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 = Erlang

I was glad to hear several of Joe's talks and enjoyed this one as well

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.


Otherwise they seem to focus on Ruby on Rails.


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.

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:

• 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)

I bought episode 5 and liked it, so I bought the rest as well.

The price is fair, especially if you live in the Euro zone, thanks to the weak dollar I paid around €3.20 per episode.

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.

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".

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.

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.

Chaos on Erlang

From upper left to lower right: logo Chaosradio, a diagram on discordianism, a spoofed Trans Europ Express train (TEE) and the Chaosknoten (chaos knot) which is a spoof of the old German cable network logo (it features a letter K for Kabel)

More Erlang coverage from Germany's Chaos Computer Club (CCC):

1. There was a recent one hour broadcast about Erlang on Chaosradio Express:
   

   CRE082: Erlang - Die Programmiersprache für Gleichzeitiges, Robustes und Verteiltes
   

   Presenter Tim Pritlove talks with Ben Fuhrmannek about Erlang. It was recorded at the Easterhegg in Cologne. (Found via the Chaosradio Blog)


2. One of the links for the CRE082 broadcast points to the Erlang lecture from the Easterhegg 2008 conference of the Cologne CCC branch:
   

   Wissenswertes über Erlang - sehr praktische Einführung in die moderne Programmiersprache



3. Another CR082 link points to an older video broadcast about Erlang:
   

   CTV068: Erlang - Declarative Real Time Programming Now!

   It turned out to be the famous 1990 Erlang movie ("Hello Mike? Hello Joe!") which was made in the tradition of Monty Python. If you want to know, what the actors think of their early work, go here. Too bad the director's name will never been known ("We actually used a professional company to do the filming, but I won’t mention their names as they would probably sue me for libel.")

Video: John Hughes on QuickCheck

Here is a video from ICFP 2007, where John Hughes talks about QuickCheck. It is now under commercial development by Quivic and is sponsored by the European Union via a research grant. See the recent photos from the EUC 2007.