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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ruby and Erlang can play nice together
InfoQ has a good article on Ruby and Erlang interaction. EngineYard, the most visible and successful rails-focused host, is using erlang in Vertebra, their cloud computing platform. Which, as we’ll cover in a separate post, is an incredibly powerful statement for the growing place for Erlang in cloud computing. Erlectricity is a ruby gem that [...]