Erlang Training and Consulting Newsletter 16th June 2009


Contents

  • Erlang Factory London
  • Speakers
  • Erlounge
  • Erlang University
  • Books
  • Open Source Light Weight HTTP 1.1 Client
  • Tutorials
  • The Erlang Language
  • Conferences

Ready for Erlang Factory?

Only one week left to the greatest IT event of this summer - the London 2009 Erlang Factory. Don't miss out!
Join us at the Old Sessions House 22nd - 26th June 2009

Erlang Programming, a new book by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson!

Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson will be signing their new book Erlang Programming at the Erlang Factory. Purchase on the day and get 35% discount off the cover price. Otherwise Amazon UK is giving an amazing 48% discount for a limited period, but be aware that by choosing this option the book will not be with you in time for the Factory! The e-version is available at O'Reilly site.

The Erlang Language

Erlang OTP R13B01 was released on 10 June 2009. R13B01 is a Service Release containing mostly error corrections and some new functionality.

Erlang Factory London 2009

The Erlang Factory in London is shaping-up to be an amazing gathering! The main part of the Factory is the conference - a two-day collection of focused subject tracks with an enormous opportunity to meet the best minds in Erlang and network with experts. Make sure you get June 25th-26th reserved in your diary and register now! You are also welcome to join the Erlang Factory group on Facebook and LinkedIn, where you can meet Erlang friends and to be even more up to date follow @erlangfactory on Twitter.

Speakers

We have over 40 confirmed speakers from four continents speaking in six different tracks! Highlights include Joe Armstrong, the father of Erlang and Bjarne Dacker, the former director of the Ericsson Computer Science Lab, where Erlang was invented. You will hear about the latest updates to the R13B release from Kenneth Lundin, manager of the Erlang/OTP team. Other distinguished speakers include Simon Peyton-Jones and Don Syme from Microsoft Research; and Mark Imbriaco from 37 Signals (Just to mention but a few!). To learn more about the speakers, their talks and tracks, click here.

Erlounge

The Erlounge at the Erlang Factory will be open not only to delegates from the Conference, but for anyone interested in Erlang. This free event starts at 18.00 and will go on till late! Members of the London Ruby, Haskell and Erlang-User groups are especially welcome. Attending is free, but to allow us to plan, non-conference attendees must register here. Those attending will be given the opportunity to introduce their Functional Programming related interests, projects and user groups. Register for a talk before the slots run out by clicking here.

Erlang University

The Erlang Factory 2009 in London is not only the greatest Erlang conference but also the opportunity to attend 3-day Express courses in Erlang and Erlang-related technologies, OTP, CouchDB and Quick Check. The Erlang Factory will start with the Erlang University (June 22nd - June 24th), where you can attend focused training in Erlang at less than half the price of a normal 5-day course! There are still places left on the Erlang University Courses but these are limited so visit our Erlang University pages to join.


Books

Erlang Programming, by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thomas has been released! The first review of the book has been posted on the Erlang Inside Blog: "Erlang Programming is a worthy contender for the best Erlang book, and evidence of the growth and maturity of the community". Read the review here.

Open Source Light Weight HTTP 1.1 Client

After recent experiences and discussions with the Erlang community, Erlang Training and Conculsing have developed and released an HTTP/1.1 lightweight client. You can find more information in the Erlang Open Source section of our website or in the contributions section on Trapexit.

Tutorials

Sean McEvoy has written a tutorial on the new real time tracing tool Inviso. Inviso is a powerful tool for tracing distributed systems. You can find it on trapexit together with many other tutorials and "how tos".

Dor Kalev has written a blog post titled "Erlang made stupid simple for Ruby programmers". Apparently, he hit the right level for many people, and has now followed up with a screencast. We warmly recommend it!

The Erlang Language

Erlang OTP R13B01 was released 10 June 2009. It offers some very promising improvements.

  • Message passing over Distributed Erlang is now much more concurrent. Message encode and decode can now be done in parallel, and the atom cache has been redesigned in order to allow much finer-grain concurrency.
  • ETS tables now support object-level locking on updates, and search and iteration functions no longer require a table lock.
  • An experimental SAX parser has been added to xmerl. This parser sports a much simpler interface and several times better performance than the original xmerl.

Future Conferences

Erlang Tranining and Consulting is presenting at the following conferences:

  • OSCON - San Jose California , July 20 - 24, 2009
  • JAOO - Aarhus, Denmark, October 4-9, 2009
  • ICFP - Edinburgh, United Kingdom; August 31 - September 2, 2009
  • ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop - Edinburgh, Scotland, September 5, 2009
  • OOPSLA - Orlando, Florida OCTOBER 25 - 29, 2009

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