The 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
