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 [...]
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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, [...]
Due to the bad weather, I am canceling the January meeting on January 7th. We will reschedule the Erlang and GPars talks for later months. February 4th will still be Matt Stine’s Polyglot OSGi talk. See you there!
This coming Thursday, December 3rd at 6 pm (usual Appistry location), we will have the December Lambda Lounge meeting, which happens to be the first birthday for the lounge. The first meeting of the lounge was just one year ago where we kicked things off with talks about OCaml from Ryan Senior and about Groovy [...]
This Thursday November 5th will be a Haskell hackfest music jam session held at Technology Partners (NOT Appistry as usual). map SuperCollider is a real-time audio-synthesizer server with great Haskell bindings. People have done some pretty amazing things with it. Basically it is a server that speaks the Open Sound Control binary protocol and produces [...]
