The speaker list, current as of the moment you reloaded the page:
- Screw You LAMP, Plus Virtualization Dan Grigsby
- Dear JS, Try Again Hampton Catlin
- Sinatra Blake Mizerany
Screw You LAMP, Plus Virtualization - Dan Grigsby
Consider the screw. Hammers, saws, levels and planes date back to pre-history. Screws are a relatively recent innovation, only finding their way into common use in the 18th century, only becoming mass produced in the 19th century, and only becoming standardized in the 20th century.
The history of the screw, particularly standardizing on the phillips head, is a parable of the future of IT. The technically inferior philips head screw won that generation of standards war, and in so doing, ushered in the era of mass produceable mechanical consumer goods.
LAMP is the philips head screw of our profession.
Don't buy it? I'll prove it using Wordpress, ActiveDirectory, the Facebook Platform and others to point to a near-future where serious web applications built by non-programmers from loosely coupled server-side components -- oh for a better term than "enterprise mashups" -- and where sys-admin joins blacksmith as a profession left behind by progress.
And that's just a setup for the next-next thing, loosely coupled zero administration virtualized applications...
Dear JS, Try Again - Hampton Catlin
From the dude crazy enough to invent Haml, comes some random ideas about ways to write a Javascript replacement language. Javascript feels too much like a general purpose language than a targeted solution for the kinds of things we do day to day with our client-side scripting. The current frameworks within JS do a very good job of shoe-horning Javascript into a workable client-side browser language. But, this talk is about some of the musings I have if we lived in a world where our client-side language had DOM manipulation as a first-level concern instead of a secondary implementation.