next erlounge is on wednesday, 9th sept

[lenz]

hi,

new date for the next erlounge.

due to some collisions in scheduling (too many events on thursday) we
have to move erlounge to next week wednesday. i hope you guys can make
it nevertheless.

Francis Stephens will talk about highly geeky stuff he wrote in erlang
- here is his quote:

"I will be talking briefly about a distributed SAT solver that I wrote
in Erlang.  I will cover how it works currently and the developments I
expect in the future"

some additional reading is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_problem

i will bring along two erlang books for those wanting to dive into
erlang. this is the new erlang book published by o'reilly and those
guys thankfully sent us some to give out as part of their support for
user groups.

When: Wednesday, 9th Sept. 6PM
Where: Catalyst IT, Level 3

see you all there
cheers
lenz

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[Hamish]

Thanks Francis, the SAT solver was really interesting and very well
explained.

I was a bit annoyed that I had to leave early as the post talk
discussion was interesting too. I would love to here more about the
ins and outs of Scala in the real world. Perhaps it would make a
suitably functional topic for an Erlounge meeting in the future? Lenz
if it is not too off topic, could you twist the appropriate arms
(apologies I really am terrible remembering names) to make that
happen?

Hamish

[lenz]

thanks hamish for the hint in the scala direction. i would very much
like to see some scala presentation. there are actually some guys i
know of that do at least a bit of scala. probably we could even get
more than one speaker?

any volunteers?

cheers
lenz

[Blair]

I'd be in, I have to give a presentation for work on scala in the next
couple of weeks so I'll be in practice.

oh yeah, just for interest - http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java,+python,+erlang,+scala,+c%23&l=&relative=1

[lenz]

that would be awesome - one speaker lined up. i still have to figure
out if we stay with the wednesday and in which week. i'll find a day
and post it soon. any days that are worse than others?

cheers
lenz

... the job trends are awesome, looks like we are looking at the right
stuff in the moment :-)

[Blair]

Give yourself a fright and add hadoop to the list...

[Hamish]

Haskell looks strangely flat
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+erlang%2C+haskell&l=&relative=1

But it turns out this is because there is a county called Haskell and
an unrelated company called Haskell. So....
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala+software%2C+erlang+software%2C+haskell+software&l=&relative=1

Now it has a bit more shape and Scala is on top (but still way behind
Hadoop). This is probably unfair on erlang though as telecoms job
titles are probably less likely to include "Software".