What A Summer!

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - August 23, 2009

Wow. I can’t believe it’s been two months — almost to the day — since I’ve written an update here. This summer has been extremely busy for me, but in a good way. I’m happy to report the demand for Erlang expertise is steady and growing here in the ‘States. Month by month I’m seeing and hearing more companies either using Erlang or evaluating Erlang for use on new projects. I think this is a testament to the fine work done by everyone on the OTP team at Ericsson and the stellar quality and temperament of the Erlang community.

I’ve been lucky enough to work with several very enlightened clients who have generously allowed me to open some of my work:

  • baberl: A general purpose library for working with languages. baberl contains a linked-in driver for libiconv, pluralization support for English nouns and some verbs, ordinal conversion for numbers (1 -> “1st”), and English ordinate conversions (123 -> “one hundred twenty three”).
  • giza: A client library for the Sphinx search engine. giza is known to work with Sphinx 0.9.8.1. and should (fingers crossed) be compatible with other 0.9.8.x versions.  It should be regarded as a work-in-progress with the attendant rough edges and bugs.
  • markatta: A linked-in driver for the Spidermonkey Javascript engine. markatta will translate datatypes between the two languages to allow a fairly seamless integration. (To be released soon)

If any of these libraries look useful, please give them a spin and send any bug reports my way! For everyone who has already sent me bugs, please be patient and I’ll get to them as soon as I can.

One of the urgent items on my to-do list is to find a better way to manage my time so I can update this blog more regularly. I hope my future updates will be less sporadic.



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