tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246027334551923738.post4724295521704285571..comments2022-11-23T03:37:05.086-08:00Comments on armstrong on software: Itching my programming nerveJoe Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842732706414838736noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246027334551923738.post-71728682009484314282008-07-24T03:23:00.000-07:002008-07-24T03:23:00.000-07:00Hey,I got here through del.icio.us (just random br...Hey,<BR/><BR/>I got here through del.icio.us (just random browsing really) and the post revived my interest in Erlang (first heard of it around 1998 during my undergrad). So you definitely got my nerve itching all right!<BR/><BR/>I've decided to learn Erlang (just for fun really) and found this to get me started: http://www.erlang.org/download/getting_started-5.4.pdf<BR/><BR/>Do you reckon that'sMono Gronchohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04533612749797666015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246027334551923738.post-79454801756696423612008-07-23T03:33:00.000-07:002008-07-23T03:33:00.000-07:00I can only agree that Erlang is one of the few lan...I can only agree that Erlang is one of the few languages designed for real life apps. We addressed some of the issues that are out there with large file transfers, and came up with a neat solution with our Erlang web app called Streamfile. I hope this could be one "killer" app that could spread Erlang a bit more to the masses. For more info check: http://www.streamfile.comStreamfile.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04195366965159147998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246027334551923738.post-83575640152434680342008-07-21T09:55:00.000-07:002008-07-21T09:55:00.000-07:00It's so pity that my company wasn't able to partic...It's so pity that my company wasn't able to participate this time. We would added some itching with scalable mobile gaming server (written on Erlang, of course), high performance Erlang clusters which bypass TCP to get latency between nodes as low as it possible and yet another distributed database, Hiero, that uses old fashioned, but also most proven method to store hierarchies used in MUMPS (Viktor Sovietovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11954616944495084760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246027334551923738.post-91508281801386354242008-07-21T08:16:00.000-07:002008-07-21T08:16:00.000-07:00[dale] - The wikipedia is "the icing on the cake."...[dale] - The wikipedia is "the icing on the cake." The interesting thing is not the icing, it's the cake.Joe Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13842732706414838736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246027334551923738.post-35167249173700677272008-07-21T07:51:00.000-07:002008-07-21T07:51:00.000-07:00I was at the erlang exchange and found both Reinef...I was at the erlang exchange and found both Reinefelds and CouchDBs my favourite two talks. <BR/><BR/>However I was a bit skeptical that a wikipedia clone would be a 'killer' app. <BR/><BR/>Wikipedia already exists, the one presented may be faster, but Wikipedia itself isnt particularly slow, neither are its well established clones. It may be a very useful learning tool and proof of concept, but Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246027334551923738.post-88677963382864188912008-07-21T06:54:00.000-07:002008-07-21T06:54:00.000-07:00If you're looking to drum up publicity about E...If you're looking to drum up publicity about Erlang, I would think that Facebook chat would be a great candidate (http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=14218138919&id=9445547199&index=2). It might not be a stunningly new application area for Erlang, but simply the fact that it is a production application for <I>Facebook</I> would be worth a lot of mileage.Denton Gentryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782508603268183191noreply@blogger.com