July 2010 Meetup

This month’s meetup will consists of two rather technical talks. The first, by Matthew Brecknell, will be on Coq theorem proving and dependent types. This should go for around 45 mins, by which point we should all be fried! This will be followed up by Tony Morris presenting on automated testing and will demonstrate using ScalaCheck. This will also go for around 45 mins. If by this stage you’re still able to hold a coherent conversation, we will be heading out to the pub for a beer and a light chat.

We will be recording the session and posting the video online some time during August. The slides for the talks will also be made available.

This will be our second meetup at the Microsoft offices in Brisbane and kicks off at 6:00pm. Many thanks to the Jetbrains crew for supporting us and sponsoring this meetup.

There is still plenty of room, so please drop by the Meetup.com site and register to attend. Bring your friends. Bring your girlfriend. Bring your mum.

We look forward to seeing you there!


June 2010 – Videos and Slides

June’s meetup was the first at our new venue and it didn’t disappoint! We broke our attendence record and brought in quite a few newcomers to Functional Programming. It was a great event. Thanks to everyone who turned up, we hope you enjoyed it.

We apologise for the delay in getting this follow-up post out. We were just waiting for the videos to be finalised and uploaded. They are all available up on the BPFG Vimeo Channel, but are also included inline below for your convenience.

Erlang – Why should you care? (OJ Reeves)

Here are the slides:

Map/Reduce in two lines (Tom Adams)

How to learn functional programming (Tony Morris)

Tony’s slides are available in a stack of formats.

Feedback of any kind is very welcome. Whether it be on the quality of talks and talkers, technical detail/depth, or suggestions for future talks, please let us know!


BFPG.org is Live!

A year after the Brisbane Functional Programming Group was formed on Meetup.com, it finally has it’s own website!

This site will be used to host general news and information on events. It’ll also contain references to educational material, presentations, source code and other helpful stuff relating to the group.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please drop us a line. Don’t forget to subscribe to the RSS feed!


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