Upcoming Speaking Engagements 40
I’m speaking this Friday at RubyConf on Better Ruby Through Functional Programming. I’ll introduce long-overlooked ideas from FP, why they are important for Ruby programmers, and how to use them in Ruby.
In two weeks, I’m speaking on Wednesday, 11/19 at QCon San Francisco on Radical Simplification Through Polyglot and Poly-paradigm Programming. The idea of this talk is that combining the right languages and modularity paradigms (i.e., objects, functions, aspects) can simplify your code base and reduce the amount of code you have to write and manage, providing numerous benefits.
Back in Chicago, I’m speaking at the Polyglot Programmer’s meeting on The Seductions of Scala, 11/13. It’s an intro to the Scala language, which could become the language of choice for the JVM. I’m repeating this talk at the Chicago Java User’s Group on 12/16. I’m co-writing a book on Scala with Alex Payne. O’Reilly will be the publisher.
Incidently, Bob Martin is also speaking in Chicago on 11/13 at the APLN Chicago meeting on Software Professionalism.