Adding markdown notes for lightening talks.

Author: tobyclemson

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+# Lightening Talks #
+
+## "An Idea That Had Me", lovemachine ##
+   * Cyclic time
+      * cron 
+      * tried writing something better
+      * failed
+   * Time
+      * single dimension
+      * uncountably infintely many instants
+      * we tend to break it into ranges of well known size
+   * Wrapped java.util.calendar
+      * `(periods :month)`
+      * `(bounded-cycles-in nov :day)`
+   * Other fun
+      * retrieve our concepts of "natural" boundaries
+      * Predicates for testing human names, e.g., "is this month july?"
+      * Conume either java.util.Dates or Longs
+   * Parting thoughts:
+      * Please play with monotony, [http://github.com/aredington/monotony](http://github.com/aredington/monotony) or add `[monotony "0.0.1"]` to your project.clj
+      * Forks and issue reports welcome on github!
+      * Dig through your old ideas and play with them in Clojure
+
+## "Immutant - An application server for Clojure", Jim Crossley ##
+   * Who are we?
+      * Jim Crossley and Toby Crawley
+      * TorqueBox
+      * ...
+   * JBoss AS7
+      * App Server = "middleware"
+      * Includes web, like Jetty or Tomcat
+      * But also: messaging, caching, clustering, scheduling, transactions and more
+      * Traditionally requires a large, bloated bag of annotated Java and XML
+   * TorqueBox
+      * Encapsulates JBoss with JRuby
+      * Fastest Ruby deployment platform
+      * Tuby + YAML instead of Java + XML
+      * Version 2.0 due soon
+   * Immutant
+      * Only two months old
+      * Web and core messaging implemented
+      * Isolated deployments
+      * Controlled via Leiningen plugin
+   * immutant.clj
+      * `(ns yourapp.init)`
+      * `(:require [yourapp.core :as your] [immutant.messaging :as msg] [immutant.web :as web]))`
+      * `(msg/start "queue/work")`
+      * ...
+   * Integrated polyglot
+      * Ruby in the front, Clojure in the rear
+      * Inter-language messaging
+      * Uniform deployment
+      * Simple horizontal scaling
+   * Resources
+      * [http://immutant.org](http://immutant.org)
+      * #immutant
+      * @immutants
+
+## "Lispsters", ... ##
+   * Who's familiar with the Arduino?
+      * [most people in the room]
+      * it's a microcontroller like the pic or ARM
+      * great platform for prototyping devices
+   * Can't use Lisp for Arduino programming currently
+   * So we implemented a Lisp for the Arduino
+      * from the ground up
+      * not that easy but a good learning tool
+   * Tech specs
+      * 2K ram - enough for 15 tweets!
+      * lexical scope
+      * first class functions
+   * Uberlisp!
+
+## "Korma: Tasty SQL for Clojure", Chris Granger ##
+   * Started out with ORM but found it was limiting in its abstractions
+   * Instead wanted to use Clojure
+   * Korma
+      * Allows you to define databases and entities and perform queries in Clojure
+         * `(defdb prod (postgres {:db "korma" :username "db" :password "dbpass"}`
+         * `(defentity ... (hasone ...))`
+         * `(select ...)`
+      * Composable
+      * Basically a SQL generation engine
+      * Aim was to be flexible but not get in the way too much (as something like Hibernate does)
+      * Built for real world stuff
+         * Don't make assumptions
+         * When I do they are overridable
+      * Very small at its core
+      * Can be used just to generate queries, don't necessarily have to execute
+      * [https://github.com/ibdknox/Korma](https://github.com/ibdknox/Korma)
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