interview

Charles Oliver Nutter (@headius) is well-known for his work on JRuby, the JVM-based implementation of Ruby. During his time at Sun, he has also been an enthusiastic early adopter of the work done by the JVM team for JSR 292 and invokedynamic to allow more flexible method invocation, a key feature needed by dynamic languages.

Mike Dirolf (@mdirolf) will be speaking at the Strange Loop conference about the non-relational database MongoDB. Michael works on MongoDB, specifically on the Python and Ruby client drivers.

Mario Aquino (@MarioAquino) is a Principal Software Engineer at Object Computing (OCI) and is doing a talk at Strange Loop with the intriguing title "Zen Mind, Warrior Spirit: Antithetical Mindsets with Lessons for Agile Developers". I talked to Mario about what we might learn.

I was lucky enough to score an exclusive interview about Strange Loop with David Angry, a lead character in the Twittch comic drawn by Eric Burke.

Mark Volkmann is a partner at Object Computing (OCI) and is doing a talk at Strange Loop called Tackling Concurrency with Software Transactional Memory. I had a chance to ask him a few questions about the talk and his experiences working with Clojure.

Alex: What is software transactional memory anyways?