Sponsors

  • Microsoft
  • Nebula
  • Google
  • SugarCRM
  • Facebook
  • HP
  • Intel
  • Rackspace Hosting
  • WSO2
  • Alfresco
  • BlackBerry
  • CUBRID
  • Dell
  • eBay
  • Heroku
  • InfiniteGraph
  • JBoss
  • LeaseWeb
  • Liferay
  • Media Temple, Inc.
  • OpenShift
  • Oracle
  • Percona
  • Puppet Labs
  • Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
  • Rentrak
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
  • SourceGear
  • Urban Airship
  • Vertica
  • VMware
  • (mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Sponsorship Opportunities

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the convention, contact Sharon Cordesse at scordesse@oreilly.com

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Piers Cawley

Piers Cawley
Senior Programmer, Headforwards

Website | @pdcawley | Attendee Directory Profile

Piers Cawley started programming Perl in the mid nineties, but recently spent a few years working as a Ruby programmer.

He’s currently working for the BBC, applying Modern Perl techniques to MediaSelector, part of the iPlayer backend.

He used to write a weekly summary of developments in Perl 6 for the perl.com website.

Sessions

1:40pm Thursday, 07/28/2011
Higher Order Javascript
Programming
 Location: Portland 255
Tags: javascript, programming, refactoring, higher_order_programming
Piers Cawley (Headforwards)
Average rating: ***..
(3.29, 24 ratings)
Languages with first class functions are different. Callbacks and `each' are just the start - the fun really begins when you start learning from the Lisp guys and writing code that writes code that writes code. Think differently about your Javascript and do more with less code Read more.
2:30pm Thursday, 07/28/2011
Polymorphic Dispatch - It's Not Just a Good Idea, It's the Law
Perl
 Location: Portland 256
Tags: oop, polymorphism, dynamic_oo, duck_typing
Piers Cawley (Headforwards)
Average rating: ***..
(3.61, 18 ratings)
"I'm sorry I coined the term 'objects' for this topic ... the big idea is "messaging"' - Alan Kay Stop thinking about objects and start thinking about the messages you're sending and how they can be handled and you will have simpler methods. In this talk we cover a couple of key patterns and see how they open the door to simpler, clearer, more extensible code. Read more.
Some observations on Language
Piers Cawley (Headforwards)
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