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David Pollak on lift

The video and slides of David Pollak's BayFP presentation on lift are available online.

While the thrust of the talk is on lift as a web framework, you get a very nice intro to Scala along the way, and David even mentions a quick way to get a PLT PhD, for those interested in that sort of thing...

By Ehud Lamm at 2007-11-15 00:03 | Javascript | Ruby | Scala | other blogs | 11674 reads

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Haskell, Erlang Too

To be fair, Alex Jacobson also presented HAppS, the Haskell web framework last month: http://www.bayfp.org/blog/2007/10/16/alex-jacobson-on-happs-videos-slides/

Next month, BayFP will complete the series with ErlyWeb: http://www.bayfp.org/blog/2007/11/14/december-meeting-yariv-sadan-on-erlyweb-in-berkeley/

By kfahlgren at Thu, 2007-11-15 01:52 | login or register to post comments

Interspecies Cross Pollination

David has started a google group for users and developers of functional web frameworks like lift, Happs and ErlyWeb.

By James Iry at Thu, 2007-11-15 18:39 | login or register to post comments

Link

Thanks for the pointer. That link is the group email address (functional-web-frameworks@googlegroups.com), but here's the google groups page for it.

By Anton van Straaten at Thu, 2007-11-15 18:44 | login or register to post comments

Sorry about that. I only

Sorry about that. I only attended the last meeting...

By Ehud Lamm at Thu, 2007-11-15 01:59 | login or register to post comments

The sound is very poor

At least on my computer. I can't hear what he says. Is anybody else experiencing this?

By Ahnfelt at Thu, 2007-11-15 15:31 | login or register to post comments

Poor is an understatement

As far as I can understand, the presentation starts with something like "Without further ado, .. ip..gop al pagolic. LIPT! i'll do golic and pap gor consequert af gort ten years ago..."

[Edit: and that is *after* cranking up the volume so far that the noise from the speakers is louder than the CPU fan.]

By Florian Hars at Thu, 2007-11-15 18:26 | login or register to post comments

Dude, Crank It Up!

On my laptop it was totally inaudible. I moved to a desktop system and cranked up the amp. That did the trick.

Except when somebody coughed near a microphone. That was painful.

By James Iry at Thu, 2007-11-15 18:36 | login or register to post comments

Low Audio

Yeah, I did all I could to boost the audio from the recording, but it's still quite low (intelligible on my computer, but obviously YRMV). With any luck, we'll have someone volunteer with a better recording rig, but for now that's all we got.

I suppose if enough people complain I might transcribe it.

By kfahlgren at Thu, 2007-11-15 19:58 | login or register to post comments

Levelator

Someone should try the levelator and see if it improves the sound quality.

By Ehud Lamm at Thu, 2007-11-15 20:32 | login or register to post comments

Louder now

I've reposted this video with much louder audio.

By kfahlgren at Sat, 2007-11-17 02:28 | login or register to post comments

Very cool

Nice to see products that increase exposure of functional languages in general and Scala in particcular.

Anyone hear of any commercial sites done with Lift? If so, please share...

By loumarco at Thu, 2007-11-15 20:21 | login or register to post comments

What is the quick way to get

What is the quick way to get a PhD?

By Jason Dusek at Fri, 2007-11-16 05:43 | login or register to post comments

I wasn't paying close

I wasn't paying close attnetion at that moment, but it seemed to be related to type inferencing between modules in Scala.

By Ehud Lamm at Sat, 2007-11-17 22:51 | login or register to post comments

ref

ja, from the list.

By raould at Mon, 2007-11-19 01:23 | login or register to post comments