Reflections on functional programming trends, Java vs. Scala, and JavaScript frameworks from a tech conference.
Impressions and highlights from the Ping Conference Budapest, focusing on talks about Play Framework, Scala, and functional programming.
A programmer reviews 'Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!', praising its fun approach to teaching the functional language and its benefits.
Explores JavaScript's unusual syntax and semantics, focusing on Immediately-Invoked Function Expressions (IIFEs) and other peculiar language features.
Exploring functional programming concepts in JavaScript, including anonymous functions, high-order functions, and their benefits for concurrency and testing.
Exploring virtual sequences and lazy evaluation in Common Lisp, inspired by Clojure's sequence abstraction and functional programming concepts.
Exploring keyword arguments in Clojure, comparing defnk macro to Common Lisp's implementation and discussing feature limitations.
A developer shares their experience adopting Scala and Functional Programming for a real-world financial software project, discussing risks and benefits.
A summary of Bob's presentation on the Erlang programming language, its growing popularity, and his history with emerging tech trends.
A brief look at the history of programming languages, highlighting the convergence of OO and functional paradigms over time.
Introducing PHPLinq, a library that brings C#-style Language Integrated Query (LINQ) functionality to PHP for querying arrays and objects.
