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This Week in Sports Geekery

TL;DR - Went to some meetups. Had a great time. Started on Basketball2. Ready to play around with data visualizations.

This week, I started going to some tech meetups. I met a couple of Google engineers and a developer from Meetup and it was a lot of fun to talk to them and other developers about what’s going on at Krossover. Everyone was interested in the stats & analytics as well as our video technology, how we manage to handle such huge volumes of data, how we’re using MongoDB, etc.

Tuesday, I attended the NY Functional Programmers Meetup at NYU, where Anthony West spoke about functional abstraction. It was a great talk and he covered a lot of ground very quickly. My favorite parts were when he drew parallels between Java and OCaml code samples and demonstrated how to represent objects as closures and implement polymorphism and OO design patterns using nothing but function composition.

I followed that talk up by going to the NY Clojure Users Meetup at Google on Wednesday. Paul DeGrandis showed off some amazing stuff he’s doing for his startup Tutorspree using Clojurescript, an implementation of Clojure (an implementation of Lisp for the JVM) that compiles to Javascript. He basically implemented the publish/subscribe pattern using Websockets and Closurescript and used it to power a search tool. One of the coolest things he touched on is his software engineering checklist, which he uses for system architecture design – super useful. There are definitely some applications for Krossover products, especially in search and possibly in visualizations. If you get a chance to go to one of Paul’s talks, definitely go. He’s a great speaker and really excited about technology.

I started working on the next version of our Basketball product. I can’t really say anything other than that right now, but it’s going very well. I also set up a sandbox environment on my Amazon instance for playing around with data visualization ideas that have been simmering in my mind for quite awhile.

So, it has been another fun week at Krossover. I’m really excited about all the cool stuff we have planned for our coaches and players!