Stuart Halloway
Northern Virginia Software Symposium
Reston · April 17 - 19, 2015

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.