Strange Loop 2009
St. Louis Developer Conference
Oct. 22nd - 23rd
http://thestrangeloop.com

TIVOLI THEATRE, UNIVERSITY CITY
OCT 22 - 23, 2009

“Crazy”
Bob Lee
(from Google)
Thursday keynote
“The Future of Java”

Alex Payne
(from Twitter)
Friday keynote
“Minimalism in Software”

Java
★ Alex Buckley (Sun) - Java Modularity (JSR 294, Jigsaw)
★ Joe Hirn (CME) - Maven
★ Stefan Schmidt (SpringSource) - Spring Roo
★ Ken Sipe (Perficient) - Spring 3
.NET
★ Hudson Akridge - NHibernate

Groovy / Grails / Griffon
★ Guillaume Laforge (SpringSource) - Groovy 1.7
★ Hamlet D’Arcy - Compiler-time metaprogramming
★ James Williams - Swing with Griffon
★ Jeff Brown - Polyglot web programming with Grails
JVM Languages
★ Mark Volkmann (OCI) - Clojure and STM
★ Dean Wampler (Object Mentor) - Polyglot programming

Ruby
★ Bob McWhirter - TorqueBox (RoR in the Enterprise)
★ Charles Oliver Nutter - Ruby Mutants
Agile
★ Mario Aquino - Agile, Zen, and the Warrior Spirit
Web
★ Matt Taylor - jQuery

Data / Distributed
★ Anthony Chaves - In-Memory Data Grids
★ Chris Dennis (Terracotta) - Hibernate and Terracotta
★ Matt Dirolf - MongoDB
★ Steve Hawkins (JBoss) - Teiid
Mobile
★ Michael Galpin (eBay) - Android and iPhone
Tools
★ Jeff Brown (SpringSource) - Git

Lunch Panel Discussions
★ Programmers Turned Entrepreneurs
- led by Jim Brasunas (ITEN)
★ Thriving in a Distributed Work Environment
- led by Clint Edmonson (Microsoft)

Strange Passions
★ Short talks
★ On NON-technical topics
★ Submitted by attendees
★ Selected by vote of attendees

Blueberry
Hill
Duck Room
Thursday night party

Sponsors

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- Aug 14 $75
Aug 15 - Sep 18 $110
Sep 19 - Oct 21 $130
Oct 22 - Oct 23 $150