Podcast appearances and mentions of zach kessin

Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit   Episode Summary In this episode, the panelists, Josh Adams, Mark Erickson and guest Zachary Kessin, author of the book "Building Web Applications with Erlang", discuss types in Erlang and Elixir. Expert inputs with examples of implemented projects that use the Erlang and Elixir data types, were discussed. Here are the highlights of the discussion: Different data types in Erlang and Elixir such as structs, tuples. Differences in the Erlang/Elixir data types to other languages. Using data types to generate error messages Decoding and validating input data into functions. Getting type information from a running application. Coding patterns and rules engine in Erlang/Elixir. Dialyzer testing tool that validates code and catches any bugs. Changes in Erlang and Elixir code over the years Elixir ecosystem and the Beam Community Links Dialyzer PropEr Sheriff Dialyxir Typed_Struct Beam_Types GB_Trees Programming Languages on the BEAM A reactive game stack: Using Erlang, Lua and Voltdb Robert Virding Zachary Kessin BEAM Channel - Erlang & Elixir https://github.com/ejpcmac/typed_struct Picks Josh Adams Elixir Components: A 12 minute introduction aws-lambda-elixir-runtime Mark Ericksen BalenaEtcher Zach Kessin Elixir Release Ecourse  Shalva Band

Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit   Episode Summary In this episode, the panelists, Josh Adams, Mark Erickson and guest Zachary Kessin, author of the book "Building Web Applications with Erlang", discuss types in Erlang and Elixir. Expert inputs with examples of implemented projects that use the Erlang and Elixir data types, were discussed. Here are the highlights of the discussion: Different data types in Erlang and Elixir such as structs, tuples. Differences in the Erlang/Elixir data types to other languages. Using data types to generate error messages Decoding and validating input data into functions. Getting type information from a running application. Coding patterns and rules engine in Erlang/Elixir. Dialyzer testing tool that validates code and catches any bugs. Changes in Erlang and Elixir code over the years Elixir ecosystem and the Beam Community Links Dialyzer PropEr Sheriff Dialyxir Typed_Struct Beam_Types GB_Trees Programming Languages on the BEAM A reactive game stack: Using Erlang, Lua and Voltdb Robert Virding Zachary Kessin BEAM Channel - Erlang & Elixir https://github.com/ejpcmac/typed_struct Picks Josh Adams Elixir Components: A 12 minute introduction aws-lambda-elixir-runtime Mark Ericksen BalenaEtcher Zach Kessin Elixir Release Ecourse  Shalva Band

In this episode I talk with Zach Kessin. We talk his transition to using Elm for front-end web development, using it with Erlang back-ends, his goal to help grow the community around Elm, and more.

MJS 028 Zach Kessin In this episode we have another JavaScript Story, this time our guest is Zach Kessin. Zach is a Developer and consultant. On the server side he works with Erlang and Elixir. On the front end he works on Elm. He also also written a few books for O’Reilly and a video course for Manning available sometime in the fall. He was a guest on episode 57 and is here with us today to tell us his story. Stay tuned! [2:48] How did you get into programming. Zack tells the story about how when he was 7 he asked his mother for a computer. She agreed that if he paid for half of it somehow, then she would help him get it. He Gathered his half by calling relatives and gathering funds. His mom taught him Basic and Logo. He also learned Pascal. While in University he picked up the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and loved it. He talks about remembering writing a HTML forum but not knowing how to submit entries. After college he started working. [4:38] Resources then vs now. Charles adds that if you’re tenacious enough to call your family members to find funding to buy a computer to learn, then you probably have the drive it takes to be a programmer. Charles and Zack talk about how in the 80s it was rare to have access to a computer, and now homes have multiple computers throughout. The resources are more readily available now with the internet. If you’re looking to get into development, there are plenty of great resources. [7:45] How did you get into JavaScript and Erlang? Zach starts explaining by telling how he get into JavaScript before the internet really existed. His first JavaScript program exposure was a loan calculator at a bank. Early on the only thing you could do was validate forms, but over time it grew. He started working for a company writing php. He felt like it wasn’t as functional or elegant as he was hoping for. He found various languages and landed on Erlang. Erland was designed to work for programming telephone switches. Due to phone services nature, It handles high scale, high reliability, has to be upgraded on the fly, etc. Zach talks about how server programming looks very similar to phone line programming. Zach adds that a few years ago he wanted work on some front end and after looking around finally he learned about Elm. He says that he is always looking for what’s new and useful. [14:26] Programming Languages Change the Way We Think Charles points out that it’s very interesting out about how functional programming has played out. He mentions that many JavaScript programmers use functional style programming to help with speed or efficiency. He adds that a fully functional programming language is very interesting and could be helpful. Zach talks about how learning new languages helps adjust the way we think. [16:45] How have you contributed to the development community? Charles starts off with mentioning Zach’s podcast that was called Mostly Erlang. Zach adds that he has wrote two books for O’ Reilly, one on HTML5 and Erlang. He has done some blogging and is creating a video course called Startup Elm. He mentions that he spends most of his time teaching. He admires people who write libraries and sustains them over years, but it isn’t something he sees himself getting into. He adds that having the libraries are useless unless you have someone to communicate about it and teach it. Charles mentions that contributions come in various ways and the community needs those sort of teachers. Zach mentions that he often speaks at conferences and meet ups. Public speaking can be a great way to progress your career. Charles brings up the idea of “Sweeping the dojo floor”. He was introduced to this idea by Dave Hoover. Sweeping the dojo floor means that you’ve got enough experience to talk about the topic, but maybe not fully contribute and so you do things like document code, or write articles and outreach for the topic. Talks can lead to work. You can easily find research papers and do talks on that. Zach adds that sometimes in a community, you see the same speakers over and over and new speakers are needed. Zach also mentions that there are plenty of opportunities to do talks in something other than english. [26:36] What are you working on now? Zach talks about the list of things he is working on. Starting with Startup Elm and it’s live course that will be happening in October. He is also working on a SaSS product for Instagram marketers called SquareTarget. He adds that he has a day job as well. Picks Zach Intrepid Large Format Camera Kickstarter Charles Toast Masters Zapier Javascriptjabber.com/slack

MJS 028 Zach Kessin In this episode we have another JavaScript Story, this time our guest is Zach Kessin. Zach is a Developer and consultant. On the server side he works with Erlang and Elixir. On the front end he works on Elm. He also also written a few books for O’Reilly and a video course for Manning available sometime in the fall. He was a guest on episode 57 and is here with us today to tell us his story. Stay tuned! [2:48] How did you get into programming. Zack tells the story about how when he was 7 he asked his mother for a computer. She agreed that if he paid for half of it somehow, then she would help him get it. He Gathered his half by calling relatives and gathering funds. His mom taught him Basic and Logo. He also learned Pascal. While in University he picked up the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and loved it. He talks about remembering writing a HTML forum but not knowing how to submit entries. After college he started working. [4:38] Resources then vs now. Charles adds that if you’re tenacious enough to call your family members to find funding to buy a computer to learn, then you probably have the drive it takes to be a programmer. Charles and Zack talk about how in the 80s it was rare to have access to a computer, and now homes have multiple computers throughout. The resources are more readily available now with the internet. If you’re looking to get into development, there are plenty of great resources. [7:45] How did you get into JavaScript and Erlang? Zach starts explaining by telling how he get into JavaScript before the internet really existed. His first JavaScript program exposure was a loan calculator at a bank. Early on the only thing you could do was validate forms, but over time it grew. He started working for a company writing php. He felt like it wasn’t as functional or elegant as he was hoping for. He found various languages and landed on Erlang. Erland was designed to work for programming telephone switches. Due to phone services nature, It handles high scale, high reliability, has to be upgraded on the fly, etc. Zach talks about how server programming looks very similar to phone line programming. Zach adds that a few years ago he wanted work on some front end and after looking around finally he learned about Elm. He says that he is always looking for what’s new and useful. [14:26] Programming Languages Change the Way We Think Charles points out that it’s very interesting out about how functional programming has played out. He mentions that many JavaScript programmers use functional style programming to help with speed or efficiency. He adds that a fully functional programming language is very interesting and could be helpful. Zach talks about how learning new languages helps adjust the way we think. [16:45] How have you contributed to the development community? Charles starts off with mentioning Zach’s podcast that was called Mostly Erlang. Zach adds that he has wrote two books for O’ Reilly, one on HTML5 and Erlang. He has done some blogging and is creating a video course called Startup Elm. He mentions that he spends most of his time teaching. He admires people who write libraries and sustains them over years, but it isn’t something he sees himself getting into. He adds that having the libraries are useless unless you have someone to communicate about it and teach it. Charles mentions that contributions come in various ways and the community needs those sort of teachers. Zach mentions that he often speaks at conferences and meet ups. Public speaking can be a great way to progress your career. Charles brings up the idea of “Sweeping the dojo floor”. He was introduced to this idea by Dave Hoover. Sweeping the dojo floor means that you’ve got enough experience to talk about the topic, but maybe not fully contribute and so you do things like document code, or write articles and outreach for the topic. Talks can lead to work. You can easily find research papers and do talks on that. Zach adds that sometimes in a community, you see the same speakers over and over and new speakers are needed. Zach also mentions that there are plenty of opportunities to do talks in something other than english. [26:36] What are you working on now? Zach talks about the list of things he is working on. Starting with Startup Elm and it’s live course that will be happening in October. He is also working on a SaSS product for Instagram marketers called SquareTarget. He adds that he has a day job as well. Picks Zach Intrepid Large Format Camera Kickstarter Charles Toast Masters Zapier Javascriptjabber.com/slack

MJS 028 Zach Kessin In this episode we have another JavaScript Story, this time our guest is Zach Kessin. Zach is a Developer and consultant. On the server side he works with Erlang and Elixir. On the front end he works on Elm. He also also written a few books for O’Reilly and a video course for Manning available sometime in the fall. He was a guest on episode 57 and is here with us today to tell us his story. Stay tuned! [2:48] How did you get into programming. Zack tells the story about how when he was 7 he asked his mother for a computer. She agreed that if he paid for half of it somehow, then she would help him get it. He Gathered his half by calling relatives and gathering funds. His mom taught him Basic and Logo. He also learned Pascal. While in University he picked up the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and loved it. He talks about remembering writing a HTML forum but not knowing how to submit entries. After college he started working. [4:38] Resources then vs now. Charles adds that if you’re tenacious enough to call your family members to find funding to buy a computer to learn, then you probably have the drive it takes to be a programmer. Charles and Zack talk about how in the 80s it was rare to have access to a computer, and now homes have multiple computers throughout. The resources are more readily available now with the internet. If you’re looking to get into development, there are plenty of great resources. [7:45] How did you get into JavaScript and Erlang? Zach starts explaining by telling how he get into JavaScript before the internet really existed. His first JavaScript program exposure was a loan calculator at a bank. Early on the only thing you could do was validate forms, but over time it grew. He started working for a company writing php. He felt like it wasn’t as functional or elegant as he was hoping for. He found various languages and landed on Erlang. Erland was designed to work for programming telephone switches. Due to phone services nature, It handles high scale, high reliability, has to be upgraded on the fly, etc. Zach talks about how server programming looks very similar to phone line programming. Zach adds that a few years ago he wanted work on some front end and after looking around finally he learned about Elm. He says that he is always looking for what’s new and useful. [14:26] Programming Languages Change the Way We Think Charles points out that it’s very interesting out about how functional programming has played out. He mentions that many JavaScript programmers use functional style programming to help with speed or efficiency. He adds that a fully functional programming language is very interesting and could be helpful. Zach talks about how learning new languages helps adjust the way we think. [16:45] How have you contributed to the development community? Charles starts off with mentioning Zach’s podcast that was called Mostly Erlang. Zach adds that he has wrote two books for O’ Reilly, one on HTML5 and Erlang. He has done some blogging and is creating a video course called Startup Elm. He mentions that he spends most of his time teaching. He admires people who write libraries and sustains them over years, but it isn’t something he sees himself getting into. He adds that having the libraries are useless unless you have someone to communicate about it and teach it. Charles mentions that contributions come in various ways and the community needs those sort of teachers. Zach mentions that he often speaks at conferences and meet ups. Public speaking can be a great way to progress your career. Charles brings up the idea of “Sweeping the dojo floor”. He was introduced to this idea by Dave Hoover. Sweeping the dojo floor means that you’ve got enough experience to talk about the topic, but maybe not fully contribute and so you do things like document code, or write articles and outreach for the topic. Talks can lead to work. You can easily find research papers and do talks on that. Zach adds that sometimes in a community, you see the same speakers over and over and new speakers are needed. Zach also mentions that there are plenty of opportunities to do talks in something other than english. [26:36] What are you working on now? Zach talks about the list of things he is working on. Starting with Startup Elm and it’s live course that will be happening in October. He is also working on a SaSS product for Instagram marketers called SquareTarget. He adds that he has a day job as well. Picks Zach Intrepid Large Format Camera Kickstarter Charles Toast Masters Zapier Javascriptjabber.com/slack

In this episode we discuss what Erlang is, where it came and what you might use it for today, with Zach Kessin. http://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/20/

02:20 - Zach Kessin Introduction Twitter GitHub Zach's Books Parrot JavaScript Jabber: Episode #057: Functional Programming with Zach Kessin Testing Erlang With Quickcheck Book 04:00 - Mostly Erlang Podcast 05:27 - Property-based Testing (QuickCheck) 07:22 - Property-based Testing and Functional Programming jsverify 09:48 - Pure Functions Shrinking 18:09 - Boundary Cases 20:00 - Generating the Data 23:23 - Trending Concepts in JavaScript 32:33 - How Property-based Testing Fits in with Other Kind of Testing 35:57 - Test Failures Panel Nolan Lawson: Taming the asynchronous beast with ES7 (Aimee) Nodevember (Aimee) Hipster Sound (Jamison) Om Next by David Nolen  (Jamison) Gallant - Weight In Gold (Jamison) React Rally (Jamison) Better Off Ted (Joe) Armada: A Novel by Ernest Cline (Joe) Testing Erlang With Quickcheck Book (Zach) Parrot Universal Notification Interface (Zach) The Famine of Men by Richard H. Kessin (Zach)

02:20 - Zach Kessin Introduction Twitter GitHub Zach's Books Parrot JavaScript Jabber: Episode #057: Functional Programming with Zach Kessin Testing Erlang With Quickcheck Book 04:00 - Mostly Erlang Podcast 05:27 - Property-based Testing (QuickCheck) 07:22 - Property-based Testing and Functional Programming jsverify 09:48 - Pure Functions Shrinking 18:09 - Boundary Cases 20:00 - Generating the Data 23:23 - Trending Concepts in JavaScript 32:33 - How Property-based Testing Fits in with Other Kind of Testing 35:57 - Test Failures Panel Nolan Lawson: Taming the asynchronous beast with ES7 (Aimee) Nodevember (Aimee) Hipster Sound (Jamison) Om Next by David Nolen  (Jamison) Gallant - Weight In Gold (Jamison) React Rally (Jamison) Better Off Ted (Joe) Armada: A Novel by Ernest Cline (Joe) Testing Erlang With Quickcheck Book (Zach) Parrot Universal Notification Interface (Zach) The Famine of Men by Richard H. Kessin (Zach)

02:20 - Zach Kessin Introduction Twitter GitHub Zach's Books Parrot JavaScript Jabber: Episode #057: Functional Programming with Zach Kessin Testing Erlang With Quickcheck Book 04:00 - Mostly Erlang Podcast 05:27 - Property-based Testing (QuickCheck) 07:22 - Property-based Testing and Functional Programming jsverify 09:48 - Pure Functions Shrinking 18:09 - Boundary Cases 20:00 - Generating the Data 23:23 - Trending Concepts in JavaScript 32:33 - How Property-based Testing Fits in with Other Kind of Testing 35:57 - Test Failures Panel Nolan Lawson: Taming the asynchronous beast with ES7 (Aimee) Nodevember (Aimee) Hipster Sound (Jamison) Om Next by David Nolen  (Jamison) Gallant - Weight In Gold (Jamison) React Rally (Jamison) Better Off Ted (Joe) Armada: A Novel by Ernest Cline (Joe) Testing Erlang With Quickcheck Book (Zach) Parrot Universal Notification Interface (Zach) The Famine of Men by Richard H. Kessin (Zach)

Hi everyone, and sorry for the delay.  After our brief hiatus, we should be back to weekly podcasts! Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/whymajorincs.mp3 Panel Kevin Hammond @khstandrews Simon Thompson @thompson_si Francesco Cesarini @FrancescoC Fred Hebert @mononcqc Irina Guberman @irina_guberman Heinz Gies @heinz_gies Zach Kessin @zkessin Links http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.htmlhttp://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/103850/as-a-high-school-student-what-should-i-be-doing-to-make-myself-better-more-hirea/103859#103859 http://lwn.net/Articles/641779/?utm_content=bufferc1 http://www.se-radio.net/2008/01/episode-84-dick-gabriel-on-lisp/ http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/OtherDocs/Haskell.html https://erlangcentral.org/jobs/

Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/67-e2-done.mp3 Fred, Brian, and Zach discuss Rebar in today’s podcast.  Hope you enjoy! Panel Fred Hebert @mononcqc Brian Troutwine @bltroutwine Zach Kessin @zkessin

First, congratulations Zach on the birth of a grandson! Sorry to have missed you last week! Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/65.mp3 Panel Garrett Smith @gar1t Zach Kessin @zkessin Irina Guberman @irina_guberman Fred Hebert @mononcqc Simon Thompson @thompson_si Kevin Hammond @khstandrews Conferences Elixir Conf EU April 23-24, Krakow http://www.elixirconf.eu/ PolyConf Krakow July 2-4 http://polyconf.com/ Erlang User Conference in Stockholm June 11-12 […]

We are back from Erlang Factory San Francisco!  Every Thursday for the next several weeks, Mostly Erlang will be posting short interviews that Zach conducted at the conference. Here, Zach Kessin interviews Alexis Costanza, production coordinator at Hackers/Founders. Apologies for the poor quality–there were lots of people at this conference, creating lots of background noise!

Guest speaker Edwin Brady talks about Idris in an extremely advanced podcast full of PhDs! Panel Edwin Brady Heinz Gies @heinz_gies Kevin Hammond @khstandrews Simon Thompson @thompson_si Zach Kessin @zkessin Conferences Elixir Conf EU April 23-24, Krakow http://www.elixirconf.eu/ PolyConf Krakow July 2-4 http://polyconf.com/ Erlang User Conference in Stockholm June 11-12 www.erlang-factory.com/euc2015 Code Mesh, London, November 2-4 http://lanyrd.com/2015/codemeshio/

Zach asks Rachel and Andrea about F#. Panel Andrea Magnorsky @silverspoon Rachel Reese @rachelreese Zach Kessin @zkessin Links http://www.roundcrisis.com/2015/02/22/Type-providers http://www.oreilly.com/webcasts/index.html http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/ http://fsharp.github.io/FSharp.Data/ https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh156509.aspx EDIT: Sorry, everyone!  I edited and then accidentally uploaded the unedited version.  It's fixed now.

Today’s podcast features guest speaker Heinz Gies, creator of project FIFO Panel Heinz Gies @heinz_gies Bryan Hunter @bryan_hunter Kevin Hammond @khstandrews Zach Kessin @zkessin Conferences Lambda Days in Krakow, Poland: February 26-27 Elixir Comp Europe in Krakow Poland: April 23-24 Erlang Factory San Francisco in San Francisco, March 26-27 Erlang User Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, […]

Episode 4 - Zach Kessin

Use this link and code JAVAJAB to get 20% off your registration for FluentConf 2013! Panel Zachary Kessin (twitter github Mostly Erlang Podcast) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 00:55 - Zach Kessin Introduction Programming HTML5 Applications Building Web Applications with Erlang Product Structure Mostly Erlang Podcast 03:01 - Functional Programming Haskell LISP Scheme Erlang Underscore.js chain 06:44 - Monad q Maybe monad 11:33 - Functional Languages vs JavaScript No side effects 18:09 - Why Functional Programming? 037 JSJ Promises with Dominic Denicola and Kris Kowal Higher order functions Ext JS 24:35 - Tail_call Recursion cdr car 044 JSJ Book Club: Effective JavaScript with David Herman 32:54 - Programming Languages Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers) by Bruce Tate 33:38 - Functional Programming Libraries valentine Maybe.coffee q 36:13 - What do you miss in JavaScript? Pattern Matching Picks Vi Hart on Normalcy of Pi (Jamison) Sport Balls Replaced With Cats (Jamison) JavaScript Allongé by Reginald Braithwaite (Merrick) BonsaiJS (Merrick) Wringing out Water on the ISS - for Science! (Chuck) RequireJS (Chuck) Mostly Erlang (Zach) Boston PD (Zach) Iron Dome (Zach) Next Week Building Accessible Websites on a Podcast with Brian Hogan Transcript [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 57 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Jamison Dance. JAMISON:  Hello, friends. CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen. MERRICK:  Hi. CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from Devchat.tv and this week, we have a special guest and that’s Zach Kessin. ZACH:  Hey everybody. CHUCK:  Did I say your name right, Zach? ZACH:  Yep, you got it right. CHUCK:  Alright. This week, we’re going to be talking about functional programming in JavaScript. You want to give us a little bit of a background on you, so that you can kind of explain, I don’t know, who you are and your expertise here? ZACH:  Oh, okay. So yeah, I’m Zach Kessin. I’ve been a software developer for close to 20 years, on the web, close to 20 years now. My first web app in PHP version -- oh, not PHP, in Perl version 4 with mSQL, because MySQL didn’t exist yet. That was, like, 1994. And let’s see, I’ve been doing web applications ever since. Worked in Boston area, in London and then in Israel for about 10 years now. I’m also the author of ‘Programming HTML5 Applications’ and ‘Building Web Applications with Erlang’, both published by O’Reilly. And my interests include functional programming, code generation and concurrency in Erlang. So, well, that’s a different show. That’s sort of my background. And I work at a small Tel Aviv startup called Product Structure that we build [inaudible] components and workflows that will be self-optimizing on your website. So, that’s what we’re doing. We’re launching it soon. CHUCK:  Cool. MERRICK:  Very cool. CHUCK:  You just launched your own podcast, didn’t you? ZACH:  Yeah. I just launched my own podcast called ‘Mostly Erlang’. It’s going to cover Erlang and occasionally other functional languages like Haskell and OCML. We had our first, we recorded our first episode last week. And the first episode is called ‘Building Skynet’. And the second episode will be on the Webmachine framework, which is an HTTP framework, backend framework though, to do semantically correct Webmachine.

Use this link and code JAVAJAB to get 20% off your registration for FluentConf 2013! Panel Zachary Kessin (twitter github Mostly Erlang Podcast) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 00:55 - Zach Kessin Introduction Programming HTML5 Applications Building Web Applications with Erlang Product Structure Mostly Erlang Podcast 03:01 - Functional Programming Haskell LISP Scheme Erlang Underscore.js chain 06:44 - Monad q Maybe monad 11:33 - Functional Languages vs JavaScript No side effects 18:09 - Why Functional Programming? 037 JSJ Promises with Dominic Denicola and Kris Kowal Higher order functions Ext JS 24:35 - Tail_call Recursion cdr car 044 JSJ Book Club: Effective JavaScript with David Herman 32:54 - Programming Languages Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers) by Bruce Tate 33:38 - Functional Programming Libraries valentine Maybe.coffee q 36:13 - What do you miss in JavaScript? Pattern Matching Picks Vi Hart on Normalcy of Pi (Jamison) Sport Balls Replaced With Cats (Jamison) JavaScript Allongé by Reginald Braithwaite (Merrick) BonsaiJS (Merrick) Wringing out Water on the ISS - for Science! (Chuck) RequireJS (Chuck) Mostly Erlang (Zach) Boston PD (Zach) Iron Dome (Zach) Next Week Building Accessible Websites on a Podcast with Brian Hogan Transcript [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 57 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Jamison Dance. JAMISON:  Hello, friends. CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen. MERRICK:  Hi. CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from Devchat.tv and this week, we have a special guest and that’s Zach Kessin. ZACH:  Hey everybody. CHUCK:  Did I say your name right, Zach? ZACH:  Yep, you got it right. CHUCK:  Alright. This week, we’re going to be talking about functional programming in JavaScript. You want to give us a little bit of a background on you, so that you can kind of explain, I don’t know, who you are and your expertise here? ZACH:  Oh, okay. So yeah, I’m Zach Kessin. I’ve been a software developer for close to 20 years, on the web, close to 20 years now. My first web app in PHP version -- oh, not PHP, in Perl version 4 with mSQL, because MySQL didn’t exist yet. That was, like, 1994. And let’s see, I’ve been doing web applications ever since. Worked in Boston area, in London and then in Israel for about 10 years now. I’m also the author of ‘Programming HTML5 Applications’ and ‘Building Web Applications with Erlang’, both published by O’Reilly. And my interests include functional programming, code generation and concurrency in Erlang. So, well, that’s a different show. That’s sort of my background. And I work at a small Tel Aviv startup called Product Structure that we build [inaudible] components and workflows that will be self-optimizing on your website. So, that’s what we’re doing. We’re launching it soon. CHUCK:  Cool. MERRICK:  Very cool. CHUCK:  You just launched your own podcast, didn’t you? ZACH:  Yeah. I just launched my own podcast called ‘Mostly Erlang’. It’s going to cover Erlang and occasionally other functional languages like Haskell and OCML. We had our first, we recorded our first episode last week. And the first episode is called ‘Building Skynet’. And the second episode will be on the Webmachine framework, which is an HTTP framework, backend framework though, to do semantically correct Webmachine.

Use this link and code JAVAJAB to get 20% off your registration for FluentConf 2013! Panel Zachary Kessin (twitter github Mostly Erlang Podcast) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 00:55 - Zach Kessin Introduction Programming HTML5 Applications Building Web Applications with Erlang Product Structure Mostly Erlang Podcast 03:01 - Functional Programming Haskell LISP Scheme Erlang Underscore.js chain 06:44 - Monad q Maybe monad 11:33 - Functional Languages vs JavaScript No side effects 18:09 - Why Functional Programming? 037 JSJ Promises with Dominic Denicola and Kris Kowal Higher order functions Ext JS 24:35 - Tail_call Recursion cdr car 044 JSJ Book Club: Effective JavaScript with David Herman 32:54 - Programming Languages Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers) by Bruce Tate 33:38 - Functional Programming Libraries valentine Maybe.coffee q 36:13 - What do you miss in JavaScript? Pattern Matching Picks Vi Hart on Normalcy of Pi (Jamison) Sport Balls Replaced With Cats (Jamison) JavaScript Allongé by Reginald Braithwaite (Merrick) BonsaiJS (Merrick) Wringing out Water on the ISS - for Science! (Chuck) RequireJS (Chuck) Mostly Erlang (Zach) Boston PD (Zach) Iron Dome (Zach) Next Week Building Accessible Websites on a Podcast with Brian Hogan Transcript [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 57 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Jamison Dance. JAMISON:  Hello, friends. CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen. MERRICK:  Hi. CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from Devchat.tv and this week, we have a special guest and that’s Zach Kessin. ZACH:  Hey everybody. CHUCK:  Did I say your name right, Zach? ZACH:  Yep, you got it right. CHUCK:  Alright. This week, we’re going to be talking about functional programming in JavaScript. You want to give us a little bit of a background on you, so that you can kind of explain, I don’t know, who you are and your expertise here? ZACH:  Oh, okay. So yeah, I’m Zach Kessin. I’ve been a software developer for close to 20 years, on the web, close to 20 years now. My first web app in PHP version -- oh, not PHP, in Perl version 4 with mSQL, because MySQL didn’t exist yet. That was, like, 1994. And let’s see, I’ve been doing web applications ever since. Worked in Boston area, in London and then in Israel for about 10 years now. I’m also the author of ‘Programming HTML5 Applications’ and ‘Building Web Applications with Erlang’, both published by O’Reilly. And my interests include functional programming, code generation and concurrency in Erlang. So, well, that’s a different show. That’s sort of my background. And I work at a small Tel Aviv startup called Product Structure that we build [inaudible] components and workflows that will be self-optimizing on your website. So, that’s what we’re doing. We’re launching it soon. CHUCK:  Cool. MERRICK:  Very cool. CHUCK:  You just launched your own podcast, didn’t you? ZACH:  Yeah. I just launched my own podcast called ‘Mostly Erlang’. It’s going to cover Erlang and occasionally other functional languages like Haskell and OCML. We had our first, we recorded our first episode last week. And the first episode is called ‘Building Skynet’. And the second episode will be on the Webmachine framework, which is an HTTP framework, backend framework though, to do semantically correct Webmachine.