• Kevin Archie – Lambda Alligators
• Christopher Carpenter – Modern Common Lisp Game Development

Food sponsor: Vantage Links

• Monads in Erlang – Rebecca Skinner
• Pixie – Chris Gore

Food sponsor: Beacon Hill

• Finite State Machines as Bottom Up Function Evaluators – Bill Bennett
• How to use the web for evil – Lance Kidwell

Food sponsor: NetEffects

 Thursday, August 6th (2015) at 6 pm

• Intro to the Rust Language: Safety, Concurrency, and Speed – David Sullins
• An Introduction to Typed and Polymorphic Languages (with examples) – Soumya Sanyal & Chris Hathhorn

Food sponsor: Preferred Resources

• Papers Every Programmer Should Read Twice – Many folks

Food sponsor: Asynchrony

• Swift – Jay Tuley
• Prisoners Dilemma / Game of Life (Mark 2) – Christopher Carpenter

Food sponsor: Emerson

Mar 1st, 2012

Feb 2nd, 2012

• Hadoop/HBase – John Leach
• Building a DSL in Clojure For Controlling a Lego MindStorm/ Arduino Robot – David McNeil

Jan 5th, 2011

2011 Meetings

Dec 1st, 2011

Nov 3rd, 2011

Oct 6th, 2011

• ClojureScript – Nate Young
• CoffeeScript – Mark Volkmann

Sept 1st, 2011

• GeoDjango and HTML5 Geolocation – John Paulett
• HTTP: Behind the Scenes at BigCo. – Peter Griess

Aug 4th, 2011

• Zippers For Web Development – Aditya Siram
• Apache Avro – Eric Turcotte

July 7th, 2011

• What Every Developer Should Know About Security – Tom Wheeler (slides)
• Haskell You a Web for Great Good – Michael Schade

June 2nd, 2011

• RabbitMQ – James Carr
• Apache Thrift – David Difranco (slides)

May 5th, 2011

• Immutable, Versioned Map – Mark Volkmann (slides)
• Erlang OTP – Zac Duncan

April 7th, 2011

Lightning Lambda Lounge!

This will be the first Lambda Lounge lightning talk / pot luck. Bring your ideas and your food and let’s share. Lightning talks should be in the 5-10 minute range and don’t need to be tech-oriented.

• MOO – Bryan Venable
• Multimedia Pipelines with gstreamer – Jeff Sigmon
• rvm – Mario Aquino
• Strange Loop – Alex Miller
• The hard-boiled detectives of Hammett and Chandler : Birth of a new mythology – Aditya Siram
• Model-Theory Semantics implemented in Clojure – Jim Tyhurst

March 3rd, 2011

• Source Code Version Management with Branching & Merging – Stephen Venters
• Inform 7 – a DSL for Interactive Fiction – Adam Thornton

February 3rd, 2011

• Task Pool Concurrency Framework (Clojure) – Alex Miller (Revelytix)
• C O N T C E P T I O N – Nate Young (Revelytix)
  “An introduction to parser combinators with Clojure and Haskell” (slides, GitHub)

Pizza provided by Ferguson Consulting.

January 6th, 2010

• C# dynamic keyword – Jay Tuley
• Functional data structures – Aditya Siram

Pizza provided by Riot Games.

2010 Meetings

December 2nd, 2010

• lightning Accentuate.us – Michael Schade (video)
• MongoDB – Nathan Tippy
• Introduction to Node.JS – Peter Griess (Facebook)

Pizza provided by David Beaman.

November 4th, 2010

• EcmaScript 5 – Mark Volkmann (OCI) – Slides
• Learning Koans – Mario Aquino (OCI) – Slides

October 7th, 2010

• NOSQL Summer – Google BigTable paper discussion

September 2nd, 2010

• Picking a language for teaching CS1 – Michael Goldwasser, Director of Computer Science, Saint Louis University
• org-babel – Polyglot literate programming – Nate Neff

August 5th, 2010

• Monads in Scala – Tim Dalton (OCI)
• What’s This NetKernel Thing Anyway? – Darren Cruse (Elsevier)

Pizza provided by Comsys.

July 1st, 2010

• NOSQL Summer – please read the Amazon Dynamo paper!

Pizza provided by Washington University’s Neuroinformatics Research Group.

June 3rd, 2010

• Javascript Functions – Scott Bale (BJC Healthcare) – Slides
• Haskell Web Apps – Aditya Siram

Sponsored by: NetEffects

May 6th, 2010

• Logic Programming for the Social Web – Jim Duey (Intensive Systems Consulting) – Slides

April 1st, 2010

Special April Fool’s Day meeting about esoteric and useless languages.

• LOLCODE – Mario Aquino (OCI)
• Ook – Bryan Venable
• Piet – Benjamin Lee – Video

Sponsored by: Lisa Rokusek / AgentHR

March 4th, 2010

• jspec – James Carr
• Emacs – Ryan Senior – Video

This meeting was sponsored by Object Computing (OCI).

February 4th, 2010

• Polyglot OSGi – Matt Stine – Slides – Video

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 specify, otherwise all bets are off. The aspiring polyglot can bring in the right tool for the right job by hiding it behind OSGi services as an “implementation detail,” provided that only Java language types are exported. The talk will looks at the pros and cons of this approach, experiment with Groovy, Clojure, and Scala in an OSGI container, and also look at the “gotchas” involved along the way.

Sponsored by: NetEffects

January 7th, 2010

CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER

2009 Meetings

December 3rd, 2009

• Humanity 2.0: How you and I are enabling the redefinition of “Life As We Know It” – Matt Taylor – Slides – Video

November 5th, 2009

Happy Haskell Hackfest!

Haskell Music Jam Session using SuperCollider and it’s awesome Haskell bindings.

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 [3] and produces any sound you can imagine. Using the metaphor of an audio mixer, each client runs on a different channel so we will truly be jamming real-time.

I can provide a server with SuperCollider pre-loaded and client computers can easily install the bindings using Haskell Platform and Cabal. Clients do not need to have SuperCollider installed.

For this meeting only, we will be at Technology Partners, NOT the usual Appistry location!!!

Sponsored by: Technology Partners

October 1st, 2009

• Map/Reduce – Michael Groner (Appistry) – Slides
• Hadoop – Tom Wheeler (OCI) – Slides

September 3rd, 2009

Sponsored by: Lisa Rokusek / AgentHR

• Metaprogramming in Groovy – Jeff Brown (SpringSource)
• External DSLs Using Scala Parser Combinators – Tim Dalton (OCI) – Slides – Logo Interpreter

August 6th, 2009

Sponsored by: Technology Partners

• Perl: Not Dead Yet – Matt Follett (Beck Automation) – Slides – Video
• Haskell’s Software Transactional Memory – Aditya Siram

July 2nd, 2009

• Project Fortress – Alex Miller (Terracotta) – Slides – Video
• Fan – Scott Bale (BJC Healthcare) – Slides – Video

June 4th, 2009

• Rich-client development with MacRuby – Mario Aquino (OCI) – Slides (PDF)
• Haskell – Alex Stangl – Slides (PDF)

May 7th, 2009

• Language Shootout – Vending Machine

April 2nd, 2009

• Factor – Kyle Cordes (OasisDigital) – Handout (PDF)
• Parrot/Rakudo/Pugs/Perl 6 – Charles Sharp (OCI) – Slides (PDF)

March 5th, 2009

• F# – Ken Sipe (Perficient)
• Monads are Burritos – Michael Easter (OCI) – Slides (PDF), Examples

February 5th, 2009

• Actor Concurrency – Alex Miller (Terracotta)
• Functional programming in JavaScript – Nate Young (Asynchrony Solutions)

January 7th, 2009

• Dashboard Widget Dev (Javascript and Ruby) – Mario Aquino (OCI) – Slides (PDF)
• iPhone Dev (Objective-C) – David Giovannini (OCI) – Slides (PDF)
• Clojure – Mark Volkmann (OCI) – Snake code, Slides (PDF)

December 4th, 2008

• What are functional and dynamic languages? – open discussion
• Groovy Metaprogramming with Categories and Mixins – Matt Taylor (G2One / SpringSource)
• Ocaml – Ryan Senior (Ferguson Consulting)