YOW! 2011

Joe Albahari is the creator of LINQPad, an application that many of you use in your daily development of .NET applications/services, especially those that employ LINQ in some fashion. It's just a fantastic developer tool for C#; one that C9 celebrity genius and avid LINQPad user Brian…

Allen Wirfs-Brock is a Research Fellow at Mozilla working on the next version of JavaScript (EcmaScript, to be precise), codenamed "Harmony." Allen is the chief editor of the EcmaScript specification. He's also legendary for his work on SmallTalk. It's always fun to chat with Allen. His…

Damian Conway is widely-known for his event speaking and software development training skills—areas in which he's among the world's best. He's also contributed important modules to Perl and is an important member of the Perl community. He is the CEO of Thoughtstream, a training company for…

Mike Lee is an exceptional developer and an even better person. His life's story is fascinating and the work he does benefits developers around the world, especially those who build mobile apps. Mike's a visionary guy and he has taken his vision of protecting and serving developers and built…

I caught up with Simon Peyton-Jones, author of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) and a key contributor to the Haskell functional programming language, at YOW! 2011. Simon is a pure functional guy. That said, he's OK with side effects as long as you can control them (so,…