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Orbitz - orbitz - October 19, 2009

Since I’d like to talk about more than just Erlang I decided to move to a new location.  Check it out at http://functional-orbitz.blogspot.com

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Impressed with Haskell’s concurrency

Orbitz - orbitz - September 07, 2009

I have been playing with both Ocaml and Haskell* lately.  In Ocaml, I have been rewriting a lot of simple Python scripts I use at work to see how they compare.  They tend to be faster and more trustworthy.  Ocaml, though, has pretty bad concurrency…

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Amanda Bynes is awesome

Orbitz - orbitz - April 05, 2008

Not particularly Erlang related but, Amanda Bynes is simply amazing.  I just watched Sydney White, while it wasn’t as awesome as She’s The Man, it did rule.Amanda Bynes presents a Hollywood image that all girls can look up to as a role model.All in all, she rocks.

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Scaling webapps

Orbitz - orbitz - April 02, 2008

DISCLAIMER: I am not an expert in web apps and simply have been doing some research on them.  Given that, my claims and concerns may be completely unfounded and simply a result of my ignorance of web app design, if so, please let me know.I…

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Back in the saddle

Orbitz - orbitz - March 19, 2008

So I have been working on Wall Street for the last year+ and last week decided to quit my job.  And non-too-soon, as my job will most likely no longer exist in a few months if you have been following the news over the past…

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Erlang Job Advert

Orbitz - orbitz - January 26, 2008

Well, it’s been over a year, sorry.  Today I received an email with an Erlang job offer for a company based in Boston.  I don’t know anything about the company at all, perhaps it is junk, but the project seems like something Erlang is good…

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Cryptogram solver

Orbitz - orbitz - November 20, 2006

Newspaper puzzles beware.  I have been working on soving newspaper cryptograms for the past few days in my free time.  It is a bit more interesting of a problem to solve than sudoku I think.  The algorithm I’ve implementing is nothing alltogether impressive and it…

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Sudoku

Orbitz - orbitz - November 15, 2006

I’ve got sudoku fever!  Actually, no, I don’t, I don’t really like sudoku at all but I decided to write a solver in erlang.  It was pretty trivial.  The basic algorithm is as follows:1) Create a list of every blank square and the possible values…

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Lack of activity

Orbitz - orbitz - July 19, 2006

I have been busy looking for a job so I have had not had much time to do anything Erlang related.  This, unfortunately, means I have not had much time to blog.  I am hoping this will change by Sept.  If anyone has any job…

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Shell

Orbitz - orbitz - May 30, 2006

The other day, araujo suggested Erlang might make a good shell.  Shell as in, bash.  Hrm, I thought, maybe…I don’t think Erlang would be flexible enough to make a decent shell.  Take something like this:for i in *; do echo $i; doneWhat would the Erlang…

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