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The Rants, Raves, and Rituals of Matthew Sackman
Monday, August 11st, 2008

Anglo Haskell 2008: Show Report

Anglo Haskell 2008 has been and gone. Below are links to the audio and slides of all the talks that were given, plus the audio of the functional grit. Most of the talks are about 45 mins long. I've left in the questions too and tried to boost the levels a little. Apologies for the traffic noise!

Simon Marlow: Parallel Garbage collection in GHC

Slides: (PPT); Audio: (OGG);
see also the Parallel Generational-Copying Garbage Collection with a Block-Structured Heap paper.

Tom Harper: Stream fusion on Haskell Unicode strings

Slides: (PDF); Audio: (OGG)

Tristan Allwood: CLASE - Cursor Library for A Structured Editor

Slides: (PDF); Audio: (OGG);
see also the CLASE: Cursor Library for A Structured Editor paper.

Philippa Cowderoy: Fusion-powered EDSLs

Slides: (PDF); Audio: (OGG);
see also the associated website.

Neil Brown: Explicit concurrency with the CHP library

Slides: (PDF); Audio: (OGG);
see also the CHP package on Hackage.

Functional Grit

This is audio only: an open session where anyone could stand up and talk for a few minutes about work they're doing. About 1 hour 20 mins. Audio: (OGG)

Matthew Sackman: Safely Speaking in Tongues - Statically Enforcing DSL Invariants

Slides: (PDF) (PPT); Audio: (OGG)

Neil Mitchell: Hoogle - Fast Type Searching

Slides: (PDF); Audio: (OGG);
see also the Hoogle website and the Hoogle package on Hackage.

Ganesh Sittampalam: Squiggle - Modelling SQL with Associated Type Synonynms

Slides: (PDF) (PPT); Audio: (OGG)

Max Bolingbroke: Plugins for GHC

Slides: (PDF); Audio: (OGG)