Mark Chu-Caroll starts series of Erlang tutorials

Erlang: A Language for Functional Concurrency is the first of a series of tutorials by Mark C. Chu-Carroll.

According to his profile Mark is a computer science PhD, so I hope for critical, reflected reviews and not more of those me-too-hype articles, which clutter the Erlang blogosphere.

He also seems to work for Google. This means he probably could find out what backend technology is used for Google Talk (Google's instant messaging service) and why. Within the XMPP community many folks wonder, why Google stopped using ejabberd, the XMPP server written in Erlang. At least that is the saying. We outside Google don't know for sure.

On the other hand, dissecting ejabberd, the present Erlang killer application, would be fun too. It just turned 5 years old, and many wait for the new ejabberd2 release, as the codebase shows it age.

Go Mark, Go! :-)

Erlang talk at 24C3, Berlin

There will be an Erlang talk at the upcoming 24th Chaos Communication Congress, on December 28th, 2007 in Berlin. Its title is "Konzeptionelle Einführung in Erlang" and it will be given by Ben Fuhrmannek and Stefan Strigler.

(Quelle: neep.net)

Stefan is the author of the HTTP-Binding module for ejabberd and the JavaScript Jabber Client Library (jsjac).