ODynUG

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Official web site: Omaha Dynamic Language Users Group

This page is miscellaneous wiki-style overflow of the official web site.  :)

Contents 1 Presentations 1.1 Wish List 1.2 Volunteers 1.3 Lightning Talks 2 SVN 3 Links

Presentations

Wish List

• XML manipulation. I'm always looking for cooler ways to read and manipulate large, complex XML documents. --Jhannah 05:47, 8 May 2008 (CDT)
• Any application of graph theory. --Jhannah 05:47, 8 May 2008 (CDT)
• Add your wish here!

Volunteers

• Blaine Buxton The list of passions:
  • Combinator Parsers and parsers in general
  • Newspeak (it ain't out yet, but it's going to rule)
  • Prototype-based languages (Self, Io)
  • Rules Engine (Rete, etc)
  • Stream-based Processing
  • Seaside, Magritte, Pier
  • Meta-programming
  • Aspect-oriented programming
  • Language Design
  • Functional Programming (Lisp, Haskell, Erlang)
  • OO Design
  • Use Cases (analysis of customer issues)

• Jay Hannah. Stuff I like that I've been working with recently (Perl / Bioinformatics):
  • ChemChains sandbox
  • Catalyst the elegant MVC framework, makes web development something you had never expected it to be: Fun, rewarding and quick.
  • DBIx::Class ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) database fanciness. From schemas to OO manipulation in 7 seconds.
  • Moose is a postmodern object system for Perl 5 that takes the tedium out of writing object-oriented Perl.
  • XML::Twig for low-pain XML I/O.
  • POE is a framework for creating event-driven cooperative multitasking programs.
    • An IRC-style chat server in < 50 lines of code.
    • POE + Stomp + Apache Active MQ (JMS (Java Messaging Service)) for complex message queue management.
  • Pick any CPAN package that interests you. I'll learn it and present it. :)
  • Intro to DNA sequence inspection and manipulation w/ BioPerl.

• Matt Secoske Topics:
  • Languages: Groovy, Ruby [someday: lisp, Io, Javascript, Scala]
  • Web Frameworks in dynamic languages (*ails, etc)
  • Refactoring
  • Design

• Samuel Tesla Topics:
  • Functional languages (Lisp, OCaml, Erlang, Haskell)
  • Distributed version control with Git
  • Anything Ruby
  • OO design
  • Refactoring code
  • Emacs
  • Functional design
  • Concurrency-oriented design (Erlang)
  • Objective-C and Cocoa
  • Graph theory applications

• Add yourself here! Or alphabetize this list, or whatever.

Lightning Talks

What is a lightning talk?

Here's the line-up (in no particular order) of people who have volunteered to give a 5 minute presentation on something that interests them. Once this list reaches 10 volunteers, we'll strong-arm Blaine (scheduling tsar) into putting us in an upcoming meeting slot somewhere.

• Jay Hannah: latest ChemChains sandbox developments.
• Matt Secoske: ?
• Corey Spitzer: ?

SVN

Our SVN repository with anonymous read/write:

svn checkout https://clabsvn.ist.unomaha.edu/anonsvn/user/jhannah/dynamic_omaha dynamic_omaha

Add your code samples (or whatever) for group discussion.  :)

Links

• Official web site: Omaha Dynamic Language Users Group