CalendERL About Nothing

Recently I create a site called CalendERL About Nothing. I’ve used the original Calendar About Nothing for a long time and played with the idea of rewriting it in Erlang. I finally made the leap and as a result the cerlan and githubby projects were born.

If you don’t know what CAN is, it is a site that tracks your GitHub commits and creates a calendar based on your activity. Each day that you commit to a public project, you get a big red “X”. The more you commit, the more “X"s are displayed and you can build streaks. A streak is simply a set of more than one days where you’ve made commits. The site will track your current streak, assuming you’ve made a commit that day, and your longest streak. You can use my calender as an example.

There are a few reasons why I decided to create this site.

• I love a good challenge.
• There aren’t enough open source Erlang sites out in the wild.
• I’ve been looking for a good excuse to write a GitHub API client library in Erlang.
• I didn’t like the fact that CAN doesn’t use the GitHub API and instead uses user feeds.
• I think Erlang is better suited to support concurrent data processing applications than Ruby is.

The site is currently live at http://www.calenderlaboutnothing.com/. It tried duplicating all of the CAN functionality (and also added a few features of my own) and feedback is welcome.

To use the site you will need a GitHub account. Just go to http://www.calenderlaboutnothing.com/~[YourGitHubUserName] to activate tracking for your GitHub and it’ll start polling your information.

Both projects are open source under the MIT.

Comments

Nice. It looks awesome!

Thanks

Posted by Ari Lerner on 03 Nov 2009 at 10:35

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