Erik Meijer

JavaScript language designer and historian Douglas Crockford joins language designer Erik Meijer and jQuery creator John Resig to discuss JavaScript and web programming. This is the first time that this particular collection of experts have shared the stage to discuss what has become the…

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. -Leslie Lamport. Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist and mathematician best known for his work with distributed systems. In fact, Dr. Lamport’s research…

Over thousands of years, language has evolved in order to provide mankind a mechanism for making it easier to communicate with one another. Today, the world is filled with a wide variety of languages, some of which are radically different from one another, while others bear striking…

When Sven Groot was in town a while ago (this summer?) we dropped by Erik Meijer's world and got a look at what he and his team of superdevelopers are up to (thus there really is no out-of-date property of this fun and insightful interview that is as off-the-cuff as it gets:…

Happy new year! It's hard to believe that it's 2010. To start off the new year, how about some Beckman and Meijer? You recently learned about Dr. Beckman's perspective on covariance and contravariance in physics. Dr. Meijer found this topic to be incredibly interesting and the two geniuses decided…

Happy new year! It's hard to believe that it's 2010. To start off the new year right, how about some Beckman and Meijer? You recently learned about Dr. Beckman's perspective on covariance and contravariance in physics. Dr. Meijer found this topic to be incredibly interesting and the two geniuses…

Well, my friends, the day has arrived. For thirteen weeks, you have been provided all the conceptual tools to take the leap into the deep end of the functional programming pool and float safely. The great Dr. Erik Meijer has generously given his value time to teach us the fundamentals as delivered…

In Chapter 12, Lazy Evaluation, Dr. Meijer takes us on a journey into the world of order of evaluation (when expressions are evaluated). In the case of lazy evaluation, computation is delayed until the result of the computation is known to be required. Most programming languages that most of…

Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Erik Meijer and Thomas Lewis with Charles TorreRecorded Live, November 17th 2009 at 4:00PM PSTClick here for full schedule

You asked for it and we delivered: The first E2E2E (expert to expert to expert). Here, Erik Meijer converses with language designer Paul Vick (of VB fame and now focusing on the language code-named "M") and Michael Rys, a long time expert in the world of data programmability working on…