Lift Preso at SD Forum this week

http://www.sdforum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Calendar.eventDetail&eventID=13670

SAM SIG: Give your Web Applications a Lift
 

6:30PM - 9:00PM April 28, 2010 Cubberley Community Center 4000 Middlefield Rd., RM H-1 Palo Alto, 94304, CA

Topic: Give your Web Applications a Lift

 

Description of Talk:

The Lift Web Framework provides an advanced set of tools for quickly and easily building real-time, multi-users, interactive web applications.

Scala is a hybrid Object Oriented and Functional language that runs at native speeds on the JVM and fully interoperates with Java code. Lift is a hybrid web framework built on Scala. Lift derives its features and idioms from the best of existing web frameworks as well as the functional and OO features in Scala.

Please join David as he builds a multi-user, browser-based chat app in Lift right in front of you.

 

Speaker Bio:

David Pollak, Esq., Benevolent Dictator for Life, Lift Web Framework

David Pollak is author of Beginning Scala and is the Benevolent Dictator for Life of the Lift Web Framework. David narrowly escaped life as a lawyer by writing Mesa, the world’s first real-time spreadsheet. Mesa was used by notable companies including Enron, Lehman Brothers, Chrysler as well as some companies that exist today including UBS, AT&T Wireless and the London Stock Exchange. David also wrote Integer, the world’s fastest spreadsheet engine. David did a stint as CTO and VPE at Cenzic, a web app security company and then went on to do Ruby/Rails consulting. David discovered Scala in 2006, became a fixture/gadfly in the Scala community and founded the Lift project to take Scala's functional concepts and apply them to web development. Lift is used by notable companies including FourSquare, Innovation Games, and Novell. David holds a JD from Boston University.

About Lift

Lift is an expressive and elegant framework for writing web applications. Lift stresses the importance of security, maintainability, scalability and performance, while allowing for high levels of developer productivity. Lift open source software licensed under an Apache 2.0 license. And because Lift applications are written in Scala, an elegant new JVM language, you can still use your favorite Java libraries and deploy to your favorite Servlet Container. Use the code you've already written and deploy to the container you've already configured! Learn more: http://liftweb.net/

 

 

Location:
Cubberley Community Center
4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1
Palo Alto, CA
Directions

Agenda:
6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Registration/Networking/Refreshments/Pizza
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Presentations

Price:
$15 at the door for non-SDForum members
No charge for SDForum members
No registration required

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