Release 2.9

Wednesday,March 11, 2009
6:30-9:00 PM
Montgomery College, Rockville
Technical Center - Room 232 <-- Still Almost New Location

Functional Programming in .NET

presented by Matthew Podwysocki

What's this about Functional Programming?
You may have noticed a lot of talk lately around functional programming. As we start seeing more and more cores added to our systems, our traditional imperative ways of dealing with concurrency are no longer as effective. Instead, we need to focus on managing our side effects for which functional programming is well suited, as it emphasizes the lack of state and side effect free functions. It also allows for very concise and reusable code. With the inclusion of F# into Visual Studio and LINQ in .NET 3.0, functional programming is gaining momentum in the .NET space. Come learn about functional programming and how thinking functionally can help your code today.

Matthew Podwysocki is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft. Matthew has been a self described language geek and working with .NET languages since the early Betas in 2001. Languages that currently interest him include Haskell, F#, Erlang and Ruby. He is the figurehead DC ALT.NET User Group which takes many ideas of the ALT.NET movement to the local level in the Washington DC area with monthly meetings. He is a member of the CodeBetter community and an active member of the Washington DC area developer community and participates and speaks at user groups, code camps and other conferences. Since joining Microsoft, he has been focused on projects in the Capital area specializing in large data problems , agile methodologies and various .NET and non .NET technologies. His blog can be found at http://podwysocki.codebetter.com/

n00b Session	6:30 - 7:00	Poor Man's ORM Part II: Jason Fabritz
Pizza/Announcements	7:00 - 7:30
Featured Presentation	7:30 - 9:00	Functional Programming in .NET: Matthew Podwysocki