LONDON, MARCH 15TH - More than 100 experts, developers and thinkers passionate about all things functional gathered today, to learn and share common challenges and ideas across the different languages of the functional programming paradigm. On these pages, you can find SkillsCast video recordings (film, code, slides) of all talks and discussions. We hope you'll enjoy!
Friday 15th March 2013
Track 1
09:00-09:30 REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENTS AT #FPX 2013
Registration, welcome & refreshments at the Functional Programming eXchange. Tweet #fpx with your thoughts!
09:30-10:30 ADVENTURES WITH TYPES
Simon Peyton Jones: Static type systems are the world’s most widely applied formal method, in daily use by millions of programmers. The trouble is that weak type systems give types a bad name; they get in your way and stop you writing the programs you want to write. And that leads to the familiar but fruitless static-vs-dynamic debate that I hope to avoid entirely.
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10:30-10:40 COFFEE, TEA & REFRESHMENTS AT #FPX 2013
Share your thoughts and ideas following Simon's talk with others whilst enjoying some coffee & tea and tweet using #fpx to share with those who could not make it to the Functional Programming eXchange this year...
10:40-11:25 ACROSS TIME AND ADDRESS SPACE: LIFT 3.0
David Pollak: David Pollak returns to Skills Matter to give a talk about Lift 3.0. Lift 3.0 builds on Lift's bedrock of abstracting away the plumbing of HTTP and allowing developers to focus on business logic.
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11.25 - 11.35 COFFEE, TEA & REFRESHMENTS AT #FPX 2013
Inspired by David's talk? Share what you've learned with others, whilst enjoying some coffee & tea and tweet using #fpx to share with those who could not make it to the Functional Programming eXchange this year...
11:35-12:20 ELNODE: THE EVENTED IO WEB SERVER
Nic Ferrier: Why leave your editor to run your website? says Nic Ferrier, Just choose
a better editor. Nic introduces Elnode, the evented IO webserver written
in EmacsLisp.
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12.20 - 13.00 LUNCH AT #FPX 2013
The Functional Programming eXchange breaks for lunch! Share your thoughts and ideas following Paul's talk with others whilst enjoying some lunch and tweet using #fpx to share with those who could not make it to the Functional Programming eXchange this year...
13.00 - 13.45 COMPARING SCALA AND CLOJURE
Robert Rees: Clojure and Scala are two of the most exciting next-generation languages for the JVM. They have each generated a lot of excitement, innovation and discussion and both have substantial communities and support companies behind them.
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13.45 - 13.55 COFFEE, TEA & REFRESHMENTS AT #FPX 2013
Pondering about Scala & Clojure following Robert's talk? Share your thoughts and ideas with others whilst enjoying some coffee & tea and tweet using #fpx to share with those who could not make it to the Functional Programming eXchange this year...
13.55 - 14.40 DEVELOPING WITH F# IN THE CLOUD
Adam Granicz: In this talk, Adam will give a brief overview of the motivations for the
F# Cloud IDE, an online integrated development environment that enables developing F# web and mobile applications in the cloud. Learn how to cater to full-scale data visualization, exploratory interactive development and advanced customizations too.
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14.40 - 14.50 COFFEE, TEA & REFRESHMENTS AT #FPX 2013
Enjoy some coffee & tea and share your thoughts and ideas following Adam's talk on F# in the Cloud & DevOps with others. Tweet using #fpx to share with those who could not make it to the Functional Programming eXchange this year...
14.50-15:35 REDUCING COGNITIVE BIAS IN DESIGN WITH SCALA
Paul Dale: Over the last decades of computing the predominant trend has been to first select your technology stack and then build your solution around that stack.Modern languages, such as Scala and Clojure, allow us to step out of this pattern and build representations of our business domain free from implementation and technology-specific bias.
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15.35 - 15.45 COFFEE, TEA & REFRESHMENTS AT #FPX 2013
Excited by Elnode? Enjoy some coffee & tea and share your thoughts and ideas with others. Tweet using #fpx to share with those who could not make it to the Functional Programming eXchange this year...
15.45 - 16.30 LEXIFI: DESCRIBING FINANCIAL CONTRACTS AND EXTENDING OCAML
Alain Frisch: Alain relates how LexiFi has created an embedded domain-specific language to describe
financial contracts. This symbolic description streamlines the
processing chain for such contracts and greatly improves the
time-to-market to support new kinds of contracts in our applications
and those of technology partners.
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16.30 - 16.40 COFFEE, TEA & REFRESHMENTS AT #FPX 2013
Pondering about embedded domain-specific languages? Share your thoughts and ideas with others, whilst enjoying a cuppa. Tweet using #fpx to share with those who could not make it to the Functional Programming eXchange this year...
16.40 - 17.25 F# IN THE OPEN SOURCE WORLD
Don Syme: F# is a powerful open-source language which Microsoft, other companies and the F# community all contribute to. In this talk, Don will discuss how the “F# space” has recently opened up significantly in interesting ways.
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17.25 - 17.35 COFFEE, TEA & REFRESHMENTS AT #FPX 2013
Did Don's talk tickle your community senses? Share your thoughts on community with others whilst enjoying a break and some coffee or tea. Tweet #fpx to share your thoughts with those not here today.
17.35 - 18.20 FUNCTIONAL DATA STORAGE
Greg Young: Functional reactive programming is the hot "new" thing. It's being quickly remembered how useful it is for near realtime processing of stream data. This talk looks at using functional reactive programming not just for "now" but in the past as well.
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18.20 - 18.35 PIZZA & DRINKS AT #FPX
Grab a slice of pizza and a drink, whilst discussing the ins and outs of functional reactive programming and share your thoughts on the rest of the day with Simon, Don, Robert P, Robert R, Adam, David, Greg, Alain, Paul and all others passionate about Functional programming and #fpx.
18.50 - ... TO THE PUB!
We continue on in the Slaughtered Lamb, our local pub!
