Erlang Solutions Newsletter 22nd February 2010


Contents

  • Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2010
  • QCON 2010
  • ACCU 2010
  • Klarna Competition
  • Erlang Courses
  • Erlang News
  • Erlang/OTP E13B04

Don't miss the Early Bird discount!

This week is your last chance to enjoy the Early Bird discount ($200) for the Erlang Factory San Francisco Bay Area! Sign up before the 28th February 2010 and SAVE $200! The discount applies to the conference and to the Erlang University courses: Erlang Express, Erlang OTP Express, QuickCheck for Erlang developers and Web Programming with Erlang. On special request, we've also added a 3-day CouchDB course. Don't miss out, places are limited - book your place today!

Book your hotel rooms online at the Hilton!
You can now book your hotel room at the Hilton San Francisco Airport for the GREAT CONFERENCE RATE of only $109.00 per night – room only. Enjoy a Kingsize Bed, free FREE WI-FI in the rooms and FREE PARKING. To book online for this special Erlang Factory rate click HERE.

We have 40 confirmed speakers, among them are  Bjarne Dacker (Manager of the CSLab at Ericsson - the birthplace of Erlang), Sean Cribbs (Neotoma creator and web developer), Chad DePue (Entrepreneur and creator of ErlangInside.com), Sadek Drobi (Consultant and programming languages Evangelist at Valtech). To see the complete list of speakers, please click here. The programme of the conference is now available here.

Erlang Solutions at QCon London 2010

Francesco Cesarini (founder of Erlang Solutions) will be giving two tutorials at Qcon London 2010: Practical Erlang Programming on Monday, 8th March and Erlang/OTP System Principles on Tuesday, 9th March. These are all- day events that will start at 9:00 and finish at 16:00. In order to attend the tutorials you have to register here. When registering for the tutorial it is not compulsory to sign up for the conference itself. 

On 11th March 2010 from 18:30 until 20:30 Erlang Solutions is organising a special free London Erlang User Group Meeting at QCon. Everyone is welcome, even if you are not attending QCon London 2010, just register here. There will be four talks:

   * Francesco Cesarini presents "Erlang community around the world"
   * Ulf Wiger presents "Erlang in the clouds."
   * Justin Sheehy will present "Introduction to RIAK"
   * Joe Armstrong talks about "Erlang Libraries"

Erlang Solutions will also be present QCon on Friday, 12th March 2010, when Ulf Wiger (CTO of Erlang Solutions) will be hosting the Concurrency Challenge track. He will also give an introductory talk The Concurrency Challenge at 10:20 and a presentation on Death by accidental complexity at 16:30.

QCON 2010 will be held at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, in London from the 8th until 12th March 2010.  When registering for the QCon, use the Discount Code " erlangug " and save  £50 off the price!

Erlang News

The TIOBE programming community index measures the popularity of programming languages mainly based on data from search engines.

"This month not much changed in the index. Objective-C and Go are still scoring all time highs, while staying close to each other. There are 4 programming languages that have a realistic chance of entering the top 20 next month. These are educational language Scratch, functional language Erlang and JVM languages Scala and JavaFX Script."

Read more about it on the TIOBE website.

Erlang Courses

Our next scheduled Erlang courses are:

Krakow:

San Francisco:

We have received a number of requests for Erlang courses this July in Sydney, Australia, but in order to run them we need a few more delegates, so if you are interested, let us know asap.

The next Erlang/OTP version (R13B04) will be released on February 24

This is the first official release after Erlang/OTP was published on Github Nov 20 last year, and a new process for submitting patches
was introduced. The first patch was submitted on Nov 24.

The process has been a success, and OTP R13B04 includes 51 patches from 32 different people in the Open Source community. Another four patches were included after being modified by the OTP team, and only two were dropped because they were found to be of insufficient quality. Given the OTP's maturity and reputation for excellent quality, these are impressive numbers that reflect well on both the OTP team and the Erlang Community.

Klarna Programming Competition

Klarna have launched a national programming contest to find the best programmers in Sweden. The top prize is an Employment contract in Klarna's well-renowned Development department! Second prize is an iPhone and third prize a HTC Hero (Google Android). The prizes will also be given out for the fastest correct answer to each of the problems. Solutions have to be submitted before the 7th of March.

The problems to solve and more information and rules can be found here.

ACCU 2010: Styling your Architecture in an Evolving Concurrent World and Message-Passing Concurrency in Erlang (Oxford, UK)

Meet us at ACCU 2010. This will take place from the 14th to 17th of April 2010 at the Barcelo Oxford Hotel, in Oxford, UK. The programme of the conference will feature a special track on software testing, and sessions on concurrent and distributed systems, C++, Java, agile development and Erlang! 

Francesco Cesarini (founder of Erlang Solutions Ltd.) and Ulf Wiger (CTO of Erlang Solutions Ltd.) will be speaking at ACCU 2010. Francesco's talk will be on Styling your Architecture in an Evolving Concurrent World and Ulf's on Message-Passing Concurrency in Erlang .