Double Header: Elixir and the Fourth Dimension

Mike Stok: What I’m Learning About Learning, Learning About Elixir -- Elixir (http://elixir-lang.org) is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. Elixir leverages the Erlang VM, known for running low-latency, distributed and fault-tolerant systems, while also being successfully used in web development and the embedded software domain.

Elixir is the first FP language that I’ve found approachable, and this talk is partly about a strategy I’m using to learn FP using Elixir, and partly an excuse to show some Elixir code and tools.

Richard Farr: The Fourth Dimension, Computers & You -- It has bedevilled philosopher kings, perplexed our greatest scientists, and now it's the hapless programmer's turn. Yes time, our mortal enemy. In this talk I'll touch on the temporal joys of UTC, POSIX, clocks, and corrections. We'll learn some of the (mis)design on how we tell what time it is?