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Postgresql part 1

Dev Corner - Ernie Makris - July 29, 2006

There are two pieces of free software that I really love. Erlang and Postgresql. So, a while back I decided to marry the two to allow me to issue queries from Erlang via a pure erlang library for Postgresql. At the time, there were no…

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ETS is handy

Dev Corner - Ernie Makris - February 21, 2006

The other day I wanted to create a counter that is shared amongst many clients that were connecting to a server. I wanted to assign a unique id to each, so I quickly listed how I would do this in erlang. These are: Create a…

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List Comprehensions

Dev Corner - Ernie Makris - January 22, 2006

As I was trekking through yaws country, I realized the value that the recent(sort of) feature of list comprehensions are. I’m still getting used to them all the time. I find myself writing a recursive function to iterate over data using some of the functions…

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Yaws and form parameters

Dev Corner - Ernie Makris - January 13, 2006

The first post! Well, I’ll start with my obsession with erlang. It is my favorite language for server side apps. It is simply the best, in my opinion, concurrent programming language for server applications. Alot of other people have written the advantages, my hope of…

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