Schedule: Keynote sessions

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9:15am Friday, 05/30/2008
Keynote
Location: Portland Ballroom
Joel Spolsky (Fog Creek Software)
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7:30pm Friday, 05/30/2008
Meet the Sun You Don't Know
Location: Portland Ballroom
Charles Nutter (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
You think Sun is the Java company. Enterprise Edition. Steak and strippers. But Java's only part of the story, and the story is changing every day. In ten minutes, you'll get a whirlwind tour of a different Sun, one that gives hardware breaks to startups, open sources cornerstone software like Solaris, OpenJDK, ZFS and DTrace, and actively funds Ruby projects on and off the JVM. Read more.
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8:00pm Friday, 05/30/2008
Keynote
Location: Portland Ballroom 253
David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals)
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9:15am Saturday, 05/31/2008
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Jeremy Kemper (37signals)
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5:30pm Saturday, 05/31/2008
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Kent Beck (Three Rivers Institute (TRI))
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2:45pm Sunday, 06/01/2008
Rails Core Panel
Location: Portland Ballroom
David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals), Jeremy Kemper (37signals), Michael Koziarski (Koziarski Software Limited), Rick Olson (ActiveReload, LLC.)
Q&A with the core developers of Rails. Your questions; their answers. Read more.
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