I cannot believe it was 2 years ago either.
june 26th. I'm taking the fam on a "Big cities of the east coast" tour
Boston, Providence/Newport, NYC, Philli, and DC
I can send you some recommendations... the best places to eat aren't always on the beaten path
The best Mexican you've had in deep South Philly, hot Italian sandwiches in the Italian market, an upscale but affordable and completely delicious family style Szechuan place, and of course cheesesteaks.
definitely packing in some cheesesteaks! where is the italian market
9th street in South Philly, it's just above Pat's and Geno's steaks, so you can take a walk through the market and land at some cheesesteaks :)
There's also some great walking tour areas in Old City with excellent/unique food stops
On the historical slant
We have a super cool tour guide and we are staying across the street from Independence Hall
excited to listen to you and Derick’s webcast
How'd you connect with Derick?
I got into this long winded explanation of functional programming in a chat and he said he was interested but confused by it
then he asked me if I wanted to do a cast with him on the topic
I said sure. 3 days later he had 265 people signed up!
good app
we ran into a bug w/ session but if you keep everything in 1 session, then you’re prob safe
@ChetHarrison That is awesome. I am more functional than ever now with React and Redux, but it's almost impossible to be purely functional in JavaScript. I would love to try Elm sometime.
hmm. Well it's Derick's show so I'll let him run tech support
@ianmstew I agree but there are plenty of easy aspect to it that people can immediately grasp and benif from
By "almost impossible" I mean JavaScript closures are too powerful not to use, so inevitably you end up with statefulness and side effects, by design of course.
So is your talk about approaching Javascript more functionally, or is it higher level?
well the fundamental trick is to return a new value rather that mutating the old value
Well I told Derick we have to break this into 3 sessions
1) an array is a container with map, reduce, zip, filter, flatten
I am going the make the case for why you should care about fp
2) functors and monads
3) Functional Reactive Programming with RxJS
I'm familiar with #1 but less with #2,3 I'll be sure to tune in!
I just got home bbl