FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING EXCHANGE 2012 16-03-12
Skills Matter is pleased to announce the Third Functional Programming eXchange our annual Functional Programming conference. Join us for a day of talks, open-space discussions and brainstorming on Functional Programming, to share common challenges in the different languages, the latest ideas, best tools, best practices in scala, clojure, haskell and F# and common lessons learned.
experts
Join Robert Pickering, David Pollak, Erik Hesselink, Loic Denuziere, Kevin Wright, Andres Löh, Tomas Petricek, Miles Sabin, Bruce Durling, and some 100 others passionate about Functional Programming.
tickets
This annual conference on Functional Programming will take place on March 16th, at the Skills Matter eXchange, London's meetup space for the developer community. To create an intimate event where you can network and share your experience with speakers and other attendees, we have limited tickets to just 125, so if you would like to join us, get your skates on and register today!
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programme
Friday 16th March 2012
Track 1
09:00 - 09.30 WELCOME TO #FUNCTIONALPX
 Robert Pickering: Robert Pickering opens the 2012 Functional Programming eXchange: with tea, coffee and breakfast pastries! View the podcast here...
09.30 - 10.15 VISI.PRO BRINGING FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING TO THE MASSES
 David Pollak: David Pollak talks to the 2012 Functional Programming eXchange about his Visi.Pro project; providing a simple and powerful way for anybody to write programs for the iPad. View the podcast here...
10.15 - 10.30 TEA, COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
We break for Tea, Coffee & Refreshments
10.30 - 11.15 SILKAPP: A CASE STUDY IN CREATING RICH INTERNET APPS IN HASKELL
 Erik Hesselink: In this talk for the 2012 Functional Programming eXchange, Erik Hesselink describes the uses of and experiences with functional programming at Silk. View the podcast here...
11.15 - 11.30 TEA, COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
11.30 - 12.15 FPISH: LEVERAGING F# AND WEBSHARPER IN A LARGE-SCALE WEB APPLICATION
 Loic Denuziere: In this talk, Loic Denuziere will talk about FPish.net, a community website for
functional programmers, being developed using WebSharper. View the podcast here...
12.15 - 12.30 TEA, COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
12.30 - 13.15 AKKA AT ZEEBOX: A CASE STUDY
 Kevin Wright : In this talk we will discuss Akka and how it is used in a couple of zeebox components, first to implement a high-throughput and low latency RESTful/streaming event service.
Second, to provide a clustered service tracking the state and behaviour of thousands of users. It will be a practical talk centered around the zeebox case-study and how Akka is used in the real-world. View the podcast here...
14.15 - 15.00 HASKELL FOR EMBEDDED DOMAIN-SPECIFIC LANGUAGES
 Andres Löh: A domain-specific language (DSL) is a usually small language for a dedicated
domain with its own unique appearance and rules for composition. Haskell has a
very flexible syntax, and offers higher-order functions. Therefore, we can
often mimic the visual style of a particular domain directly within the
language, yielding an embedded DSL. View the podcast here...
15.00 - 15.15 TEA, COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
Tea, Coffee & Refreshments
15.15 - 16.00 F#'S TYPE PROVIDERS IN DEPTH
 Tomas Petricek: The purpose of most of the real-world applications is to process data that
are available in external data sources such as databases and XML files or
obtained using a web service or REST API. Accessing such data sources in a
typed way is difficult, because the compiler does not understand the
structure of the data. View the podcast here...
16.00 - 16.15pm TEA, COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
PARKBENCH PANEL DISCUSSION
 Various Speakers: In this session for the 2012 Functional Programming eXchange we will have a Functional Programming Parkbench panel discussion. View the podcast here...
17.00 - 17.15 TEA, COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
Tea, Coffee & Refreshments
17.15 - 17.30 CLOJURE MADE SIMPLE
 John Stevenson: Everything you wanted to know about Clojure in 15 minutes but had not made it to SkillsMatter Functional Programming exchange to ask. View the podcast here...
17.30 - 17.45 WHO USES CLOJURE AND WHY?
 Robert Rees: Once people have heard of Clojure and used it themselves they often ask: "Is this being used in production? What is it being used for?". Well the answer is yes and I'll be trying to identify a few of the situations where Clojure might be the perfect fit for your problem. View the podcast here...
17.45 - 18.00 CLOJURE AND INCANTER FOR THE PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMER
 Bruce Durling: In this talk, Bruce Durling discusses Incanter: a powerful library for statistical computing in
clojure and will show how you can combine clojure and Incanter and analyse them without needing a degree in mathematics. View the podcast here...
18.00 - 19.30 PIZZA & BEER!!
19.30 - LATE AFTER PARTY SLAUGHTERED LAMB!!!
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