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Next language to learn: Haskell

Nicolas Charpentier - August 28, 2010

Remembering ”The pragmatic programmer: Fro, Journeyman to Master”, each developer should learn a new language each year. This year, I will give its chance to Haskell. Why Haskell ? Scala was a candidate for this year but Haskell has a strong reputation in the functional…

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Code availability on git-hub

Nicolas Charpentier - February 21, 2010

Bored to switch code between my private subversion repository and git-hub for my open-source projects, I decided to use exclusively git-hub for them. My trac wiki pages are also moved to git-hub for improve the documentation of those projects. Selenium-RC Erlang binding Rake tasks to build…

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New package of selenium erlang library

Nicolas Charpentier - June 02, 2009

XP Days conferences (Switzerland and France) are over and now I can be back to coding. I have just published a new version of the erlang client to selenium server. You can download it here. Nothing really new in this version: Support for seleniun-server 1.0…

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XP Day Suisse 2009

Nicolas Charpentier - March 23, 2009

Next week, I’ll present with D.Williams an session during the first XP Day in swiss. This session is a remake of the session we made at the first XP DAy in Paris and will talk about erlang, functional programming and test driven development.

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Build Erlang with Rake

Nicolas Charpentier - January 24, 2009

Since a couple of weeks, I was working on building erlang project with rake, and a draft was available for download on my download page. During the last Erlounge which held in Paris last week, I had the surprise that one of the participant (Cstar)…

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First Ruby usage: Rake

Nicolas Charpentier - December 20, 2008

In my previous post, I planned to have a closer look at the ruby’s world. As the erlang world misses a real compilation tool, I’ve decided to make a attempt to use rake. Usually, Erlangers use make to build their application. It’s a powerful tool…

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Next programming language to learn

Nicolas Charpentier - December 12, 2008

After some years of Object Oriented Programming and agility, I decided to switch to erlang because this language is amazingly powerful and productive. For my point of view, it is the first choice when you want to build robust, scalable and fault tolerant systems specially…

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Packaging erl_mock

Nicolas Charpentier - October 19, 2008

I worked on erl_mock in order to publish my spike around mocks in erlang. When I was almost ready to make the package, something interesting happened: my tests failed. More precisely, they failed when run by the ‘future’ version of extremeforge. After the first surprise,…

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Mock in an Erlang world

Nicolas Charpentier - October 04, 2008

People coming from object oriented programming often use mock object in their unittest. The main question is do we need mock when programming with erlang ? . The answer could be we don’t need any mock library because it’s already part of the language. Let…

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