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Zotonic destroys WordPress and rethinks the CMS with Erlang

Erlang Inside - Chad DePue - March 09, 2010

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Interview with Erlang Factory 2010 Conference Organizer Francesco Cesarini

Erlang Inside - Chad DePue - January 30, 2010

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Mustache – GitHub’s framework agnostic templating ported to Erlang

Erlang Inside - Chad DePue - December 30, 2009

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The State of Erlang Web Middleware – EWGI and SimpleBridge

Erlang Inside - Chad DePue - December 28, 2009

In the interest of publishing more often and covering smaller topics, lets review web-server-agnostic middleware for Erlang. The current standard for Erlang web application middleware is EWGI,  inspired by Python’s PEP 333 and providing similar functionality as Ruby’s Rack. All major Erlang web servers support …

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Go borrows key concepts from Erlang

Erlang Inside - Chad DePue - November 16, 2009

The Go language, getting a lot of attention because it was recently open sourced by Google, seems to be a sort of programmers’ Rorschach test in that everyone calls it a replacement for C++/Python/Erlang/Your Language Here… My sense is it wouldn’t be getting that much …

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Comparing Erlang, Go, Java, and C

Erlang Inside - Chad DePue - November 16, 2009

Tim over at timyang.net has an interesting ‘hello world’ web server test between Erlang, Go, Java, and C. The C code is an nginx plugin, Java uses the MINA framework; Erlang and Go are small standalone apps. Java ‘won’, with Erlang in second place. Interesting …

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Playdar reduces codebase by 75% by rewriting music app in Erlang

Erlang Inside - Chad DePue - October 22, 2009

Playdar, an open-source ‘music content resolver service’ that finds music on your local computers or your friends’ computers, then streams that music to you, rewrote the code in Erlang. From the original C++ codebase, Richard Jones reduced the lines of code by 75% - from …

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New Erlang Documentation Site - erldocs.com

Erlang Inside - Chad DePue - August 26, 2009

As Erlang usage grows the documentation surrounding the platform is being subjected to much more scrutiny. The existing Erlang documentation site is difficult to navigate and I often find myself hunting for a particular module by guessing the module name in the address bar of …

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erlang:lists/2 - fault-tolerant news

Erlang Inside - Chad DePue - July 30, 2009

Welcome to the second of the erlang:lists series where we list some interesting happenings in the world of Erlang. erlang:lists(NewErlangIRC) - Kevin Smith just launched a new IRC channel - #erlang-otp. Have an Erlang question you need answered quick? Wishing you had a friendly place …

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NetFlix watch out: Erlang dev offers $1000 bounty to improve his multicast code

Erlang Inside - Chad DePue - July 16, 2009

In the spirit of NetFlix, but 1000 times less lucrative, Joel Reymont, a freelance developer who lives in Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, has issued an interesting challenge. Not able to get his multicast Erlang code to send 20,000 messages in less than four …

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