Schedule

Download the venue map and full program for Strange Loop 2010.

Dates:	October 13 2010 \| October 14 2010 \| October 15 2010
Tracks:	Applications At Scale \| Concurrency \| Java \| Languages \| Mobile \| NOSQL \| Open Source \| Working Web

Wednesday, October 13 2010


6:00pm - 8:00pm		Welcome Reception -- Moonrise Hotel

Thursday, October 14 2010


8:30am - 8:45am		Welcome! Alex Miller -- Pageant

8:45am - 9:45am		Machine Learning: A Love Story Hilary Mason -- Pageant

10:00am - 10:50am		A Little Bit About Terracotta BigMemory Steve Harris -- RAC B
		Gradle - The Polyglot Build System Ken Sipe -- RAC C/D
		Open Source EDA Edward Yavno -- Apollo 8
		Riak: From Small to Large Rusty Klophaus -- Apollo 11
		The Evolution of the Flickr Architecture, or I Love LAMP, 2010 Edition Mikhail Panchenko -- RAC Studio
		The Semantic Web: Hot or Not? Brian Sletten -- Pageant

11:00am - 11:50am		Adopting Apache Cassandra Eben Hewitt -- Pageant
		Automate or Die Trotter Cashion -- Apollo 8
		Gaelyk: Lightweight Groovy on the Google App Engine Tim Berglund -- RAC B
		GoLightly: Building VM-based Language Runtimes In Go Eleanor McHugh -- Apollo 11
		Making Your Open Source Project More Like Rails Yehuda Katz -- RAC Studio
		That’s My App - Running in Your Background - Draining Your Battery Michael Galpin -- RAC C/D

1:30pm - 1:50pm		Civic Hacking Luigi Montanez -- RAC C/D
		HyperGraphDB - Data Management for Complex Systems Borislav Iordanov -- RAC Studio
		Immutable Object versus Unsynchronized State Joshua Bennett -- Pageant
		Lua, Tiny Embeddable Scripting that Doesn’t Suck Kyle Cordes -- Apollo 11
		Triplestore Testing in the Cloud with Clojure Ryan Senior -- Apollo 8
		You Already Use Closure (In Ruby) Justin Love -- RAC B

2:00pm - 2:50pm		Dude, That's some Strange UI Architecture Kyle Simpson -- RAC C/D
		Java Provisioning In The Cloud Adrian Cole -- RAC B
		Mobile HTML 5.0 Michael Galpin -- RAC Studio
		NoSQL At Twitter Kevin Weil -- Pageant
		Perl 6 - The Apocalypse Matt Follett -- Apollo 8
		Real World Modeling with MongoDB Steve Smith -- Apollo 11

3:15pm - 4:05pm		Best Bugs, Best Practices, and Best Tools for Hibernate Patrycja Wegrzynowicz -- Apollo 11
		Clojure's Solutions to the Expression Problem Chris Houser -- RAC Studio
		Complexity Theory and Software Development Tim Berglund -- RAC C/D
		Parallel Programming with Node.js Ryan Dahl -- Pageant
		Securing and Extending Puppet for World Domination Richard Crowley -- RAC B
		Unifying the Search Engine and NoSQL DBMS with a Universal Index Chris Biow -- Apollo 8

4:15pm - 5:15pm		How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not! Guy Steele -- Pageant

6:30pm - 9:30pm		Strange Passions Party You! -- Pageant

Friday, October 15 2010


8:30am - 9:30am		Enterprise NoSQL: Silver Bullet or Poison Pill? Billy Newport -- Pageant

9:40am - 10:20am		JavaScript Functions: The Good Parts - Idioms for Encapsulation and Inheritance Scott Bale -- RAC Studio

9:40am - 11:00am		Busy Java Developer's Guide to Android: Basics Ted Neward -- Apollo 11
		Interfacing with the Real World – An Arduino Workshop Derek Sigler -- RAC B
		Parallel Programming Patterns: Data Parallelism Ralph Johnson -- Pageant
		Performance Tuning With Cheap Drink and Poor Tools Kirk Pepperdine -- Apollo 8
		The Seductions of Scala Dean Wampler -- RAC C/D

10:25am - 11:00am		Classes are Premature Optimization Justin Love -- RAC Studio

11:00am - 11:30am		Lunch benefiting ByteWorks -- Pageant

11:30am - 12:00pm		Panel: "Non-Relational Data Stores" Rusty Klophaus, Roger Bodamer, Chris Biow, Steve Harris, Mike Malone -- Pageant

12:10pm - 12:50pm		Panel: "Future of Programming Languages" Guy Steele, Alex Payne, Josh Bloch, Bruce Tate, Douglas Crockford -- Pageant

1:00pm - 1:20pm		Clojure for Ninjas Bryan Weber -- RAC C/D

1:00pm - 1:50pm		Android Squared Bob Lee, Eric Burke -- Pageant
		Building Twitter with Grails in 40 Minutes Jeff Brown -- RAC B
		Scalable Concurrent Applications with Akka and Scala Dean Wampler -- Apollo 11
		Tomorrow's Tech Today: HTML 5 Scott Davis -- RAC Studio
		Using F# To Solve Real World Problems ThoughtWorks, """Aaron Erickson", "@AaronErickson""" -- Apollo 8

1:30pm - 1:50pm		Conduit: A Library for Distributed Applications in Clojure Jim Duey -- RAC C/D

2:00pm - 2:50pm		Full Stack BDD With Scala James Carr, Than Som -- RAC B
		Hidden Web Services: Microformats and the Semantic Web Scott Davis -- RAC Studio
		Java Puzzlers—Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel Josh Bloch, Bob Lee -- Pageant
		Querying Big Data Rapidly and Robustly with Cascalog Nathan Marz -- Apollo 8
		Working with Dimensional Data in a Distributed Hash Table Mike Malone -- Apollo 11
		Writing Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) using Groovy Paul King -- RAC C/D

3:15pm - 4:05pm		Groovy and Concurrency Paul King -- RAC B
		High Wizardry in the Land of Scala Daniel Spiewak -- Apollo 11
		jQuery - RIA Miracle! Mark Volkmann -- RAC C/D
		Mary Poppins Meets the Matrix Bruce Tate -- Pageant
		Outside-in TDD in Clojure Brian Marick -- Apollo 8
		Scaling with MongoDB Roger Bodamer -- RAC Studio

4:15pm - 5:15pm		Heresy and Heretical Open Source: A Heretic's Perspective Douglas Crockford -- Pageant