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
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2009 Erlang Factory is Biggest Gathering of Erlang Expertise outside of Sweden
Next monday the Erlang Factory conference starts in San Francisco. If you’re in the Bay Area and can make a last minute change of plans, it looks to be a milestone conference for the Erlang community. The University is the 27th – 29th, with the Conference from the 30th-1st. Speakers include Robert Virding, one of [...]
Erlang Inside Interviews Joe Armstrong
Writing Ruby code for a living, building a company in a foreign country, learning a human foreign language (Spanish) and a computer foreign language (Erlang) on the side hasn’t left a lot of time for blogging about Erlang. But in the past month we were able to spend a few minutes w/Joe Armstrong, creator of [...]
The Top Ten Erlang News Stories of 2008
It goes without saying that 2008 was a difficult year for many with 2009 looking to be more of the same. But for the Erlang community, it was probably the best year since Joe Armstrong released Programming Erlang. OK, that was 2007… still, it’s a great time to use Erlang. Here are the top ten [...]
BeepBeep Is Another New Erlang Framework
Happy New Year! It’s been a great 2008 for Erlang, which we’ll cover in our 2008 Retrospective in another post later this week. For today, it’s a new, simple web framework for Erlang called BeepBeep. Written by Dave Bryson, it uses MochiWeb, which most Erlang Web developers are familiar with, and ErlyDTL, which is an [...]
5 Reasons to use Erlang in a cloud, or on a sunny day
John Bender has a good post on reasons to use Erlang in building a cloud computing application. Though the points aren’t specific to cloud computing it’s a good concise summary of some of Erlang’s benefits.
Interview with Tony Arcieri on Reia and Erlang, Part II
For part I, click here. Where is Reia in the development cycle? When will it be Beta/Production Ready? You can consider it to be in an “early alpha” stage at this point. There are a number of open tickets for known issues on our ticket tracker. While there are a small number of tests many [...]
BeeBole creates a sample Mochiweb Erlang Web Application with Video Tutorial
BeeBole, creators of an online expense tracking application for small business, has a zipped up sample Erlang MochiKit web application that just may be the easiest way to experiment with Erlang and the web. The application is a JSON-driven sticky pad in a browser. Once you’ve experimented with that, take a look at the tutorial [...]
Interview with Reia Creator Tony Arcieri on Erlang, Reia, Python, and Rails
We interrupt the recent holiday related posting haitus with an interview with Tony Arcieri, creator of Reia. Tony agreed to answer some questions about Reia. Tony has a lot more information on Reia in the FAQ, where he covers reasons for some of the design decisions of the language. He can be reached at his [...]
Interview with Rusty Klophaus on the Nitrogen Erlang Web Framework
Nitrogen is the soon to be released Erlang framework for web development that uses an event based programming model similar to ASP.NET. Rusty Klophaus, the creator of the framework, agreed to answer some questions about Nitrogen and how he got started in the Erlang community. This is the first in our series of Q&A sessions [...]