Northern Virginia Software Symposium - April 17 - 19, 2015 - No Fluff Just Stuff

Stuart Halloway

Northern Virginia Software Symposium

Reston · April 17 - 19, 2015

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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

Clojure in 10 Big Ideas

The key to understanding Clojure is ideas, not language constructs.
In this talk, we will approach Clojure via 10 Big Ideas.

Architectural Briefings

Architectural Briefings are interactive presentations by and for architects on specific technology topics. The purpose is to empower architects to make decisions about the choice and application of tech. Note that you don't have to have “Architect” in your title to participate, this is for anybody who makes architectural decisions.

Narcissistic Design: 10 Steps to Complex Code and Job Security

The software industry changes rapidly, but you can protect yourself
from these changes by creating code that is complicated enough that
only you can maintain it.

Clojure Web Development in Seven Big Ideas

The key to understanding Clojure web development is ideas, not language constructs. In this talk, we will approach Clojure web development via 7 Big Ideas. Each of these ideas is valuable and useful a la carte, and not necessarily only in Clojure. Taken together, they begin to fill in the picture of why Clojure is changing the way many programmers think about web development.