Erlang Training and Consulting Newsletter 22nd September 2009


Contents

  • Erlang User Conference Registration
  • Erlang Courses in London and Stockholm
  • ETC at Conferences
  • Stockholm User Group Meeting
  • Krakow User Group Meeting
  • Erlounge in San Francisco
  • JAOO 2009 Discount Code
  • RubyFoo2009
  • Do the IM Survey and win £50 Amazon voucher
  • Erlang News

Erlang User Conference Registration now open!

Registrations for the 15th International Erlang User Conference and Erlang University courses are now open. Register now and get Early Bird Discount!

The Fifteenth International Erlang User Conference will take place in Stockholm, on the 12th November 2009. The conference is aimed at:

  • Applications developers using Erlang and OTP (Open Telecom Platform).
  • Researchers and technology developers working with Erlang and OTP.
  • People interested in the development and use of functional programming.
  • People interested in the development of large scale industrial control systems.

In addition to the conference itself, there will be three-day Erlang training courses from 9th to 11th November and a day of Erlang and Test-Driven Development Tutorials on the 13th.

Registration for one of the University courses: Erlang Express, OTP Express or QuickCheck for Erlang Developers includes entry to the Erlang User Conference and to the Tutorials Workshop, so don't waste time and register now! We have started adding the speakers and talks. We are proud to have Github co-founders Scott Chacon and Tom Preston-Werner , Eric Merritt co-author of 'Erlang and OTP in Action' and Ulf Wiger talking on Erlang and Cloud Computing. To learn more about our speakers and their talks please go here.

Erlang News

Erlang/OTP R13B02 was released today. Apart from bugfixes and minor optimizations for multicore, R13B02 offers some significant improvements to Dialyzer and the target system generation utility 'reltool'. There are also some nice new functions such as Blowfish encryption support and an efficient way to do line-oriented input from files.

In the new release of Reltool (0.5) there is a severe bug that may cause your source files to be deleted. Please, apply the patch before you use this version of Reltool. The bug is triggered when you generate a target system with archive files and your library directories are given with absolute paths. (Library directories are given with the ERL_LIBS environment variable or with the lib_dirs configuration parameter.)

Ted Leung gave a keynote speech at DjangoCon 2009 in Portland on Sep 10. Django is a Python-based Web development framework designed for rapid development. In his talk, Leung gave examples of competing frameworks that the Django community might learn from: Rails (Ruby), Lift (Scala), WebMachine (Erlang), Nitrogen (Erlang) and CouchApps (Erlang).

Facebook has released as Open Source the Python-based web server, called Tornado, that is used by FriendFeed. It is touted as an exceptionally fast and scalable server, ideal for real-time web services. Lev Walkin has written a blog article where he compares Tornado to a basic Erlang-based web server, and finds the Erlang version equally fast and easier to scale.

Rusty Klophaus, father of the Nitrogen web framework and now working at Basho Technologies, has written an article about the extended process dictionary gproc, written by our CTO Ulf Wiger. Gproc is maintained by Ulf with the help of Joseph Wayne Norton at Geminimobile Inc. Expect more news on this front in the near future.

Erlang Courses

This Autumn we have prepared for you training courses in the UK and Sweden. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to develop your Erlang skills and knowledge!

London:

Stockholm:

Johannesburg:

ETC at Conferences

Erlang Training and Consulting will be giving tutorials, presentations or chair the following conferences:

  • RubyFoo - London, October 2-3,2009
  • JAOO - Aarhus, Denmark, October 4-9, 2009
  • OOPSLA - Orlando, Florida; October 25 - 29, 2009
  • EUC - Stockholm, November 12
  • IGT - Israel, December 2-3,2009

Stockholm Erlang User Group Meeting

Call for the next Stockholm Erlang User Group Meeting.

Thursday, October 1, 18:00

Speakers:

  • Assoc. Prof. Kostis Sagonas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece: Tidier
  • Prof. John Hughes, Chalmers & Quviq AB: TBD

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.

Bridging the gap between Jabber/XMPP and Gadu-Gadu (Krakow, Poland)

On Wednesday, 30th September 2009, during the Krakow Erlang User Group Meeting Mietek will give a talk about bridging the gap between Jabber/XMPP and Gadu-Gadu by way of extending ejabberd. Starting with an overview of the XMPP architecture and protocol, the talk will continue with tutorials on writing ejabberd modules and interfacing Erlang with C libraries, to conclude with a discussion of Mietek's XMPP/GG gateway module.

The meeting will take place in the office building on Al. 3 Maja 9 in Krakow, Room 126. For directions, visit our Contact page. After the presentation, we will go to a nearby students club, Zaczek. Advance registration is required.

Erlounge in San Francisco

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Electronic Arts will be hosting the next San Francisco Erlounge in the San Francisco / Rupture office. The theme of this meetup is open source projects and libraries. There will be some info on the open source projects they work on at EA and then will be a moderating group discussion Presenters are also welcome to fill in 15-30 minutes.

Our training manager Henry Nystrom will be talking about Automatic Assessment of Failure Recovery in Erlang Applications. Meet him there!

Erlang developers, functional programming folks and the curious are welcome to this social event. Light food and drinks will be provided.

RubyFoo 2009

The RubyFoo conference is coming to London in October 2-3,2009! This year the theme will be Communicative Programming - making Ruby talk your language. The conference covers two days, one for presentations from leading experts within the Ruby community and another for collaborative hacking giving you a chance to hang out with Ruby geeks, experts, and curious newcomers in a casual and laid back atmosphere.

Tamas Nagy will represent Erlang Training and Consulting on Saturday, 3 October 2009. Tamas will give a 10 minute talk on How to make Erlang work in your Ruby project. So come, listen, learn, contribute and share the RubyFoo. Use the Discount Code "Erlang_RubyFoo" when you register and get £25 off the price!

JAOO 2009 : Erlang- A language for programming reliable systems and an OTP Tutorial (Aarhus, Denmark)

Meet us at the JAOO 2009 in Aarhus, Denmark - a 3 day conference with 18 tracks, 80 international speakers and 1200 attendees! Use the Discount Code " erlang " when you register and get a 15% discount off the price!

The conference will be held from October 5 to 7, 2009 in Aarhus, Denmark. Apart from the conference there will be tutorial days: 4, 8 and 9 October. For experienced programmers who want an overview of Erlang and what it can do, we especially recommend Francesco Cesarini's two tutorials on Sunday: Erlang- A language for programming reliable systems and an OTP Tutorial, as well as presentation on Styling your Architecture in an evolving Concurrent World, which will take place on Monday, 5 October. We also highly recommend Concurrency Expert Panel and track The Concurrency Challenge, on Tuesday, 6 October, where Ulf Wiger and other concurrent programming experts will be discussing the topic, answering to all your questions and doubts, and advising on solving common problems that appear when using a particular model.

We look forward to seeing you there!



Survey powered by Erlang and IM!

A client of ours is doing a survey on the Analysis of Voice as a User Interface (VUI) for mobile apps & devices. We could not resist, and had to add an IM component powered by Erlang and EjabberD. To try it out, visit here and choose IM survey. It'll take <10 minutes of your time, and we (and they) would love your feedback..

All participants have an option to be entered into a FREE PRIZE DRAW to win £50 Amazon Vouchers and have an option to share in the results of the research.