Don't change a thing. Just be lazy.

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+# Don't change a thing. Just be lazy.
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+What lessons can we learn from functional languages?  
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+This talk concentrates on two techniques common in functional programming: *immutable data*, and *lazy evaluation*.
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+We'll look at how such techniques can be implemented in Ruby, and examine how they can improve performance, support thread-safety, ease testing, and reduce bugs.
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+## Mike Williams
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+Mike works at Cogent, as a Ruby/Agile developer/architect/consultant.  There he solves problems for a variety of clients, using mainly Ruby, and the power of surprise.  He's written numerous Ruby gems you've probably never heard of, and was the founding host of the Melbourne Ruby users' group.
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+![Profile picture](profile_picture.jpg)
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+- [My website](http://dogbiscuit.org/mdub/)
+- [My twitter](https://twitter.com/woollyams)
+- [My GitHub](https://github.com/mdub)
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+### Past talk slides
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+- [Enumerable, and the art of being lazy](http://mdub.github.com/art-of-being-lazy/)