Archive for the ‘programming’ tag.
Turing100 Lecture: Butler Lampson – Systems, Security, Verification and more – Nov 24
In 1992, Butler Lampson received the Turing award in for his contributions to the development of distributed, personal computing environments and the technology for their implementation: workstations, networks, operating systems, programming systems, displays, security and document publishing. On Saturday, 24th November, Neeran Karnik, Senior Architect at BMC Software, will give a talk about Butler Lampson’s [...]
Panel Discussion: Should all Programmers Learn Functional Programming – Oct 6
Should all Programmers Learn Functional Programming? The pros and cons of this question that will be tackled in a panel discussion this Saturday. This panel discussion is a part of the Turing Awards lecture series that happens at Persistent’s Dewang Mehta Auditorium at 2pm on the first Saturday of every month this year. The panel [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Robin Milner and Polymorphic Type Inference in Programming Langauges – Oct 6
Robin Milner received the Turing award in 1991 for three major contributions to computer science: In the area of automated theorem proving – He developed LCF, the first theoretically sound yet practical tool for machine assisted proof construction In the area of programming language design – He developed ML, the first language to use polymorphic [...]
Code Retreat Pune – Day Long Programming Event
Pune is participating in the Global Code Retreat day 2011. It’s a day-long programming event based on principles of good design. Its on Dec 3, from 9am to 6pm at Thoughtworks, Pune. The event is free but has a Rs. 200 deposit which will be refunded if you actually attend the event (to prevent people [...]
GeekNight with Ola Bini – Core Developer of JRuby – 25 May
ThoughtWorks Pune invites all developers to their latest GeekNight tomorrow at 6:30pm. GeekNight is a series of a talks about cutting edge technology, where you also get to meet like-minded geeks. This GeekNight features a talk “JRuby for the win” by JRuby Core Developer Ola Bini. JRuby is an implementation of Ruby for the JVM. [...]
Pune Rails Drinkup: Ruby-on-Rails tech talks over (free) drinks
The Pune Rails Meetup Group invites all enthusiasts of Ruby-on-Rails for their second “Drink Up” event. Gautam Rege writes: This time we have a technical drink-up. We shall have 1 or 2 technical sessions followed by networking. Thanks to IntelleCap for sponsoring this meetup entirely! Venue: Boat Club Agenda: We have 2 technical talks of [...]
LiveBlog #tw5: Intro to Functional Programming & Why it’s important
This is a live-blog of TechWeekend 5 on Functional Programming, with talks by Dhananjay Nene (Why FP), Baishampayan Ghose (Clojure) and Bhasker Kode (Erlang)
Clojure, Erlang, & Functional Programming – Intro to FP & Why It’s Important – TechWeekend5 18 Dec
Have you heard of Clojure, Erlang, Scala, F# and wondered why people are getting all excited about these new fangled languages? Then this is your chance to find out. And if you are a programmer or are otherwise working in the software technology space and have not heard any of those names, then you need [...]
Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group – Community Tech Day – 6 Feb
What: Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group‘s Community Tech Days When: Saturday, 6 February, 9:00am-5:15pm Where: International Convention Center, MCCIA Center, 5th Floor, S.B. Road Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. Register here Community Tech Days This will be a day full of technical presentations covering ASP.NET, REST applications with .NET, [...]
Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group’s Developer Summit – Jan 16
What: Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group’s Developer Summit When: Saturday, 16 January, 9:00am-5pm Where: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems Ltd., 402, Bhageerath, Senapati Bapat road. Update: venue changed to Ashwamedh hall, Erandwana Gaothan, off karve road, near nal stop, Pune Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. Register here (requires silverlight) [...]