Miles Sabin (@milessabin) is a master of type systems. In this talk he gives an introduction to (and a brief history of) Shapeless and focuses on HLists or heterogenous lists.…
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Ben Kolera (@benkolera) continues what has almost become a mini-series here at Functional Talks on the Reader, Writer and State monads. He gives, what he describes as a “beginner level…
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Rúnar Óli Bjarnason (@runarorama) wrote the book on Functional Programming, well the Scala version at least. In this talk he shows how the Reader monad is used to inject dependencies…
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Tony Morris (@dibblego) and Runar Bjarnason (@runarorama) are giants in the functional community. Both have a long history in the functional world and are the founding programmers behind such projects…
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Whoa, did a CTO just say “megamorphic functions?” OH YES HE DID! John A. De Goes (@jdegoes) CTO of Precog (@Precog) is a man with experience and the war stories…
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Michael (@mpilquist) walks us through the Scalaz State Monad, by taking us through a mock app that tracks statistics of github users. It’s a long talk, but worth sticking with.…
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This is an oldie but a goodie. Nick Partridge (@nkpart) shows the Melbourne Scala Users group Scalaz and how its typeclasses are derived. There is a useful focus on Validations…
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Lars Hupel (@larsr_h), is way too young to be this smart, but that’s just something we all have to live with. In this talk he unravels what is in scalaz…
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Jordan West (@_jrwest) unravels the mysteries of Monad Transformers and shows how large monad stacks can be easily composed by using this. He derives monad transform, and shows how they…
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