Erik Meijer (famously known for LINQ, lots of other .NET goodies, and tie-dye shirts of timeless beauty) teams up with Typesafe‘s Martin Odersky (Scala Language) and Roland Kuhn (Akka) to bring you a 7-week-course on the Principles of Reactive Programming, starting on November 4, 2013.
This cooperation of sharp minds can only mean good things, far beyond the scope of this concrete course. Sign up for the Coursera course here:
https://www.coursera.org/course/reactive
Curious what Erik Meijer is up to these days? Check out his new company Applied Duality, Inc’s website:
http://www.applied-duality.com
The slogan is quite cheeky:
After being stuck for > 40 years in a first-order flat model of rigid tabular data locked up in a closed world, it is time for a developer revolution. It is time to embrace monads and duality to lift the database industry to the next level.
It seems like every great scientist and every great salesman is trying to lift the database industry to “the next level”, these days. Exciting times for database professionals!