Rencontres Dyalog APL 2016 – Paris, France
It is really good to see APL events come back to life! In April of 2014, we witnessed the re-birth of SWEDAPL, which had been dormant for some time – but now meets twice a year and is perhaps the most vibrant APL meeting on our circuit, with many young developers developing new products and […]
FinnAPL Forest Seminar 2016
Finns probably have better reasons to look forward to spring more than most of us: not only does it get much easier to keep that hole in the ice open, it is time for the annual FinnAPL Forest Seminar! This year, just under 20 of us gathered for two days (Thursday March 10th and Friday […]
Hacking with APL
Thanks to our dear friend Dr. Ray Polivka, Dan Baronet and I had the opportunity to travel to Vassar College to participate in their Community Hackathon held on 5-6 February 2016. “What’s a hackathon?” you ask? Well, we did too, as we’d never participated in one before. 🙂 According to the Hackathon’s announcement: “CommunityHack is a way to […]
FinnAPL Meeting in Helsinki, November 26th 2015
Hyvää päivää (good day) On the last Thursday of November, I had the privilege to meet with with some members of the Finnish APL community in at the Vatt Institute for Economic Research in downtown Helsinki. The morning was spent engaged in lively conversation about user interfaces and Dyalog APL. In particular we talked about MiServer – […]
SWEDAPL Meeting in Malmö, November 11th 2015
The November cycle of APL User Meetings is kicking off; the SWEDAPL meeting in Malmö was first this year, holding a meeting at the top of the famous Turning Torso in Malmö. Since it was just a short trip from our Danish office, Dyalog was represented by Gitte Christensen, Bjørn Christensen and Morten Kromberg – […]
Spring 2015 Dyalog Travelogue (An American Tale: Dyalog Goes West)
Concluding Morten and Gitte’s whistlestop tour round Europe before heading to the US (see parts 1 and 2) On Saturday afternoon we passed through London’s Heathrow airport for the third time in 5 days, this time continuing west to JFK, bringing the total for the week to 8,943km plus 300-odd in 3 different cars, 220 […]
Spring 2015 Dyalog Travelogue (The Saga Continues)
Continuing Morten and Gitte’s whistlestop tour round Europe before heading to the US for DYNA15 Day 3: Bramley-Bingen Job interviews done by lunch-time, and we hopped in the car (without lunch) to Heathrow, flew to Frankfurt and finally arrived at Bingen at sunset, just in time for some Weissbier and Flammkücken with the other early arrivals. […]
Spring 2015 Dyalog Travelogue (Ferries, Trains, Planes and Automobiles)
One of my favourite times of the year is the period in March/April where we traditionally start with a visit to the FinnAPL Forest Seminar followed by the APL Germany Spring Meeting. This year there are two new stops to make: the Swedish APL Group has started holding meetings twice a year too – and […]
