Channel 9 - Entries tagged with JAOO2007

JAOO 2007: Joe Armstrong - On Erlang, OO, Concurrency, Shared State and the Future, Part 2

Charles — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:59:00 GMT

Often, after the camera is turned off, the conversation continues and, on occasion is truly interesting. Of course, as you could image, Joe, Erik and I continued to chat about concurrent programming, functional languages, the future of hardware-software interaction, etc, when I turned the camera off after part 1 of this interview with the creator of Erlang, Joe Armstrong.

Rather than let the conversation evaporate into the ether of time and space, I decided to turn the camera back on and record a second part. I am sure glad I did!

This time around, Erik Meijer sits down in the other hot seat and we embark on a fascinating conversation about the future of programming in an increasingly, from a modern hardware + software perspective, concurrent world.

Joe is outspoken on the topic of objects and mutable shared state, as you know from part 1 of this interview (and if you understand Erlang, obviously). He's also got some really interesting ideas on programmable hardware...

In this interview, you will also learn what got the great Erik Meijer interested in programming and languages. It's a really interesting story.

Tune in. This is another compelling conversation with some of the industry's most innovative thinkers. Enjoy!

Joe Armstrong is the principle inventor of the Erlang programming Language and coined the term "Concurrency Oriented Programming". He has worked for Ericsson where he developed Erlang and was chief architect of the Erlang/OTP system.

In 1998 he left Ericsson to form Bluetail, a company which developed all its products in Erlang. In 2003 he obtain his PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. The title of his thesis was "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors." Today he works for Ericsson.

JAOO 2007: Joe Armstrong - On Erlang, OO, Concurrency, Shared State and the Future, Part 1

Charles — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:05:00 GMT

He is author of the book Software for a concurrent world: (Pragmatic Bookshelf - July 15, 2007). He is married with 2 children, 2 cats and 4 motorcycles and would very much like to sell his Royal Enfield Bullet and replace it with a Norton Commando.

Mads Torgersen is a Senior Program Manager in the C# group and has been working on the design of LINQ and other new C# language features. Before joining Microsoft, Mads worked as an associate professor in computer science at the university of Aarhus, where he was part of the group that developed wildcards for Java generics.

Here, in part one of a two part interview, Joe and Mads discuss the pros and cons of object oriented programming, the new spotlight on concurrency and the future of languages (it should come as no surprise, for those of you who understand Erlang, that Joe is not a big time proponent of OO...). Erik Meijer, who is listening into the conversation will appear at random intervals to add his usual brilliant perspective.

This is a fantastic discussion. Listen in and learn from some of programming's masters. This was a real treat for me and one of the highlights of my time at JAOO.

JAOO 2007: Bob Martin and Chad Fowler - Debating Static versus Dynamic Typing

Charles — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:44:01 GMT

I recently got the chance to attend JAOO in Aarhus, Denmark. Besides learning a great amount about various approaches to solving hard problems that we all face as programmers (regardless of the stack we spend most of our time developing on), I got to meet so many interesting people from all walks of programmer life. What a great conference! For one thing, JAOO is not about specific products. It's not about one company's view of the world. It's not about one class of technologies or developer. It's not just about Java and LAMP or .NET and Windows...

Bob Martin is the CEO and founder of Object Mentor. He's also an incredible speaker and very passionate about creating "clean", precise, beautiful code. You've seen him on C9 before.

Chad Fowler is CTO of InfoEther, Inc. Chad has been a software developer and manager for some of the world's largest corporations. He is co-founder of Ruby Central, Inc., the non-profit corporation responsible for the annual International Ruby and Rails Conferences, and is a leading contributor in the Ruby community. Clearly, Chad is a dynamic typing kind of guy.

I thought it would be fun to have a little debate centered around the theme of static versus dynamic typing, especially given how popular dynamic language are these days. It was my hope that at the end of the debate it would be made clear what the differences really are and why some prefer dynamic and others static typing. Of course, as developers, we use the right tool for the job, but it's fun to geek out on these types of discussions and we delve into many more related topics.

Tune in and learn.

JAOO 2007: Glenn Vanderburg - Dynamic Languages and More

Charles — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:36:38 GMT

JAOO 2007: Erik Meijer and Dave Thomas - Objects, Functions, Virtual Machines, IDEs and More

Charles — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:05:00 GMT

JAOO 2007: Gilad Bracha - Computational Theology, Functional versus Imperative, Language History and

Charles — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:17:00 GMT

Dr. Bracha is co-author of the Java Language Specification, and a researcher in the area of object-oriented programming languages. Prior to joining Sun, he worked on Strongtalk, the Animorphic Smalltalk System.

Enjoy!

JAOO 2007: Bob Martin - Life in the Universe, Beautiful Code and Programming Discipline

Charles — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:43:04 GMT

JAOO 2007: Kresten Krab Thorup - JAOO What. How. Why.

Charles — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:02:25 GMT

I recently got the chance to attend JAOO in Aarhus, Denmark. Besids learning a great amount about various approaches to solving hard problems that we all face as programmers (regardless of the stack we spend most of our time developing on), I got to meet so many interesting people from all walks of programmer life. What a great conference! For one thing, JAOO not about specifc products. It's not about one company's view of the world. It's not about one class of technologies or developer. It's not just about Java and LAMP or .NET and Windows.

JAOO is a unique conference and I love the way sessions are reviewed by attendees: after the session ends attendees can simply choose red, yellow or green pieces of paper and place them in a bucket. Red means the session was poor. Yellow means it was OK. Green means it was good. Attendees are also encouraged to write feedback on the piece of colored paper they choose. Simple, yet incredibly effective. Hey, PDC people. Pay attention.

JAOO is a truly interdisciplinary conference that attracts some of the smartest folks in the industry. Luckily, I got a chance to spend some time with a few of these programming pioneers and innovators and you will get to meet them over the coming days.

First up is Kresten Krab Thorup. For those of you who program in Java, you've undoubtedly heard of Kresten. Dr. Kresten Krab Thorup is Chief Architext and Co-founder and one of the Software Pilots of Trifork. Kresten in largely known for his work on integrating generics into Java. He is also one of the creators JAOO and each year, besides being the MC of the event, he can be spotted wandering around the conference in a bright green jacket engaging attendees and speakers.

I had a great time and JAOO 2007. My perspective has changed in terms of Us vs Them mentality as well gaining a new respect for both dynamic languages and functional programming. (You will be seeing some very interesting interviews with some of the pioneers of these two "hot" programming techniques).

Enjoy and a very big thank you to the wonderful JAOO team for inviting me to JAOO 2007 and providing unrestricted access to the event and speakers. I hope to be back next year!