Practical Scalaz: making your life easier the hard way

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Previous talks have concentrated on the fundamentals and construction of the scalaz library. This talk will concentrate on using Scalaz to help make certain tasks easier and to avoid repeating yourself. We will see practical uses of endomorphisms, monoids, applicative functors and realize that they are the sort of thing we use every day, whether we know what to call them or not. The focus will be on using the library, not understanding its internals!

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/d/7/b/5/event_36235221.jpeg Chris Marshall ( @oxbow_lakes (http://twitter.com/#!/oxbow_lakes)) is one of the four scala gold-badged users on StackOverflow, although he is unique in being the only undeserving recipient. He has been programming commercially for 14 years, briefly in FORTRAN and Smalltalk, then Java (since 1999) and in Scala (since late 2008) after his patience finally wore out. With over 12 years financial IT experience, he has been in his dream job for GSA, a small, technology-driven hedge fund since 2006 and prior to that spent six years at JPMorgan working for the rates business. In his spare time, he likes to fail to get through “The Essence of the Iterator Pattern”, which he has now managed almost 500 times.
Chris is most famous in the Scala world for the “ the longest suicide note in history (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1722726/is-the-scala-2-8-collections-library-a-case-of-the-longest-suicide-note-in-histo)”

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