Erik Hesselink
Erik currently works at Silk, where he uses functional programming to build a web application to create and visualize structured data. After his physics and chemistry masters, Erik started working at a small software company building CMS and websites. Wanting to deepen his knowledge of the field, he embarked on a software technology master at Utrecht University. Many courses used Haskell, and he immediately fell in love with the elegance of functional programming. After graduating, he joined what is now Silk.
Talks I've Given
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Rest - Building APIs Easily
Featuring Erik Hesselink
At Silk, we have an external REST API that people can use to interact with our product. We also have internal services that talk to each other using REST APIs. These all follow a similar structure: there are resources (users, pages), and actions to perform on them (list, get, update, delete). For...
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SilkApp: A Case Study in Creating Rich Internet Apps in Haskell
Featuring Erik Hesselink
In this talk for the 2012 Functional Programming eXchange, Erik Hesselink describes the uses of and experiences with functional programming at Silk.
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