The Erlang Factory’s 2010 conference is March 25th and 26th in San Francisco, with the university three days before, starting the 22nd. The conference is at the Hilton San Francisco Airport, with three tracks, each on a different theme. The number of tracks gives attendees an unusually broad set of choices for talks. When attending [...]
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Erlang Factory San Francisco Recap
Great summary of Erlang Factory San Francisco. Happy to say it sounds like a milestone for the Erlang community… Kevin’s summary “Erlang Factory rocked and you should’ve been there.” – Link
Hacker News full of Erlang articles
Hacker News’s author was complaining yesterday about a spike in traffic due to a ‘fluff piece’ on a woman building a blog to get hired by twitter. His solution – asking the faithful readership to post only Erlang stories to drive away ‘mainstream’ readers. It worked to drive away less hacky-readers, but probably only attracted [...]
Tic-Tac-Toe In Erlang
Neal over at nealabq.com has a long tutorial on Erlang Tic-Tac-Toe, which is incidentally the first program I wrote when learning Erlang. Programmers may want to take a look at the tutorial, but perhaps the most interesting aspect of the tutorial is the way he takes the problem space and shrinks it down by analyzing [...]
Reia Brings Scripting to Erlang
As Erlang continues to grow in popularity, people are thinking about how to capture the advantages of Erlang’s VM and shared-nothing architecture but present it in a more mainstream acceptable way. Reia is the latest attempt on that front. Why? Tony Arcieri starts with testing – with a goal taking Reia and creating a declarative [...]
Rails Style String Inflection for Erlang
Long ago when I was working on the ADO.NET framework (the first version), I made a doomed argument that strongly typed DataRows should have their strongly typed container objects pluralized.
I was roundly but jovially made fun of, and everybody had a good laugh about how hard that would be for non-english languages, and all those [...]
Is there a groundswell of interest in Erlang?
Over at hypothetical labs, the above question was asked – is there an erlang ‘groundswell’?
I think Erlang interest is growing. I just started a project using erlang/mnesia instead of mysql as the backend, with ruby as the UI. Erlang will continue to grow and carve out a niche. But it lacks the text processing and [...]