podcast – Mostly Erlang

Download Link https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/042_tools_with_simon_and_yehuda.mp3 At Erlang Factory Jose and Dave pointed out that we in the Erlang community are loosing people by the fact that we have not kept up with the tools in other languages, like Clojure, Ruby and Elixir. So we brought on two professors who have both taught Erlang to see what they […]

This podcast was recorded live on stage at EUC 2014 so it has a somewhat different feel to it Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/040_live_at_euc.mp3    

Just a note, I recorded a number of short interviews at Erlang User Conference 2014. I will be putting them into the feed over the next few weeks     We spoke with Paul Butcher, Author of Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks, at EUC about concurrency and how we deal with it as well […]

Download Link: http://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/038_prolog.mp3 Any sufficiently complicated rules engine  contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of prolog We talk about prolog with Jan who created SWI Prolog and Robert Virding, who used Prolog to help create Erlang. About why prolog is interesting and how best to use it in general and with […]

Download Link: http://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/037_parallel_universe.mp3 Panel Ron Presler (@puniverseco) Fred Hebert (@monocqc) Kevin Hamond (@khstandrews) Zachary Kessin (@zkessin) Confrences Erlang Factory Light – Vancouver EUC – Stockholm Erlang Factory Light – Beer Sheva Trends in Functional Programming Links Parallel Universe Quasar Galaxy Datomic Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks Xeon Phi Rust Lang Requiem for C We […]

http://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/036_quickcheck_final.mp3 John Hughes joins us to talk about quickcheck and the how property based testing works. We cover various aspects of PBD, including sizing and shrinking tests, as well as doing TDD with quickcheck. Panel Garett Smith @gar1t John Hughes @quviq Zach Kessin @zkessin Annoucments EUC ERL Beer Sheva Lambda Jam NDC Oslo Notes Clojure […]

Link: http://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/035_writting_a_book.mp3 Books, books and more books! We talk about what books the erlang community has now and what ones are in development. We also talk about what books we think that would be welcome additions to the Erlang community. So if you have ever thought about writing a book on Erlang and didn’t know […]

Download Link: http://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/034_community_with_pieter.mp3 Pieter joins us to talk about how he has hacked the ZeroMQ community process to produce a vibrant project and great code. Pieter has explicitly set the rules for contributions to the project to welcome new members. We talk a lot about how Conway’s law and Amdah’s law applies to open source […]

  Audio Link: http://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/33_skel_final.mp3 Panel Zachary Kessin (@zkessin) Bryan Hunter (@bryan_hunter) Kevin Hammond (@khstandrews) Chris Brown (@chrismarkbrown) Adam Barwell Annoucments Erlang User Confrence EFL-Zurich EFL-Bear Sheva Israel NDC-Oslo Book Club – SICP Links Skel Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks Skel Wrangler Plugins Picks CFP – IJPP (Chris) Paraphrase Summer School (Kevin) Talk by Jose […]

Download Link http://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/032_elm.mp3 Evan Czaplicki joins us to talk about Elm and how he it is redefining frontend development. By enabling haskell like types on the frontend he is enabling new ideas in how we can develop desktop applications in the browser. We also talk about the history of web application development and more. Panel […]

Download Link: http://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/031_bruce_tate.mp3 “Perfection is not acheaved when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away” –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “Java is dead like Cobol, not like Elvis” — Bruce Tate Bruce Tate the author of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks joins us to talk about the state of the art […]

Download Link http://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/030_industrial_erlang_users_group.mp3 Francesco, Justin and Kennith join the podcast to talk about the Industrial Erlang Users group and what the IEUG is and what it means for companies and users of Erlang. We talk about the change in Erlang’s license to the MPL 2.0, new features in the language and more. Panel Zachary Kessin […]

Download Link: http://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/028_new_to_erlang.mp3 Sponsor: Elixir Sips Chuck from Ruby Roges has some questions about Erlang and when it could help him in his projects. Zach, Justin and Kevin hope to respond to his questions about Erlang and give him something to think about in terms of development platforms. Panel Charles Max Wood (@cmaxwood) Justin Sheehy […]

Panel Link: http://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/mostly_erlang_29.mp3 Sponsor: Elixir Sips Today we talk about how to teach kids programming, as a life skill and a fun activity for parents and children. Our panel talks about how they learned to program back in the day with basic and logo and how best to bring those experiences to our children’s generation. […]

Download Link: http://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/027_next_generation_testing.mp3 Today we are joined by Kostis to talk about the state of the art of testing tools. We talk about Property based testing with QuickCheck and Proper and how you can use it in your programs to improve code quality. We then move on to concurrency testing and finding of race condition […]