Lambda Lounge

It’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 [...]

Here’s some info on the recently announced “Open Missouri project“: “In its initial phase, Open Missouri will serve as a portal where journalists, citizens and businesses can learn about the databases held by state government agencies. The portal will join the growing government transparency movement across the United States and serve as a model for [...]

Gabe Lozano from LockerDome asked me to help get the word out that they are looking for a back-end web developer. LockerDome is a local St. Louis startup building a sort of “LinkedIn” for sports. They’ve got paying customers and seem to be on a great trajectory. Check it out…

This week we have two great talks lined up for the Lambda Lounge. First, we’ll have Nathan Tippy up to talk about MongoDB, one of the many nosql solutions in play today. And second, we’ll have Peter Griess talking about node.js. After last month’s change of venue we are back in our normal Appistry location [...]

It’s time for the November meeting of the Lambda Lounge! We have two great talks lined up this month (Thursday Nov. 4th at 6 pm): Mark Volkmann talking about Ecmascript 5 Mario Aquino talking about learning programming through koans Due to a scheduling issue, this month’s meeting WILL NOT BE AT APPISTRY. This month the [...]

Way back in July, we had our first meeting to discuss a paper from the NoSQL Summer list, talking about the Amazon Dynamo paper. We had a great time talking through all sorts of interesting stuff like hashing, gossip protocols, vector clocks, consistency, and more. This Thursday we’ll have the October follow-up, this time discussing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]