• I'm now the Duke of Surfrider Oceanfront Resort & Restaurant on #Yelp! http://bit.ly/bicUtH #
• I checked in at Voodoo Doughnut Too (1501 NE Davis St) on #Yelp http://bit.ly/av24B6 #
• @vborja not sure if I responded to your tweet or not, yes olabini's talk will be posted follow @confreaks for announcements, #emerginglangs in reply to vborja #
• found a camera while cleaning up and tearing down after #emerginglangs, #oscon, message me if you think it is yours #
• There is a human comprehension zone and there is no reason to step outside of it. – Jonathan Shapiro #emerginglangs #oscon #
• @techmatchmaker – following complete in reply to techmatchmaker #
• Here is a link to Kodu if you're interested in learning more. http://odz.mx/p71Lr #emerginglangs #
• Really fun presentation on Kodu this morning #emerginglangs #oscon – Kids programming introduction language #
• @headius presenting on Mirah at #emerginglangs #
• OH: the f in F# stands for facemelting – Joe Pamer #emerginglangs at #oscon #
• @mbleigh I'm in F150 today and tomorrow, @headius is also here, as is @olabini and @technomancy are around here also. #
• check out Frink at http://odz.mx/H80Z2 #emerginglangs #elcamp #oscon #
• Enjoyed @aeliasen presentation on Frink at #emerginglangs #elcamp at #oscon. He debunked a myth or two, and validated others. #
• @vborja yes, @confreaks will be publishing all the talks from #emerginglangs (2-4 weeks from now) in reply to vborja #
• @olabini presenting on Ioke and Seph – #OSCON #
• At OSCON recording the Emerging Languages Camp -> Rob Pike presenting on Go #
• Speaker schedule for the Ruby Hoedown -> http://odz.mx/1Xm1r from @jm, check it out and help boost the HN score. #
• anyone else at OSCON? If so I'll be in the Emerging Languages Camp room the tomorrow and Thursday, drop by and say hello. #
• On plane to PDX for Emerging Languages Camp! #
• @jdunphy – woohoo! – good run – I'm trying to work my way into shape to do the RubyConf 5k in November, assuming there will be one. in reply to jdunphy #
• can't update my bio on twitter to save my life – all other functionality here seems to work @twitter ? #
• Last day in the office this week before heading to OSCON/Emerging Languages Camp tomorrow, ping me if you want to meet up at OSCON. #

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After Emerging Languages camp, I consolidated all of the audio, video, and slide capture data to a single source, and then enjoyed dinner and got a good nights sleep.

This morning after fighting some fires with engineering vs. operations issues, my wife and I are off down the coast.  At the moment I’m sitting at Hungry Tiger Too’s a vegan restaurant/dive bar in Portland, waiting for breakfast, had an espresso next door at Three Friends Coffee Shop, and will stop by Voodoo donuts too for some travel snacks. 

I enjoyed blogging in detail from Emerging Languages, so figure while I’m out and about over the next week, I’m going to try and put some more thoughts up here.  Pending posts:

• confreaks equipment setup and conference recording
• thoughts on odz.mx – a side project
• how the revamp of confreaks web-site is going

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Back at Emerging Languages Camp for day 2, the presentations got off to a great start:

• Matt MacLauren presented on Kodu a visual programming language designed to allow children to learn critical thinking.  The language exposes a 3d graphical user interface that allows characters to interact and respond to emotions and the environment.
• Rich Hickey presented on Clojure and a new potential feature tentatively titled Pods they are similar to transients only better.
• Mark Miller presented on why E is merging with Javascript and gave a brief history of programming on the web.  E is a secure distributed object oriented language with the intent of improving web programming.  Caja is an object capable safe subject of javascript, also the spanish word for box or vault.  Lessons learned from Caja were presented to the ECMA script committee.
• Christopher Bertels presented on Fancy.  Fancy is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language heavily inspired by Smalltalk, Ruby and Erlang. It will support dynamic code evaluation (as in Ruby & Smalltalk), concurrency via the actor-model and many more features yet to be implemented.
• Jonathan Shapiro presented on BitC.  BitC’s domain is critical system code; Saftey; Zero runtime footprint, it has a 7,o00 line microkernel that has been verified.
• Steve Folta presented on Trylon.  It appears to be a cross between Python and Smalltalk.
• Amos Wenger presented on ooc – a hybrid language experiment.
• Jonathan Edwards presented on Coherence and declarative programming, the future of programming and in order to do so started with where we are today.  We are effectively still writing assembly because the program is required to control the order that we read and write, from and too memory.

Instead of taking an afternoon break that was scheduled for 90 minutes, the camp has decided to jam in four more presentations:

• Bob Nystrom presented on Finch, the language most successful at meetings its goal at the camp.  He designed and started implement it as an exercise to show his work and get a new job.  He succeeded. 100% of goals achieved.
• Andrew Fischer presented on a live coding language called Circa.  It’s goals are immediate feedback, intuitive use, Fun, ability to maintain flow, and provide good tool support.
• Matt Youell presented on Wheeler.  Wheeler has the odd property that its fundamental abstraction is state.  Wheeler is about categories it does not have a type system.  Context drives behavior.
• Alexander Fritze presented on Stratified Javascript.  A cross-browser extension to JavaScript providing advanced concurrency abstractions. It’s implemented in JS itself; runs in unmodified IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari. Does not require any native browser support.
• Slava Petsov presented on Factor.  The implementation is fully compiled for performance, while still supporting interactive development. Factor applications are portable between all common platforms. Factor can deploy stand-alone applications on all platforms.
• Walter Bright presented on the D programming language.  It is a systems and applications programming language.  It does native code generation, static typing and an extremely fast compiler.  It is a big language, covering many paradigms including: Imperative; Metal; Object-oriented; RAII; Functional; Generic; Generative; Concurrent.
• Tom Van Cutsem from the Software Languages Lab at Vrije Universiteit Brussel presented on AmbientTalk.  AmbientTalk is a distributed language designed specifically around ad hoc networks and mobile devices.

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The Emerging Languages Camp got started today at OSCON 2010.  The focus of the camp is on cross pollination of language developers, it was created as a forum to allow language designers and implementers to interact with and borrow from one another.

Today’s presentations before lunch included:

• Rob Pike from Google presenting on Go and it’s history including Hoare’s paper from 1978 on CSP and the history of various concurrent languages.
• Ola Bini from Thoughtworks presenting on Ioke and Seph.  Seph is a work in process watch Ola’s blog for more information.
• Phil Mercurio presenting on Thyrd an experimental visual programming language.

Post lunch presentations:

• Allison Randal presented on the Parrot VM and the various languages that it supports and some of the effort required to bring your language to it.
• Adam Chlipala presented his language Ur/Web, Ur is a strict statically typed functional language designed for building web applications.
• Alan Eliasen presented on Frink, a practical calculating tool and programming language designed to make physical calculations simple.  One of it’s unique points is that all numbers carry their unit of measure with them.  It has a large database of information about units of measure.
• Giliad Bracha presented on Newspeak.  Newspeak is highly dynamic and reflective  – but designed to support modularity and security. It supports both object-oriented and functional programming.
• Joe Pamer from Microsoft presented on the production-ization of F#, their effort to move it from a purely research language to a first class member of the .NET language family.
• Jeremy Ashkenas presented on CoffeeScript -> it’s just Javascript, it doesn’t have ‘with’, semicolons, and many other things.  Going beyond javascript  by turning everything into expressions, adding automatically scoped variables, and more.
• Charles Nutter from Engine Yard presented on Mirah.  Effectively a typed version of ruby that generates Java byte-code or Java source with the associated performance.
• Steve Dekorte presented on Io.  Io is a prototype-based programming language inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects, all messages are dynamic), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency), LISP (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable tree) and Lua (small, embeddable).

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• http://bit.ly/aFn8a1 – It's official: Software will be unpatentable in NZ #
• @imf trying to get ahold of you. Left you a voice mail with phone number at the office. #
• @veganstraightedge 9 minutes? ouch… in reply to veganstraightedge #
• Just walked 1/2 mile to the store only to realize I left my wallet on my desk. When is my phone going to be a payment method? #

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• playing with geo-tweeter http://odz.mx/gt from @mwrc Lightning talks day 2. #
• @mads_the_kat Congratulations on your AP tests! in reply to mads_the_kat #
• OH: "It's hardened and our developers know it" #
• @auser Awesome Ari! go beehive http://getbeehive.com in reply to auser #
• touch down in Atlanta, sounds like I missed a quake that was felt in the glendale area? #
• Shift in plans – instead of flying home to Glendale tonight I am proceeding directly to Atlanta. Missing @laruby – be home Friday night #
• @jaymcgavren good work! Appreciate the assistance and will see if i can't include MP3's on the next rev of the site! in reply to jaymcgavren #
• As anticipated bright sunny and beautiful in Seattle #
• My geographies are confused it's foggy and overcast in Burbank. Will it be hot and sunny in Seattle? #
• @jrfent don't know if you got my last DM but I'll be back in town on Thu – maybe c u at @laruby? in reply to jrfent #
• Off to BUR do I can start my week in Seattle/Redmond #
• @jaymcgavren the last one is encoding now – I should post them latter today – @mwrc @confreaks in reply to jaymcgavren #

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• please ignore this http://localhost:3000/test33 #
• Catching the last BART train to SFO for a quick nights sleep and a flight in the morning back to LAX. #

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• @tenderlove hopefully we can turn that frown upside down next week in reply to tenderlove #
• Q3 planning – nail down what needs to be done in part for the next three months. #

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Playing with feedburner’s options.

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• "Dance Like No One is Watching…
  Love Like You Have Never Been Hurt Before…
  Go to Work Like You Don't Need The M… http://bit.ly/68FW3T #
• Back in Glendale after a week in Salt Lake City => happy. Great ti see family, @blowmage, and #agileroots #
• Picking up my kids at the SLC airport, well most of them anyway. #
• @lsegal – ok your video is working now – sorry about that. @rubiii check and let me know if it is still having issues. #
• Just under 3 hours to tear down a three track conference! All time record – woot! @confreaks #
• Woot! One room torn down – two to go. Cleanup @confreaks / #agileroots2010 #
• @lsegal re your confreaks video, I'll check it in the morning #
• RT @FrancescoC: 2500 unique visitors to tryerlang.org in the last 12 hours… And we were thinking of a soft launch… #erlang #
• @rubiii odd – I just clicked through the link and landed on the video page… do you have any more details? in reply to rubiii #

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