FringeDC talk

My FringeDC talk has now been uploaded to Google video! A huge thanks to Conrad Barski, who took the effort to actually record the video and then wrangle it into digital form. Without further ado:

My FringeDC talk

The slides are here if you’d like to follow along.

In general I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. This is one of the first “real” talks I’ve given, though (although I did teach high school for two years), so I definitely learned a lot and have some good ideas for improving the next talk I give.

Comments or questions welcome!

ETA: the Java bug mentioned in the video was just fixed today! w00t!

Call for video cameras!

I’m posting this appeal here, in case anyone who reads it is planning to attend my talk on Saturday but isn’t subscribed to the FringeDC mailing list. I’d really love for my talk to be recorded on video, but so far no one has volunteered. Might you be that generous person…? =)

FringeDC formal meeting, March 22

I’ll be giving a talk about xmonad at next weekend’s FringeDC formal meeting — more details on exactly what I plan to talk about soon. In the meantime, the details are below. Come on out if you’re in the DC area, and if you’re not, I’ll post some slides and (hopefully!) video afterwards. (I’d really love for it to be recorded on video, so if you plan to come and would be able to record it, let me know!)

FringeDC Formal Meeting March 22nd at 1PM- Haskell Spectacular: XMonad, Zippers and More!

FringeDC is a group in Washington DC interested in Fringe Programming Languages (Lisp, Haskell, Erlang, Prolog, etc.)
www.lisperati.com/fringedc.html

Our next meeting features Brent Yorgey, who is well known in the Haskell community and a contributor to XMonad. For those who don’t know, XMonad (a purely functional windows manager) is often lauded (well, by me at least, but others as well :-) as a masterpiece in software engineering. It cleanly marries elegant functional programming code with the ugliest of uglies, the X windows system. Brent will be giving an intro to Haskell and explain the nuts of bolts of extending XMonad. As an opener, Philip Fominykh will be giving an opening presentation on Zippers, an exotic purely functional data structure popular among Haskellers!

The Meeting is will be held on Saturday, March 22nd. It is hosted by Clark&Parsia, a developer of OWL/Semantic Web reasoning software in downtown DC. After the presentation, we’ll grab some food nearby and talk programming languages.

Address:
926 N St NW Rear
Studio #1
Washington DC 20001
Google Map:http://clarkparsia.com/contact

Philadelphia, here we come!

I’ve just accepted an offer of admission to the PhD program in computer science at U Penn! In particular I’ll be working with the PL group. I’m super-excited — especially since I’ve now been out in the “real world” for four years. Not that I was particularly burned out at the end of undergrad, but I didn’t really know exactly what I wanted to do. Well, now I know: I want to go back to school! September is still a long way off… but oh well, I’ll deal. =) Now to find a job for Joyia, and a church, and a place to live…