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  • Functional Geekery Episode 41 - Eric Normand

    In this episode I talk with Eric Normand. We talk about teaching ideas around functional programming, digging down into finding the motivations of why someone should care enough to want to learn something, and we end with some tips to keep in mind when teaching.

    Our Guest, Eric Normand

    @ericnormand on Twitter

    http://www.lispcast.com/
    http://www.clojuregazette.com/
    http://www.purelyfunctional.tv/
    http://www.lispcast.com/geekery
    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 Eric Normand

    Eric’s previous appearance on Episode 18
    Moving PurelyFunctional.tv to smaller more frequent videos
    Ruby Tapas
    Elixir Sips
    Eric on Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots
    Eric on Ruby Rogues
    The move to shorter more frequent videos and getting feedback on teaching
    You can never underestimate the level you should be teaching at
    Eric’s process for determining how to teach something
    Teaching map, filter, and reduce
    reduce as macaroni art
    Finding the motivation of “why” someone should care
    Count the number of mutations and see how much state you are keeping around
    Composability of functions
    Joel Spolsky’s Can Your Programming Language Do This?
    Abstractions in common Object Oriented languages and their communities
    Data modeling Students enrolling in Classes
    Modeling a ManyToMany class as an object
    How to start to get a “Functional Mindset”
    Refactoring and Design Patterns as hooks to functional programming
    Style Guides and Metrics as a way to promote functional programming
    Vision of PurelyFunctional.tv as interchange of functional languages
    Call for interest in teaching other languages as part of PurelyFunctional.tv
    Notes from Eric on http://www.lispcast.com/geekery
    Tips on teaching
    Write blog posts on questions from IRC or StackOverflow
    Keep breaking it down further and relate it to experience
    Make it practical
    “The material and transfer of it to other people should be the focus”

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

    58 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 40 - David Nolen

    In this episode I talk with David Nolen. We talk his background in Functional Programming, entry into Lisps and Clojure, ClojureScript, Om and Om Next, and the ideas Om next is taking from React, GraphQL, and Falcor.

    Our Guest, David Nolen

    David is @swannodette on Twitter

    http://swannodette.github.io/

    Sponsors

    This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. PurelyFunctional.tv’s Online Mentoring has just launched. It is step-by-step online mentoring that takes you from Clojure dabbler to Clojure professional. Sign up with the link purelyfunctional.tv/geekery to get 50% off the first month!

    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.

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

    Topics

    About David Nolen

    Datomic
    ClojureScript
    How David got into Functional Programming and Lisps
    The C Programming Language
    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
    Racket
    Arc
    Clojure
    “Just downloaded a Jar and it worked”
    miniKanren
    core.logic
    History of ClojureScript
    Cognitect
    React
    Figwheel
    DevCards
    ClojureScript self compiles
    Code sharing and Reader Conditionals
    “There is not a distinction between front-end and back-end people”
    Alignment between JVM and JavaScript environment for Clojure and ClojureScript semantics
    Clojure doesn’t have any specification […] it embraces the host semantics”
    Communicating Sequential Processes
    The future of ClojureScript
    “We are pretty much lock step with Clojure”
    Macros in ClojureScript vs Clojure and impact on code sharing
    Om
    State is a fundamental problems in UIs
    Flux
    Relay
    Redux
    Reagent
    Quiescent
    New direction with Om Next and the deeper understanding
    “All about being incremental”
    Om Next
    Om Next presentation at ClojureConj 2015
    GraphQL
    Falcor
    Advantages of GraphQL and Falcor style of requesting data
    Batching in a way that what you get from the server is immediately renderable
    Caching of data and requests in Om Next
    Tradeoffs of GraphQL and Falcor style of requesting data in Om Next
    iOS and Android running Om Next
    Kitchen Table Coders
    @ktcoders on Twitter
    Arcadia
    Demand Driven Architecture talk from David Nolen and Kovas Boguta
    Om Next presentation at EuroClojure 2015
    CRAFT in Budapest
    On IRC – #clojurescript on freenode.net
    #clojurescript on clojurians Slack (invite link)

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

    1 hr 3 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 39 - Philip Wadler

    In this episode I talk with Professor Philip Wadler. We talk the correspondence between mathematics and computation, his research into concurrent distributed systems, and other research in the area with ABCD and BETTY.

    Our Guest, Professor Philip Wadler

    Professor Wadler is @philipwadler on Twitter

    Homepage
    Blog

    Sponsors

    This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. PurelyFunctional.tv’s Online Mentoring has just launched. It is step-by-step online mentoring that takes you from Clojure dabbler to Clojure professional. Sign up with the link purelyfunctional.tv/geekery to get 50% off the first month!

    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.

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

    Topics

    About Philip Wadler

    Wadler on Computability at The Stand
    Took a course in Lisp from John McCarthy at Standford
    “How can you know you are doing the right thing?”
    Formal proofs vs empirical studies
    Eugenio Moggi and Gordon Plotkin and Denotational Semantics
    “If you write things in italic font instead of teletype font, all of a sudden people think ‘That’s too difficult, I can’t do that'”
    “Mathematics is general approach to reasoning”
    Propositions at Types
    Linear Logic and concurrent distributed systems
    “There were things that were done for completely independent reasons that are useful to computing”
    Current world view of his research
    Process Calculi
    CCS by Robin Milner
    CSP by Tony Hoare
    Pi Calculus by Robin Milner
    Kohei Honda
    Correspondence between Session Types and Linear Logic
    Multi-Party Session Types
    Nobuko Yoshida
    Marco Carbone
    Fabrizio Montesi
    Carsten Schürmann
    Scribble
    Mungo
    Where can people find out more information and resources
    ABCD – A Basis for Concurrency and Distribution
    Professor Wadler’s Homepage
    BETTY
    Lambda Calculus
    Philip Wadler waving his Fuzzy Stuffed Lambda


    “If you can cope with JavaScript or with many of the other systems that are out there you have the skills to cope with the mathematics that is out there.”
    Introduction to Functional Programming
    “Have a weird name”

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

    31 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 38 - Dr. Conrad Barski

    In this episode I talk with Dr. Conrad Barski. We talk his background in computers and medicine; entry into functional programming with Haskell and Lisp; ClojureScript with Om, React, and GraphQL; and end with his latest interest in block chains as distributed concurrent data structures.

    Our Guest, Dr. Conrad Barski

    Conrad is @lisperati on Twitter

    http://lisperati.com/

    Sponsors

    This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. PurelyFunctional.tv’s Online Mentoring has just launched. It is step-by-step online mentoring that takes you from Clojure dabbler to Clojure professional. Sign up with the link purelyfunctional.tv/geekery to get 50% off the first month!

    Announcements

    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.

    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.

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

    Topics

    About Dr. Conrad Barski

    Land of Lisp
    Conrad’s entrance into programming and how that relates to his M.D.
    Conrad’s discovery of Lisp
    Bjarne Stroustrup saying “look at what the functional programming people are doing”
    Venturing into Haskell
    Why Common Lisp was the choice over a Scheme
    Anaphoric Macros
    Clojure
    Casting SPELs in Lisp
    “Why don’t we turn the Lisp REPL into Zork”
    No Starch Press
    Realm of Racket
    The appeal of using games as the examples in his books
    Hopscotch
    Experience in Haskell
    “If I knew I would live for a million years, I would spend the first 30 learning Haskell”
    Difference in ways of thinking between Haskell and Common Lisp or Clojure
    Phil Bagwell’s paper on Persistent Data Structures
    Getting into Clojure from Common Lisp
    Arc by Paul Graham
    ClojureScript
    Common core between Clojure and ClojureScript and cljx
    Graph query languages, e.g. GraphQL and Falcor
    React
    Om from David Nolen
    Om Next
    Cursors in Om
    setq in Common Lisp
    The benefit of Immutable Persistent Data Structures in React rendering
    Querying the data structure for app state in Om Next
    Commander Keen by John Carmack
    Go Channels, core.async, and Hoare’s Communicating Sequential Processes
    Bitcoin and Block Chains
    Datomic
    Ethereum
    Smart Contracts
    Removing the traditional client server model with a peer-to-peer version
    Paxos and Raft
    Confirmation times for code changes as part of block chain events
    Bitcoin for the Befuddled
    kr2n.com
    Contact Conrad if you have experience with Block chains and distributed databases

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

    1 hr 3 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 37 - Eric Smith

    In this episode I talk with Eric Smith. We talk about his introduction to functional programming and what he looks at from a organizational perspective, his interest in the history of computation, and covers some thoughts on how we should be introducing people to programming with lessons learned from digging into the history of computation.

    Our Guest, Eric Smith

    Eric is @eric_s_smith on Twitter

    Middlebury Interactive Languages

    Sponsors

    This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. PurelyFunctional.tv’s Online Mentoring has just launched. It is step-by-step online mentoring that takes you from Clojure dabbler to Clojure professional. Sign up with the link purelyfunctional.tv/geekery to get 50% off the first month!

    Announcements

    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.

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

    Topics

    About Eric Smith

    Vermont Functional Programming user group
    One of Eric’s talks at VT Fun
    How Eric got into software development
    Personal language evolution and introduction to Functional Programming
    Architecture the Lost Years by “Uncle Bob” Martin
    “Keep the interface with the world at the outside layer of the onion”
    “Recursive Functions for going over data collections”
    Common Lisp, Clojure, Haskell, and Scala
    PureScript
    What Eric liked about the different languages from both a personal and work place organization perspective
    “Setting the bar high is actually helpful”
    Daniel Spiewak
    May Your Data Ever Be Coherent
    Separation between what you are trying to express and your control flow
    Peter Landin’s The Next 700 Languages
    Thinking in State Transitions vs Composition
    Statement vs Expression based languages
    Denotational Semantics
    Peter Landin, Christopher Strachey, and Dana Scott
    Eric’s interest in the history of computing
    “Victim of an industry that has prioritized moving forward or getting things done vs getting things done in a sustainable or scalable way”
    Presper Eckert and the von Neumann architecture
    “We’ve lost sight of what was happening at the very beginning”
    Kurt Gödel’s Proof of Incompleteness (in English) and in original German
    Gödel Numbering
    Lambda Calculus by Alanzo Church
    Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions by John McCarthy
    What drove Eric to dig into the history of computing
    “As a manager, I was inheriting fairly large code bases that were a mess”
    Let’s be mainstream! by Evan Czaplicki
    “We would not teach people imperative programming as a beginning thing, and that would be something reserved for experts”
    Functional Reactive Programming
    Elm
    big-bang in Racket
    Other lessons of history that people should know of
    On the basis of the mathematical theory of computation by John McCarthy
    Peter Landin
    ISWIM
    Robert Floyd, Assigning Meaning to Programs
    C.A.R. Hoare
    John Backus’ and his Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style
    Speedcoding
    How to Design Programs
    Systematic Program Design from edX
    QuickCheck
    F# for Fun and Profit from Scott Wlaschin
    Sum Types
    Curry-Howard isomorphism
    Property Based Testing
    Edsger Dijkstra’s Structured Programming
    “Forces you to think about the properties of what comes out of your function”
    Scott Wlaschin’s An introduction to property based testing
    How to Design Worlds
    PureScript by Example by Phil Freeman

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

    1 hr 5 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 36 - Rob Sullivan (a.k.a DataChomp)

    In this episode I talk with Rob Sullivan. We talk about his entry into and experience with functional programming from the perspective of a DBA, and how functional programming languages’ massive concurrency and speed change the constraints around the database.

    Our Guest, Rob Sullivan

    Rob is @datachomp on Twitter

    datachomp.com

    Sponsors

    This episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean makes it quick and easy to get up running with hosting your project. New users use the promo code GEEKERY to get $10 credit when signing up.

    This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. PurelyFunctional.tv’s Online Mentoring has just launched. It is step-by-step online mentoring that takes you from Clojure dabbler to Clojure professional. Sign up with the link purelyfunctional.tv/geekery to get 50% off the first month!

    Announcements

    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.

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

    Topics

    About Rob Sullivan

    How Rob went from DB to dabbling in app development
    Micro-ORMs
    Rob Conery’s talk The Next Big Thing Or Cool-Kid Koolaid? Slicing Through The Rhetoric of MVC vs. WebForms
    “Learning is cumulative [..] Everything builds on itself”
    “Pretend I am an App Dev, get a job, and then take over the database”
    Seeing the goodwill of the core contributors of Elixir is what attracted Rob to Elixir
    First experience in Functional Programming with Clojure
    “Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer”
    “I haven’t met a Clojurista who isn’t extremely smart and doesn’t care about their app”
    “[Clojure] taught me and showed me there was something to Functional Programming”
    Rob’s experience getting into Elixir
    The benefit and fun of just playing with other languages with others
    How Elixir got onto Rob’s radar
    PostgreSQL is suddenly the bottleneck
    The interest in the BEAM for day job from an Operations perspective
    Ecto
    Rails’ Active Record vs Jeremy Evans’ Sequel
    moebius
    Feature richness of PostgreSQL and the problems of having abstractions that limit those features
    PgBouncer
    Not having control of your PostgreSQL instance when deploying
    PostgreSQL being the bottleneck in Elixir
    Concurrency and isolation levels
    pg_stat_statements
    Lack of current visibility about data access behavior in Elixir
    Functional programming languages ability for massive concurrency when using the database
    “Is it fair to attribute problems to Postgres when you’ve thrown it in a place with shared resources”
    Microservices and the separation of reads vs writes against the database
    Dealing with the differences of a “shared” vocabulary
    Virtual User Groups
    Paul Lamb
    Benefits of smaller groups and lack of travel
    “It pulls them out and gets them involved”
    elixir.school
    Throw Discourse on Digital Ocean
    “Take a couple of hours to play with something new”
    “Always email me at [email protected] and I will reply within a month or two.”

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

    58 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 35 - Rachel Reese

    In this episode I talk with Rachel Reese. We talk about her introduction to F# and Functional Programming, the power of user group to help one’s learning, introducing F# to the workplace, F# and microservices, and more.

    Our Guest, Rachel Reese

    Rachel is @rachelreese on Twitter

    Sponsors

    This episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean makes it quick and easy to get up running with hosting your project. New users use the promo code GEEKERY to get $10 credit when signing up.

    This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. PurelyFunctional.tv’s Online Mentoring has just launched. It is step-by-step online mentoring that takes you from Clojure dabbler to Clojure professional. Sign up with the link purelyfunctional.tv/geekery to get 50% off the first month!

    Announcements

    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.

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

    Topics

    About Rachel Reese

    Jet.com
    Mostly Erlang with Rachel Reese and Andrea Magnorsky
    How Rachel got into F#
    Skills Matter’s Progressive F# Tutorials in New York
    F# Koans
    Getting hooked by Type Providers in F#
    Vermont Functional Programming User Group
    Learning F# by presenting to other people with different functional programming backgrounds
    NashFP
    Introducing F# to work
    Migrating a database migration from C# to F#
    Rachel’s blog post on the migration
    Firefly Logic
    Tasky
    Xamarin
    Dave Thomas
    What about F# helped with the data migration process
    Types in F# helped to identify bugs of fetching extra data
    The amount of interest F# won with the drastic reduction of the migration run time
    Canopy
    Life after Firefly Logic and the move to Jet.com
    98% of the code at Jet is F#
    Benefits of pipeline and function composition to address cross-cutting concerns
    Training others in F# as part of Training and Evangelism at Jet
    Microservices help the ramp up of new developers
    How Jet treats and thinks about microservices
    Single Responsibility Principle
    Jet’s Torch project for managing microservices
    Micro Services Antipatterns
    Importance of a good story around infrastructure with microservices
    ØREDEV
    Rachel’s Mircoservices talk
    Rachel’s Data Architecture talk
    Working with 350+ microservices
    Isolate side effects to separate microservices
    Event Sourcing
    Build Stuff conferences
    VSLive
    Jet is hiring – contact [email protected] or [email protected] if interested
    tryfsharp.org
    fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ from Scott Wlaschin
    Visual Studio Community Edition
    Xamarin Studio
    Calls to action for the audience
    “Come up with an idea and finish your first little bit of F# code”
    “By something from Jet.com if you can and are in the United States”
    @jettechnology on Twitter
    techgroup.jet.com

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

    57 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 34 - Johnny Winn

    In this episode I talk with Johnny Winn, the genius behind #myelixirstatus. We talk about how his background in software development, first forays into functional programming, introducing Elixir at work, learning techniques, The Elixir Fountain, and more.

    Our Guest, Johnny Winn

    Johnny is @johnny_rugger on Twitter

    Johnny is nurugger07 on GitHub
    ElixirFountain is @elixirfountain on Twitter

    Sponsors

    This episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean makes it quick and easy to get up running with hosting your project. New users use the promo code GEEKERY to get $10 credit when signing up.

    This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. PurelyFunctional.tv’s Online Mentoring has just launched. It is step-by-step online mentoring that takes you from Clojure dabbler to Clojure professional. Sign up with the link purelyfunctional.tv/geekery to get 50% off the first month!

    Announcements

    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.

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

    Topics

    About Johnny

    a.k.a. Johnny Rugger on the internets
    Host of The Elixir Fountain podcast
    How Johnny got into software development and functional programming
    “I want to write stuff to build things”
    “It’s not how much you know, it’s how fast you can learn something”
    Hashrocket
    “I’ll do whatever I can to make the switch”
    “[Functional Programming] seemed to match the way I think”
    Experimenting in Erlang and Clojure
    Programming Elixir: Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun by Dave Thomas
    MagmaConf
    Infelx
    Chronos
    Johnny’s talk at RubyConf 2013 – The Polyglot in the Code
    Josh Adams and ElixirSips
    Elixir Fountain as a newsletter
    Moved to doing a podcast
    José Valim as the first episode of Elixir Fountain Podcast
    How Johnny got introduced to Erlang and Clojure before Elixir
    Project Euler
    “It’s very easy to be a programmer and live inside the bubble”
    F#
    “I can learn from it, but I didn’t have a place to apply it”
    Ecto
    “This looks just like LINQ”
    “I like to focus on small tools that do one thing and do it well”
    moebius
    “Inserting ten thousand rows in point-six seconds”
    Introducing Elixir to management and co-workers
    Phoenix Framework
    Plug
    “No [I’m not going to hire new Elixir developers], I’m going to take the Ruby programmers and teach them Elixir”
    Scaffolding as a learning technique
    Mimicking
    PDX Ruby thread on writing ls and grep to learn a new langauge
    “Take something that you know how it works, and figure out how to do it in your new language”
    calliope – writing a Haml parser to learn Elixir
    Stephen Pallen
    Lessons for marketing and promoting a community
    “It could be the greatest tool in the world, but if nobody knows about it does it matter?”
    #myelixirstatus
    Meetups popping up all the time
    Jax.Ex
    Lennart Fridén on Elixir Fountain
    Mob Programming
    Exercises for Programmers by Brian P. Hogan
    elixir-lang on GitHub
    Elixir Fountain podcast
    Jessica Kerr on Elixir Fountain
    Robert Virding on Elixir Fountain
    Elixir in Action by Saša Jurić

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

    59 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 33 - Richard Feldman and Tessa Kelly

    In this episode I talk with Richard Feldman and Tessa Kelly about Elm. We cover how they each got into Elm, introducing Elm into an existing application, features novel to Elm, and the Elm Architecture.

    Our Guests, Richard Feldman and Tessa Kelly

    Tessa is @t_kelly9 on Twitter

    Richard is @rtfeldman on Twitter
    NoRedInk tech blog

    Sponsors

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    Announcements

    Code Mesh 2015 is going to take place on the 3rd and 4th of November, and listeners can use the code fngeekery10 to get 10% off when you register.

    RICON 2015 will take place on the 5th and 6th of November.

    Midwest.io will be taking place on November 9th and 10th. Midwest.io is a two-day conference, bringing together 300 developers for an eclectic collection of talks covering the latest trends, best practices, and research in the field of computing. For more information visit http://www.midwest.io/.

    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.

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

    Topics

    About Tessa Kelly

    About Richard Feldman
    How Tessa got into Elm
    LambdaConf 2015
    MakerSquare
    NoRedInk
    Coming into Elm and Functional Programming with a math background
    How Richard got into Elm
    Rich Hickey’s Simple Made Easy
    CoffeeScript
    DreamWriter
    Bringing Elm into work and adoption with co-workers
    Writing Elm code and getting it into production within first week
    Using Elm’s Union Types for a consistent list of Elm Actions
    Type Annotations for functions
    Future update in Elm for dead code detection
    Features from Elm that are novel
    “Almost impossible to have a runtime error”
    Ability for Elm to detect unreachable code paths
    Type inference
    Time traveling debugger in Elm
    Future ability to export events, e.g. from QA team to Dev team, and add integration tests
    Inter-op story with JavaScript from Elm
    Overview of Elm Architecture
    start-app
    elm-effects
    View, Model, and Update
    Elm Tasks for deferred side effects
    Elm compared and contrasted to Reactive Architecture
    Actions vs Events
    “The Elm Architecture is really easy to follow”
    How Elm has the way they think
    “I would code in a style that would please the Elm compiler”
    Actions refer to user based events, as opposed to events that are JavaScript events
    Type Annotations in Elm vs JavaScript
    Type Annotations help to identify where side effects take place
    Resources for getting started with Elm
    Building a Live-Validated Signup Form in Elm
    Mike Clark’s Pragmatic Studio Series on Elm – Elm: Building Reactive Web Apps and Elm: Signals, Mailboxes & Ports
    Walkthrough: Introducing Elm to a JS Web App
    Elm website
    Things we missed talking about
    Elm’s package manager automatically enforces semantic versioning
    elm-html
    NoRedInk is hiring
    Developing a React Edge
    Calls to Action
    “Go play on the website”
    “Try rewriting a small piece of your website on Elm”

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

    1 hr 10 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 32 - Christopher Meiklejohn

    In this episode I talk with Christopher Meiklejohn. We talk distributed systems, the myth of the client-server architecture, current research around distributed systems, and his research with Lasp.

    Our Guest, Christopher Meiklejohn

    @cmeik on Twitter

    cmeiklejohn on Github
    https://christophermeiklejohn.com/

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    Announcements

    Code Mesh 2015 is going to take place on the 3rd and 4th of November, and listeners can use the code fngeekery10 to get 10% off when you register.

    RICON 2015 will take place on the 5th and 6th of November.

    Midwest.io will be taking place on November 9th and 10th. Midwest.io is a two-day conference, bringing together 300 developers for an eclectic collection of talks covering the latest trends, best practices, and research in the field of computing. For more information visit http://www.midwest.io/.

    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.

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

    Topics

    About Christopher Meiklejohn

    MachineZone
    Université catholique de Louvain
    Peter Van Roy
    How Christopher got into Functional Programming
    Amazon DynamoDB paper
    Riak
    Basho
    Andy Gross
    From Ruby to Erlang: An Unexpected Journey
    “Being able to think about problems in multiple ways is what makes a good engineer”
    Looking into Haskell when coming into Functional Programming
    Benjamin Pierce’s Software Foundations
    Coq
    Reid Draper’s episode of Functional Geekery
    Making the move from Functional Programming to Distributed Systems
    The Erlang Runtime providing the groundwork of building distributed systems
    Loss of information with concurrent operations
    The idea of Client-Server is false assumption
    Convergent / Divergent talk at EmberConf
    Availability and Consistency are at odds
    “The ideas of strongly consistent systems are approximations of knowledge that exists”
    Interplanetary or Galactic level systems and latency
    Building computations of weakly consistent systems
    Lasp
    CRDTs – Distributed datastructures that are deterministic regardless of order
    Moving computation to the edges/clients of a system
    “There isn’t a client-server”
    “There are processes that are responsible for some data”
    “The true model says that the client really holds the source of truth”
    Removing temporal time from the system
    How do you treat clients that go offline?
    Microsoft Orleans
    Akka
    Resources for getting into distributed systems
    ThinkDistributed
    Causality and Consensus episodes
    CRDTs reading list
    Distributed Systems reading list
    Watch conference talks and read industrial papers for real world connections to the problem
    Bayou Architecture
    Find a problem that inspires you
    BOOM
    Bloom
    Peter Alvaro’s talk at Strange Loop
    Neal Conway’s Bloom talk
    Wicked Good Ruby 2013 – Bloom: A Language for Disorderly Distributed Programming
    Joe Hellerstein’s Ricon keynote 2012
    Sean Cribs Ricon 2014 talk on Causality
    lasp-lang.org
    Christopher’s Strange Loop 2015 presentation on Lasp
    SyncFree
    Upcoming Appearances
    CodeMesh 2015
    Ricon 2015
    QCon San Fransisco 2015

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

    1 hr 1 min

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