Shell Programming by Scott Moser
Scott Moser is a technical lead on the Ubuntu Server and Cloud team at Canonical. He works on cloud-like things such as cloud-init, Ubuntu cloud images, OpenStack and cirrOS. He has more experience with programming in 'sh' than you probably care to hear about.
The talk on shell scripting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^programming will discuss ways to make your shell scripts less brittle, and more performant. And will also try to convince you that shell still has its place.