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ErlyWeb Documentation

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - December 20, 2006

ErlyWeb Documentation. The Erlang web framework finally gets some formal documentation.

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Cryptogram solver

Orbitz - orbitz - November 20, 2006

Newspaper puzzles beware.  I have been working on soving newspaper cryptograms for the past few days in my free time.  It is a bit more interesting of a problem to solve than sudoku I think.  The algorithm I’ve implementing is nothing alltogether impressive and it…

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Sudoku

Orbitz - orbitz - November 15, 2006

I’ve got sudoku fever!  Actually, no, I don’t, I don’t really like sudoku at all but I decided to write a solver in erlang.  It was pretty trivial.  The basic algorithm is as follows:1) Create a list of every blank square and the possible values…

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Why I often implement things from scratch

Joe Armstrong - noreply@blogger.com (Joe Armstrong) - September 28, 2006

Once upon a time there was an Erlang programmer who needed an FTP server running on one of the hosts in a private network. In fact he didn’t need an FTP server, he just needed to transfer files between a central server and his client…

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Pure and simple transaction memories

Joe Armstrong - noreply@blogger.com (Joe Armstrong) - September 12, 2006

Now for a technical article. How can several parallel programs maintain a consistent view of state. By this I mean how can two programs, possibly in different countries, manipulate common state variables in a consistent manner? How can they do so in a way that…

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Erlang meets Smalltalk

Joe Armstrong - noreply@blogger.com (Joe Armstrong) - September 11, 2006

Here I am evangelising on the right. Last Thursday I gave an invited talk on Erlang at the European Smalltalk Users Group meeting in Prague. This was a chance to meet hard-core members of the Smalltalk community. Now I must admit I rather like Smalltalk…

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Why I don’t like shared memory

Joe Armstrong - noreply@blogger.com (Joe Armstrong) - September 01, 2006

In my last blog concurrency is easy I wrote about a simple model for programming concurrent systems. When you write a blog you have to think about the target audience and what level you want to pitch the blog at. Should it be technically advanced,…

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Erlang Pattern Matching for Network Programming

Murphees Rant - Werner Schuster - August 28, 2006

Be sure to read this series on Network programming with Erlang. The first part gives a short intro to Pattern Matching in Erlang. I‘ve been looking at Erlang recently, and while it‘s mostly known for the concurrency features (message passing), I was quite pleased to…

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Concurrency is easy

Joe Armstrong - noreply@blogger.com (Joe Armstrong) - August 23, 2006

We understand concurrency A deep understanding of concurrency is hard-wired into our brains. We react to stimulation extremely quickly, in a part of the brain called the amygdala, without this reaction system we would die. Conscious thought is just too slow, by the time the…

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Making Money from Erlang

Joe Armstrong - noreply@blogger.com (Joe Armstrong) - August 22, 2006

Last Friday I had lunch with Jane Walerud. Jane is one of the unsung heroines of the Erlang story. She was the first entrepreneur to recognise that having a better programming technology gave commercial advantages that could be turned into money. Jane was the first…

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