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An Outrageous Port

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - November 26, 2012

In You, Too, Can Be on the Cutting Edge of Functional Programming Research I wrote: As an experiment, I decided to port an action game that I wrote in [1996 and] 1997 to mostly-pure Erlang. It wasn’t a toy, but a full-featured game chock full…

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OOP Isn’t a Fundamental Particle of Computing

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - November 13, 2012

The biggest change in programming over the last twenty-five years is that today you manipulate a set of useful, flexible data types, and twenty-five years ago you spent a disproportionately high amount of time building those data types yourself. C and Pascal—the standard languages of…

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Running Opa Applications on Heroku

Erlware - Tristan Sloughter - November 12, 2012

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Streaming Live from London Erlang Factory Lite

Erlang Solutions - November 08, 2012

We’re Streaming LIVE from London Erlang Factory Lite here: http://erlanglive.com/

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Concurrency and Message Passing in Erlang

Steve Vinoski - steve - November 05, 2012

In July 2011 I received an email asking if I would write an article about Erlang for the IEEE Computers in Science and Engineering (CiSE) magazine. The email said they had first invited Joe Armstrong but Joe had recommended me instead — how could I…

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The Background Noise Was Louder than I Realized

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

A few years ago I started cutting back on the number of technology and programming sites I read. It was never a great number, and now it’s only a handful. This had nothing to with being burned out on technology and programming; it was about…

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London Erlang Factory Lite 2012 - 8 November 2012

Erlang Solutions - November 01, 2012

The  London Erlang Factory Lite 2012 conference will take place on the 8th of November and will be hosted at the Google Campus. It will be preceeded by three days of courses (5-7 November). There will be 12 talks and 15 speakers  from companies such…

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How can to achieve lots of code?

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - October 29, 2012

I get mail. hello damien I read about you from a book on erlang. Your couchdb application is really a rave. please can you help me out ,i’ve got questions only a working programmer can answer. i’m shooting now: i’ve been programming in java for…

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New Column: Server-Sent Events with Yaws

Steve Vinoski - steve - October 08, 2012

My latest Internet Computing column, Server-Sent Events with Yaws (PDF), is now available. It discusses the fact that developers are increasingly building Web applications that rely on notifications from the server, such as updates from social networks, alerts from application monitors, or information from sensor…

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Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You’re 50?

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

When I was still a professional programmer, my office-mate once asked out of the blue, “Do you really want to be doing this kind of work when you’re fifty?” I have to say that made me stop and think. To me, there’s an innate frustration…

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