Forget everything think you know and learn Erlang

28Nov07

Recently I have been putting a lot of spare time into learning Erlang; a concurrent functional programming language designed for building scalable distributed systems. For a guy coming from a Java, Ruby, PHP, etc background its been quite an interesting learning experience for me. I wont go into details describing the language as well, I don’t have time right now. But I give the following tips for anyone wanting to give it a try. Buy Joe Armstrong’s book and checkout his thesis. The book is a good introduction to the language and the thesis really helped me grasp the theory. Oh and also signup to the erlang-questions mailing list. I was considering going on the pragmatic studio course but now think I wont need to. Things are starting to click, lookout google!

I have gotten involved in a rather exciting Erlang project which I’m sure you will hear about in due course. That is assuming this blogging lark isn’t a fad

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Relative job trends

28Nov07

I just tapped in some programming languages over at indeed.com and look popped out.Ruby is taking over the world. Well.. maybe not, but the number of jobs are certainly on the rise.

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It only took 10 years

22Nov07

I have working building websites and writing software for about ten years now. It seems a bit odd, that although I have spent a lot of time reading other peoples blogs and journals over the years I have never actually started my own. So here it is.. Lets see how it goes. Expect content to range from geeky tech to expat ramblings.

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