April ScotRUG

[Olly]

Hi

Is there a ScotRUG event at FreeAgent Towers planned for next week?

Cheers,
Olly

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[Paul Wilson]

Is it that time already?

Ok, what does everybody want to do? Lightning talks? I think someone should do a Ruby 2.0 talk. If no-one else volunteers, I'll do it (but I'll just copy what Alan Gardner did for you lunch and learn.)

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[Alan Gardner]

No way I'll be making it this month. Can give you my notes though :)

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[Paul Wilson]

Who else wants to do something?

[Olly]

Doesn't sound like much take up. Given that this is tomorrow, might a pub meetup be better?

Olly

On Friday, April 12, 2013 10:37:43 AM UTC+1, Paul Wilson wrote:

Who else wants  to do something?


On 11 Apr 2013, at 18:45, Alan Gardner <urfol...@gmail.com> wrote:

> No way I'll be making it this month. Can give you my notes though :)
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[Philip Roberts]

Yeah, sorry dude's I'm gonna be f-reaking out about speaking next week so won't make it :)

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[Alan Gardner]

Neither will I, I'm afraid, as I have a newborn to deal with :)

cheers,

Alan

[Matt Wynne]

Why don't you come and practice your talk?

cheers,

Matt

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[Philip Roberts]

Hmm, good question. I guess because it's:

a) incomplete

b) about JavaScript

c) at least Paul have already see me ramble on this topic!

Might be good motivation to fix a) pretty promptly though! What do people who are going to be there think?

The rough description is: 

Enemy of the State: An introduction to functional reactive programming with Bacon.js

Trying to deal with realtime data and user interaction in the browser with callback after callback after callback quickly leads to madness. This is because application state is being modified all over the place by different callbacks, which makes applications complex and hard to reason about.

Functional reactive programming is a powerful concept borrowed from Haskell that makes events much easier (and fun!) to work with, by turning them into event streams which can be mapped, merged, filtered and more. Bacon.js (https://github.com/raimohanska/b...) by Juha Paananen is a lovely little library that implements FRP in JavaScript.

In this talk I'll introduce the concepts of FRP and Bacon, and show how much nicer it is to work with than callbacks for realtime code. It will be a very visual talk using some visualisations of event streams that I am working on (http://latentflip.github.com/bac...) as well as some live code examples.

Phil

[Paul Wilson]

I haven't seen it. Ok - quick Ruby 2.0 overview + Bacon.js talk?

[Philip Roberts]

Okay, done!

[Kevin Smith]

Sounds good to me. :)

[Olly]

Excellent! Nice one Phil

[Paul Wilson]

Ok, so it's official.

http://scotrug.org/2013/04/17/april-edinburgh.html

[Philip Roberts]

Hi guys,

Just wanted to say a huge thank you for having me last night. It was really useful to be able to run through the talk with such a willing audience, and I am now feeling a lot more confident about next week!

See you all soon,

Phil