Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:02 AM
YAG
This looks like an interesting conference (by yag)
There's a conference coming to Seattle that looks really interesting for language wonks:
The .NET Programming Languages And Compilers Symposium: Lang .NET 2006
Here are a few of the things that they'll be discussing:
- Dynamic languages and scripting
- AJAX and ATLAS
- Domain specific languages
- Functional languages
- Object-oriented and aspect-oriented programming
- Web-services and mobile code
- Libraries
- Language-Integrated Query (LINQ)
- Compiler frameworks
- Garbage collection
- JIT compilation
- Visual Programming
- Success and failure stories
- Non-standard language features and implementation techniques
- Tools and IDE support
Great folks on the committee. Guess I know what I'll be doing in early August!
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About YAG
Yair Alan Griver is the architect for the Microsoft.com community properties. As architect, he is responsible for creating a coherent underlying platform for properties that include blogs.msdn.com, forums.msdn.com, GotDotNet, chats and CodePlex. In addition to MSCOM architect, Alan is also responsible for the continued development of Visual FoxPro. Prior to the architect role, Alan was Group Manager for the Visual Studio Data group. As Group Manager, Alan’s teams produced the tools used inside of Visual Studio .NET, Office and SQL Server that surface data capabilities, as well as Visual FoxPro. Prior to this position, Alan was a Lead Program Manager and Community Evangelist for Visual Basic .NET, driving community interests into Visual Basic .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Alan was Chief Information Officer at GoAmerica, a publicly traded telecommunications (wireless internet) company, and co-founder and CIO of Flash Creative Management a business strategy and technology consulting company.
Alan is the author of five books on Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic, the creator of various development frameworks, and has developed database systems ranging into the thousands of users. He has spoken around the world on databases, object orientation and development team management issues, as well as XML and messaging-based applications.
