An amazing sunset last night, as the sky cleared over Portland just
before the sun disappeared over the hills. I suspect the colours are due
to all the ash in the air due to the fires in southern California.
These are taken with my cheap digital camera, from our apartment in the
centre of the city, looking west, and haven't been altered.
Nice reflection in the glass.
Clear sky in the West.
Quite strange colours in the cloud.
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2007-10-07
The Haskell Hackathon
action continues, on a lovely sunny day in Freiburg.
The big thing happening today is getting cabal to just work. In
particular, cabal install will be the frontline in getting
Haskell packages onto your system, and should never fail. Total
functions!
Bjorn's been busy hacking up cabal-install. And is that an xmonad user I
see?
What's this? People reading papers! This isn't a library, its a hackathon!
And of course, this being the Haskell community, our hackathons tend to
go deep, quickly:
Powered by lambdas and pizza!
Functional programming is an attitude, not a fashion style. We're
on to you, Python!
Other things being worked on include bytestring networking, bytestring
ropes, xmonad, new monad transformer packages, and more. You can see new
projects appearing on code.haskell.org.
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2007-10-06
The Haskell Hackathon
is underway, live in Freiburg. In a lovely space, kindly provided by
Freiburg University. This is the second hackathon this year, after the
January one in Oxford. The attendee numbers have doubled, with nearly 30
hackers.
This hackathon is also the first to receive commercial sponsorship, with
Credit Suisse and Galois, Inc kindly providing tshirts.
It's great to have commercial interest and support of the Haskell
community!
Tshirt kindly modelled by Phillip Heidegger.
Underway, power is fed from the ceiling :)
Conal Elliot (middle) explaining applicative functors.
The cabal guys have a cabal corner, where they form their evil schemes.
Conal's cool laptop mount.
The lambda factory.
Joachim getting us some power.
Lots of stuff getting hacked on. See the wiki for details.
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