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  • Functional Geekery Episode 51 - Brian Lonsdorf

    In this episode I talk with Brian Lonsdorf. We talk his intro to functional programming, introducing functional programming concepts using JavaScript, function composition, pure functions, and when he decides to choose between dynamic and static type systems.

    Our Guest, Brian Lonsdorf

    @drboolean on Twitter

    drboolean on Github
    Brian on YouTube

    Announcements

    PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available.

    Curry On is taking place July 18th and 19th in Rome. Visit curry-on.org to find out more and to register.

    Full Stack Fest will be hold in Barcelona on September 5-9th. You can check out 2016.fullstackfest.com/call-for-papers —to find out more and submit your paper too.

    If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

    Topics

    About Brian

    Hey Underscore, You’re Doing It Wrong! presentation
    Professor Frisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
    Professor Frisby videos
    How Brian got into Functional Programming
    LoopRecur
    Domain Driven Design
    How Brian defines Functional Programming
    Sneaking in functional programming “envy” into work in object oriented paradigms
    “But language X is not functional”
    Feeling of first moving from functional programming from object oriented
    Importance of mathematical abstractions and composition
    Reasons for choosing JavaScript over other languages for the Mostly Adequate Guide
    “this is the leakiest abstraction in the world”
    Ramda
    David Chambers talking Ramda on Episode 31
    “Composability is my number one agenda in the world”
    Data.Task
    Lazy Streams
    Data.Either
    Folktale
    React vs Elm vs PureScript as in intro to the functional style
    RxJS
    Thermite in PureScript
    Halogen in PureScript
    Using FreeMonads for npm build scripts and DevOps work
    Salesforce
    Transition from dynamic to static types
    Theorems for Free! by Philip Wadler
    Learn and work at understanding and resolving type signatures
    Lessons learned between different languages
    John DeGoes’ The Next Great Programming Language presentation
    Benefits of Sum and Product Types
    Thinking about how to be more inclusive
    Tips for others to understand functional programming
    Strange Loop’s scholarship program
    Be humble and honest about your actual knowledge
    Working on a series for egghead.io
    “Mostly Adequate Guide is not dead”
    RxJS, Highland Streams, Data.Task

    As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

    1 hr 2 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 50 - Bridget Hillyer

    In this episode I talk with Bridget Hillyer. We talk her introduction to functional programming, ClojureBridge, StrangeLoop, community building, Onyx Platform, and more.

    Our Guests, Bridget Hillyer

    bridgethillyer on Github

    Announcements

    PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available.

    Curry On is taking place July 18th and 19th in Rome. Visit curry-on.org to find out more and to register.

    Full Stack Fest will be hold in Barcelona on September 5-9th. You can check out 2016.fullstackfest.com/call-for-papers —to find out more and submit your paper too.

    If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

    Topics

    About Bridget

    How Bridget was exposed to Clojure
    Cognitect
    ClojureConj
    Why Clojure
    “This [Lisp] is too simple”
    Lessons applied to work in Java from learning Clojure
    Value Objects
    “Way more cognisant of state”
    Like to see Java now with Java 8
    Craig Andera on Episode 2
    4Clojure
    Clojure Bridge
    Overview of what a Bridge is
    Rails Bridge
    Bridge Foundry
    Difference in starting with beginners in programming vs beginners to Clojure
    “For people who are new to programming […] it’s really easy to teach them functional programming principles”
    Tips for getting started to exposing a Bridge to a new audience
    Girl Develop It
    Women Who Code
    “Make sure to offer something and give something back”
    Black Girls Code
    National Society for Black Engineers
    StrangeLoop
    How Bridget got involved with the StrangeLoop conference
    Sponsor people to go to conferences
    Ruby Central
    Hired Ashe Dryden to design scholarship program
    Things that we might do that turns people off from the community
    The “Smug LISP Weenie” problem
    The “True Believer” club
    Being introspective on how our reactions are perceived
    “We are pushing people away”
    Onyx
    “It’s just data”
    StrangeLoop 2016
    StrangeLoop CFP is open through May 9th, 2016
    Opportunity Grants are open through May 16th, 2016
    Registration opens early June
    What kind of talks fit for StrangeLoop
    Carin Meier’s talk on Chemical Computing
    Carin Meier on Functional Geekery talking about her StrangeLoop talk
    Valerie Aurora
    Frame Shift Consulting
    “Take a few minutes to think about how to make your language community more inclusive”

    As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

    57 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 49 - Steve Vinoski and Francesco Cesarini

    In this episode I talk with Steve Vinoski and Francesco Cesarini. We talk their introduction to Erlang, and designing scalable, reliable systems with Erlang We talk their introduction to Erlang, and designing scalable, reliable systems with Erlang.

    Our Guests, Steve Vinoski and Francesco Cesarini

    @stevevinoski on Twitter

    @FrancescoC on Twitter

    Announcements

    On May 2nd and 3rd flatMap(Oslo) is taking place in Oslo, Norway. flatMap(Oslo) is a conference about functional programming, mainly on the JVM. The call for speakers is now open. To find out more visit http://2016.flatmap.no for more information, and make sure to use code GEEKERY when registering to find out more.

    PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available.

    Curry On is taking place July 18th and 19th in Rome. Visit curry-on.org to find out more and to register.

    Full Stack Fest will be hold in Barcelona on September 5-9th. You can check out 2016.fullstackfest.com/call-for-papers —to find out more and submit your paper too.

    If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

    Topics

    About Steve

    About Francesco
    Erlang Solutions
    How Francesco got attracted to Erlang
    How Steve got into Erlang
    Yaws
    “Erlang is actually three things”
    Erlang the language
    Erlang the virtual machine (The BEAM)
    The programming model (OTP)
    Akka
    Thinking about the system
    “Let it crash” mentality
    Let It Crash… Except When You Shouldn’t
    Designing for failure in your system
    Designing for Scalability with Erlang and OTP
    Why you need OTP
    Fundamentals of Distributed Systems
    Fault Tolerance
    Two computers for reliability
    “What kind of patterns are used in these systems”
    How the behaviors work
    “You have to know what the system is doing if you are going to scale and be reliable”
    Distributed, fault-tolerant, scalable and reliable
    Dirty Scheduler in Erlang
    Rickard Green’s presentation at Erlang Factory San Francisco 2011
    Jesper Louis Anderson’s post on Dirty Scheduler
    AUTHD discount for the book on O’Reilly

    As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

    53 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 48 - Matthias Felleisen

    In this episode I talk with Matthias Felleisen. We talk his history with Schemes from The Little Lisper, How to Design Programs, to Typed Racket. We also cover teaching math to middle schoolers with Bootstrap, and using programming to teach problem solving and more.

    Our Guest, Matthias Felleisen

    Matthias Felleisen’s home page

    Announcements

    On May 2nd and 3rd flatMap(Oslo) is taking place in Oslo, Norway. flatMap(Oslo) is a conference about functional programming, mainly on the JVM. The call for speakers is now open. To find out more visit http://2016.flatmap.no for more information, and make sure to use code GEEKERY when registering to find out more.

    PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. The Call For Proposals is now open, and will be taking submissions through the 13th of March. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available, and http://eventil.com/events/polyconf-16 to submit your talk proposal.

    If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

    Topics

    About Matthias

    Realm of Racket
    Racket
    William Byrd episode of Functional Geekery
    Matthew Flatt episode of Functional Geekery
    How Matthias fell in love with parenthesis
    How a Ph.D. works and how Dan Friedman led him through his Ph.D.
    Essentials of Programming Languages
    Research into continuations
    The Little Schemer
    How to improve teaching The Little Lisper
    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
    The Seasoned Schemer
    The approach of the Socratic manner in The Little Lisper
    The Reasoned Schemer
    How to Design Programs
    “Students didn’t actually get how to write programs well”
    Tinkering vs repeatable design process
    Teaching programming to teach mathematics
    Using programming to teach problem solving
    Bootstrap to teach programming
    Learning path from middle school through graduating college
    “How ‘Hello, World!’ allows them to view problem solving as a very systematic process”
    Relationship of How to Design Programs and PLT Scheme/Racket
    “Aiming for a programming language in which it was easy to make little languages”
    DrRacket
    “Domain Specific Languages […] is the ultimate abstraction”
    Types as a tool to express what was in one’s mind when designing software
    Typed Racket
    How Typed Racket came into being in Racket
    Interaction between typed and untyped modules
    Importance of new, fresh eyes to explore, stretch, and break Typed Racket
    RacketCon
    StrangeLoop

    As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

    1 hr
  • Functional Geekery Episode 47 - John A. De Goes

    In this episode I talk with John De Goes. We cover his introduction to functional programming, reasons for starting a functional programming conference, evolution of LambdaConf, what to look forward to at LambdaConf 2016, the choice to pick PureScript at SlamData, and more.

    Our Guest, John De Goes

    @jdegoes on Twitter

    http://degoes.net/
    John on LinkedIn
    LambdaConf

    Announcements

    On May 2nd and 3rd flatMap(Oslo) is taking place in Oslo, Norway. flatMap(Oslo) is a conference about functional programming, mainly on the JVM. The call for speakers is now open. To find out more visit http://2016.flatmap.no for more information, and make sure to use code GEEKERY when registering to find out more.

    LambdaConf will be taking place May 26th – 29th in Boulder, Colorado. Keep an eye on lambdaconf.us to find out more and to register, and make sure to use code 10Geekery for 10% off the Standard Self-pay registration..

    PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. The Call For Proposals is now open, and will be taking submissions through the 13th of March. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available, and http://eventil.com/events/polyconf-16 to submit your talk proposal.

    If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

    Topics

    About John

    SlamData
    LambdaConf 2015 episodes, Part 1 and Part 2
    How John got into Functional Programming
    Mathematica
    Haskell
    Immutable data structures and recursion instead of loops
    Scala
    PureScript
    “Breaking things down into smaller things we can think about”
    Organizing LambdaConf 2014
    “A desire to promote functional programming”
    Growth of LambdaConf from 2014 to 2015
    Being forced to answer “When are we going to be able to register for LambdaConf 2015?”
    “We were able to help a lot of people find jobs from LambdaConf 2015”
    Zeeshan Lakhani on Lisp Flavoured Erlang at LambdaConf 2015
    Emily presentation at LambdaConf 2015
    Benefit of cross pollination of ideas across functional programming languages
    Feel of Lambda 2016
    Beginning Haskell and Intermediate Haskell workshop from Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki
    http://haskellbook.com/
    Mini Conferences the day before
    Workshops
    Breaking the tracks into beginner, intermediate, and advanced
    Unconference the day after
    Why PureScript at SlamData
    Haxe
    PureScript IRC room
    Difference of the semantics between Haskell on GHC and Haskell on JavaScript
    Elm
    The ability to hire people writing PureScript
    “If you pick PureScript, you will have more people apply than you could hire”
    “Trying to forever change the way people write frontend software”
    “If a big company says ‘Hey, we going to do PureScript’, there’s now risk there”
    Discount code for LambdaConf is `10Geekery`
    “You really can make a difference”
    Importance of sharing knowledge at every level of skill
    “I will connect with any software developer on LinkedIn”

    As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

    1 hr 10 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 46 - Kurt Schrader

    In this episode I talk with Kurt Schrader. We talk about his introduction to Clojure, deciding to build a company on Clojure and Datomic, how Datomic changes your thinking about databases and more.

    Our Guest, Kurt Schrader

    @kurt on Twitter

    Clubhouse

    Announcements

    On May 2nd and 3rd flatMap(Oslo) is taking place in Oslo, Norway. flatMap(Oslo) is a conference about functional programming, mainly on the JVM. The call for speakers is now open. To find out more visit http://2016.flatmap.no for more information, and make sure to use code GEEKERY when registering to find out more.

    LambdaConf will be taking place May 26th – 29th in Boulder, Colorado. Keep an eye on lambdaconf.us to find out more.

    PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. The Call For Proposals is now open, and will be taking submissions through the 13th of March. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available, and http://eventil.com/events/polyconf-16 to submit your talk proposal.

    If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

    Topics

    About Kurt

    How Kurt got into Clojure
    Datomic
    Being different enough from Java to force people to think differently
    “We can always fall back to a Java library”
    Cascalog
    “This is just math”
    Selling Clojure across the company
    Deciding to build a company and start with Clojure
    “There was that question of would we be able to hire people”
    “You use Clojure? I want to do that”
    The Python Paradox
    Cursive
    Using Datomic for historical view of data
    “There is a self selecting group of people who want to use Datomic”
    What is Datomic and what it gets you
    Queries go through memory on a local box
    Transition in thinking when using Datomic
    You stop over thinking queries
    Datalog
    “You start to ask yourself ‘Why did I do thinks the old way?'”
    Thinking about how to take advantage of availability of historical data
    Get out into meetups and grow the community

    As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

    48 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 45 - Brooklyn Zelenka

    In this episode I talk with Brooklyn Zelenka. We talk her introduction to functional programming, various user groups she has started, her consultancy Robot Overlord, and her Monad Nomad tour.

    Our Guest, Brooklyn Zelenka

    @expede on Twitter

    expede on Github
    @hailrobo on Twitter
    robot-overlord on Github
    Vancouver FP
    Vancouver Erlang & Elixir
    Code & Coffee – Vancouver

    Announcements

    Erlang Factory San Francisco will be taking place on the 10th and 11th of March, with training on the 7th through the 9th of March and the 14th through the 16th of March. Listeners get 10% off registration when using code FunctionalGeekery10.

    On May 2nd and 3rd flatMap(Oslo) is taking place in Oslo, Norway. flatMap(Oslo) is a conference about functional programming, mainly on the JVM. The call for speakers is now open. To find out more visit http://2016.flatmap.no for more information, and make sure to use code GEEKERY when registering to find out more.

    LambdaConf will be taking place May 26th – 29th in Boulder, Colorado. Keep an eye on lambdaconf.us to find out more.

    PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. The Call For Proposals is now open, and will be taking submissions through the 13th of March. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available, and http://eventil.com/events/polyconf-16 to submit your talk proposal.

    If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

    Topics

    About Brooklyn

    What Brooklyn has been up to since her previous appearance on Functional Geekery
    Interest in Elixir for pulling in Rubyist to functional programming.
    Generalized Algebraic Data Types
    Idris
    Brooklyn’s journey into functional programming
    Music Theory and programming
    Common Lisp
    Haskell
    Clojure
    First exposure to Common Lisp from JavaScript
    The Little Schemer – 4th Edition
    Transition from Common Lisp exposure to Haskell
    “I was told ‘This is notoriously difficult’, so I had to learn it”
    Starting the Vancouver Functional Programming User Group
    Doing Monads in Ruby
    Popularity of functional programming in companies in Vancouver
    Strategies for learning new languages
    Safari Books Online
    exercism.io
    “Learning how to do things idiomatically in that language”
    Witchcraft monad library for Elixir
    Impact on functional programming experience on JavaScript programming
    React
    Redux
    Using React as a stepping stone to introduce functional style in JavaScript
    lodash
    Immutable.js
    reagent
    Om
    Kicking off her Monad Nomad tour
    The Monad Nomad on medium.com
    LambdaConf 2016
    Robot Overlord
    Robot Overlord on medium.com
    Build a community around functional programming

    As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

    57 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 44 - Michael Craig

    In this episode I talk with Michael Craig. We talk his introduction to Haskell, doing Haskell on the side and it’s impact on his Ruby and Java, using Haskell in production, getting new people up to speed with Haskell, and more.

    Our Guest, Michael Craig

    @mkscrg on Twitter

    Wagon
    Wagon blog

    Announcements

    ElixirDaze will be taking place March 4th in St. Augustine, Florida. ElixirDaze is a one day conference with a nearly full day of talks and a Helping Hack session to close it out. Visit elixirdaze.com to find out more.

    Erlang Factory San Fransisco will be taking place on the 10th and 11th of March, with training on the 7th through the 9th of March and the 14th through the 16th of March. The Call for Talks is now open through December 15th, and the Very Early Bird registration is open as well.

    LambdaConf will be taking place May 26th – 29th in Boulder, Colorado. Keep an eye on lambdaconf.us to find out more.

    PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. The Call For Proposals is now open, and will be taking submissions through the 13th of March. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available, and http://eventil.com/events/polyconf-16 to submit your talk proposal.

    If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

    Topics

    About Michael

    Wagon
    Michael’s introduction to Haskell
    Michael’s introduction to functional programming in Lisp before Haskell
    “Functional programming in the small”
    Balance between working in Haskell vs Ruby or Java
    Trade-off between working in dynamic and static languages
    How Haskell influenced daily work in Java and Ruby
    Working on Wagon in Haskell
    30,000 foot view of server and client
    How Wagon’s Haskell web app is structured
    Warp
    WAI
    Handler Monad using a monad transformer to structure a web app
    “Real world Haskell”
    Deploying an application in Haskell
    Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk
    Docker
    Electron
    Atom
    Chromium
    Node.js
    Squirrel
    Wagon’s functional style of JavaScript
    Ramda
    Underscore and Lodash
    Flow
    React and Redux
    Limiting side effects in JavaScript
    Bringing people up to speed in Haskell
    Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
    What I Wish I knew When Learning Haskell by Stephen Diehl
    Running client side Haskell and cross-platform support
    Stack
    Cabal
    Structuring Haskell and JavaScript in an Electron app
    Wagon blog
    Jobs at Wagon in San Fransisco
    Bay Area Haskell Users Group
    Reexamine you assumption about Haskell not being useful for real world apps

    As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

    48 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 43 - Brujo Benavides

    In this episode I talk with Brujo Benavides. We talk his history with Erlang, work with Inaka, community growth of Erlang, Erlang tooling, and importance of running Dialyzer on your codebase, and more.

    Our Guest, Brujo Benavides

    @elbrujohalcon on Twitter

    elbrujohalcon on GitHub
    elbrujohalcon on About Me
    Inaka
    @inaka on Twitter
    Inaka on GitHub
    Erlang Solutions

    Announcements

    Compose :: Conference will be taking place Thursday, Feb. 4th and Friday, Feb. 5 of 2016 in New York City. Compose is a conference for typed functional programmers, focused specifically on Haskell, OCaml, F#, SML, and related technologies. To find out more and to register, visit http://www.composeconference.org/

    LambdaDays 2016 will be taking place on the 18th and 19th of February in Kraków, Poland. The CFP and registration has opened, so make sure to visit lambdadays.org to find out more. And make sure to use code FunkyGeekz4dWin to get 10% off registration.

    :clojureD 2016 will be taking place on the 20th of February in Berlin, Germany. The CFP has opened, so make sure to visit www.clojured.de/ to find out more.

    ElixirDaze will be taking place March 4th in St. Augustine, Florida. ElixirDaze is a one day conference with a nearly full day of talks and a Helping Hack session to close it out. Visit elixirdaze.com to find out more.

    Erlang Factory San Fransisco will be taking place on the 10th and 11th of March, with training on the 7th through the 9th of March and the 14th through the 16th of March. The Call for Talks is now open through December 15th, and the Very Early Bird registration is open as well.

    LambdaConf will be taking place May 26th – 29th in Boulder, Colorado. Keep an eye on lambdaconf.us to find out more.

    PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. The Call For Proposals is now open, and will be taking submissions through the 13th of March. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available, and http://eventil.com/events/polyconf-16 to submit your talk proposal.

    If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

    Topics

    About Brujo

    Coming from Visual Basic and .NET into Functional Programming
    Inaka
    How Brujo got into first Haskell and then Erlang
    Getting into the mindset of processes and concurrency
    Fortune of first working in Erlang for a Voice Over IP telephony app
    Being the sole Erlang developer at Inaka
    Chad DePue and Erlang Inside
    Benefit of enhancing a existing codebase and having something to compare against
    Whisper
    MochiWeb
    Cowboy
    How Inaka ramps up a new Erlang developer
    sumo_db
    Erlang Solutions
    What the adoption of Erlang from clients looks like
    Getting developers at clients up to speed in Erlang
    Robert Virding
    View of community growth of Erlang over past five years
    Brujo and Inaka’s work on tooling
    Hound CI for Ruby
    Elvis
    Elvis Rules
    Style Guides for Erlang
    xref
    Dialyzer
    Gadget
    xref_runner
    erl_tidy
    Swagger
    cowboy-trails
    sumo_rest
    hex.pm
    Hackage in Haskell
    erlang.mk
    Rebar 3
    hexer
    Reconciling usage of build tools for Erlang
    Importance of using Dialyzer on Erlang projects
    Getting started with Dialyzer
    erlang-kantana
    Erlang Factory San Fransisco
    Importance of understandable clear code for your projects
    elbrujohalcon everywhere
    Erlang Solutions new website

    As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

    1 hr 3 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 42 - Claudia Doppioslash

    In this episode I talk with Claudia Doppioslash. We talk about how she first got into functional programming; her experience with Clojure, Haskell, Idris, Erlang, Elixir, LFE, and Elm; Static vs Dynamic Types; and her goal of showing Functional Reactive Programming as a good way to do game development.

    Our Guest, Claudia Doppioslash

    @doppioslash on Twitter

    http://blog.doppioslash.com/
    @lambda_cat on Twitter
    http://www.lambdacat.com/

    Announcements

    Compose :: Conference will be taking place Thursday, Feb. 4th and Friday, Feb. 5 of 2016 in New York City. Compose is a conference for typed functional programmers, focused specifically on Haskell, OCaml, F#, SML, and related technologies. To find out more and to register, visit http://www.composeconference.org/

    LambdaDays 2016 will be taking place on the 18th and 19th of February in Kraków, Poland. The CFP and registration has opened, so make sure to visit lambdadays.org to find out more. And make sure to use code FunkyGeekz4dWin to get 10% off registration.

    :clojureD 2016 will be taking place on the 20th of February in Berlin, Germany. The CFP has opened, so make sure to visit www.clojured.de/ to find out more.

    ElixirDaze will be taking place March 4th in St. Augustine, Florida. ElixirDaze is a one day conference with a nearly full day of talks and a Helping Hack session to close it out. Visit elixirdaze.com to find out more.

    Erlang Factory San Fransisco will be taking place on the 10th and 11th of March, with training on the 7th through the 9th of March and the 14th through the 16th of March. The Call for Talks is now open through December 15th, and the Very Early Bird registration is open as well.

    LambdaConf will be taking place May 26th – 29th in Boulder, Colorado. The CFP is currently open, and keep an eye on lambdaconf.us to find out more.

    If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

    Topics

    About Claudia

    How Claudia got into functional programming
    The Boo programming language
    idris-cil
    Experience first getting into Clojure
    Liverpool Clojure Dojo
    Clojure on Android
    FunctionalKats
    Advantage of having REPL for development workflow
    Arcadia (on gitter)
    Emacs+Clojure REPL on Oculus Rift
    What about Lisps attracted her to them
    Haskell
    Idris and dependent types
    Haskell Programming by Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki
    Julie Moronuki and Chris Allen on Episode 19
    Progressive Typing
    Claudia’s Dynamic Typing vs Static Typing experience
    Change of mindset between Clojure vs Haskell vs Erlang
    Thinking of failure upfront
    Elixir
    Good job that Elixir has done with the learning materials
    Lisp Flavoured Erlang
    Leiningen
    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs in LFE
    Elm
    Functional Reactive Programming
    Gradual learning curve for ease of adoption and productivity
    Goal of games being written in functional programming languages
    Elise Huard’s Game Programming in Haskell
    Cambridge DDD Nights
    Claudia’s video on Elm’s Time Travelling Debugger

    As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

    55 min

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