Lambda Calculus - Computerphile
Jun 28 2018The basis of almost all functional programming, Professor Graham Hutton explains Lambda Calculus.
The Other Async (Threads + Async = ❤️)
Feb 19 2018Screencast of my keynote presentation at PyGotham 2017, New York City. October 7, 2017. In this live-coded talk, I build a queue object that spans the world of threads and asyncio with a single unified API..
GOTO 2017 • Programming Across Paradigms • Anjana Vakil
Dec 1 2017What's in a programming paradigm? How did the major paradigms come to be, and why? Once we've sworn our love to one paradigm, does a program written under any other still smell as sweet? Can functional programmers learn anything from [...]
Twelve Ways to Make Code Suck Less by Venkat Subramaniam
May 2 2017We all have seen our shared of bad code and some really good code as well. What are some of the common anti-patterns that seem to be recurring over and over in code that sucks? By learning about these code smells and avoiding them, we can greatly help make our code better.
David Peterson: "The Art of Language Invention"
Apr 29 2016David Peterson, linguist and inventor of languages for many TV shows and movies (including "Game of Thrones", "Dominion" and "The 100") will talk about his new book: "The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building"
YOW! Nights March 2016 Martin Fowler - Event Sourcing
Apr 29 2016Martin Fowler shares his views on event sourcing.\nMartin is Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks, Opinion Leader and Author of many Development books. Martin concentrates on designing enterprise software - looking at what makes a good design and what practices are needed to come up with a good design. He's been a pioneer of various topics around object-oriented technology and agile methods, and written several books including "Refactoring", "UML Distilled", "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture", and "NoSQL Distilled". Martins also writes at martinfowler.com.