Functional Geekery

Functional Geekery


Latest Episodes

Functional Geekery Episode 16 – Matthew Podwysocki
September 30, 2014

Functional Geekery Episode 16 - Matthew Podwysocki

Functional Geekery Episode 15 – Bruce Tate
September 09, 2014

Functional Geekery Episode 15 - Bruce Tate

Functional Geekery Episode 14 – Richard Minerich
August 19, 2014

Functional Geekery Episode 14 - Richard Minerich

Functional Geekery Episode 13 - Martin J. Logan
July 29, 2014

In this episode I talk with Martin J. Logan. We cover his experience with Erlang, why OTP, his book Erlang and OTP in Action, designing processes in an actor based system, Erlang Camp and more. Our Guest, Martin J. Logan http://blog.erlware.org

Functional Geekery Episode 12 - Adi Bolboaca
July 01, 2014

In this episode I talk with Adi Bolboaca. I we talk about his experience of facilitating Coderetreats and some of the different things he has noticed in relation to functional languages being used during the sessions. Our Guest, Adi Bolboaca

Functional Geekery Episode 11 - Simon Peyton Jones
June 10, 2014

In this episode I talk with Simon Peyton Jones. I ask him about his background in Functional Programming, the growing popularity of Haskell, things he would like to bring into Haskell further, and his work with Computing At School. Our Guest, Simon Peyt

Functional Geekery Episode 10 - Paul Holser
May 20, 2014

In this episode I talk with Paul Holser. We start out by talking about his junit-quickcheck project, being a life long learner and exploring ideas about computation from other languages, and what Java 8 is looking like in with the support of closures and

Functional Geekery Episode 9 - William E. Byrd
May 06, 2014

In this episode I talk with William Byrd. We talk about miniKanren and the differences between functional, logic and relational programming. We also cover the idea of thinking at higher levels of abstractions, and comparisons of relational programming t

Functional Geekery Episode 08 - Jessica Kerr
April 15, 2014

In this episode I talk with Jessica Kerr. In this episode we talk bringing functional programming concepts to object oriented languages; her experience in Scala, using the actor model, and property testing; and much more! Our Guest, Jessica Kerr jessit

Episode 7 - Angela Harms and Jason Felice on avi
March 25, 2014

In this episode I talk with Angela Harms and Jason Felice about avi. We talk about the motivation of a vi implementation written in Clojure, the road map of where avi might used, and expressivity of code. Our Guests, Angela Harms and Jason Felice maitr