Lambda Lounge Video LinksThe next Lambda Lounge is next Thursday in the new location – 680 Craig Rd. Bill Burdick is coming in from KC to do a talk about lambda calculus as well as his own new language, Leisure. Leisure is a lazy, untyped language that compiles to JavaScript.
Also check out his lambda calculus evaluator and Space Invaders in lambda calculus!
Pizza will be provided by n3rds.com – check ‘em out!
One short leap month later, it’s time for Lambda Lounge March! In like an OS X Mountain Lion, out like a lambda right? Something like that. We’ll meet on Thursday March 1st at 6 pm in the usual location.
Two great talks this month, as usual. First up we’ve got Chris Gore talking about Evolutionary Algorithms in Lisp. And then we have Jim Duey coming in from Kansas City to talk about DSLs in Clojure, a topic he’ll be talking about soon at Clojure/West.
Jay DeLong from RCGA will also be stopping by to give us a quick overview of some of the great startup stuff going on in St. Louis right now. This is a pretty good overview …
We have two interesting talks scheduled this month (oh wait, that’s every month).
John Leach will be talking about Hadoop and HBase. John runs the St. Louis Hadoop User’s Group and is currently working on a cloud-based Hadoop marketing platform. Hadoop is the Apache project for distributed storage and map/reduce and HBase is a BigTable-like database platform built on top of Hadoop.
David McNeil will be talking about “Building a DSL in Clojure For Controlling a Lego MindStorm/ Arduino Robot”. As you might notice Lego MindStorm and Arduino are different platforms so this is really a talk about creating abstractions in Clojure. And robots. Robots!
Many thanks to Cloudera for sponsoring this month’s meeting. If you’re interested in learning more about Hadoop, our very own Tom Wheeler is now working as an instructor for Cloudera and will be doing a class right here in St. Louis at the end of February.
Lambda Lounge is back for the new year this Thursday Jan 5th at the normal time and place!
Our first talk will be Ryan Senior giving us an introduction to logic programming with Clojure’s core.logic library. Ryan has been delving deep into the black arts of Prolog, Kanren, and Clojure’s take on how to do logic programming and will give us a gentle introduction.
The second talk will be Alex Miller doing a non-technical talk called “Life and Death at the Dawn of Computing” exploring some interesting dualities during the birth of computing.
This Thursday Dec. 1st is the next edition of the Lambda Lounge! This month we have lightning talks and we’ve got a great set planned:
Pizza will be provided by Technology Partners.
For those of you that have been attending Lambda Lounge for a while, this will be the 3 year anniversary of the first Lambda Lounge! Hard to believe. In 3 short years we’ve had talks in the following languages: Ocaml, Groovy, Clojure, Objective C, Ruby, JavaScript, Erlang, Haskell, F#, Perl 6, Factor, Python, Fan (now Fantom), Fortress, Scala, Piet, Ook, LOLCODE, Inform 7, CoffeeScript, ClojureScript, Lua, Kotlin, and of course Java. Not to mention quite a few other topics besides!
That first meeting was awesome for me because I mashed together a bunch of groups of people I knew (plus a bunch of people I didn’t!) and find a common thread. It was great to see all those smart people in one room. Ryan Senior did a talk on OCaml and that was the first time that I met him – now he sits next to me at Revelytix and is an integral part of the Strange Loop team. Matt Taylor also did a talk on Groovy – little did we know he would be on to bigger things in California before we knew it.
For me personally Lambda Lounge was a place to explore new (to me) ideas of functional and dynamic programming languages. Now I use a functional and dynamic language every day!
Many thanks to all for continuing to share at Lambda Lounge – I still love seeing everyone every month and miss it badly when I can’t make it.
This Thursday, Nov. 3rd is the next Lambda Lounge meeting! We’ll have:
Thursday October 6th is time for the next Lambda Lounge meeting. We’ll be having two talks about languages that compile to JavaScript. In CoffeeScript‘s corner, Mark Volkmann will be giving us an overview. Nate Young will be showing us how to sneak Lisp into your browser with ClojureScript.
As always, the meetings starts at 6 pm at 1099 Milwaukee in Kirkwood, MO. Head in the east door (Milwaukee side) and down the stairs.
Pizza will be provided by Experis.
