Posted in Uncategorized on July 13th, 2007 5 Comments »
Don, John and I are on the other side of the world from this, but it promises to be a lot of fun: AngloHaskell 2007, to be held in Cambridge on August 10 and 11.
It looks like essentially an unconference after the style of Foo Camp / Bar Camp, only with the schedule of talks [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
If you haven’t registered yet for OSCON, now’s a good time to do so. One of the founders and leading lights of the Haskell community, Simon Peyton Jones, will be present, and very busy with:
On Monday, July 23, a half-day tutorial, A taste of Haskell.
On Tuesday, July 24, an “executive briefing” keynote, Functional languages.
On Wednesday, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 10th, 2007 7 Comments »
One of the online book development projects that I really admire is The Django Book. The visual look of the site is clean, and their feedback system is excellent. At Foo Camp last month, I talked with Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss about how the feedback system has worked out for them, and they’ve been [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 2nd, 2007 Add a Comment »
It’s been a little over a month since we announced that we were working on the book, so what have we been up to?
Don is busy writing up his PhD and preparing to move to the United States, so he’s going to remain hors de combat for a little while longer, but John and I [...]