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Pastebin design - Mnesia tables

Orbitz - orbitz - May 07, 2006

I have started to design the tables for this.  The main goal is simple: make it easily extendable.  That is to say I want to make it so I can easily develope it incrementally and add things to it that I didn’t think of before. …

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Erlang Pastebin

Orbitz - orbitz - May 04, 2006

I have always wanted to make a pastebin for some reason.  When I first started looking at nevow, I wanted to make one in that however mg beat me to it (and made a kickass one at that).  So now I have been looking at…

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Yaws 1.58 true_nozip bug

Orbitz - orbitz - April 04, 2006

Yaws 1.58 has a bit of a bug.  If you specify dir_listings = true_nozip, it poops out.  This is because the if condition is written to only handle the situation where it is true or false.Here is my little bug fix, the problem file is…

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Fun with processes (Updated)

Orbitz - orbitz - March 31, 2006

I really need to go through all of my Erlang documentation so people like petekaz can stop making me feel small.I had an issue with some poor Erlang code I was running where it performed a file:open but not the appropriate file:close.  Not wanting to…

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Oort

Orbitz - orbitz - March 24, 2006

Well it was pretty painful but I ripped out most of my terrible code and replaced it with pretty gen_server’s and the likes.  The code is still in a state of flux and needs to be polished a bit more, but it’s a good start. …

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MEUG

Orbitz - orbitz - March 06, 2006

MEUG is Massachusetts Erlang User Group.For some reason, there seem to be a lot of Erlang users in MA.  I would like to get us all together semi-regularly.  We can enjoy some good food, some drinks, and talk about Erlang, or whatever else comes up.…

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Re: Re: Re: Ruby Array class sucks

Orbitz - orbitz - January 23, 2006

I have been meaning to respond to this post on the factor blog for awhile.  Factor has grown a lot, and this blog tracks the development of it.  Factor is the result of Forth and Lisp having babies.  But the post I’m interested in doesn’t…

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Port Drivers

Orbitz - orbitz - November 22, 2005

Does anyone have any good tutorials on writing ports?  Google doesn’t seem to return much on initial tries.

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Single exit point

Orbitz - orbitz - November 18, 2005

Many programmers insist on only having the flow of control in their function end at a single point.  I got wondering for a few minutes if any languages enforce this style of programming.  Then I realized.  Erlang has no ‘return’ operator, so doesn’t Erlang enforce…

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The Twisted Matrix

Orbitz - orbitz - September 21, 2005

It has been a long road from where I started to using Erlang.  I certainly don’t plan on stopping with Erlang but so far I am quite the fan of it.  On this road, which finally lead me here, I have used C, C++, Java,…

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