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Java And Threads (Jetty)

noss in #erlang on freenode recently brought to my attention: Jetty ContinuationsThis is an interesting blog entry. The basic idea is, instead of using 1 thread per connection, since connections can last awhile, they use 1 thread per request that a connection has. The hope…

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Initial impressions of yaws

If any of this post is incorrect, please feel free to post a comment and correct me.I have recently installed yaws and I am looking at it to create a small website. It will be fairly simple. My previous web experience has been using Nevow…

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Parallel Project

I have a study in Parallel Programming this semester.  However, the teacher is fairly lenient as far as projects are concerned.  I am looking for some interesting project relating to Erlang.  The leading idea right now is to create some sort of distributed computing framework. …

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Bookmarks

My archive of bookmarks is slowly growing. It contains a Erlang section, a long with a number of other languages as well as lots of other URL’s.http://ortdotlove.net/bookmarks.html

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Where concurrency shines

I think that it can almost be stated as a fact that concurrency in languages that weren’t designed with concurrency in mind tends to be poor.  The languages I have in mind here are Python, C, C++ and similar.  I have come across a few…

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Developing on the go

One benefit to using erlang compared to more traditional languages is the development cycle.  Generally you write code, compile, debug, write, compile, debug, until you have something you want to use.  In between compile and debug you run the program.  In traditional languages you shut…

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Erlang and strings

A lot of people complain about strings in erlang. I am one of them. Right now I am under the impression a string type needs to be added to erlang. Joe Armstrong thinks that instead of a string we simply need a character type. My…

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