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Re: Ask HN: What is the best developer conference talk you saw in 2011?

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Post by simonw » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 9:03 PM UTC

rdouble wrote: post #13

I liked the WWDC talks and Chris Liscio's talk at Çingleton.

Chris' talk is available as a video http://lanyrd.com/2011/cingleton-symposium/smfww/

Re: Ask HN: What is the best developer conference talk you saw in 2011?

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Post by bitops » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 9:08 PM UTC

Simple made Easy by Rich Hickey by several miles.

Also "Hammock Driven Development" by the same gentleman.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best developer conference talk you saw in 2011?

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Post by mmcconnell1618 » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 9:12 PM UTC

Business of Software 2011 in Boston was great as usual. 300+ people that actually run software companies getting together to learn from each other. The most targeted conference for software entrepreneurs that I've seen.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best developer conference talk you saw in 2011?

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Post by 3pt14159 » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 9:13 PM UTC

There was a Ruby talk the guys at Nulayer did in Toronto that showed that Ruby can be nearly as fast as NodeJS. I wasn't fully convinced but I learned a ton of useful things.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best developer conference talk you saw in 2011?

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Post by amjith » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 9:27 PM UTC

Strangeloop 2011 - Bryan O'Sullivan

Running a Startup On Haskell: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Running-a-Startup-on-Hask...

Re: Ask HN: What is the best developer conference talk you saw in 2011?

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Post by mmcconnell1618 » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 9:52 PM UTC

j45 wrote: post #19

Microconf 2011 by a few hundred country miles. I have never had my head crushed by so much actionable info in 1-2 days. The entire conference was worth it by the time the first speaker had done his session and it kept getting better.

I'll second you on Microconf. Rob and Mike have announced they will be having a 2012 conference to. This conference focuses on individuals who want to create and run software companies without outside funding.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best developer conference talk you saw in 2011?

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Post by jedws » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 10:41 PM UTC

Being in Aus we don't get to see many live and rely on the videos being made available. Of those I particularly liked Daniel Spiewak's "Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures" and Rich Hickey's "Simple Made Easy".

We were fortunate enough though to have the excellent YOW conference with many excellent talks, particular stand-outs coming from Simon Peyton-Jones and Mike Lee, but the absolute best talk (not necessarily the best tech, it is Perl after all) was Damian Conway's flabbergasting "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces...Made Easy!"[1]

[1] http://www.yowconference.com.au/YOW2011/general/workshopDeta...

Re: Ask HN: What is the best developer conference talk you saw in 2011?

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Post by farnetto » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 10:54 PM UTC

Josh Bloch's talks at Devoxx alone were worth the trip.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best developer conference talk you saw in 2011?

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Post by gtani » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 11:49 PM UTC

amjith wrote: post #25

Strangeloop 2011 - Bryan O'Sullivan Running a Startup On Haskell: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Running-a-Startup-on-Hask...

transcribed

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1eQiXRyStqCVVlp6cMuc...

Re: Ask HN: What is the best developer conference talk you saw in 2011?

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Post by erichocean » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 1:18 AM UTC

puredanger wrote: post #5

fbru02 wrote: post #2

That's easy : Simple made easy by Rich Hickey

Video for "Simple Made Easy" from Strange Loop: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

Thanks for the link, and to the others, for the recommendation. What a great talk!