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CouchConf SF

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - August 30, 2012

CouchConf SF is coming. This is our premier Couchbase event. We’re going ham. Come hear speakers from established enterprises and how they are betting their business on Couchbase. Hang out and talk with speakers, me and other Couchbase engineers in the Couchbase lounge. I’ll be…

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Hopefully More Controversial Programming Opinions

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - August 29, 2012

I read 20 Controversial Programming Opinions, and I found myself nodding “yes, yes get to the interesting stuff.” And then, after “less code is better than more,” it was over. It was like reading a list of controversial health tips that included “eat your veggies”…

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18 September 2012: London Erlang User Group

Erlang Solutions - August 27, 2012

Location: Room TBC, New Loom House, 101 Back Church Lane E1 1LU, London Date: 18th Sep 2012 The next London Erlang User Group is taking place in London, 18 September 2012. Among speakers we have Omer Kilic, Embedded Systems Engineer at Erlang Solutions, giving a…

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All that Stand Between You and a Successful Project are 500 Experiments

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - August 23, 2012

Suppose there was a profession called “maker.” What does a maker do? A maker makes things! Dinner. Birdhouses. Pants. Shopping malls. Camera lenses. Jet engines. Hydroelectric power stations. Pianos. Mars landers. Being a maker is a rough business. It’s such a wide-ranging field, and just…

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19 September 2012: Leeds Riak Meet-up

Erlang Solutions - August 21, 2012

Location – 148 Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9EN LeedsDate - 19th Sep, 2012 The next Riak meet-up is taking place in Leeds on the 19th of September 2012. This meet-up is for those interested in Erlang, the language Riak is written in. We have our very…

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One Small, Arbitrary Change and It’s a Whole New World

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - August 18, 2012

I want to take one item from Things to Optimize Besides Speed and Memory and run with it: optimizing the number of disk sector writes. This isn’t based on performance issues or the limited number of write cycles for solid-state drives. It’s an arbitrary thought…

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App Store Failure and Personal Responsibility

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - August 11, 2012

“I wrote an iPhone app, and it didn’t make any money” is a growing literary genre, and I sympathize with the authors. I really do. Building any kind of non-trivial, commercial application takes an immense amount of work that combines coding, writing, interaction design, and…

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10 September 2012: ICFP 2012

Erlang Solutions - July 27, 2012

ICFP 2012 is the 17th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming taking place in Copenhagen, on 10-12 September.  The aim of the conference is to provide an open forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles,…

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Erlang and Python Engineers at Smarkets (Full-time)

Jobs - July 25, 2012

Smarkets is a real-time online trading platform with an Erlang backend and Python frontend. Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering a modern betting exchange product with significantly lower transaction fees than the competition. We have traded over £150 million of bets since…

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28 July 2012: Vancouver Erlang Factory Lite 2012- 28 July

Erlang Solutions - July 23, 2012

  Don’t miss this opportunity. It is going to be one hell of an event! The event will be held in the Harbour Centre. This is a one-of-a-kind complex where business and technology meet. It encompasses business, retail, tourism and education. Located at the junction…

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