Pumping Station 1 - Chicago's Oldest, Biggest, and Craziest Hacker Space
I had a chance to stop by at the PS1 today. I have been visiting here for almost 10 years now as they are the oldest and biggest Hacker Space in Chicago. They had a tour for the new people, so I tagged along to take some pictures.
Uncle Bob Martin Presents "Functional Programming. The Failure of State."
Uncle “Bob” at the IJUG-Chicago
Mr. Robert Martin, better known as the “Uncle Bob” to the software engineering community. I went to his presentation at the Illinois Java User Group (IJUG-Chicago) event hosted by the Capital One.
What is functional programming? Why is it important? Is it the future?
As always, he got all of us thinking about the way the engineers have been programming for last 50 years. Just as in the very beginning of the computer age, the software engineers are now challenged to make our codes of efficient. With quantum computing still on the other side of the horizon, and the Moore’s Law finally reaching the limit… perhaps the only viable answer right now is more efficient code.
Thanks Bob for the great presentation & thank you IJUG and Capital One for hosting a great event (and a great beer…as in free beer).
One more thing. Below is a bio of Uncle Bob.
Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)
Mr. Martin has been a programmer since 1970. He is a co-founder of cleancoders.com, offering on-line video training for software developers.
He is the founder of Uncle Bob Consulting LLC, offering software consulting, training, and skill development services to major corporations worldwide. He served as the Master Craftsman at 8th Light inc, a Chicago based Software Consulting firm.
Mr. Martin has published dozens of articles in various trade journals, and is a regular speaker at international conferences and trade shows.
He is also the creator of the acclaimed educational Clean Code video series at cleancoders.com.
Mr. Martin has authored and edited many books including:
Designing Object Oriented C++ Applications using the Booch Method
Patterns Languages of Program Design 3
More C++ Gems
Extreme Programming in Practice
Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices.
Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
UML for Java Programmers
Clean Code
The Clean Coder
Clean Architecture
A leader in the industry of software development, Mr. Martin served three years as the editor-in-chief of the C++ Report, and he served as the first chairman of the Agile Alliance.
Vintage Computer Festival - MidWest 14 (2019)
Do you remember these old arcade games?
Once again, I attended the VCF event this year. Due to a very busy schedule this weekend, I barely managed to catch a very end of the event on Sunday. My focus this year was on the vintage electronics projects people worked on.
The Youtube links I found below