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It’s my pleasure to announce that I’ll be speaking at at DSL Developers Conference, in April 16-17, 2009, at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond.

Summary

What	2 days of practical, applied DSL sessions from industry experts and practitioners
When	April 16th, 2pm-6pm (registration at 1pm), April 17th, 9am-6pm
Where	Microsoft Research Building 99, Room 1919 14820 NE 36th Street Redmond, WA 98052 USA

The topics are very interesting and the list of speakers is impressive:

When	What	Who
Thursday, April 16th
12:00pm	Registration
12:45pm	Welcome	Chris Sells
1:00pm	Keynote	Martin Fowler
2:00pm	M DSLs: Deep Dive	Paul Vick
3:00pm	Domain Specific Languages for automated testing of equity order management systems and trading machines	Tom Rodgers
4:00pm	DSLs in the Horn Package Manager	Paul Cowan
5:00pm	How to implement DSLs with Groovy	Guillaume Laforge
6:00pm	Reception (food and beverages)
6:45pm	DSL Panel	All speakers
Friday, April 17th
7:30am	Breakfast
9:00am	Textual DSLs and Code Generation with Eclipse Tools	Markus Voelter
10:00am	JavaScript DSLs for the Client Side	Dionysios G. Synodinos
11:00am	Functional vs. Dynamic DSLs: The Smackdown	Ted Neward, Bradford Cross
11:45am	Lunch
1:00pm	Embedding DSLs in Newspeak: EBNF, Hopscotch and NewShell	Gilad Bracha
2:00pm	RUMBA: RUby Managed Business data for Applications	Umit Yalcinalp, Tilman Giese
3:00pm	A DSL for Cool Effects in Adobe Pixel Bender	Bob Archer, Chuck Rose
4:00pm	Language Oriented Programming in F#	Chance Coble
5:00pm	TBD	TBD