Egads, it’s September already. We have a great meeting planned at the Lambda Lounge this week. First, we’ll have a special guest, Michael Goldwasser, the Director of Computer Science at SLU, stopping by to talk to us about how they picked a language for teaching CS1 at SLU. I’m very much looking forward to learning [...]
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Tomorrow night (Thursday Aug 19th, 6 pm) will be the first Node.js meetup at OCI’s offices at 12140 Woodcrest Executive Dr. St.Louis, MO 63141. To get there head west on Olive Blvd. from 270 and take the second right at Commerce Bank. OCI’s offices are right behind the bank. From the entrance, take the stairs [...]
We have some hard-core geekery lined up for the August meeting this Thursday night. Tim Dalton will be bringing his Scala mastery to perennial subject of monads. Personally, I’m curious on his position as to whether monads are or are not burritos. In addition, we’ll have a talk by Darren Cruse about NetKernel, which is [...]
You didn’t think you could get out of doing your homework just because it was summer did you? We’ll kick off the Lambda Lounge meeting on July 1st with the first (and hopefully not the last) edition of the NOSQL Summer St. Louis meeting. The idea behind NOSQL Summer is to get groups of people [...]
It’s that time again – the June meeting of Lambda Lounge is this Thursday, 6 pm at Appistry HQ as usual. This month’s pizza is brought to you by NetEffects. Many thanks to them!! We have two great talks lined up. First we have Scott Bale on ”JavaScript Functions : The Good Parts - Idioms for Inheritance and Encapsulation” talking about things [...]
It’s that time again – the Lambda Lounge meeting is this Thursday, May 6th at 6 pm, Appistry offices. The speaker will be Jim Duey, a guest speaker coming in from Kansas City to talk about Clojure and logic programming. Jim has done some excellent writing about Clojure and other interesting topics and I’m very [...]
I can’t believe it but the April meeting is this Thursday, April 1st already! We’ll have a trio of fun languages this month: Piet – Benjamin Lee will be showing us Piet, a crazy language embedded in Mondrian-style pictures. Ook – Bryan Venable will be showing us a bit of Ook, a language designed for [...]
Somehow it’s March and time for the next great Lambda Lounge meeting! First up we’ll have James Carr (@jamescarr) talking about Behavior Driven Development with jspec: Behavior Driven Development is a technique for improving collaboration and development by using examples of how a system or API works from the outside-in to drive it’s development. To [...]
The Lambda Lounge February meeting is just one week away! This month (Feb 4th), Matt Stine will be traveling to St. Louis to talk about Polyglot OSGi: One of the greatest benefits of OSGi is its firewall-esque encapsulation of implementation details. The only traffic that gets in or out is the traffic that you explicitly [...]
I wanted to put some info up here about the upcoming St. Louis Innovation Camp. Brian Blanchard contacted me about this last year and has been working hard at putting the pieces in place. This thing is gonna be awesome. The idea is to bring together all kinds of people interested in startups – business, [...]
