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PicLike

Yariv Sadan - Yariv - April 27, 2010

Check out PicLike, the new app I made using the Flickr API, Google App Engine and the Facebook Like button: http://piclike.appspot.com.

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Unifying dynamic and static types with LFE

Yariv Sadan - Yariv - May 25, 2009

In my last post I described how to use LFE to overcome some of the weaknesses of parameterized modules. Unfortunately, all is not rosy yet in the land of LFE types. Parameterized modules allow you to create only static types. The compiler doesn’t do static…

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Geeking out with Lisp Flavoured Erlang

Yariv Sadan - Yariv - May 11, 2009

One of the features I dislike the most about Erlang is records. They’re ugly and they require too much typing. Erlang makes me write Dog = #dog{name = "Lolo", parent = #dog{name = "Max"}}, Name = Dog#dog.name, ParentName = (Dog#dog.parent)#dog.name, Dog1 = Dog#dog{    name…

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How to work on cool stuff

Yariv Sadan - Yariv - May 04, 2009

I attended the Bay Area Erlang Factory last week. It was a great event. I met many Erlang hackers, attended interesting talks, learned about cool projects (CouchDB, QuickCheck, Nitrogen, Facebook Chat), gave a talk about ErlyWeb, and drank beer (without beer, it wouldn’t be a…

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Parallel merge sort in Erlang

Yariv Sadan - Yariv - March 10, 2009

I’ve been thinking lately about the problem of scaling a service like Twitter or the Facebook news feed. When a user visits the site, you want to show her a list of all the recent updates from her friends, sorted by date. It’s easy when…

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Custom Tags for Facebook Platform

Yariv Sadan - Yariv - January 13, 2009

Check out the announcement on the developer blog about a project I’ve been working on at Facebook . It’s a feature that lets you create your own FBML tags for Platform apps.

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Bay Area ACM Talk

Yariv Sadan - Yariv - November 13, 2008

Francesco Cesarini and I will be giving a talk about Erlang at the San Francisco Bay Area ACM chapter on Nov 19th. The full description is at sfbayacm.org. Please come by if you’re interested!

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Numenta

Yariv Sadan - Yariv - June 30, 2008

Last week, I attended the Numenta workshop. I didn’t know much about Numenta before I went. My friend’s excitement about the technology Numenta is building piqued my curiosity, so I decided to check it out. It seemed that almost everyone else in the conference had…

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Twoorl Goes Multilingual

Yariv Sadan - Yariv - June 29, 2008

Since its launch, Twoorl users have helped translate it to Spanish, German, French, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Russian. This is an awesome contribution from the Twoorl community. Big thanks to everyone who contributed a translation! If you’re fluent in a language that Twoorl hasn’t…

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Announcing Twoorl: an open source ErlyWeb-based Twitter clone

Yariv Sadan - Yariv - May 29, 2008

With the recent brouhaha over Twitter’s scalability problems, I thought, wouldn’t it be fun to write a Twitter clone in Erlang? Last weekend was cold and rainy here in Palo Alto, so I sat down and hacked one, and thus Twoorl was born. It took…

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