Erlang Training and Consulting Newsletter 29th July 2009


Contents

  • Erlang Courses in the USA
  • ETC at Conferences
  • Book Reviews
  • Erlang User Group Meetings
  • Multicore Programming in Erlang
  • Erlang Blogs

The London Erlang Factory is still the largest Erlang event!

The London Erlang Factory retained its place as the biggest gathering of Erlang talent in 2009, surpassing even the Palo Alto Conference! With more than 40 speakers and a series of 10-minute talks at the Erlounge, the London Factory brought together Erlangers from five continents. The highlights were the keynotes delivered by Simon Peyton-Jones, Joe Armstrong and Bjarne Däcker. The presentation slides and videos of the talks can be found on the Erlang Factory website. You can still follow @erlangfactory on Twitter and join us on Facebook where we have put some photos from the event.

2009 Erlang User Conference - November 12th

After many years, Bjarne Däcker and the Erlang/OTP team at Ericsson have asked Erlang Training and Consulting to help with the 2009 Erlang User Conference arrangements. The format of the User Conference however remains the same with a full day of talks from Erlang experts, the obfuscated Erlang competition followed by an Erlounge in the evening where drinks and snacks will be served. The conference will be held on 12th November 2009 in central Stockholm, the venue will be announced soon. Further information will be available soon on our website together with the ability to register on-line. The conference will be followed by a free one day of tutorials around the theme of Erlang and test-driven development and proceeded by three days of Erlang University courses including Erlang/OTP and QuickCheck.

Erlang Training and Consulting has a new website and account on Twitter

We welcome you to visit our brand new ETC website, where you can find information about our company, events and trainings which we organise in various parts of the world. You can also find interesting articles and presentations and in the Community section learn about Erlang User Groups in Europe. To be even more up to date with our events and news follow @MyErlang on Twitter or subscribe to our News, Events or Jobs RSS Feeds.

Erlang Courses in the USA

Take advantage of the Early-bird discount of 10% on our courses in States and sign up a month earlier!
Our Next Scheduled Courses in the USA:
San Fransisco:

Boston: Chicago:

ETC at Conferences

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

  • ICFP - Edinburgh, United Kingdom; August 31 - September 2, 2009
  • CUFP - Edinburgh, Scotland; September 4, 2009
  • ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop - Edinburgh, Scotland, September 5, 2009
  • JAOO - Aarhus, Denmark, October 4-9, 2009
  • OOPSLA - Orlando, Florida; October 25 - 29, 2009

For experienced programmers who want an overview of Erlang and what it can do, we especially recommend Francesco Cesarini's two tutorials: Practical Erlang Programming and an OTP Tutorial at OOPSLA and JAOO in 2009. We look forward to seeing you there!

Book Reviews

Still haven't bought the Erlang Programming, by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson? Here are some recommendations which may help you make a decision:

  • 'This is a fantastic book and I highly recommend it. It has lots of information which isn't in Armstrong's book (which is also great).' Bruno Rijsman
  • 'Erlang Programming is a worthy contender for the best Erlang book, and evidence of the growth and maturity of the community'. Chad DePue

O'Reilly recently published an excerpt on getting started with Erlang on their open source spotlight page. When ordering from the O'Reilly website, use discount code ERPR3 for 30% off of the print or eBook version of the book.

Free Wrangler Tutorial in London

Join us at the Erlang London User Group meeting on Thursday the 6th of August, where Huiqing Li, Simon Thompson and Xingdong Bian will give a tutorial on Wrangler, which is an interactive refactoring tool for Erlang, integrated into both Emacs and Eclipse.
If you would like to attend this free event, please register here, as places are limited!

Stockholm Erlang User Group Meeting

After the Summer holidays, we'll have a Stockholm Erlang User Group Meeting on Thursday, August 27 at 18:00. There will be two speakers: Jakob Cederlund, Erlang/OTP Group talking about Erlang and Eclipse; and Adam Lindberg, ETC: QuickCheck case study, and some other good stuff. Advance registration is required. Refreshments will be served after the meeting.

Multicore Programming in Erlang

At the 2009 QCON conference in London, Ulf Wiger showed typical Erlang programs and patterns that scale well on multicore alongside patterns that don't. He covered profiling and debugging parallel applications and ensuring correct behaviour with QuickCheck. InfoQ has now released the video of his talk, Multicore Programming in Erlang. Enjoy!

Erlang Blogs

"Build Your Next Web Application with Erlang" is the title of the latest issue of the IEEE Internet Computing column "The Functional Web". Steve Vinoski writes, together with co-author Dave Bryson, about how building web applications with Erlang is not necessarily difficult; it mostly requires a change in thinking. "Developers who make the effort to learn Erlang/OTP not only find its focus on pragmatism refreshing, but they're also rewarded with systems that maximize the benefits of multicore systems and concurrency, so they scale and perform well."

The Dukes of Erl have contributed several interesting solutions for high-performance disk storage of Erlang data - not least tcerl, which is an Erlang wrapper to the Tokyo Cabinet Open Source storage engine. In the latest installments on their blog, Paul Mineiro adds support for optimized range queries in tcerl and Michael Radford introduces Osmos, a disk-based ordered set storage engine capable of storing thousands of objects per second atomically, and supporting user-defined merge and aggregation functionality.