Past Meetings, 2008

10: December 11th

• Moved to Thoughtworks, Pitt St.
• ​http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/FP-Syd/fp-syd-10.html
• Andre Pang, Objective-C from a functional programming perspective
• Manuel Chakravarty, Data Parallel Haskell

09: November

• ​http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/FP-Syd/fp-syd-09.html
• Jeeva Suresh, The Nix Language
• Tom Sewell, Functional Programming: What does it mean?

08: October 16th

• ​http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/FP-Syd/fp-syd-08.html
• Conrad Parker, Type level programming in Haskell
• Manuel Chakravarty, Type Families
• Simon Winwood, Monads are Not Scary

07: September 18th

• ​http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/FP-Syd/fp-syd-07.html
• Jeremy Apthorp, The Y Combinator
• Ben Sinclair, Introduction to Scala
• Eric Willigers, Parser combinators in Scala

06: August 21st

• ​http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/FP-Syd/fp-syd-06.html
• James Kozianski, Evaluators and Higher Order Abstract Syntax
• David Hearnden, Deltaware: Incremental Change Propagation through Model Transformations

05: July 17th

• ​http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/FP-Syd/fp-syd-05.html
• Erik de Castro Lopo, O'Caml and Unix.select
• Ben Lippmeier, Disciple entry into the ICFP programming contest.

04: June 5th

• Moved to Google, Tower 1 Darling Park, Sussex Street
• Dave Peterson, RabbitMQ the Erlang based message queue
• Tim Docker, a tuple space server in Haskell

--: May (no meeting)

03: April 17th

• Moved to Atlassian, corner of Sussex and Market Street
• Ben Lippmeier, The Disciplined Disciple Compiler

02: March 27th

• Held at Orbitec, St Leonards.

01: February 28th

• First meeting
• Held at Orbitec, St Leonards.
• Attendees:
  • Eric Willigers
  • Ben Sinclair
  • Ondrej
  • Dave Peterson
  • Manuel Chakravarty
  • Rahul
  • Shane Stephens
  • Andre Pang
  • Ben Lippmeier
  • Sean Seefried
  • Scott Finneran
  • James Jozianski
  • Erik de Castro Lopo