Books

Programming Scala, 1st Edition
O’Reilly, September 2009
with Dean Wampler

I currently have the beginnings of a second book project, but am not formally engaged with a publisher to work on it.

Upcoming Talks & Conferences

• September 2013, St Louis — Emerging Languages 2013
  Organizing the fourth year of this showcase for emerging programming languages. Hosted by Strange Loop, an annual conference that brings together the applied computer science community.

Previous Talks & Conferences

• May 2013, New York — Nobody ever got fired for picking Java
  A presention to RICON East.

• November 2012, New York — Splitting up your web app
  A tech talk at the offices of Paperless Post, drawing from experiences working with students at Hacker School.

• October 2012, Brooklyn — The perils and rewards of working on stuff that matters
  A presentation to Brooklyn Beta.

• September 2012, St Louis — Emerging Languages 2012
  Organizing the third year of this showcase for emerging programming languages. Now associated with Strange Loop, an annual conference that brings together the applied computer science community.

• April 2012, Philadelphia — Emerging Languages: A Tour of the Horizon
  A keynote at the Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise
  conference showcasing a number of interesting new programming languages while arguing for an open-minded, exploratory approach to language adoption.

• October 2011, Portland — Onward! 2011
  Member of the program committee for this conference on the “multidisciplinarity of software development”.

• July 2011, Portland — Emerging Languages 2011
  This time around, Emerging Languages operated as an official track at OSCON, which I chaired.

• December 2010, Portland — Building Teams and Selecting Technology
  A presentation to the PDX Lean Startup Circle.

• July 2010, Portland — Emerging Languages Camp 2010
  Organized the first annual gathering of programming language innovators with a focus on relatively new languages and techniques.

• July 2010, Portland — Why Scala and Scala in Practice
  Joint presentations to OSCON’s Scala Summit.

• May 2010, Portland — Scala at Twitter
  A presentation to Portland Code Camp.

• April 2010, San Francisco — The Why and How of Scala at Twitter
  A presentation to Chirp, the Official Twitter Developer Conference.

• April 2010, Philadelphia — Building Distributed Systems in Scala
  A presentation to the Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference

• February 2010, Miami — Speedy, Stable, and Secure: Better Web Applications Through Functional Languages
  A presentation to the Future of Web Apps Conference.

• November 2009, Perth — Keynote: Mind the Tools
  An address to the Edge of the Web Conference.

• October 2009, St Louis — Keynote: On Simplicity
  An address to the Strange Loop Conference.

• September 2009, Los Angeles — Twitter API 2.0: A View Into the Platform Roadmap
  A presentation to 140: The Twitter Conference.

• May 2009, Mountain View — Keynote: The Business Value of Twitter
  An address to 140: The Twitter Conference.

• April 2009, Palo Alto — The Interaction Design of APIs (video)
  A presentation to Stanford’s Human-Computer Interaction Seminar.

• April 2009, San Francisco — Why Scala for Web 2.0?
  A presentation to the Web 2.0 Expo.

• February 2009, San Francisco — The Twitter API
  A presentation to Adobe Systems employees.

• February 2009, San Francisco — The Twitter API: Where’s It Going?
  A presentation to the San Francisco Mobile 2.0 Meetup with Matt Sanford.

• October 2008, San Francisco — Twitter ♥ Scala
  A presentation to the Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts with Steve Jenson and Robey Pointer.

• August 2008, Chicago — Why Scala?
  A presentation to the C4 independent Mac developer conference.

• April 2008, San Francisco — Designing Your API
  A presentation to the Web 2.0 Expo with Mike Migurski.

• March 2008, Austin — Twitter at BarCamp
  A presentation to BarCamp Austin with Blaine Cook and Ben Fullerton.

• May 2007, Portland — Scaling Twitter
  A presentation to RailsConf with Britt Selvitelle.

• September 2006, London — Securing Rails: A Whole-Stack Approach
  A presentation to RailsConf Europe.

• September 2003, San Diego — Protecting Public Hotspots
  A presentation to ToorCon with Philip Leif Bjerknes.