Possible topics for an in-depth meetup

[Cody Koeninger]

So what topics would people potentially be interested in for a more in-depth meetup, with some live code presentation & discussion?

Stuff I'd be interested in:

Typeclasses

Akka

Iteratees

[John Cohorn]

The lambda calculus talk someone mentioned sounded good. Iteratees sounds interesting. While googling that I saw the m-word(monads) kept getting brought up which is a topic I could use some enlightenment on. Although I don't know enough about Scala to know how pervasive those are.

[Norman Richards]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:00 AM, John Cohorn <john....@gmail.com> wrote:
> The lambda calculus talk someone mentioned sounded good. Iteratees sounds
> interesting. While googling that I saw the m-word(monads) kept getting
> brought up which is a topic I could use some enlightenment on. Although I
> don't know enough about Scala to know how pervasive those are.

I'm more than happy to do a more in depth lambda calculus any time.

On monads, it's not scala specific Carin Meier's monad's talk at
Clojure/West has been posted
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Why-is-a-Monad-Like-a-Writing-Desk

I really enjoyed it. The talk really just barely gets into monads,
but it's a good starting point.

There was a more in-depth monad talk at Strange Loop this year, but I
don't know when it will land on infoq:

https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/monad-examples-for-normal-people-in-python-and-clojure

Dustin's talk was more in depth, and was technical enough I think you
can really understand the idea behind monads. In the end, Dustin
really couldn't justify the use of monads or give a clear example of
why you would use the technique, so I can't really say you'll reach
monad enlightenment.

[Norman Richards]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Cody Koeninger <co...@koeninger.org> wrote:
> Akka

I'm particularly interested in Akka. I'm currently working on a
project making heavy use of vert.x, but looking forward I think we're
going to find that we need something like Akka to go along with it.

[Cody Koeninger]

If people want to talk about the M word... I think it'd be a lot more useful to work through practical examples of why you'd want to be able to use for-comprehensions on classes that you wrote, and how to implement those interfaces.

It's the same idea, without the baggage.