BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London PRODID:-//developerFusion//DeveloperFusion.Events.Export 1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20131017T173000Z DTEND:20131017T190000Z LOCATION:The Skills Matter eXChange, 116-120 Goswell Road, London, GB DESCRIPTION:When first confronted with Lua an experienced programmer (like me!) finds themselves infuriated by the languages little differences and hopes that can dismiss it as not worth learning :-) Later they find themselves infuriated to learn that they can't dismiss it: Lua is just too fast, too useful and too flexible. This talk will look at my experience of learning Lua and using it to send a high-altitude balloon into the stratosphere and build CloudFlare's new low latency Web Application Firewall. SUMMARY:Lua: the world's most infuriating language UID:154948@developerfusion.com URL: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR