Strange Loop 2009St. Louis Developer ConferenceOct. 22nd - 23rdhttp://thestrangeloop.com

TIVOLI THEATRE, UNIVERSITY CITYOCT 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

JVM Languages

★ Guillaume Laforge (SpringSource) - Groovy 1.7 ★ Hamlet D’Arcy - Compiler-time metaprogramming ★ James Williams - Swing with Griffon★ Jeff Brown - Polyglot web programming with Grails

★ 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 HillDuck RoomThursday night party

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