February Beer Night

gtrak — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:58:32 +0000

Beer night! Let’s talk about FP and enjoy some tasty brews.

Where: Max’s
When: Wednesday February 22nd, 7:30PM
Who: everyone

First Presentation/Hack Night, Wednesday, February 1st, 7:30pm at Revelytix

gtrak — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:09:02 +0000

EDIT: Video has been added:

Slides and code here: https://github.com/baltimorefp/baltimorefp/tree/master/pres01-concurrency

This is the first presentation/hack night/get-together for BaltimoreFP. Bring something to work on and ask questions about. The talk will last approximately 30 minutes, but the meetup will last longer. Come enjoy the knowledge, comraderie and pizza!

The Talk: Clojure’s Concurrency Types – Refs, Atoms, Agents, and Vars

This talk will cover the first-class concurrency types provided by Clojure with a focus on the capabilities and limitations of each construct, and will give some sense of what tool to reach for in common situations.

Talking points include:

Programming with values
State vs. Identity, the foundation upon which Clojure’s concurrency primitives are built.
Refs: Coordinated, synchronous identities.
Atoms: Uncoordinated, synchronous identities.
Agents: Uncoordinated, asynchronous identities.
Vars: Localized identities.

The Presenter: Alex Redington

Alex Redington works mostly in Ruby and Clojure at Relevance and has been using Lisp in one form or another since 1999. He currently has two open-source Clojure projects: monotony, a library for working with cyclic time and scheduling (http://github.com/aredington/monotony); and fidjet, a configuration convenience tool for both library authors and library users (http://github.com/aredington/
fidjet).

The Location: Revelytix(Hampden) office: 1700 Union Avenue Suite 2-A

The night will take place at the Revelytix office in Hampden, right near the Woodberry light rail stop. Walk through the gate and to the left side of the building and into the double doors. There’s ample parking in the lot but make sure not to leave your car after the meetup since I’ll have to lock up.

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January Beer Night

gtrak — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:24:06 +0000

Beer night! Let’s talk about FP and enjoy some tasty brews.

Where: Max’s
When: Wednesday Jan 25th, 7:30PM
Who: everyone

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Beer Night at Max’s in Fell’s

gtrak — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:24:40 +0000

To kick off the festivities, we’ll be having a beer at Max’s, where we can discuss how beer consumption is best modeled as a lazy infinite sequence of values, not mutable state.

Where: Max’s
When: Wednesday Dec 14th, 7:30PM
Who: everyone

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Under Construction!

gtrak — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:42:44 +0000

The Baltimore Functional Programming group is in its infancy. Stay tuned for updates!