Archive for the 'talks' Category

Java Scripting Talk – Code, Notes, and Audio

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Last night (9 Nov 2006) at the St. Louis Java User Group, I gave a talk on “Scripting Your Java Application”. As I mentioned, there were no slides, but rather a handout, the text of which is pasted below. You can download the […]

Java Scripting talk, Nov. 9 at the St. Louis Java User Group

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

This Thursday, I will give a talk at the St. Louis Java User Group on “Scripting your Java Application”, Thursday Nov. 9. Here is the blurb:
First, this talk will show how to plug in scripting capability to your application, using common scripting mechanisms, including those from the scripting related JSRs (223, 274, etc), and […]

St. Louis Code Camp - Lua Talk Notes and Source Code

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

At the St. Louis Code Camp on May 6, I gave a talk that was somewhat poorly titled “Painless Scripting with Lua”.  The topic more mostly about the overall use of scripting as a configuration and extension mechanism, with Lua as an example language.
The talk had no slides, only code and a 1-page handful with […]

St. Louis Code Camp - I’ll be speaking, you can too

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

My friend Brian Button is still looking for St. Louis Code Camp speakers; if you’ve thought about giving a user group talk, this is a great way to get your feet wet.  A “code camp” is an informal event, likely with a lot of group discussion.  You don’t need a large topic or a long […]

Sutter Concurrency Talk - We Need Better Languages

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

I’ve seen lots of links to Herb Sutter’s talk at PARC on concurrency. This is a great talk - I found it a little tough to make it through his paper on the topic, while the talk is a joy to experience, information-dense yet approachable. Some thoughts and notes:

There weren’t very many people in […]

Upcoming talk at SD 2004

Friday, November 14th, 2003

I’m giving a talk on data handling in a disconnected mode appliction next year at SD Expo 2004.