Jul 12, 2013
· The last Zurich WebTuesday was fun. Six speakers presented six languages in seven minutes each. I did Go.
May 23, 2013
· We had two great zhgeeks meetups recently: Sean Cribbs spoke about Riak and eventual consistency, and Jim Webber presented Neo4j. Sean's talk was also an intro to distributed systems with a list of foundational papers that I list in this post.
Dec 10, 2012
· The Google Developers Group Zurich organized a great weekend of talks, hacking and networking in October. Unexpectedly, I got to present Go in an hour-long hands-on tutorial.
Jan 18, 2011
· Iulian Dragos on Scala & Jonas Bonér on Akka.
Sep 17, 2010
· Presenting "Practical RDF in Perl", hanging out at the Perl booth and drinking free-as-in-freedom beer at the Free and Open Source Camp in Zurich, a fun little meeting. Plus a somewhat critical self-review of my talk.