<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; ">Hi all,<br><br>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).<br><br>Java talks include:<br>- Java Puzzlers: Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel - Josh Bloch, Bob Lee<br>- Java Provisioning In The Cloud - Adrian Cole<br>- Performance Tuning With Cheap Drink and Poor Tools - Kirk Pepperdine<br>- Open Source EDA - Edward Yavno<br>- Immutable Object versus Unsynchronized State - Joshua
Bennett<br><br>Groovy talks include:<br>- Groovy and Concurrency - Paul King<br>- Writing Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) Using Groovy - Paul King<br>- Building Twitter with Grails in 40 Minutes - Jeff Brown<br>- Gaelyk: Lightweight Groovy on the Google App Engine - Tim Berglund<br>- Gradle - The Polyglot Build System - Ken Sipe<br><br>Clojure talks include:<br>- Clojure's Solutions to the Expression Problem - Chris Houser<br>- Outside-in TDD in Clojure - Brian Marick<br>- From Data to Product with a Toolbox of Goodness - Bradford Cross<br>- Clojure for Ninjas - Bryan Weber<br>- Conduit: A Library for Distributed Applications in Clojure - Jim Duey<br>- Querying Big Data Rapidly and Robustly with Cascalog - Nathan Marz<br>- Triplestore Testing in the Cloud with Clojure - Ryan Senior<br><br>Scala talks include:<br>- The Seductions of Scala - Dean Wampler<br>- Scalable Concurrent Applications with Akka and Scala - Dean Wampler<br>- Full-Stack BDD with
Scala - James Carr and Than Som<br>- High Wizardry in the Land of Scala - Daniel Spiewak<br><br>And that's only half the conference! There's tons more talks on HTML 5, scaling<br>big data, clouds, nosql databases like MongoDB, Riak, Mark Logic, Cassandra,<br>HyperGraphDB and more.<br><br>More info:<br>- Main: <a href="http://strangeloop2010.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(36, 124, 212); ">http://strangeloop2010.com</a><br>- Speakers: <a href="http://strangeloop2010.com/speakers" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(36, 124, 212); ">http://strangeloop2010.com/speakers</a><br>- Schedule: <a href="http://strangeloop2010.com/calendar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(36, 124, 212); ">http://strangeloop2010.com/calendar</a><br>- Registration: <a href="https://regonline.com/strangeloop2010" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(36, 124, 212); ">https://regonline.com/strangeloop2010</a><br><br>Hope you can make
it....<br><br>Thanks,<br>Alex Miller</span></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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