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Don’t Fall in Love With Your Technology

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - February 15, 2012

In the 1990s I followed the Usenet group comp.lang.forth. Forth has great personal appeal. It’s minimalist to the point of being subversive, and Forth literature once crackled with rightness. Slowly, not in a grand epiphany, I realized that there was something missing from the discussions…

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QCon London: Highly Available Systems

Steve Vinoski - steve - February 15, 2012

At QCon London March 7-9 I’ll be hosting a track on Highly Available Systems, which I’ll describe in more detail below. But first, be aware that if you register for the conference using promotion code VINO100, you’ll save yourself £100 off the registration fee plus…

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R&D Erlang Developer at Spawngrid, Inc. (Full-time)

Jobs - February 13, 2012

Have you ever realized that developers tools are still lacking signification innovations? If you did, then we might be just the right place for you. We take "hard" out software development and are currently solving numerous inefficiencies in testing. Here's one trick, though. Our software…

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08 March 2012: London Erlang User Group Meeting - 8 March

Erlang Solutions - February 10, 2012

London Erlang User Group Meeting Here are the details for the next London Erlang User Group Meeting: Date : 8 March 2012 Time : 18:30 Place: The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3EE.The March Erlang User Group Meeting comes from…

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A Peek Inside the Erlang Compiler

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - February 06, 2012

Erlang is a complex system, and I can’t do its inner workings justice in a short article, but I wanted to give some insight into what goes on when a module is compiled and loaded. As with most compilers, the first step is to convert…

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Four Levels of Idea Theft

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

Imagine you’ve just seen a tremendously exiting piece of software—a mobile app, a web app, a game—and your immediate reaction is “Why didn’t I think of that?!” With your mind full of new possibilities, you start on a project, a project enabled by exposure to…

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Pretend This Optimization Doesn’t Exist

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - January 31, 2012

In any modern discussion of algorithms, there’s mention of being cache-friendly, of organizing data in a way that’s a good match for the memory architectures of CPUs. There’s an inevitable attempt at making the concepts concrete with a benchmark manipulating huge—1000x1000—matrices. When rows are organized…

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27 January 2012: Erlang Solutions embarks on an Erlang Embedded KTP

Erlang Solutions - January 27, 2012

Erlang Solutions is proud to announce that Erlang Solutions and the University of Kent has embarked on another KTP project together. Previously Erlang Solutions has successfully been involved in three KTP projects with the University of Kent with whom a strong partnership has been formed.The…

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08 February 2012: Erlang Express 3-day Course in San Francisco on 8 February

Erlang Solutions - January 27, 2012

Erlang Solutions is hosting their world renowned Erlang Express Course and you’re invited! So whether you’re a developer who’s recently heard a lot about this unfamiliar language and want to learn more about it, or you need to brush up on your basic skills—this is…

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08 February 2012: Erlang Express 3-day Course - San Francisco, 8-10 February

Erlang Solutions - January 27, 2012

Erlang Solutions is hosting their world renowned Erlang Express Course and you’re invited! So whether you’re a developer who’s recently heard a lot about this unfamiliar language and want to learn more about it, or you need to brush up on your basic skills—this is…

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