31 October 2011:
Erlang User Conference 2011, Stockholm

 

 

Registration for the 17th International Erlang User Conference on the 3 November 2011 is now open. We have an Early-Bird rate starting at SEK 956 excluding VAT which is a saving of SEK 200. Reserve your place at what will be the biggest Erlang User Conference ever. Last year was a huge success and sold out in record time. With a bigger and better conference planned for this year, you are not going to want to miss your chance to be there!

The Erlang User Conference brings together the best minds and names in Erlang programming, from language inventors, implementers and maintainers to open source committers, community leaders and Erlang authors. Everyone who is anyone will be at the Erlang User Conference 2011!

This year, the Erlang User Conference will be held in a brand new location – the exciting, spacious building of the Munchen Bryggeriet. An enticing addition to the 2011 conference will be two further tracks. Previous conferences have only featured one track so this year there will be a wider selection of talks and speakers for you to chose from:

As in previous years, we will also be holding a day of tutorials on 4 November. We welcome submissions for these also.

In the 3 days prior to the conference, 31 October – 2 November, we will be holding an Erlang University with a selection of Erlang courses suitable for all levels of expertise that will give you the chance to learn from some of the leading experts, a hands on approach and have direct feedback in a group no larger than 12.

November belongs to the Erlang User Conference! Follow us on Twitter for the latest news @erlangfactory

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10 December 2010:
Erlang Outside - A Guest Lecture by Robert Virding, Chalmers University, Sweden

The lecture which is likely to be of interest to anyone interested in Erlang, the current buzz surrounding it, or indeed the general problems of getting innovative technology into production is being given by Robert Virding.

Robert is one of the original developers of Erlang, who is the only one who has never yet spoken at Chalmers.

This talk will present a short history of trying to get Erlang out of the Ericsson Computer Science lab and into the real world. It will also look at some attempts by members of the lab in trying to spread other technology on which we had worked. Lastly he will look at some of the products which are built on Erlang and some places where Erlang is used today.

Robert Virding recently joined Erlang Solutions Ltd as Principal Language Expert. While at Ericsson AB, Robert Virding was one of the original members of the Ericsson Computer Science Lab, and co-inventor of the Erlang language. He took part in the original system design and contributed much of the original libraries, as well as to the current compiler. While at the lab he also did a lot of work on the implementation of logic and functional languages and on garbage collection. He has also worked as an entrepreneur and was one of the co-founders of one of the first Erlang startups (Bluetail). Robert Virding also worked a number of years at the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) Modeling and Simulations Group. He co-authored the first book (Prentice-Hall) on Erlang, and is regularly invited to teach and present throughout the world.

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16 November 2010:
2010 Erlang User Conference (Stockholm, Sweden)

The Erlang User Conference is the biggest and the oldest Erlang gathering in the world.

The conference brings together delegates from as far afield as the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and in that way has highlighted strengthening interest in Erlang, not only in its 'birthplace'. At the conference delegates have the opportunity to meet the fathers of Erlang, ask them questions and listen to 14 talks.

The 2010 Erlang User Conference will take place on Tuesday, 16th November in the Astoria cinema,  close to Stureplan. Apart from the conference, on Monday 15th November  there will be ProTest Tutorials taking place and we are also planning the 3-day Erlang training courses to take place on 17th, 18th and 19th November.

 

Last year over 250 delegates  attended the Erlang User Conference - join us for the biggest Erlang gathering in the world!

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26 May 2010:
Building a Scalable E-commerce Framework and Erlang for Embedded Devices (Stockholm, Sweden)
Our next Stockholm Erlang User Group Meeting will take place on Wednesday, 26th May. This will be a special meeting with two talks. The first talk will be on Building a Scalable E-commerce Framework and the speaker will be Michael Nordström. The second talk will be on Erlang for Embedded Devices and the speakers will be Gustav Simonsson, Henrik Nord, Fredrik Andersson, Niclas Axelsson, Fabian Bergström.

The meeting will start at 18:00 in Klarna offices - Norra Stationsgatan 61; 113 43 Stockholm.

In order to attend this free event, you have to register. Registering allows us to plan refreshments accordingly, provide security with a list of names and ensure we have enough space. The places are limited so if you want to attend this meeting register asap.

Building a Scalable E-commerce Framework Abstract:
 Each year the University of Uppsala gives a project course for computer science students. The project specification is given by an industrial partner, in our case the company was Klarna.

During the period of four months we were to developed a scalable e-commerce framework using Linux, Erlang, Nitrogen and Riak. (The LENR "leaner" stack.) We were a group of  9 students with no experience in project management and no prior knowledge about Erlang.

We will talk about our experiences with Erlang and how they compare to those of other languages,  why making an e-commerce framework in Erlang is a good idea, and how you can get scalability almost for free. We will also talk a little bit about our experiences with Nitrogen and Riak.

Erlang for Embedded Devices Abstract

The Embedded Erlang Project at Erlang Solutions currently includes three different, but related, master theses. The first thesis aims to strip down Erlang/OTP to a minimal release with a small memory footprint. This will run on the results of the second thesis; a Linux-based platform tailored for running Erlang on embedded devices. The third thesis explores models of mobile data-oriented networks for use in embedded devices, including Erlang-based implementations. The presentation will consist of a brief summary, the goals and the current progress of each thesis, as well as some brief discussion on how they can all come together as a deployable package.

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10 December 2009:
Joe Armstrong at Stockholm Erlang User Group Meeting! (Stockholm, Sweden)
Call for the next Stockholm Erlang User Group Meeting.

Time: Thursday, December 10, 18:00
Place: Tail-f Stockholm headquarters
Speaker:
- Joe Armstrong, Ericsson AB: elib2 - an Erlang library

We will round off the evening with an ErLounge at some nearby pub.
Details about the ErLounge can be further discussed on the EUG Stockholm mailing list.

Advance registration is required.

See you there.

Abstract:
Elib2 is an Erlang library and a number of complete programs that make use of the library.

The talk discusses:

- the philosophy behind the library
- what's in the library
- my plans for the library

I'll also show some of the programs that I have built using the library, with special attention to a full-text indexing application.

Elib1 is a library of Erlang modules and set of applications which use
the modules.

The Elib1 project now moves into phase 2

The phases of the project are:

    Phase 1: Define and implement a basic structure
             and a small number of applications
    Phase 2: Make project open source
    Phase 3: Write books

Each phase will take about 2-3 years.

The first attempt at a library contains modules for the following:

    xml parsing
    fast tuple I/O (to disk)
    full-text indexing
    http parsing
    telnet server
    json parsing
    porter stemming
    mysql native interface
    sha1
    similar file locator
    screen manipulation
    miscellaneous missing functions (which should be in the standard libraries)
    accurate tagging of Erlang so it can be turned into browsable HTML
    (and more ...)

The applications are divided it two areas. Supported and unsupported

In supported:

    indexer      - a full text indexing engine (this is the of near
production quality)
    irc          - and irc kit (includes a TCL wish interface)
(somewhat incomplete)
    tagger       - an application to turn erlang into browsable HTML
    drivers      - example linked in and port drivers (currently broken)
    midi_drivers - mac os X only
    website      - a webserver (used internally)
    versions     - a way of munging module names to make them secure

In unsupported:

   epeg     - a peg grammar and parser combinators
   folding  - Javascript folding editor/organiser (needs some work,
not erlang :-)
   jpeg     - image transformation in Erlang
   xml      - some xml stuff

I have attempted to use "best practise" in making the library. Using the dialyzer, eunit and edoc.

This code is far from perfect or polished - but the basic way things
fit together is defined.

Rather than have 500 small libraries each with a few users and a few
routines I'd like to see one library with a much large number of tightly integrated routines.

The code is available at: http://github.com/joearms/elib1

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