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Great tutorials lined up for next JAOO

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Finally the last parts of the tutorial program for JAOO Aarhus 2009 have been put up on the web and they look great! My biggest problem with the schedule is that I can’t decide what to attend.
The always lovely and interesting Linda Rising is giving two tutorials on Oct. 9. One about “Influence strategies for [...]

JAOO Nights ~ Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne

Monday, March 30th, 2009

JAOO Nights have come and gone in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. What we noticed straight away was the difference in the crowd in each of the cities. In Brisbane we held the meeting at the Microsoft Offices, a more casual atmosphere with pizza and beer during the break. The crowd was a 50/50 mix of [...]

Functional programming – an emerging trend

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Functional programming languages (FPL) has been around for many years. They can be traced as far back as the late 1950’s with the advent of LISP, and even further back if you consider the theoretical work which precedes them, and today there are a plethora of FPL’s. Yet we do not encounter them very often [...]