Stuart Halloway
New England Software Symposium
Boston · September 11 - 13, 2009
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
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.
Taking Agile From Tactics to Strategy
Teams adopting agile should begin at a tactical level, but they shouldn't end there. The Agile Manifesto operates at many different levels. Learn to apply the principles of agile at a strategic level. Otherwise you can have a great agile ground game and still lose.