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Lasso Summit has been replaced by the Lasso Developer Conference hosted by LassoSoft, LLC.
For more information on the upcoming conference, click here.
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Speakers and Hosts
Kyle Jessup |
| Kyle Jessup has been developing software professionally for over 10 years.
He has been instrumental in the design, development and maintenance of numerous
products and services utilizing a wide variety of technologies and languages.
Kyle works for OmniPilot Software, serving as Director of Development for Lasso Professional.
Kyle’s involvement in Lasso started with version 1.5, when he took the role of Senior
Software Architect for Blue World Communications. Since that time, Kyle has been the primary
developer of Lasso Professional and was also the key developer for Lasso Studio for Eclipse.
Kyle brings his extensive knowledge of networking, database design and integration, Internet protocols
and years of experience developing on a variety of computer systems to the Lasso Professional platform.
This has enabled him to introduce many powerful and unique features to the Lasso language without
compromising its comprehensibility standards for ease of use.
Kyle resides in Asheville, NC with his wife and 3 cats.
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Fletcher Sandbeck |
| Fletcher has been designing Web sites for ten years and working with Lasso for eight years.
He worked with Blue World for six years before joining OmniPilot. At OmniPilot, Fletcher
works on the administration applications, PDF and online documentation, the tips of the
week, and Lasso Studio. Fletcher has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with Computer
Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has worked at CalTech and the
University of Washington. His interests includes electronic music, writing, implementing
internet protocols in LassoScript, and home improvement. Fletcher currently lives in
Manchester, Washington across Puget Sound from Seattle.
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Miles |
| Miles began his Lasso development career in Boston, MA in 1996 with v.1.1 of Lasso, to develop two
websites, a web front-end for a joke website, and daily trivia website. Those two website were powered
by FileMaker 3. Miles learned the fine art of hosting his own website with WebStar, FileMaker and
Lasso. He then began to build web based Content Management Tools (cms) in 1998 for small to medium
sized businesses throughout the Metropolitan Boston area. In 2000 he moved from Boston to
Northampton, MA to pursue his dream of his own content management tool for Yoga, Dance and Small
Business fulltime which eventually became Toolbox Engine. A fully robust CMS that can backend
any website. In 2003, with Lasso Summit looking like it was not going to happen, he started
LassoChat, which today has become yet another place for us all to connect. In 2004, He moved to
Mill Valley, California for a change of pace and began writing and producing Lasso Tips for
Newbies. Today he is an active and vocal member of the Lasso Community of Developers and
quite frequently donates his time and energies to getting new developers a hand up.
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Jonathan Guthrie |
| Jonathan Guthrie has a knack and flair for web based application development. Going from
a BSc in Nuclear and Environmental Chemistry from Auckland University he went straight into
spending over 15 years in roles within web design, digital pre-press, and web enabled
application development. Jono has honed his skills working with a range of top New Zealand
based organizations where he has gained experience ranging from blue chip companies,
to government departments, to unique niche-market companies.
Jono has a skill for distilling complex processes into cohesive code. This provides the
end users with a streamlined and rational user interface. This skill has drawn the most
interest in enabling high-end database driven websites that have exceptional response
times, and yet are easily managed and updated by non-technical staff. Jono formed xServe
limited (New Zealand) to promote this work, and has an association with the Irish based
media asset management company VisualID.
Jono lives in the idyllic city of Wellington New Zealand - known to have more café’s
per captia than New York. When not coding or drinking coffee Jono can often be found
mashing the pedals on his road bike around the extensive harbor coastline, or throwing
his mountain bike through the bush tracks of Makara Peak. He also enjoys golf, likes
cranking up his Marshall rig for his bass guitar, and helps lead a youth group. Jono
lives with his wife Rachel, and has two children: Callum turning 9 while dads away,
and Michelle 6 - already both trained in the skill of making fresh ground coffee.
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Jason Huck |
| Jason Huck began experimenting with Lasso at version 3.6, and by the time version 5
was out of beta, had decided to consolidate all server-side development on that platform.
An active contributor on Lasso Talk, Jason created tagSwap.net to help foster code sharing
among the Lasso community and further increase the visibility of the language. Jason is
a partner at Core Five Creative, a marketing communications firm based in Cincinnati,
OH, where he’s had the opportunity to work on projects for a wide range of clients,
including AOL/Time Warner, Procter & Gamble, and Shell Oil Products US.
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Eric Landmann |
| Eric Landmann is the developer of two Lasso-based commercial applications, LBT and Graphics
Finder. LBT is an issue-tracking application for developers and project managers. Graphics
Finder is an image cataloging and retrieval system in use by major corporations and graphics
departments.
With Steffan Cline, he created LassoForge, a code-sharing site that is a free resource for the
Lasso community.
Eric and his daughter Jess Mooers run Landmann InterActive, a web development company based
in Madison, Wisconsin. They are both regulars on LassoChat.
His major offline passion is ice climbing and alpinism, with trips to the continental US,
Canada, Alaska, Peru, Bolivia, Nepal, and Tibet. With his wife Teresa, he calls Madison,
Wisconsin, his home, although he probably would rather live somewhere in the mountains.
Eric Landmann has been working with Lasso since 1998. Clients are in the graphics, printing,
real estate, manufacturing, retail, and education sectors.
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Jolle Carlestam |
| Jolle Carlestam, while actually having a university education in theater history, has spent
most of his professional life working with computers or computer related development and education.
He is a huge Macintosh addict, since Macintosh Plus, and a true Lasso fan, since version 3. Jolle
started exploring the possibilities in dynamic PDF creation using Lasso 3 and Filemaker Pro and
has since then nourished a sometimes unhappy love/hate relationship with Lassos PDF capacities.
Today he runs his own business developing web based applications.
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Nikolaj de Fine Licht |
| Nikolaj de Fine Licht has been working with Lasso since version 3. Originally combining Lasso with FileMaker, and
with LassoMySQL and MySQL. Nikolaj finished studies in Holland as a
musician, specialized in Early Music, he later did a lot of management of cultural projects
in Denmark, his native country, which in turn lead him into the use of computers, the
making of webdesign and other visual communication including programming with Lasso. Despite
being basically self-taught he teached webdesign and communication at the IT
University in Copenhagen from 2000-2003. Since Fall 2003 he lives in Brazil but still
works principally for old and new clients in Denmark/Europe. He is the father of two sons,
one in Denmark and one in Brazil.
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| Call for Hosts |
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Are you willing to share your expertise with other Lasso developers? We are looking for Roundtable Hosts.
Roundtable Hosts
Roundtable hosts will be asked to prepare and sumbit a paper on a specific topic or technique that
will be included in the Lasso Summit 07 manual. During the Roundtable session Hosts will handle questions an answers
related to their paper. This is a great way of sharing your expertise in exchange for discounted
entrance into the conference. Hosts will receive a $150 discount toward registration.
Those that are interested in hosting a Roundtable, please contact Jim Van Heule
at jim@heunox.com.
To download the speaker/host handbook pdf, click here.
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