Tuesday 25 November 2008

11/30 Party

IBM1130.org has announced this year's "11/30 Party":

http://ibm1130.org/party

Monday 10 November 2008

Unplugged: BAA London Chapter meeting 21 Nov

2-5pm upstairs at the Edgar Wallace public house, 40 Essex St, London WC2R 3JE. (Free wifi.) RSVP Chris Hogan.

Original invitation follows:

Before its disaffiliation earlier this year the British APL Association (BAPLA) held several "Wiki Working Party" meetings at the British Computer Society. They proved useful not only in adding content to the APL Wiki, but in reviving the spirit of the old British APL User Group (APLUG) workshops. They also brought Ray Cannon's Moots to mind. Amazing how much you can learn when working together.

We've found a possible new venue and in the prototyping style of APL we'd like to give it a try. The Edgar Wallace public house (Google "40 Essex Street, London, WC2R 3JE") has an upstairs room and free Wi-Fi. The room has public access but the landlord will reserve us enough space for however many we say are coming. We'll provide coffee & sandwiches and the landlord will be pleased to supply other refreshments. This might not be a permanent home for such gatherings, but it's a good place to start.

This is not an official move by BAPLA, but perhaps it could be seen as an unofficial London Chapter of BAPLA, unPLUGged?, and if successful might inspire similar meetings at other locations.

We'll be there on 21 November 2008 at about 2.00 pm and we'd like to see lots of you there as well. Bring your laptop, or a USB drive, or just the knowledge in your head.

Please let Chris, Jake or Phil know if you're coming.
Chris Hogan, John Jacob & Phil Last

Sunday 2 November 2008

Books page

A Practical Introduction to APL 1 & 2 A Practical Introduction to APL 3 & 4


Graeme Robertson's recently-published textbooks for Dyalog are listed on the new books page at vector.org.uk.

Vector 23:4 in the post

Vector 23:4 Dyalog@25

Vector 23:4 is now in the post to subscribers, along with a separately-bound supplement celebrating Dyalog's 25th year.