Andrew Seddon andrewseddon

This is a proposal for a lightning talk at the Reactive 2015 conference.

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The Joy of Composition

Why stateless rendering is pure bliss

React just got stateless components, meaning that they are in essence pure functions for rendering. Pure functions make it dead simple - even fun - to refactor your views

2015-01-29 Unofficial Relay FAQ

Compilation of questions and answers about Relay from React.js Conf.

Disclaimer: I work on Relay at Facebook. Relay is a complex system on which we're iterating aggressively. I'll do my best here to provide accurate, useful answers, but the details are subject to change. I may also be wrong. Feedback and additional questions are welcome.

What is Relay?

Relay is a new framework from Facebook that provides data-fetching functionality for React applications. It was announced at React.js Conf (January 2015).

Introduction

At DICOM Grid, we recently made the decision to use Haskell for some of our newer projects, mostly small, independent web services. This isn't the first time I've had the opportunity to use Haskell at work - I had previously used Haskell to write tools to automate some processes like generation of documentation for TypeScript code - but this is the first time we will be deploying Haskell code into production.

Over the past few months, I have been working on two Haskell services:

A reimplementation of an existing socket.io service, previously written for NodeJS using TypeScript.
A new service, which would interact with third-party components using standard data formats from the medical industry.

I will write here mostly about the first project, since it is a self-contained project which provides a good example of the power of Haskell. Moreover, the proces

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

	13:15 <xQuasar> \| HASKELL IS FOR FUCKIN FAGGOTS. YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF
	\| FUCKIN PUSSIES
	13:15 <xQuasar> \| JAVASCRIPT FOR LIFE FAGS
	13:16 <luite> \| hello
	13:16 <ChongLi> \| somebody has a mental illness!
	13:16 <merijn> \| Wow...I suddenly see the error of my ways and feel
	\| compelled to write Node.js!
	13:16 <genisage> \| hi
	13:16 <luite> \| you might be pleased to learn that you can compile
	\| haskell to javascript now

	Rails as it has never been before :)

	Rails 3 AntiPatterns, Useful snippets and Recommended Refactoring.

	Note: Some of them are collected from different online resources/posts/blogs with some tweaks.