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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Dean Wampler

Dean Wampler
Principal Consultant, Think Big Analytics

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Dean Wampler is Principal Consultant at Think Big Analytics, specialists in “Big Data”, Machine Learning, and the Hadoop ecosystem. He speaks frequently at conferences on various topics, such as the effective use of different programming languages and modularity paradigms: functional, object-oriented, and aspect-oriented programming.

Dean is the co-author of Programming Hive (O’Reilly, 2012), the author of Functional Programming for Java Developers (O’Reilly, 2011) and the co-author of Programming Scala (O’Reilly, 2009).

Sessions

9:00am Tuesday, 07/26/2011
Become a Better Developer with Functional Programming
Programming
 Location: Portland 256
Tags: design, tdd, functional_programming, refactoring, reuse
Dean Wampler (Think Big Analytics)
Average rating: ***..
(3.31, 13 ratings)
You've heard that Functional programming (FP) is good for concurrency. Mastering FP will improve all the code you write. FP changes practices like TDD; learn how design is more structured and tests are more precise. See why FP-style functions and data structures are actually more reusable than objects. Leave with new tools that eliminate bloat, improve code quality, and speed development. Read more.