I had the opportunity to run a workshop at LambdaJam Brisbane, and it was a blast. The conference is refreshing because it attracts all the really deep thinkers from the software development community in Australia, and it throws in a couple of big name international speakers as well.

They’ve just released the photos here. I’m sharing a few below.

It was great to meet the guys from the Melbourne and Brisbane functional programming communities, and continue the conversations over dinner.

Hilights from the talks included:

• Mark Hibberd on creating a version of tic-tac-toe in Idris using dependent types that was provably correct at compile time
• Jen Smith on Clojure Code smells
• Declan Condon on sorting structures similar to a radix-sort in Scala
• Leonardo Borges on reactive web applications in Clojure
• Ken Scambler on Type safe Separation of Decision from Interpretation using Free Monads for a Tank Game in Scala
• Tony Morris on the History of Lenses
• James Sofra on building a geo-spacial indexing application in Datomic

My workshop was “Applying the paradigms of core.async in Clojure and ClojureScript”. The slides and code are available.

To the organisers – Dave Thomas and Craig Smith for organising a really fun conference.

Thanks to Liam McLennan and Craig Smith for the photos.

Just a quick note – I’m in the process of publishing a book, Clojure Recipes. You can see it for presale on Amazon here.