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Randal L. Schwartz

Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.

Randal L. Schwartz is a renowned expert on the Perl programming language (the lifeblood of the Internet), having contributed to a dozen top-selling books on the subject, and over 250 magazine articles. Schwartz runs a Perl and Smalltalk training and consulting company (Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc of Portland, Oregon), and is a highly sought-after speaker for his masterful stage combination of technical skill, comedic timing, and crowd rapport. And he’s a pretty good Karaoke singer, winning contests regularly.

Books authored/coauthored:

  • Programming Perl (multiple editions)
  • Learning Perl (multiple editions)
  • Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
  • Learning Perl Objects References and Modules (multiple editions)
  • Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl
  • Randal Schwartz’s Perls of Wisdom

Magazine articles and columns:

  • UnixReview Magazine
  • PerformanceComputing Magazine
  • SysAdmin Magazine and Website
  • WebTechniques Magazine and Website
  • Linux Magazine and Website
  • The Perl Journal E-Magazine
  • Apple Developer Works Website

Regular contributor to online forums:

  • perlmonks.org (The Perl Monastery)
  • use.perl.org
  • newsgroups comp.lang.perl.misc et. seq.
  • newsgroup comp.lang.perl.announce (moderator since inception)
  • perl.org mailing lists
  • Perl mailing lists on Yahoo! Groups
  • various Smalltalk and Squeak mailing lists
  • methodsandmessages.vox.com smalltalk blog
  • podcast.insightcruises.com podcast
  • twit.tv/floss podcast

Sessions

1:30pm Monday, 07/21/2008
Introduction to Seaside: Powerful Web Application Development in Smalltalk
Tutorial, Web Applications
 Location: D139/140
Randal L. Schwartz (Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.), Tom Phoenix (Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.) Moderated by: Randal L. Schwartz
Introduction to the Smalltalk Seaside web application framework: an open-source (but vendor supported) challenge to the classic web design strategies, using test-driven development, continuations for easy workflow abstraction, and view components for consistency and reuse. Includes introduction to Squeak Smalltalk, but general OO principles won't be covered. Read more.
OSCON 2008