[OKC JUG] Strange Loop Conference - St. Louis - Oct. 14-15

[Alex Miller]

Hi all,

I'm the organizer for the Strange Loop conference in St. Louis and I wanted to 
let everyone know that the 2010 edition is approaching fast!  If you're 
interested in JVM-based languages or other emerging technologies like web, 
mobile, nosql, etc, you'll find this to be an excellent conference at an 
affordable price ($190 through Sept, $100 for students).

Java talks include:
- Java Puzzlers: Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel - Josh Bloch, Bob Lee
- Java Provisioning In The Cloud - Adrian Cole
- Performance Tuning With Cheap Drink and Poor Tools - Kirk Pepperdine
- Open Source EDA - Edward Yavno
- Immutable Object versus Unsynchronized State - Joshua Bennett

Groovy talks include:
- Groovy and Concurrency - Paul King
- Writing Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) Using Groovy - Paul King
- Building Twitter with Grails in 40 Minutes - Jeff Brown
- Gaelyk: Lightweight Groovy on the Google App Engine - Tim Berglund
- Gradle - The Polyglot Build System - Ken Sipe

Clojure talks include:
- Clojure's Solutions to the Expression Problem - Chris Houser
- Outside-in TDD in Clojure - Brian Marick
- From Data to Product with a Toolbox of Goodness - Bradford Cross
- Clojure for Ninjas - Bryan Weber
- Conduit: A Library for Distributed Applications in Clojure - Jim Duey
- Querying Big Data Rapidly and Robustly with Cascalog - Nathan Marz
- Triplestore Testing in the Cloud with Clojure - Ryan Senior

Scala talks include:
- The Seductions of Scala - Dean Wampler
- Scalable Concurrent Applications with Akka and Scala - Dean Wampler
- Full-Stack BDD with Scala - James Carr and Than Som
- High Wizardry in the Land of Scala - Daniel Spiewak

And that's only half the conference! There's tons more talks on HTML 5, scaling
big data, clouds, nosql databases like MongoDB, Riak, Mark Logic, Cassandra,
HyperGraphDB and more.

More info:
- Main: http://strangeloop2010.com
- Speakers: http://strangeloop2010.com/speakers
- Schedule: http://strangeloop2010.com/calendar
- Registration: https://regonline.com/strangeloop2010

Hope you can make it....

Thanks,
Alex Miller
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