Past Meetings, 2016

89: 23rd November

• Mathew Brecknell: Verifying systems code
• Patryk Zadarnowski: BitBuilder or how to glue bits together quickly without mutable arrays.
• Erik de Castro Lopo: FastPack: More Pack More Fast!

88: 27th October

• Louis Pan: Composable widgets and reactive pipes.
• John Ky: Lazy JSON/XML Parsing in Haskell.
• Jacob Stanley: Property based testing with Jack (QuickCheck addon).

There was no meeting in September due to clash with ICFP

87: 24th August

• Amos Robinson: Fusion guaranteed, or triple your money back.
• Rob Everest: Optimising functional array streams.
• Ben Lippmeier: Bidirectional type checking with elaboration and effects.

86: 27th July

• Conrad Parker: Dreambuggy
• Tim Docker: TBA
• Ivan Miljenovic: Hitchhiker Trees

85: 22nd June

• Coq Fight Night

84: 25th May

• Mark Hibberd: Price-Aware Scheduling
• Thomas Sutton: Dynamic Programming with trees
• Sharif Olorin: ​Herbie: What to do if you can't stop worrying and hate floating point.

83: 18th April

This month's meeting moved forward (again) to avoid clash with LambdaJam.

• Sean Seefried: Writing a game in Haskell for Android
• Jost Berthold: ​Yet another DSL for financial contracts - the story behind it.
• Tim McGilchrist: ​Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects.

82: 23rd March

• Ben Lippmeier: Don't substitute into abstractions.
• Barry Jay: ​Programs as data structures in the λ-SF calculus.
• Liam O'Connor: Practicing what you preach: Design of principled Haskell software.

81: 24th February

• Manuel Chakravarty: FP principles in GUI programming in Swift.
• Conrad Parker: ​FPGA Design with CλaSH
• Mark Greenway: How I learned to stop worrying and love the floating point numbers.