Strange Loop 2010!

[Strange Loop]

This list has been long neglected, but in case there is anyone on this
list that hasn't heard about Strange Loop 2010 yet, it's coming up on
October 14-15, 2010 returning to the University City "Loop" area of
St. Louis.

Strange Loop will feature 4 great keynotes:
* Guy Steele (Oracle) - "How To Think About Parallel Programming:
Not!"
* Douglas Crockford (Yahoo) - "Heresy and Heretical Open Source: A
Heretic's Perspective"
* Hilary Mason (bit.ly) - "Machine Learning: A Love Story"
* Billy Newport (IBM) - "Enterprise NoSQL: Silver Bullet or Poison
Pill?"

Strange Loop has a number of tracks including: Applications at Scale,
Concurrency, Java, Languages (Clojure, Scala, Go, Ruby, Lua, Perl 6,
Groovy, Javascript), Mobile, NOSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Riak, Hadoop,
Mark Logic, HyperGraphDB), Open Source, and the Working Web (cloud,
semantic web, HTML 5, jQuery).

Some technical session highlights include:
* Ryan Dahl (Joyent) - "Parallel Programming with Node.js"
* Kevin Weil (Twitter) - "NoSQL at Twitter"
* Josh Bloch (Google) and Bob Lee (Square) - "Java Puzzlers - Scraping
the Bottom of the Barrel"
* Mikhail Panchenko (Flickr) - "The Evolution of the Flickr
Architecture"
* Scott Davis (ThirstyHead) - "Tomorrow's Tech Today: HTML 5"

In addition to the keynotes and technical sessions, Strange Loop
includes a party featuring the unique Strange Passions track. Strange
Passions is an opportunity for conference attendees to present short
non-technical talks. In 2009, attendees presented talks on astronomy,
neurons, options trading, building houses in Mexico and more. Strange
Passion speakers compete to win the coveted Klein Bottle prizes!

You can register now for $190. Groups of 5 or more from the same
company receive a discount of 10%.

More information:
- Main: http://strangeloop2010.com
- Registration: https://regonline.com/strangeloop2010
- Schedule: http://strangeloop2010.com/calendar
- Speakers: http://strangeloop2010.com/speakers
- Strange Passions: http://strangeloop2010.com/pages/strange_passions

Hope to see you there!
- Alex Miller