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+An Introduction to Functional Reactive Programming
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+* Speaker   : Christopher Meiklejohn
+* Available : Any
+* Length    : 45 mins
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+Description
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+There is no doubt that todays web applications continue to grow in adoption, replacing their desktop counterparts in all areas of computation. Essential to their growth is their ability to provide near-native performance and rich user experiences. As these applications grow in essential complexity, they also grow in accidental complexity due to the imperative callback processing style found in most web applications. The asynchronous nature of most of these applications also further compounds the issues due to guarantees around message ordering, and a level of indirection required in callbacks handling events.
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+Functional reactive programming is one approach for mitigating accidental complexity, using a declarative and composable data-flow model. During this talk, we'll look at the history of functional reactive programming, some JavaScript implementations of FRP, and finally some ClojureScript implementations of FRP and examples on how to get started with using functional reactive programming.
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+Speaker Bio
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+Christopher Meiklejohn is a Software Engineer with Basho Technologies, Inc. where he focuses on building rich web applications for Riak using Erlang and JavaScript. Before joining Basho, he worked at Swipely, a loyalty program startup based in Providence where he maintained critical infrastructure components written in Ruby. Christopher currently serves as one of the maintainers of Rubygems.org.
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+Links
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+* Company: http://www.basho.com
+* Github: http://github.com/cmeiklejohn