http://www.londonhug.net London Haskell User Group Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:17:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 2008 AngloHaskell meeting will be held at Imperial College in London on Friday August 8th and Saturday August 9th. The precise format is still being discussed, but the first day will be more focussed on talks and the second day on general discussion, hacking and socialising, following the successful ... http://www.londonhug.net/2008/07/10/anglohaskell-2008/ The Erlang Exchange 2008 conference will include a "user groups" session tomorrow (i.e. Thursday 26th June) evening at 6pm. This session will be free to attend as long as you register first using the form on the webpage. Several London programming language user groups will be giving brief (15 minute) ... http://www.londonhug.net/2008/06/25/49/ The next meeting of the London Haskell User Group will be on Wednesday 25th June from 6:30PM at City University. Lennart Augustsson from Credit Suisse will be talking about his work there: Creating a new pricing model for a financial derivative model consists of plumbing together generic low level ... http://www.londonhug.net/2008/06/09/next-meeting-paradise-a-dsel-for-derivatives-pricing/ [The following message is posted at the request of Simon Peyton-Jones] Dear London Hugger Below is a call for presentations for the 2008 Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop. Many of you are commercial users, and this call is for you! There is no paper, no proceedings -- just come ... http://www.londonhug.net/2008/04/01/commercial-users-of-functional-programming-workshop/ Here's is the video from Ganesh Sittampalam's talk on Darcs and GADTs. Here is the downloadable version (125Mb), playable with mplayer or VLC media player, and here are the slides (PDF) (NB: Ganesh has corrected the "missing Maybe" mistake and there are a few bonus slides at the end). fiberglass pool price ... http://www.londonhug.net/2008/02/02/video-darcs-and-gadts/ Welcome HUGgers, and Happy 2008! The next meeting of the Haskell User Group will be on Wednesday 23rd January from 6:30PM at City University. Many thanks to Ganesh Sittampalam of Credit Suisse, who will be speaking to us about "Darcs patch theory and GADTS". Here is the abstract: Darcs is a distributed ... http://www.londonhug.net/2008/01/07/darcs-patch-theory-and-gadts-with-ganesh-sittampalam/ Here at last is the video from the November HUG. Many thanks to Dr Jeremy Gibbons of Oxford Computing Lab for coming to give this talk on Design Patterns as Higher-Order Datatype Generic Programs (slides in PDF format). UPDATE: To download the video in FLV format (playable with mplayer or VLC ... http://www.londonhug.net/2007/12/11/video-design-patterns-as-higher-order-datatype-generic-programs/ It's meeting time again! The next meeting of the HUG will be on 14th November from 6:30PM at City University. Dr Jeremy Gibbons from the Oxford University Computing Laboratory will be giving a talk entitled Design Patterns as Higher-Order Datatype-Generic Programs. Here is the abstract: Design patterns are reusable abstractions in ... http://www.londonhug.net/2007/11/07/jeremy-gibbons-design-patterns-as-higher-order-datatype-generic-programs/ Following the usual schedule of alternating between talks and pure pubmeets, the next meeting will be in the Slaughtered Lamb from 6:30pm on Tuesday 30th October. Hope to see you there! http://www.londonhug.net/2007/10/25/october-pubmeet/ As some of you noticed, Google Video deleted the video of Simon Peyton Jones' talk on Nested Data Parallelism from our first meeting. Well, thanks to Matthew Sackman, we now have some new hosting and can provide the video ourselves. It should appear in the embedded flash player below. Please ... http://www.londonhug.net/2007/09/25/nested-data-parallelism-video-returns/