Spotify will be hosting the next sthlm.js meetup at their new offices @ Birger Jarlsgatan 61.
Paul Lewis from Google, Robert Nyman from Mozilla and Spotify's own Mattias P Johansson (see below for bios) have all agreed to give talks:
0. Open Doors 18:00
- 18:15 Welcome
- Mattias P Johansson - Functional reactive programming (30 min)
- Break (10 min)
- Paul Lewis - Developing for performance (60 min)
- Break (10 min)
- Robert Nyman - JavaScript and new possibilities (30 min)
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Mattias Petter Johansson (@mpjme) works as a developer at Spotify. Before that, he worked on the video editing app in the new Blackberry phones, built campaigns for Absolut Vodka, founded an eCommerce company, and unsuccessfully worked as a producer for Swedish television. He has been coding for 14 years and his record time on the Rubiks Cube is 1 minute and 20 seconds.
"Functional reactive programming (FRP) is a declarative approach to GUI design. The term declarative makes a distinction between the “what” and the “how” of programming. A declarative language allows you to say what is displayed, without having to specify exactly how the computer should do it."
