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12 January 2012: Roberto Aloi guest lecturer at The University of Catania (Sicily, Italy)

Erlang Solutions - January 12, 2012

Roberto Aloi, an experienced Systems Developer from our London Office, will give two guest lectures at the Computer and Telecommunication Engineering Department of the University of Catania. He is going to introduce the programming language Erlang, explain how Erlang/OTP provides the right built-in features to…

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Why Couchbase?

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - January 11, 2012

So apparently my last entry ruffled some feathers, so maybe I should explain why I think Couchbase is the future? Simple Fast Elastic. That’s pretty much it. We make it very simple to get started, we are extremely fast (and getting faster), and we really…

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New Column: Wriaki

Steve Vinoski - steve - January 10, 2012

For the “Functional Web” column in the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Internet Computing, I wrote about Wriaki, an Erlang sample application my Basho colleague Bryan Fink wrote that implements a wiki on top of Webmachine and Riak. Wriaki is a nice, clean, and easy to…

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06 January 2012: NoSQL Roadshow Copenhagen - 2 March 2012

Erlang Solutions - January 06, 2012

Are you frustrated by growing data requirements and interested in how non-relational databases could help? Curious about where and how NoSQL systems are being deployed?  Want to build a “real” Highly Scalable System?  Answered yes to any of these questions? Then the NoSQL Roadshow might be of interest to you.  The NoSQL Roadshow starts…

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Follow-up to “A Programming Idiom You’ve Never Heard Of”

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - January 05, 2012

Lots of mail, lots of online discussion about A Programming Idiom You’ve Never Heard Of, so I wanted to clarify a few things. What I was trying to do was get across the unexpected strangeness of function inverses in a programming language. In that short…

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The Future of CouchDB

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - January 05, 2012

What’s the future of CouchDB? It’s Couchbase. Huh? So what about Apache CouchDB? Well, that’s a great project. I founded it, coded the earliest versions almost completely myself, I’ve spent a huge amount of blood, sweat and tears on it. I’m very proud of it…

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New Screencast: Sinan – Building Enterprise Erlang Applications

Erlware - Tristan Sloughter - January 04, 2012

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A Programming Idiom You’ve Never Heard Of

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - January 03, 2012

Here are some sequences of events: Take the rake out of the shed, use it to pile up the leaves in the backyard, then put the rake back in the shed. Fly to Seattle, see the sights, then fly home. Put the key in the…

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2011 Retrospective

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - December 31, 2011

I was going to end this blog one year ago. Prog21 was entirely a personal outlet for the more technical ideas kicking around in my head, and it had run its course. Just before Christmas 2010, I sat down and wrote a final “thanks for…

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User Experience Intrusions in iOS 5

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - December 30, 2011

The iPhone has obsoleted a number of physical gadgets. A little four-track recorder that I use as a notebook for song ideas. A stopwatch. A graphing calculator. Those ten dollar LCD games from Toys ‘R Us. And it works because an iPhone app takes over…

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