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R13A Is Born

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - March 17, 2009

The next major version of Erlang, R13, has been released in beta form. The release contains a whole host of bug fixes and goodies. Here are the ones which grabbed my attention: OTP-7648: Support for Unicode. This. is. huge. I have been waiting for this…

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Re-Introducing Herml

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - March 14, 2009

Months ago I blogged a bit about herml, a port of Haml to Erlang. I’ve gotten quite busy at work and haven’t had much time for adding features onto herml. Fortunately for me, my co-conspirator Sean has taken up my slack and added some kick-ass…

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Trying Something New

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - March 12, 2009

I am happy to announce the formation of Hypothetical Labs, Inc. We’re a consultancy focused on Erlang consulting, training, and product development. Expect big changes to the site over the coming weeks as we get things rolling. Why? Well, the Erlang community here in the…

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RubyRX Recap

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - March 03, 2009

I attended RubyRX a couple of weeks back. Conference attendance was a bit light — I blame sour economic conditions — but enthusiasm was high. I gave two talks on Erlang. My first talk, covering the basics of Erlang and showing off some language features,…

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Conditionally Ignoring Messages

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - February 16, 2009

This week I had a need to be able to put a gen_server into maintenance mode where it would temporarily ignore certain messages. I was able to use pattern matching and gen_server’s message handling to implement a simple and, I think, pretty elegant solution. First,…

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Couldn’t Say It Better Myself

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - February 11, 2009

Yes.

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“Hands On Erlang” Recap

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - February 08, 2009

I’d like to thank Jason, Mark, Chris, Brenton, Ryan, James, and Brad for having the faith and courage to be my guinea pigs for the course. This is the first time I’ve a) taught an Erlang course and b) written this material from scratch so…

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RabbitMQ AMIs

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - January 27, 2009

I’ve built two new AMIs, this time forRabbitMQ. The image includes the latest releases of Erlang (R12B-5 as of this writing), nodefinder, and RabbitMQ server and Erlang client. The Erlang client is fresh out of the Mercurial repo since the published snapshot seemed to have…

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More AMIs?

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - January 23, 2009

I’ve been thinking about building more Erlang AMIs now that I’ve got my image build process 99% automated. The images I’ve done so far include some general libraries which can be used to build a wide array of things. I’m thinking it would be useful…

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More Erlang AMI Updates

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - January 23, 2009

I’ve updated both images based on comments about my last AMI build. This update adds the Java JRE 6.0, a full install of the ec2-amitools package, and the unzip command. The ec2nodefinder library has a bug in it which should get patched shortly. If you…

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