Functional programming – F# – Valdis Iļjučonoks

Functional programming gone mainstream by making this Microsoft Research language as first-class citizenship in Visual Studio. Developers can use functional approach to resolve specific problem domain issues. F# can also be used in mainstream development like Windows Phone applications. What is functional programming, why should I care about one and where can I make use of that? Those questions will be answered by this session.

PHP – life after fork() – Arvīds Godjuks

PHP and deamon – usually these two together provoke only one reaction from the audience – the speaker is trolling. I will make an effort to convince the audience that this is not the case anymore as of PHP 5.3. This will be a success story of using a daemons written in plain PHP to process some few million USD worth of transactions per month in production mode for 2 years.