The (Unofficial) Erlang Blog http://www.erlangblog.com Blogging in a concurrent world. Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:59:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 en Erlang Challenge Announced http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/erlangblog/~3/236668943/ http://www.erlangblog.com/2008/02/17/erlang-challenge-announced/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:59:04 +0000 admin http://www.erlangblog.com/2008/02/17/erlang-challenge-announced/ Hot on the heels of last week’s Arc release and subsequent Arc challenge, Yariv Sadan (ErlyWeb) has announced the Erlang Challenge. The goal is to design & program an advanced “parallel map” function that can “spawn at least 1 million concurrent processes on a modern server machine”.

More details on Yariv’s Blog, along with a follow-up post.

]]> http://www.erlangblog.com/2008/02/17/erlang-challenge-announced/feed/ http://www.erlangblog.com/2008/02/17/erlang-challenge-announced/ Article: What makes Erlang so great? http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/erlangblog/~3/123715166/ http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/06/10/article-what-makes-erlang-so-great/#comments Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:50:12 +0000 admin http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/06/10/article-what-makes-erlang-so-great/ Dive Into Erlang takes an in-depth look at the benefits of using Erlang as web programming platform, from the point-of-view of a Ruby/Rails developer. YAWS, Mnesia, and of course, concurrency, all enter the equation.

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]]> http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/06/10/article-concurrency-buzz-erlang/feed/ http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/06/10/article-concurrency-buzz-erlang/ Erlang Code Samples from May http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/erlangblog/~3/120051610/ http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/05/27/erlang-code-samples-from-may/#comments Sun, 27 May 2007 14:26:47 +0000 admin http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/05/27/erlang-code-samples-from-may/ This post at JJinux explains how to perform easy bit unpacking in Erlang. Very cool.

Tim Dalton has shared a small bowling game written in Erlang and Scala.

Jim Menard rips through several components of his Erlang MIDI File Reader/Writer.

The 99 bottles of beer song has been realized in concurrent Erlang, and written again using MapReduce.

Have any others? Please share below.

]]> http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/05/27/erlang-code-samples-from-may/feed/ http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/05/27/erlang-code-samples-from-may/ ErlyBird: Erlang IDE based on NetBeans http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/erlangblog/~3/118891171/ http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/05/22/erlybird-erlang-ide-based-on-netbeans/#comments Wed, 23 May 2007 03:41:45 +0000 admin http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/05/22/erlybird-erlang-ide-based-on-netbeans/ ErlyBird 0.11.2, a NetBeans based IDE for Erlang, has just been released. The project is still in alpha state, and welcomes any feedback and/or bug reports.

]]> http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/05/22/erlybird-erlang-ide-based-on-netbeans/feed/ http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/05/22/erlybird-erlang-ide-based-on-netbeans/ Resources: The Erlang Cookbook http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/erlangblog/~3/117979471/ http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/05/19/resources-the-erlang-cookbook/#comments Sat, 19 May 2007 15:49:37 +0000 admin http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/05/19/resources-the-erlang-cookbook/ With all the press surrounding the upcoming Programming Erlang book, it’s worth mentioning that the Erlang Cookbook, a wiki-based collection of Erlang how-to’s, has been around for a few years now and worth a serious look for Erlang newcomers. Unlike many such projects, the cookbook is well written, generally complete, and covers a variety of fundamental topics: manipulating hashes, file I/O, regular expressions and strings, etc.

]]> http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/05/19/resources-the-erlang-cookbook/feed/ http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/05/19/resources-the-erlang-cookbook/ Article: A World Outside Rails http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/erlangblog/~3/117598539/ http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/05/17/article-a-world-outside-rails/#comments Fri, 18 May 2007 01:29:00 +0000 admin http://www.erlangblog.com/2007/05/17/article-a-world-outside-rails/ Earlier this week the folks at SlideAware, an online presentation management startup, contributed an article on why they’ve chosen to develop their application in Erlang instead of Rails. The arguments are both technical and philisophical, and include the hot-button topics of concurrency and scalability.

At the end of the day, the question you should be asking is not why WE are using Erlang, but why you are NOT using it?

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