Thursday, June 11, 2009
Erlang Progamming available online
The "Erlang Programming" book by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson is now available online, via O'Reilly's Safari service.
Joe Armstrong Talk: Functions + Messages + Concurrency = Erlang
A very good talk (video and slides) by Joe Armstrong from Qcon hosted at InfoQ:
Functions + Messages + Concurrency = ErlangI was glad to hear several of Joe's talks and enjoyed this one as well
Friday, March 6, 2009
CACM Article
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The March issue of the Communications of the ACM journal features a new version of Jim Larson's article on Erlang: "Erlang for Concurrent Programming" (go here for the previous version)
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Erlang User Conference 2008 in Stockholm
Photos from the Erlang User Conference 2008 can be found here.
Update:
I forgot to mention that the article will tell you who became Erlang User of the Year 2008 :-)
Update:
I forgot to mention that the article will tell you who became Erlang User of the Year 2008 :-)
Monday, November 3, 2008
ACM Queue Article
ACM Queue magazine features an article about Erlang:
Erlang for Concurrent ProgrammingIt has been written by Jim Larson, Google. You might know him from Amazon's Simple DB.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
CouchDB Screencast
Another interesting screencast from PeepCode this week, which I came to know because of their screencast and pdf on the Git distributed revision control system.
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Otherwise they seem to focus on Ruby on Rails.
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This time they teamed up with Jan Lehnardt of CouchDB, who wrote:
So did I, because I want more Erlang stuff produced.
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Otherwise they seem to focus on Ruby on Rails.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWevfX1Zs2ynCRiN955z9SYGWqX2wWPP0E2QMgpYjBl4GZgKEwkwswKZw-xQtXOJJ9oPaAo-uQvN9dSfszTYojAQyz5iIJToM7YbGvK7Prooz9EACDaw0VgoUPG0FoxSGIerf-7ss16yQZ/s400/Couchdb-logo.png)
This time they teamed up with Jan Lehnardt of CouchDB, who wrote:
Hello everybody,
Geoffrey Grosenbach, famous for his PeepCode (http://peepcode.com/)
screencasts for developers, released a "CouchDB & Rails" screencast.
It is useful even if you don't do Rails but want to learn CouchDB. Go check
it out. It is only $9 and a free preview is available.
https://peepcode.com/products/couchdb-with-rails
Cheers
Jan
--
PS: If enough people buy this one, Geoffrey will work on more advanced
follow-up screencasts and I totally want that, so please do me a favour :)
So did I, because I want more Erlang stuff produced.
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Monday, September 8, 2008
Announcement Erlang User Conference 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
Erlang Programming
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After Joe Armstrong's book "Programming Erlang" there will be "Erlang Programming" by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson. Amazon.com lists it for December, 1st.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Erlang in Practice - Screencasts with Kevin Smith
Pragmatic has renamed Kevin's screencast series to "Erlang in Practice".
So far there have been six episodes:
The price is fair, especially if you live in the Euro zone, thanks to the weak dollar I paid around €3.20 per episode.
So far there have been six episodes:
- Episode 1: Sending and Receiving Chat Messages ($5.00, 30 mins)
- Episode 2: Messaging Clients By Nickname ($5.00, 29 mins)
- Episode 3: Distributing Clients In A Multi-node Environment ($5.00, 31 mins)
- Episode 4: Storing Messages in the Mnesia Database ($5.00, 39 mins)
- Episode 5: Unit Testing with EUnit ($5.00, 29 mins)
- Episode 6: Adding REST Support with MochiWeb ($5.00, 46 mins)
The price is fair, especially if you live in the Euro zone, thanks to the weak dollar I paid around €3.20 per episode.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Erlang eXchange Videos
If you missed the recent Erlang eXchange conference in London or want to see the talks again, some of them are available on Google video. Just search for Erlang eXchange.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Video: Scalable Wikipedia with Erlang
From the recent Google Seattle Conference on Scalability 2008 there are now videos on YouTube.
Among them Thorsten Schütt's talk "Scalable Wikipedia with Erlang".
Among them Thorsten Schütt's talk "Scalable Wikipedia with Erlang".
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Lennart Öhmann Video on Erlang/OTP
While I am at the history of Erlang, here is a video of a talk from Lennart Öhmann last year at Google.
A History of Erlang
There is a really nice paper by Joe Armstrong: A History of Erlang. I was able to read it some time ago, but seem to have forgotten to post about it here.
Good that Ted Leung on the Air featured it again. Among the comments, there is a remark from Ulf Wiger about the history of SMP Erlang.
Good that Ted Leung on the Air featured it again. Among the comments, there is a remark from Ulf Wiger about the history of SMP Erlang.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Steve and Joe on RPC
Joe Armstrong posted a summary of a recent discussion on the erlang-questions mailing list about the problems of the RPC (Remote Procedure Call) mechanism, where Steve Vinoski explained his opinions.
Joe added his opinion as well and explained the Erlang way of handling remote calls.
Steve then wrote about Joe's summary in this article.
Joe added his opinion as well and explained the Erlang way of handling remote calls.
Steve then wrote about Joe's summary in this article.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Erlang by Example - Screencasts with Kevin Smith
Pragmatic offers a series of commercial videos, "Erlang by Example - Screencasts with Kevin Smith".
It is intended to help learning Erlang by going through an example project, a chat application.
So far there are three episodes of about 1/2 hour, priced at $5.
It is intended to help learning Erlang by going through an example project, a chat application.
So far there are three episodes of about 1/2 hour, priced at $5.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
More Threads, More Trouble?
My Google Alert on Erlang spew out this article: More Threads, More Trouble?
It starts with the observation that we move from increasing CPU clock speed to an increasing number of cores and then continues with a brief overview of prominent approaches to add concurrency to software systems / concurrent computing:
It starts with the observation that we move from increasing CPU clock speed to an increasing number of cores and then continues with a brief overview of prominent approaches to add concurrency to software systems / concurrent computing:
- time-sharing
- multi-processing / multi-tasking
- multi-threading
- shared memory
- OpenMP / MPI
- futures
- message passing (with Occam and Erlang mentioned)
- Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP)
- transactional memory / software transactional memory (STM)
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Facebook Chat
Found at Yariv's Blog: Facebook Chat is an article about the technology behind the Facebook social network.
They have a large web application with up to 70 Million users and want to provide them with presence information (like: "I am online", "I am busy", "I am away", "I am offline").
As the bidirectional information channel between the user's web browser and the Facebook servers they use BOSH, the XMPP way of binding XMPP via HTTP requests. The requests for BOSH are handled by a web server implemented in Erlang.
They have a large web application with up to 70 Million users and want to provide them with presence information (like: "I am online", "I am busy", "I am away", "I am offline").
As the bidirectional information channel between the user's web browser and the Facebook servers they use BOSH, the XMPP way of binding XMPP via HTTP requests. The requests for BOSH are handled by a web server implemented in Erlang.
Erlang article in German iX Magazine
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