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Erlang, Cowboy and Batman.js for Building Web Applications

Erlware - Tristan Sloughter - April 27, 2012

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A Forgotten Principle of Compiler Design

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - April 25, 2012

That a clean system for separately compiled modules appeared in Modula-2, a programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth in 1978, but not in the 2011 C++ standard…hmmm, no further comment needed. But the successor to Modula-2, Oberon, is even more interesting. With Oberon, Wirth removed…

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Can You Be Your Own Producer?

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - April 22, 2012

I’ve worked on personal projects where I went badly off track and didn’t realize it until much later. What I needed was someone to nudge me in the right direction, someone to objectively point out the bad decisions I was making. What I needed was…

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Use and Abuse of Garbage Collected Languages

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - April 21, 2012

The garbage collection vs. manual memory management debates ended years ago. As with the high-level vs. assembly language debates which came before them, it’s hard to argue in favor of tedious bookkeeping when there’s an automatic solution. Now we use Python, Ruby, Java, Javascript, Erlang,…

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100,000 Lines of Assembly Language

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - April 13, 2012

I occasionally get asked about writing Super Nintendo games. How did anyone manage to work on projects consisting of hundreds of thousands of lines of 16-bit assembly language? The answer is that it’s not nearly as Herculean as it sounds. The SNES hardware manual is…

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wrangler released

Erlang Inside - Chad DePue - April 11, 2012

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Erlang Infrastructure Engineer, Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area

Erlang Solutions - April 04, 2012

Requirements: • Experience with writing production-quality software in Erlang OTP, highly scalable & concurrent systems, a double plus!• Ability to perform database development ( e.g., designing schemas, when to use stored procedures, understanding of ORM tools, etc.)• Proficiency in Linux• Experience building scalable web applications/services•…

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This is Why You Spent All that Time Learning to Program

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - April 02, 2012

There’s a standard format for local TV news broadcasts that’s easy to criticize. (By “local,” I mean any American town large enough to have its own television station.) There’s an initial shock-value teaser to keep you watching. News stories are read in a dramatic, sensationalist…

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01 April 2012: The Erlang Factory SF Bay Area, an a-list sell out conference!

Erlang Solutions - April 01, 2012

This year’s Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2012 had an A-list sell-out line-up of speakers which included Erlang Inventors Mike Williams and Robert Virding discussing software approaches used in the industry and the unique features of the Erlang VM and a Keynote talk from Jim…

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29 March 2012: Marcus Taylor Appointed as CEO for Feuerlabs

Erlang Solutions - March 30, 2012

Erlang Solutions Limited, the world’s largest specialist Erlang services and support company, today announced that Marcus Taylor has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Feuerlabs Inc. and will be leaving Erlang Solutions at the end of March 2012 after over seven years, during which time…

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