A few weeks ago I attended a very informative [as well as extremely funny] tech talk titled “Neo4j And Connected Data“. During the presentation Jim Webber made a mention of his new book called “Graph Databases”, which is available to download from here.
During the past weeks I’ve had a chance to have a better look into the book, and simply put, I like it! =) For anyone interested in the relevant topics, I really recommend checking it out.
Last week, as mentioned before, I attended a lecture titled “History of Functional Programming Languages”, which was organized by the “Zurich F# Users” group. For the few folks who were asking me about it, here you can find the PDF version of the lecture slides. It was a pretty cool lecture, so enjoy! 😉
The Erlang group meetup on Wednesday evening was pretty cool. I arrived to the local.ch building a tad too early and caused a bit of a commotion… well… what a surprise… anyway… =P The topics were “Erlang Ports, Parsing and Internal FS”, and the presentation was comprehensive and easy to follow. And of course the discussions afterwards were quite informative. Even though I currently don’t really have a proper use case for Erlang, I get tempted to come up with at least some sort of a hobby project using Erlang, every time I go to one of these events…
Oh, and here’s something nice for anyone trying to learn Erlang. ErlangQuest is a set of challenges, from simple to difficult, the solving of each takes you one step further in understanding Erlang. Check it out!
On Tuesday evening I attended the “Zürich .NET Developers” very first event, with the topic of “Windows 8 development with MVVM Light”, at the Microsoft Zürich building. I had a bit of a misfortune, or perhaps miscalculation getting there, as it started to wet-snow pretty heavily just before I got to the Wallisellen train station, and the 5 minute walk between the station and the MS building was quite sufficient for me to get thoroughly soaked. When I got to the door I was dripping, and the first thing I said to the gentleman who opened the door on me was “is there a bathroom here somewhere?”. =)
But once I managed to get myself dry and comfortable, all was great. Laurent Bugnion gave a rather thorough and pretty interesting presentation about MVVM, as well as a nice demo of some of the cool features available for .NET development, on Windows 8. I might not be a fan of Windows 8 itself… well…. at all, but I’m definitely interested those development goodies.
Oh, and a friend just sent me these…. You can probably spot me in there. =P [Click for high-res.]
Last week I attended an afterhours introductory lecture to the Clojure programming language [at the ETH as usual]. Currently my only knowledge of Clojure comes from a few Channel 9 talks, and this lecture gave me a better idea of what the language is all about. Now I’m finding myself getting more interested and looking for a reason to use it.
For anyone who might be interested, here you can find the lecture slides.
There’s a Clojure online REPL here. And interestingly enough there’s even an Android version of the REPL available for free here.
Not exactly a new idea, but I get the feeling this one could get interesting/useful.
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Due to requests from friends [since a very long time ago] and some recent developments, I finally sat down and came up with a way of having private content on Verse. The code and the solution itself are somewhat messy, mainly because a Wiki is basically not designed for private content [quite the opposite…]. But well, so far it looks like it works. It is now possible to have private categories, all items belonging to which would be private. Private categories can be accessed by certain user groups.
It should be kept in mind though, that this is basically like a lock on a diary. It is simply for the purpose of picking and choosing what content will be shared with whom, but it should not in any way be considered truly secure. So basically don’t store your credit card numbers in there please.
Now, anyone who wants to use this feature, should tell me to set category[s] and user group[s] for them.
Exciting news everyone: New ASD demo! =) Personally I should say I totally love it… the 80s style really works for me. It’s happy, upbeat and makes me smile. Check it out: Mito Chondrio by ASD on Pouet.net
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