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For the August 25th meeting, our Speaker are as follows:

William Kurt 
Topic: "Intro to Functional Programming with Haskell and JavaScript"

Functional programming is a topic that’s becoming increasingly important for programmers to be aware of. Unfortunately it also has the reputation of being an area of programming that is particularly difficult and academic. Languages like Haskell, while being very powerful, certainly live up to this reputation. However many of the essential features of functional programming can be explored through a language as simple a JavaScript.

This talk with give an overview of Functional programming, showing the expressive power of Haskell with easy to understand examples in JavaScript.  Even if you never plan on ever writing code in a fully functional style, functional features are popping up more and more frequently in everyday languages like Ruby and C#.  A little background in FP will make learning these features much more intuitive.

Colin Lorentz
Topic "Beyond Mashups: Connecting Web Apps in the Cloud"

Have you ever wanted to capture your project management or time entry data from Basecamp within an invoicing application like Freshbooks, or perhaps a customer relationship management tool like Salesforce.com? Maybe you want your WordPress traffic to publish to multiple analytics systems at the same time, update your Google calendar from your online to-do list app or have Craigslist send you a direct message on Twitter the moment the that first edition of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” shows up?

This will be a crash course on how simple it is to leverage data from web applications and have them do your bidding.
The talk and demonstration will not only discuss technologies including REST and SOAP based APIs, webhooks, microformats, data portability, and JSON/XML data formats, but also demonstrate how you can connect any number of web based applications together and get them talking with one another with real-world examples.

The meeting schedule is as follows (Note: Changes in format from last year.):
* 6:00 - 6:15 - State of the Group – Introduction
* 6:15 - 7:00 - William Kurt - Intro to Functional Programming with Haskell and JavaScript
* 7:00 - 7:45 - Colin Lorentz - Beyond Mashups: Connecting Web Apps In the Cloud
* 7:45 - 8:00 - Meeting Wrap-up / Open Discussion Time

The meeting will be held at Bangkok Cuisine at 5851 South Virginia St.

Welcome to the Northern Nevada Software Developers Group, we are a group of Software Developers who have come together to meet and discuss matters that are important to our community.  Our meetings are centered on technology, learning, and the future of Software Development in Northern Nevada.  Meetings are held the fourth Wednesday of each month at Bangkok Cuisine (5851 South Virginia, across from Meadowood Mall) in Reno, NV. 

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