Just got this email from Chris Sells: For twelve 45-minute slots at this year’s DSL DevCon (April 16-17 in Redmond, WA), we had 49 proposals. You have been selected as speakers for the following talks. Please confirm that you’ll be there for both days so that I can put together the schedule and post it on the conference site. This DevCon should rock. Thanks! Martin Fowler – Keynote Paul Vick + Gio – Mgrammar Deep Dive Tom Rodgers – Domain Specific Languages for automated testing of equity order management systems and trading machines Paul Cowan – DSLs in the Horn Package Manager Guillaume Laforge – How to implement DSLs with Groovy Markus Voelter – Eclipse tooling for Model-Driven stuff Dionysios G. Synodinos – JavaScript DSLs for the Client Side Ted Neward, Bradford Cross – Functional vs. Dynamic DSLs: The Smackdown Gilad Bracha – embedding EBNF in a general purpose language Umit Yalcinalp, Tilman Giese – RUMBA: RUby Managed Business data for Applications Bob Archer – A DSL for Cool Effects in Adobe Pixel Blender Chance Coble – Language Oriented Programming in F# As my 15-year-old son Michael has grown fond of saying… w00t! The list of topics is fascinating, and I’m really looking forward to most, if not all, of them. Chance’s talk on LOP in F# should be good, I’m really curious to see Gilad’s discussion of EBNF (and wondering if this is Newspeak we’ll be seeing), and Guillaume is always fun to watch when he’s going on about Groovy. Of course, I’m also excited to be paired up with Brad, who’s an insanely smart guy–I have a feeling I’ll learn a lot just by standing next to him. (Sort of a speakers’ osmosis.) If you’re not planning to be here for this (and the Lang.NET Symposium), either you have life-saving surgery scheduled that can’t be pushed back, or you’re clearly not interested in DSLs. For your own sake, I hope it’s the latter. 😉 Seriously, come for the full week. The Lang.NET Symposium last year was an amazing event, for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it saw Sun celebrities John Rose, Charlie Nutter and Brian Goetz step on to the Microsoft campus, deliver a great presentation on the JVM, MLVM/invokedynamic, and JRuby, and get good feedback and discussion from Microsoft engineers and other notables. You don’t get to see that every day. 🙂 Enterprise consulting, mentoring or instruction. Java, C++, .NET or XML services. 1-day or multi-day workshops available. Contact me for details. Java