A couple of days ago I attended this really great presentation on “RabbitMQ Internal Architecture“, which was hosted by the Zurich Erlang group. The presentation slides are available here, so if you have any interest in RabbitMQ, Erlang, or both, do check them out. =)
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AOP is something that I’ve been hearing about for the past… well… forever, and it’s ![postsharp[1]](http://lh4.ggpht.com/-2wrEiolwpfc/UpjM7JnTewI/AAAAAAAABac/jvm1VsfHXcE/postsharp%25255B1%25255D%25255B6%25255D.png?imgmax=800 "postsharp[1]")
always seemed that every time someone makes a mention of it, someone else goes about mentioning all the cons.
I can’t say that I’ve really looked that deep into it in the past, but I guess last night’s presentation on AOP using PostSharp has made me re-think. I should probably at least give it a try… any opinions? Anyone else want to tell me about all the cons? =P [Cause that’s what I’ve been hearing since morning….]
One of the more interesting events that I’ve recently been to, was the “Press Start To Play” at the Basel Toy Museum. The event that was hosted by the Webilea group, consisted of a tour of the exhibition, presentations by several game developers, and a good deal of play time. The venue was beautiful and altogether it was quite a fun evening.
My favourite presented game was “Ago“, a very nice game for Android. Currently installed on my tablet. 😉
My collection of pictures from the event can be found here.
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Well surprise surpriiiiiiiiise! =D New ASD demo it out and it just won 1st place at Euskal 2013. YES!
Last week I attended a talk titled “How polymorphic types give rise to free theorems”,![global_87604912[1]](http://lh4.ggpht.com/-sPFknsdG2RI/Ufart3_6frI/AAAAAAAABLs/g9vK2DsVAd8/global_87604912%25255B1%25255D%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800 "global_87604912[1]")
which was basically an introduction to what’s explained and elaborated in these two papers:
– Theorems for free!
– Free Theorems in the Presence of seq
As much as this has nothing to do with anything I do, I still find the topic quite interesting, and do recommend the papers to anyone with an interest in Haskell, coding in general or math. =)
Of all the Zurich Dev events so far, I think this last one [last week] was the most ![image5[1]](http://lh4.ggpht.com/-xYE9asw-Mus/UcMp2UmTOFI/AAAAAAAABIQ/gax9EZu47yU/image5%25255B1%25255D%25255B12%25255D.png?imgmax=800 "image5[1]")
interesting to me. The talk was about “Scriptcs“, which allows you to develop C# apps outside of Visual Studio, in any text editor. It’s basically turning C# in to a scripting language, using Roslyn for compilation. This is something I’m going to have some fun with..
Slides from the presentation are now online and can be viewed here. Totally worth checking out!
Last week at the “Embrace the Cloud with F#” talk which was organized by the Zurich F# group, this was presented : {m}brace. It’s a cloud computing framework in F#, and it’s pretty cool.
By the way this is pretty cool: Structure101. Last week there was an interesting talk hosted by the “Zurich Developers .NET User Group” with the topic of “Rediscovering ![2056634_300[1]](http://lh4.ggpht.com/-fh0fUgYY_8w/UZ_MKl3efII/AAAAAAAABEk/e3kbfKfGGZE/2056634_300%25255B1%25255D%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800 "2056634_300[1]")
Modularity“, which was to a great extent about the above software architecture management tool. Aside from the fact that I managed to walk into a glass wall, [yes, really, quite the classic!], it was a great event and quite informative. And now I’m seriously considering giving the tool a try as it seems to be possibly what I’ve been looking for, for a while… If anyone here is using it/ ends up using it please let me know.
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Last Thursday the HaskellerZ group in Zurich held a talk on “
