My sincere apologies if you were planning on coming.
On 6/30/11, Alex Miller <al...@puredanger.com> wrote:
> Lots of great language and FP talks at Strange Loop this year -
> Clojure, Haskell, Scala, etc. Check it out below...
>
> =================
> STRANGE LOOP 2011
> =================
>
> Strange Loop conference
> St. Louis Sept 18-20
> Early bird - $250 - till **July 8th**
> Regular - $325 - till Aug 19th
> Schedule: https://thestrangeloop.com/schedule
> Register: https://regonline.com/strangeloop2011
>
> Strange Loop is a multi-technology conference that brings together the
> developers
> creating the languages, libraries, and tools that drive tomorrow's
> applications. Kind of
> a giant burrito of developer wonder. Strange Loop is a hard-core tech
> conference;
> no marketing, just developers.
>
> Keynotes:
> * Rich Hickey (Clojure/core)
> * Gerald Sussman (MIT)
> * Erik Meijer (Microsoft)
> * Allen Wirfs-Brock (Mozilla)
>
> If you're interested in languages or functional programming we've got:
> * Bryan O'Sullivan (MailRank, Real World Haskell) - "Running a Startup
> on Haskell"
> * Joe Pamer (Microsoft) - "The Future of F#: Type Providers"
> * Andrei Alexandrescu (Facebook) - "Generic Programming Galore Using
> D"
> * Cliff Moon (Boundary) - "Building Polyglot Systems with Scalang"
> * Howard Lewis Ship - "Metaprogramming in Java"
> * Neal Ford - "Functional Thinking"
> * Daniel Spiewak - "Functional Data Structures"
> * Runar Bjarnason - "Scalaz: Purely Functional Programming in Scala"
> * Jim Duey - "Monads Made Easy" (Clojure)
> * Nate Young - "Parser Combinators" (Clojure, Haskell)
> * Andrey Breslav (JetBrains) - TOP SECRET talk :)
> * Yoko Harada - "Embedding Ruby and RubyGems Over RedBridge"
>
> If you're interested in munging data check out:
> * Sean Cribbs (Basho) - "SQL to Mapreduce with Riak"
> * Jake Luciani (DataStax) - "Hadoop and Cassandra sitting in a
> tree..."
> * John Hugg (VoltDB) - "New-age Transactional Systems - Not Your
> Grandpa's OLTP"
> * Ian Robinson (Neo4j) - "An Introduction to Doctor Who (and Neo4j)"
> * Benjamin Young (CouchBase) - "Why CouchDB?"
> * Richard Kreuter (10gen) - "Transactions without Transactions"
> * Susan Potter - "Dynamo is not just for datastores" (Riak)
>
> If you like concurrency or building distributed systems check out:
> * Nathan Marz (BackType) - "The Secrets of Building Realtime Big Data
> Systems"
> * Blake Mizerany (Heroku) - "On Distributed Failures" (Go)
> * Brian Ketelsen (Clarity) - "Skynet: A Scalable, Distributed Service
> Mesh in Go"
> * Noah Zoschke (Heroku) - "Running Heroku on Heroku"
> * Viktor Klang (TypeSafe) - Akka: Reloaded
> * Peter Veentjer (TypeSafe) - Multiverse STM
> * Wesley Beary (Engine Yard) - fog, multicloud Ruby DSL
> * Cyprien Noel (ObjectFabric) - "Distributed STM: A new programming
> model for the cloud"
> * Zach Tellman (Runa) - "Event-Driven Programming in Clojure"
> * Ben Manes, Charles Fry (Google) - "Concurrent Caching with MapMaker"
> * Jeff Lindsay (Twilio) - "Distributed Systems with Gevent and ZeroMQ"
> * Dale Schumacher - "Actor Interaction Patterns"
> * Shaneal Manek (Greplin) - "Distributed Systems: The Stuff Nobody
> Told You"
> * Jonathan Seidman (Orbitz) - "Distributed Data Analysis with Hadoop
> and R"
> * Jeremie Miller (Singly) - "A P2P Digital Self with TeleHash"
>
> If you build web apps you might like:
> * Jeremy Ashkenas (DocumentCloud) - Coffeescript
> * Yehuda Katz (SproutCore) - "Getting Truth Out of the DOM"
> * Scott Gonzalez - "Building Applications with jQuery UI"
> * Kyle Simpson (Getify) - "The Once and Future Script Loader"
> * Matthew Taylor (Yahoo) - "A Tale of Two Runtimes"
> * David Geary - "Core HTML 5 Canvas"
> * Mark Volkmann - "CSS3 and Sass"
> * Trotter Cashion - "Chloe and the Realtime Web"
> * Danno Ferrin - "Applying Principles of Stage Magic to User
> Experience"
> * James Williams - "Ratpack: Classy and Compact Groovy Web Apps"
>
> If mobile is your thing:
> * Mike Lee - "Product Engineering"
> * Heath Borders (Asynchrony)- "Testing, Testing iOS"
> * Logan Johnson (Mobilization Labs) - "Android App Assimilation"
> * Eric Burke (Square) - "Taming Android"
> * Scott Davis (ThirstyHead) - "Airplane-Mode HTML5: Is your website
> mobile-ready?"
> * Kresten Krab Thorup (Trifork) - "Bringing Riak to the Mobile
> Platform"
> * Brendan Ribera - "Mirah for Android Development"
>
> And a few more:
> * Steve Yegge (Google) - "Connecting Every Line of Code in the World"
> * Dean Wampler (Think Big Analytics) - "Heresies and Dogmas in
> Software Development"
> * Attila Szegedi (Twitter) - invokedynamic JVM framework
> * Scott Chacon (GitHub) - "A Tale of Three Trees"
> * Sarah Allen (Blazing Cloud) - "Teaching Code Literacy"
> * Eric Brigham (TrueCoin) - "Bitcoin: Giving Money an Upgrade"
> * Bill Odom - "Vim: From Essentials to Master"
> * Rich Hickey and Jeff Brown - "Learn to Play Go"
>
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