[toronto-lisp] September meetup and interesting projects
== INTERESTING PROJECTS == Name some interesting projects you're working on! Zed Shaw posted a slightly interesting article about user groups, meetups, hackerspaces, social clubs, etc: http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/the_freehackers_union.html He says, I tried a few user groups, but there's barely anyone doing anything truly interesting. I really do enjoy the people who take the time to go to a user group for their favorite tech, but at the same time I feel like they're just there to escape their jobs. That's sad because I run into people who say, "(sigh) I have to do Rails", even at the Python groups. The Python group has had two months of meetings about fucking performance tuning. I love those guys, but holy baby jesus can we just move off of cython already? I hear reports that even the iPhone and Cocoa user group is lame. I mean, that group should be going ape shit right now. Projects...someone must be doing something interesting! Phd work, grad work, web work, desktop work, work work? Tell us more, maybe even present something :D Has anyone worked with Smalltalk or C#? What are they like compared to Common Lisp and Scheme? == NEXT MEETUP == Also, we need to decide the next meetup date. I'm thinking September 11th or 18th. They're all Thursdays of course, starting at 6pm, 99% chance of being at the LinuxCaffe. There's a fine Lisp meetup calendar here (in case you're in another city?): http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=pm55j8kg30dnm54ib2if9fuocc%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York If Brian C. is still up for it, he could present at the next meetup, depending on if he's available for either of the days? -Rudolf
Hiya, I'll be available this time around. And since I'm starting to use Common Lisp to drive AutoCAD (in place of Visual Lisp), I could show a little something on this front. I'll blame my Visual Lisp experience for all my naive coding in CL! :^) (Specifically, the example shows use of the LispWorks COM/Automation package.) BC
Rudolf <omouse@gmail.com> 8/24/2008 3:38 PM >>> == INTERESTING PROJECTS ==
Name some interesting projects you're working on! Zed Shaw posted a slightly interesting article about user groups, meetups, hackerspaces, social clubs, etc: http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/the_freehackers_union.html He says, I tried a few user groups, but there's barely anyone doing anything truly interesting. I really do enjoy the people who take the time to go to a user group for their favorite tech, but at the same time I feel like they're just there to escape their jobs. That's sad because I run into people who say, "(sigh) I have to do Rails", even at the Python groups. The Python group has had two months of meetings about fucking performance tuning. I love those guys, but holy baby jesus can we just move off of cython already? I hear reports that even the iPhone and Cocoa user group is lame. I mean, that group should be going ape shit right now. Projects...someone must be doing something interesting! Phd work, grad work, web work, desktop work, work work? Tell us more, maybe even present something :D Has anyone worked with Smalltalk or C#? What are they like compared to Common Lisp and Scheme? == NEXT MEETUP == Also, we need to decide the next meetup date. I'm thinking September 11th or 18th. They're all Thursdays of course, starting at 6pm, 99% chance of being at the LinuxCaffe. There's a fine Lisp meetup calendar here (in case you're in another city?): http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=pm55j8kg30dnm54ib2if9fuocc%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York If Brian C. is still up for it, he could present at the next meetup, depending on if he's available for either of the days? -Rudolf _______________________________________________ toronto-lisp mailing list toronto-lisp@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/toronto-lisp
On 24-Aug-08, at 3:38 PM, Rudolf wrote:
Has anyone worked with Smalltalk or C#? What are they like compared to Common Lisp and Scheme?
I'm new to the group, but... I'm working in C# and toying with F# right now. (I have some weak experience in OCaml.) C# is for the day job, though. Not sure how interesting a comparison to Scheme would be, really, since the distance between C# and Java isn't _that_ profound, IMO. -Mike P.S. I've always wondered why more meetup groups don't arrange to work on a project _together_. Some folks in the Vancouver Python group used to do things like this on occasion -- as well as organizing hack-a-thons and hands-on sessions -- and those were always great fun.
On Monday 25 August 2008 9:31:26 pm Michael DiBernardo wrote:
On 24-Aug-08, at 3:38 PM, Rudolf wrote:
Has anyone worked with Smalltalk or C#? What are they like compared to Common Lisp and Scheme?
I'm new to the group, but...
I'm working in C# and toying with F# right now. (I have some weak experience in OCaml.) C# is for the day job, though. Not sure how interesting a comparison to Scheme would be, really, since the distance between C# and Java isn't _that_ profound, IMO.
I would be interested in a talk on this topic.
-Mike
P.S. I've always wondered why more meetup groups don't arrange to work on a project _together_. Some folks in the Vancouver Python group used to do things like this on occasion -- as well as organizing hack-a-thons and hands-on sessions -- and those were always great fun.
I'd be interested in a (formal or informal) discussion of this topic, too. pt
In the future, I could talk about graphical languages with factbases (lisp+prolog-lisp), VF (event-based programming), and gui's for pdf generation. All of these topics would require some preparation, so I probably can't be ready for this next meeting. Let me know if any of these are of interest, and I will begin to cobble together some slides. On short notice, I could reprise either of my presentations about event-based programming given at Cdn IEEE and DEBS. pt
Paul Tarvydas <tarvydas@visualframeworksinc.com> writes:
In the future, I could talk about graphical languages with factbases (lisp+prolog-lisp), VF (event-based programming), and gui's for pdf generation. All of these topics would require some preparation, so I probably can't be ready for this next meeting. Let me know if any of these are of interest, and I will begin to cobble together some slides.
On short notice, I could reprise either of my presentations about event-based programming given at Cdn IEEE and DEBS.
Ooh, yes please. I'd be interested to see how VF compares with "functional reactive programming", which some of my grad school buddies were working on. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_reactive_programming) G.
So what day will it be on? abram Rudolf wrote:
== INTERESTING PROJECTS ==
Name some interesting projects you're working on!
Zed Shaw posted a slightly interesting article about user groups, meetups, hackerspaces, social clubs, etc:
http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/the_freehackers_union.html
He says,
I tried a few user groups, but there's barely anyone doing anything truly interesting. I really do enjoy the people who take the time to go to a user group for their favorite tech, but at the same time I feel like they're just there to escape their jobs. That's sad because I run into people who say, "(sigh) I have to do Rails", even at the Python groups. The Python group has had two months of meetings about fucking performance tuning. I love those guys, but holy baby jesus can we just move off of cython already? I hear reports that even the iPhone and Cocoa user group is lame. I mean, that group should be going ape shit right now.
Projects...someone must be doing something interesting! Phd work, grad work, web work, desktop work, work work? Tell us more, maybe even present something :D
Has anyone worked with Smalltalk or C#? What are they like compared to Common Lisp and Scheme?
== NEXT MEETUP ==
Also, we need to decide the next meetup date. I'm thinking September 11th or 18th. They're all Thursdays of course, starting at 6pm, 99% chance of being at the LinuxCaffe.
There's a fine Lisp meetup calendar here (in case you're in another city?):
If Brian C. is still up for it, he could present at the next meetup, depending on if he's available for either of the days?
-Rudolf _______________________________________________ toronto-lisp mailing list toronto-lisp@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/toronto-lisp
2008/9/2 Abram Hindle <abram.hindle@softwareprocess.us>:
So what day will it be on?
Let me just flip a coin here...heads = 11th, tails = 18th. *flips* TAILS The next meetup is on September the 18th, starting at 6pm. That's a Thursday and I'll bug the LinuxCaffe to put up a little notice about it. Brian Connoy will be showing off some CL with AutoCad, LispWorks, etc. I think one presentation and the other ideas mentioned on the mailing list will be enough for a good discussion. -Rudolf
Ok I can't really make either this month, but I do have a request that in future months we try to stay to the first thursday like usual. The 3rd Thursday is KW Perl Mongers and the 4th Thursday is TO Perl Mongers. abram Rudolf wrote:
2008/9/2 Abram Hindle <abram.hindle@softwareprocess.us>:
So what day will it be on?
Let me just flip a coin here...heads = 11th, tails = 18th. *flips* TAILS
The next meetup is on September the 18th, starting at 6pm. That's a Thursday and I'll bug the LinuxCaffe to put up a little notice about it. Brian Connoy will be showing off some CL with AutoCad, LispWorks, etc.
I think one presentation and the other ideas mentioned on the mailing list will be enough for a good discussion.
-Rudolf _______________________________________________ toronto-lisp mailing list toronto-lisp@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/toronto-lisp
participants (6)
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Abram Hindle -
Brian Connoy -
Gregory Collins -
Michael DiBernardo -
Paul Tarvydas -
Rudolf