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Scalaz 'For the Rest of Us'

Adam Rosien introduces scalaz, how to use it to make code simpler and type safer, how it compensates for Scala issues, and how it encapsulates DI and data validation.

Adam Rosien
on May 23, 2014

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54:00
Life, The Universe, and Everything

Damian Conway explores quantum finite state automata, the power of Maxwell's information engine, the computational expressiveness of (un)natural languages, blending them all into a parallel system.

Damian Conway
on May 23, 2014

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49:34
Connecting Everything - APIs & PaaS

In this solutions track talk, sponsored by WSO2, Paul Fremantle explores open source approaches to APIs and PaaS, taking a look at organizations that have done this: how, why, and what the results are

Paul Fremantle
on May 22, 2014

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36:13
Cloud, Distributed, Embedded: Erlang in the Heterogeneous Computing World

Omer Kilic provides an overview of heterogeneous computing discussing how Erlang can help with the orchestration of different processing platforms, introduces Erlang/ALE + updates on Erlang Embedded.

Omer Kilic
on May 17, 2014

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35:42
Extreme Speedups and GPGPU: A Tale of Two Practical Uses of Reified Trees

Olivier Chafik discusses how to make a practical use of reified trees in Scala, with two applications: run-time (re)compilation for extreme speed, and conversion to another language (OpenCL).

Olivier Chafik
on May 17, 2014

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25:32
Playframework Scala: Democratizing Functional Programming for Web Developers

Sadek Drobi introduces the Play Framework for developers interested in doing web programming in a functional language.

Sadek Drobi
on May 17, 2014

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43:54
Release the Kraken

Jeff Harrell discusses how PayPal is using JavaScript and Node.js, the process of introducing them into a large Java shop, some pitfalls encountered along the way and the overall reaction.

Jeff Harrell
on May 17, 2014

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42:14
Using Invoke Dynamic to Teach the JVM a New Language

Jonathan Worthington explains how invokedynamic works, how he has been using it while porting the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler to the JVM, and its performance impact.

Jonathan Worthington
on May 15, 2014

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01:02:00
Catastrophic Cancellation

Graham Markall covers some of the common problems that can occur from using the IEEE754 floating-point arithmetic, and what to do to avoid them in practice.

Graham Markall
on May 13, 2014

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40:18
Live Coding as Communication

Sam Aaron explores the idea of using programming languages, especially functional ones, to share ideas with other people, to have conversations, to support artistic practices, etc.

Sam Aaron
on May 12, 2014

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55:09
HTML5/Angular.js/ Groovy/Java/ MongoDB, All Together - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Trisha Gee demoes building a web application using Java, HTML5, Angular.js, Mongo.DB, Groovy and microservices in one hour.

Trisha Gee
on May 10, 2014

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54:41
Between Zero & Hero - Tips & Tricks for the Intermediate-Level Scala Developer

Age Mooij shares some tips&tricks for the Scala developer: type aliases, type and class tag, auto-lifted partial functions, nostacktrace, type classes, context bounds, low priority default implicits.

Age Mooij
on May 10, 2014

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26:18