Clojure to Combat the February Blues

The talks will begin at 7:30pm.

Great news! Career Zoo will sponsor food and drinks at the event. See below for more details on Career Zoo, which runs on Feb 21st at the Convention Centre in Dublin.

In addition to the talks below, Aman Kohli (Lead Mobile Architect at Citi) will speak for a few minutes about an upcoming hackathon, which may be of interest to local Clojurians.

First speaker: Hunter Kelly

Title: "Exploring solutions to the Fig-Fog-Dog problem in Clojure"

Hunter writes: "The talk will take a little look at solving a breadth first search problem in different ways. We'll take a look at the recursive solution; at using Clojure's built in lazy sequence stuff to do the same thing; and finally, we'll take a look at the funky new Transducer stuff, to see what all the buzz is about."

Second speaker: Roman Boiko.

Title: "Apache Storm - design and usage"

Roman writes: "Storm is one of the Clojure killer apps. Used for real-time processing of large data streams, it combines good design and solid implementation. I will try to introduce you to the STORMy world of it's internals and use cases"

From our sponsor: "Career Zoo is where the world’s most innovative employers meet Ireland's smartest talent. Now established as Ireland’s leading career event, the next Career Zoo takes place on Saturday, February 21st 2015 in the Convention Centre Dublin. New for 2015 a Coder Hack Space featuring /Clojure Ireland/ will be a highlight of the event. As well as leading employers and organisations, the unmatched speaker series streams and technology showcasing create a relaxed atmosphere, which is perfect for professional networking. Admission is free. For more see www.careerzoo.ie" (http://www.careerzoo.ie)

Speaker Profile for Roman: Developer at TripAdvisor, with a background in engineering for an investment bank.

Speaker Profile: "Hunter went to UC Berkeley what feels like a million years ago. There he was exposed to many different programming languages, and has been a programming language nerd ever since. He pretty much lived in Emacs for his last few years there, and become quite comfortable hacking in elisp. Since then he has yearned for a language with the expressive power of a Lisp that could actually be used in the real world. Since learning about Clojure (relatively early on) he has enjoyed exploring how to think about and express problems in Clojure."