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Erlang Solutions Newsletter 28 November 2011 |
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Erlang User Conference 2011 – A day to remember!!
With well over 320 members of the Erlang community in attendance, this year's Erlang User Conference was not only the biggest but possibly the best ever! The 17th International Erlang User Conference welcomed delegates from across the globe with some travelling from as far as the USA. Twitter was going crazy with updates from the talks, community members interacting and plenty of enthusiasm. Here are just a few of the hundreds of tweets made during the day. "Amazing talk by Kostis Sagonas at #euc2011 about his amazing PropEr work. I adore his enthusiasm for Free Software and #gpllicensing" "Great talk on challenges of #erlang performance on x86_64 and the halfword VM at #euc2011 - also great intro to the BEAM vm architecture." "Had a really nice time at #euc2011 - excellent talks, tutorials, venues and people! #erlang rocks." The Erlang User Conference brought together the best minds and names in Erlang programming, from language inventors, implementers and maintainers to open source committers, community leaders and Erlang authors. We would just like to thank everyone who attended, all of the speakers and the sponsors for making the conference not only enjoyable on the day, but also a real pleasure to organise. The videos are currently being made available, the first one of which is Loïc Hoguin and his talk on a Cowboy quest for a modern web. We have a tentative date for 2012 so make sure to put 28 May - 1 June in your diaries! |
Erlang NewsThe Erlang Factory SF Bay Area, the biggest Erlang gathering in the USA, is coming back for a bigger and better fourth year! 3 days of expert training, 3 days of exciting talks, tutorials, Hackathon and other community-related activities will take place from 19 to 24 March 2012. Talk submission is open, so make sure to get yours in early! You can find more information on how to do that here. We have just announced further Erlang Factory Lites that are to take place later this year and in 2012. So far we have, Brisbane, Brussels, Krakow and St Andrews in Scotland. Speakers announced so far include, John Hughes, Steve Vinoski, Robert Virding, Tom Van Cutsem and Francesco Cesarini. Stay tuned for more! Erlang enthusiast Fred Hebert talks, Learn you some Erlang, test driven development and mocking with meck in an interview with Erlang Inside. You can read the full interview here. We would like to offer you 60% discount on Erlang By Example videos from O'Reilly in honour of Cyber Monday. Get 2+ hours of beginner Erlang classes for only $12. Use CYBERMONDAY on checkout. This offer is valid for today only! The next major OTP release is coming on the 14th of December as R15B. The R15A pre-release was tagged on github last week. There are Debian, Fedora, Mac OS X and Ubuntu packages available from the Erlang Solutions Website. The sneak peek for the main release already contains memory allocation optimisation to top up the performance as well as features for better control and overview of your system in a user friendly way. For example line numbers in exceptions; new integrated GUI for observer with tv, pman, etop and tracing integrated; parallel make."
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