Brisbane Functional Programming Group (BFG)

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Past events

• Functional Red-Black Trees, Coalgebras and Codata

  Tue, 22 Nov 2011, 08:00 - 10:00 in Spring Hill, Australia

  Functional Red-Black Trees -- 75mins -- by Matt BrecknellThe red-black tree is a data structure with efficient insertion, deletion and lookup operations. With your help, Matt will grow a purely functional red-black tree right before your eyes, certified with QuickCheck. Learn about the pros and cons of functional (immutable) data structures, algebraic data types and pattern matching, and automatically generating useful test data.

• Problem Solving Hackathon

  Tue, 25 Oct 2011, 08:00 - 10:00 in Spring Hill, Australia

  This month we're going to be teaming up and tackling a series of small problems to get our heads around some of the things that we've learned in the last few months. The goal is for people to pick up their language of choice, preferably something functional, and attempt to apply some knowledge, do a bit of a problem solving and get familiar with how to apply ideas in a functional way.Problems will be revealed on the night.

• A Series of Lightening Talks

  Tue, 27 Sep 2011, 08:00 - 10:00 in Spring Hill, Australia

  This month we're having a few short sessions in various functional topics: 1. Tom Adams will kick things off with a session called "Using Functional Java with Android". 2. Sam Roberts is up next and will aim to give us a quick introduction to Comonads. 3. Nick Partridge will follow up with a session called "ADTs in Ruby". 4. Time-permitting Tony Morris will end the night with "Scala+iteratees, in production, today, for real". Isn't it though. Fo' sho

• BFG Meetup

  Mon, 18 Apr 2011, 08:00 - 10:00 in Brisbane, Australia

  This month we have a new speaker. Sam Roberts is going to present a talk on "One-hole contexts, Zippers and mathematical insights that arise".Tony Morris will back this up with a discussion on an idea we've got for the May meetup. So please come along and bring your ideas.

• BFG April Meetup

  Tue, 20 Apr 2010, 08:00 - 10:00 in West End, Australia

  *Louis Madon on delimited continuations, shift/reset using Haskell *Tony Morris on "Non-breaking error handling is just an applicative functor on a partially applied disjoint union type constructor with semigroup error elements so what's the big deal?" (using Scala)Directions *Google Maps *Walk from South Brisbane Railway Station

• BFG March Meetup

  Tue, 16 Mar 2010, 08:00 - 10:00 in Toowong, Australia

  For this months meeting, Nick Partridge will be giving us a rundown on Scala implicits. We'll followthis by a hack session, so bring along your laptop, code & questions.

• BFG February Meetup

  Tue, 16 Feb 2010, 08:00 - 10:00 in Toowong, Australia

  This month we'll be having some shorter talks.Currently on the plate are Oliver Reeves demoing some features of the Erlang language and libraries, and Tony Morris speaking about what functional programming means.Get in touch on the list if you'd like to give a talk, we have one space left.Aim to arrive before 6pm, the external doors lock then. If you're late, call Tom on 0437701592 and someone will come let you in.

• BFG December Meetup

  Tue, 15 Dec 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in Brisbane, Australia

  Something different this month, we'll be heading out for a beer or two. Meet us at the Platform Bar, under central railway station on Ann St in the city.

• BFG November Meetup

  Tue, 17 Nov 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in Toowong, Australia

  BFG November Meetup. Details coming soon...

• BFG October Meetup

  Tue, 20 Oct 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in Toowong, Australia

  BFG October Meetup. Details coming soon...

• BFG September Meetup

  Tue, 15 Sep 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in Toowong, Australia

  BFG September Meetup. Details coming soon...

• Intro to FP & Haskell 101

  Tue, 18 Aug 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in Toowong, Australia

  Come along to the next BFG meeting, this one is pitched more at a beginners level.Brad Clow will be giving an introduction to functional programming, covering its history and some basic concepts.Oliver Reeves will giving a short Haskell 101 session, covering a bit of GHCI, basic Haskell language syntax & a bit about laziness and purity.Our new venue is the i.lab at Towoong, level 1 in the Data #3 building on Jephson St.

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