Functional Programming - Erik Meijer

Enjoying these lectures:

A journey into the world of Functional Programming with functional language purist and high priest of the lambda calculus, Dr. Erik Meijer.

lectures here

3rd European Lisp Symposium in Portugal

The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.

Call for Contributions: we would welcome both papers describing original work, not published elsewhere, and submissions for tutorial sessions.

Details here...

Functional

Here's a few articles from Slava Akhmechet (on www.defmacro.org) that i enjoyed reading:

• Functional Programming For The Rest of Us
• The Nature of Lisp
• Databases - A New Frontier

And there's more.

YQL

The Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) web service allows to query web data in an SQL-like syntax, so you can do things like:

Get all cat pictures from flickr:

select * from flickr.photos.search where text='cat'

Get pictures from flickr that have interestingness starting with word Chinese:

select * from flickr.photos.interestingness where title like 'Chinese%'

Get sushi places in San Francisco that have a rating bigger than 4:

select * from local.search where query='sushi'
and location='san francisco, ca'
and Rating.AverageRating > 4.0

Get the profile of all my friends(my social connections):

select * from social.profile where guid IN
(select guid from social.connections where owner_guid=me)

It allows to combine several different sources in the same query, just like a SQL query that uses several tables, is possible to join results of GEOIP services with restaurant rating services, rss feeds, financial information, weather service, etc etc...

Nice one Yahoo!

Screencast: Introducing YQL

YQL site