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….]
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.
Ah, great, I just noticed now that the slides and all the relevant material from last![global_83649072[1]](http://lh4.ggpht.com/-G2aDyr-fF_I/UYQLNJ_3qFI/AAAAAAAABB4/6mI1xBFLPEg/global_83649072%25255B1%25255D%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800 "global_83649072[1]")
week’s “Understanding Eventual Consistency and Riak” are available here.
The event that was hosted by the “Zurich FLOSS and IT geeks”, was as usual interesting, informative and well organized. Looking forward to their next one…
And for the few people who were asking about the Haskell talk I attended last week, you can read about pretty much everything that was discussed here.
Previously due to my German course on Thursday evenings I couldn’t attend any of the Haskell group’s events. Now, happily, I can. =)
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Last Thursday the HaskellerZ group in Zurich held a talk on “
