RESTful Web Services with Haskell - Andrew Farmer
This talk will introduce Scotty, a Haskell-hosted Domain-Specific Language for declaratively specifying RESTful web services. Scotty is modeled on the popular Ruby web framework, Sinatra, but takes advantage of Haskell's type system to help the user write code that is both more correct and more concise. We'll overview the Scotty API, its implementation, and use it to define some simple web services. We'll highlight the advantages provided by the type system and compare Scotty to other major Haskell web frameworks. Anyone interested in following the code examples is encouraged to 'cabal install scotty' prior to the talk.
About the Speaker
Andrew Farmer is a Ph.D. Student at the University of Kansas. He is interested in programming language design in general, and specifically the compilation and optimization of functional languages. Prior to returning to graduate school, Andrew spent five years in industry designing web frameworks in various languages. In addition to creating Scotty, Andrew works on HERMIT, a toolkit for interacting with the Glasgow Haskell Compiler's optimizer. When he's not staring at a screen, you can find him on a bike or climbing things.
Thinking in Map Reduce - Ryan Brush
MapReduce reflects the essence of scalable processing: split a big problem into lots of parts, process them in parallel, and then merge the results. Yet this model is at odds with how we’ve thought about computing for most of history, where we center our applications on long­lived stores of mutable data and incrementally apply change. This talk starts with the basics of MapReduce and design patterns to apply it effectively. We then look at how Cerner is using MapReduce to solve problems in health care, and at emerging opportunities to solve previously unapproachable problem across many industries.
About the Speaker
Ryan is a Distinguished Engineer with Cerner. He has built infrastructure for healthcare systems over the past decade, with a recent emphasis on making sense of huge and complex data sets and applying that to real problems in healthcare.  Ryan has spoken at Strata + Hadoop World, ApacheCon, and StampedeCon. He also dabbles in writing, with contributions to the book 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and on Cerner's engineering blog as well as his personal blog.
New Attendees
Welcome!  This is an easy meetup to get involved with.  There are no functional programming experience expectations or prerequisites of any kind, though some talks are more advanced than others.  These events are generally well suited to help infuse functional programming ideas into an existing programming skill set.
Location Details
The address is 4210 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Suite 400A.
C2FO offices are on the top floor of the same building in which Fairway, KS City Hall is located.  This building is right behind Stroud's restaurant and LLKC attendees should be able to gain entry from any door.  If anyone has trouble getting in just call Pete's cell at 206-778-1545.
Additional Notes
Pizza will be provided, so come hungry! 

We currently meet every Thursday in our new shared work space.  Meetings start at 7pm and are open to all those interested. If your interested in seeing what we're all about, come on a Thursday to see all the current projects. When you get here just give us a call and we'll come let you in. The number down in the cave is (202) 621-2252.

KC's PHP User Group Weekday Evening edition visits the Plaza!
We are excited to join our new friends at MMGY Global on the Plaza in November for our Weekday evening meeting!  Our new sponsor TekSystems will be bringing the pizza and soda.  Come join us for food, friends and plenty of sharing at our evening event!
Lightning Talks
This month, several of our members have been preparing content for us to learn from. Lisa will be showing us about using Custom Post Types in WordPress to store and handle additional data. Paul will be showing an application using the micro-framework Slim to provide an AJAX-serving API.  If time allows, there could be other topics too!
Our Meeting Format
We love Web Development, new development techniques and all things PHP. Our meetings are often a little free-formed, but we know evenings are precious so we will shoot for:
6:00 pm Pizza and Socializing
6:30 pm Meet and Greet our members and our sponsors.
6:45 pm Lightning Talks Begin

• Lisa - WordPress: Using Custom Post Types to Build Real Sites
• Paul - Using Slim to provide a RESTful API

7:30 pm - 8pm Open group discussion on any development topic, concern or question


All Developers Welcome!
We understand Web Developers often come from all backgrounds, and many work in more languages than PHP. Whether you're curious or just starting out, dabble in PHP on the weekends, write custom PHP on a daily basis, work in a framework like Symfony, Zend Framework, Silex, Slim, FuelPHP, CakePHP or customize CMS products like WordPress, Drupal or Joomla, our goal is that you will find something new, useful and thought provoking.
Interested in giving a presentation to the group, or demoing something new and cool you're working on? Contact one of the organizers through Meetup or talk after a monthly meeting and get signed up!