Lone Star Software Symposium: Dallas - June 5 - 7, 2009 - No Fluff Just Stuff
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Stuart Halloway

Lone Star Software Symposium: Dallas

Dallas · June 5 - 7, 2009

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Stuart Halloway

President of Cognitect

Stuart Halloway is a founder and President of Cognitect, Inc. (www.cognitect.com). He is a Clojure committer, and a developer of the Datomic database.

Stuart has spoken at a variety of industry events, including StrangeLoop, Clojure/conj, EuroClojure, ClojureWest, SpeakerConf, QCon, GOTO, OSCON, RailsConf, RubyConf, JavaOne, and NFJS.

Stuart has written a number of books and technical articles. Of these, he is most proud of Programming Clojure.

Learn more about Stu's presentations on his wiki.

Presentations

IZero: Starting Projects Right

If an iteration is the heartbeat of an agile development process, then Iteration Zero (IZero) creates the heart. While you can (and should) retrospect and adjust throughout the software lifecycle, few things are as valuable as a good start. In this talk, you will learn how we run Iteration Zero at Relevance.

Java.next: Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, and Scala

In this talk, we will explore and compare four of the most interesting JVM languages: Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, and Scala. Each of these languages aims to greatly simplify writing code for the JVM, and all of them succeed in this mission. However, these languages have very different design goals. We will explore these differences, and help you decide when and where these languages might fit into your development toolkit.
For more information see http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2008/9/24/java-next-overview.

Programming Clojure

Find out why Clojure is Java.next:

  • Clojure provides clean, fast access to all Java libraries.
  • Clojure provides all the low-ceremony goodness you know and love from dynamic languages such as Ruby and Python.
  • Clojure includes Lisp's signature feature: Treating code as data through macros.
  • Clojure's emphasis on immutability and support for software transactional memory make it a viable option for taking advantage of massively parallel hardware.

Refactoring JavaScript

The rise of Ajax and Rich Web Applications, plus the success of dynamic languages, has caused people to revisit the JavaScript language. Now that we take JavaScript seriously as a language, it is time to get serious about the quality of JavaScript code, through refactoring. In this talk, we will test and refactor a real-world jQuery plugin.

Git control of your source

Git is not the next step in evolution of centralized source control, following in the footsteps of cvs, svn, etc. These tools provide centralized history of deltas, where git provides distributed history of trees of content. In this talk, you will see the advantages of the git approach:

Incredible speed.
Local, disconnected operation.
Source control workflow customized to your team. Centralized, distributed, or layered, you can build it with git.
Cheap and easy branching, tagging, and merging.
Editing and refactoring your commits.