September JavaScript Meetup
Details
Doors at 6, 6:30 talks.
Venue and Food sponsored by Chariot Solutions (http://chariotsolutions.com)
Matt Ross - Maybe: Build your own monad! @amsross (https://twitter.com/amsross)
Monads are one of the clearest representative instances of theoretical mathematics in JavaScript. But because they are so tied to math and are closely associated with Haskell, they are often looked at with either fear or disdain. To a day-to-day programmer, however, they can represent clean abstractions for commonly repeated logical patterns, with a concrete and easy to understand API. With a little guidance over the initial “”oh no, not another monad tutorial!“” hump, any moderately capable JS programmer can grok these oft-misunderstood beauties and begin using them in place of what is likely hundreds of lines of ifs, elses, nulls, undefineds, and throws.
This talk will cover some of the laws that govern monads, the pieces that make them up, the differences between them, and some simple use cases for them. The concepts covered will be strictly the basics so as to maximize accessibility for the uninitiated but curious.
Adina Halter - Have Your Kids and Stay Relevant Too: A Stay-at-home Mom’s Guide to Continuing Your Career @haltersweb (https://twitter.com/haltersweb)
This is a career-related talk targeted to women in tech in their early and mid-career that are planning on starting a family. This is particularly relevant to those considering the possibly of staying at home with their children for a period of time -- possibly until pre-school, elementary school, or even until middle-school (I stayed at home until my children were in 4th and 5th grade respectively). Many of these women are worried that being a stay-at-home mother isn’t a viable option, as it will irreparably hurt their career ambitions. Find out how to manage mom ambitions with career ambitions.
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