a hub to foster inspiration, creativity, and a really good time.

UNION/PINE is available for off-site meetings, photo shoots, art shows, pop-up shops, concerts, author readings, catered meals....

"draws artists from across the country and around the globe for a convergence of contemporary performance, dance, music, new media, and visual arts projects in Portland, Oregon"

An event in early 2009 aimed at reigniting interest in computer science as discipline. Put together by Alan Kay and others.

"enable rapid development of applications that process large volumes of incoming messages or events. Esper and NEsper filter and analyze events in various ways, and respond to conditions of interest in real-time"

The event dates are handy.

Great writeup.

"a unique St. Louis developer conference open to all developers, languages, and methodologies"

"a wsgi server which supports multiple processes, multiple threads, non-blocking HTTP io, and automatic graceful upgrading of code." Not that I need a Python webapp server, but if I did, this is cool.

A Ruby Comet server: "Our goal is development of practical comet server which will be achieving over 100,000 simultaneous connections per host. On this purpose, we abandon portability and use system calls depending on particular OS such as epoll and kqueu

Going on during SXSWi 2008

"a high performance event library for Ruby 1.9"

"an HTTP daemon that is optimized for long-lasting comet connections"

"A full-featured and high-performance (see benchmark) event loop that is loosely modelled after libevent, but without its limitations and bugs."

they get some interesting authors

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