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 [...]
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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 [...]
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: Simple Made Easy: The Ramones – Jeff Sigmon Pattern Matching in F# – Jessica Kerr Galileo Was Wrong – Deech xmonad – Scott Bale Computational Geometry: Convex Hulls, Intersections, and [...]
This Thursday, Nov. 3rd is the next Lambda Lounge meeting! We’ll have: Ken Sipe – talking about the new JVM language Kotlin, a work in progress by JetBrains. Ken interviewed Andrey Breslav about the language on the Strange Loop podcast. David Hollander – talking about building Asynchronous Servers in LuaJIT. Learn more here. Pizza will [...]
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 [...]
Get out of the pool and head on over to the Lambda Lounge this Thursday night June 2nd at 6pm: James Carr on RabbitMQ David Difranco on Apache Thrift And upcoming on July 7th, we’ll have: What Every Developer Should Know About Security – Tom Wheeler Zippers For Web Development – Aditya Siram
Tomorrow, Thursday May 5th is the next Lambda Lounge meeting! Come on out to hear two great talks: Immutable, Versioned Map – Mark Volkmann – exploring Mark’s Java Map implementation built on immutable versioned data (as opposed to mutable data ala HashMap or Clojure’s immutable version) Erlang OTP – Zac Duncan – OTP is Erlang’s [...]
It’s time for the March meeting of the Lambda Lounge! We’ll have talks on two new topics this month: Inform 7 – a DSL for Interactive Fiction – Adam Thornton Source Code Version Management with Branching & Merging – Stephen Venters Adam will walk us through a different kind of language than we normally see [...]
February meeting: concurrency and combinators
Posted: February 3, 2011 by Alex Miller in UncategorizedIt’s cold outside … come to the Lambda Lounge tonight at 6 pm and wrap yourself in a cozy blanket of parentheses with two Clojure-based talks from the Revelytix crew. First, we will have Alex Miller speaking about a new concurrency framework for event-driven processing built on top of fork/join and how they’re using it [...]
Hard to believe but it’s almost time for the first Lambda Lounge of 2011! We’ve got a stellar line-up for the first meeting of the year: Lightning talk: Inform-7 – Adam Thornton will be talking about this language for writing interactive fiction (like Zork of old) Functional data structures – Aditya Siram will be talking [...]
