FringeDC March 2008 Video Now Online - Haskell and XMonad
Extensibility
As I've discussed before with my dive into
functional programming
and
F#, there is a user group of language geeks that specialize in
Haskell, Lisp, Scheme, OCaml, Erlang and so on, within the
Washington DC area called
FringeDC.
Brent Yorgey, well known in the
Haskell community and contributor to
XMonad, presented an introduction to Haskell and explained a bit
about extending XMonad. Fortunately for those who couldn't
attend like myself due to scheduling conflicts,
Conrad Barski
recorded this session and posted it to
Google Video. The slides have also been made available as well
here. For those not aware of XMonad, it's a tiling window
manager for X that is extensible in Haskell. Unfortunately,
the opening talk by Philip Fominykh on The
Zipper, a purely functional data structure in Haskell for
manipulating the location of structure instead of the data,
was not recorded.
If you want to get your language geek on, come check it out
for their next informal meeting on May 10th over a beer or
two. More details on the site
here. Until next time...
