me understand and explain Kanban's purpose, which in turn makes explaining Kanban much more satisfying. I described some of that thought process here , and how it helped me get from "what Kanban is " to "what Kanban is for ".
20:20 Groupon = Chicago stigma
23:20 How did you know SaaS was going to be such a success?
27:00 Discussion on personal financial risk when launching a start-up
30:00 Discussion on hardware advancements
31:31 Discussion on human capital: Employee freedom? Employee empowerment?
32:15 What's your position on Marisa?
35:05 What is the secret to having remote workers?
38:05 What's the secret to managing? 38:30 39:25 What would you do at Yahoo?
41:30 Which …
…is being given a metal rod and told to "defend the product" overnight during the Taste of Chicago. [...] We drove around Buckingham Fountain in a golf cart and did donuts in the middle of Lake Shore Drive while the rest of the city was asleep. I worked at [a video store] when I was about 15. I learned about how humans can be cheaper than robots, chased off the local hooligans who attempted to steal things daily, once attempted to ring up someone's groceries because I wasn't …
…localised efficiency into proper perspective. So too does measuring things that matter to the customer (lead times, predictability, quality) rather than things that don't (lines of code, hours spent in the office).
I now see customer focus not just as something nice or important, but as one value (of three) that help give processes and process improvement a good sense of direction. Part of an "outlook for improvement" as the current draft of my Chicago talk has it.
…while changing configuration.
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Opscode will be blowing into the Windy City in February for two great events.
Join Opscode and Promet Source on Monday, February 11 at 5:00 PM for a night of learning, demos, and Chef 11 roadmap discussion.
The night will include:
zero-to-Drupal Application with Chef - an introduction to Chef and walkthrough of setting up Chef to deploy and manage a basic Drupal application.
Automation at Promet - A look at how Promet Source is automating the development and delivery of their products and services.