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Hi everyone, and sorry for the delay.  After our brief hiatus, we should be back to weekly podcasts! Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/whymajorincs.mp3 Panel Kevin Hammond @khstandrews Simon Thompson @thompson_si Francesco Cesarini @FrancescoC Fred Hebert @mononcqc Irina Guberman @irina_guberman Heinz Gies @heinz_gies Zach Kessin @zkessin Links http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.htmlhttp://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/103850/as-a-high-school-student-what-should-i-be-doing-to-make-myself-better-more-hirea/103859#103859 http://lwn.net/Articles/641779/?utm_content=bufferc1 http://www.se-radio.net/2008/01/episode-84-dick-gabriel-on-lisp/ http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/OtherDocs/Haskell.html https://erlangcentral.org/jobs/

Sorry everyone for the delay!  I know we usually post on Tuesdays but I have had some computer difficulties and hopefully Episode #69, called “Should I major in Computer Science?” will be online tomorrow.

At Erlang Factory San Francisco, Zach spent a few minutes interviewing Joe Armstrong, co-inventor of Erlang.  As always, we apologize for the quality of these interviews and the background noise. Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/joe-armstrong.mp3

Sorry about that!  Audacity crashed on me and I had to redo the whole thing! ? This isn’t going to be as polished as usual because I wanted to hurry up and get it online. Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/mostly_erlang_68_types-done.mp3 Panel Brian Troutwine Kevin Hammond Edwin Brady Heinz Gies Zach Kessin Conferences Lambda Conf Boulder, Colorado Erlang User […]

Hi guys, I’m sorry to say that I am dealing with some technical difficulties tonight.  Podcast 68, if it’s not up tonight, should be up sometime tomorrow.  Thanks for your patience, and sorry for the delay!

Interview with Jamie Winsor at the San Francisco conference Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/tascam_0013-jamie-winsor.mp3

Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/67-e2-done.mp3 Fred, Brian, and Zach discuss Rebar in today’s podcast.  Hope you enjoy! Panel Fred Hebert @mononcqc Brian Troutwine @bltroutwine Zach Kessin @zkessin

Happy Thursday!  Here’s an interview with Guido van Rossum, author of the Python programming language. Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/interview-with-guido-van-rossum.mp3

Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/mostly_erlang_66_riak_core.mp3 Today’s podcast features Mark Allen, who talks with some of our regulars about Riak Core.  Sorry about the abrupt ending–for some reason the podcast cut off right in the middle of a sentence!  Hope you enjoy what is here, though! Panel Mark Allen @bytemeorg Fred Hebert @mononcqc Irina Guberman @irina_guberman Brian Troutwine @bltroutwine Zach […]

At the San Francisco conference, Zach interviewed Mark Allen of Basho. Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/mark-allen.mp3

Hello Everyone!   If you are looking to get into erlang or quickcheck and could use some help, or would like someone to build a system for your, I am available for consulting, coaching, training and building systems.

First, congratulations Zach on the birth of a grandson! Sorry to have missed you last week! Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/65.mp3 Panel Garrett Smith @gar1t Zach Kessin @zkessin Irina Guberman @irina_guberman Fred Hebert @mononcqc Simon Thompson @thompson_si Kevin Hammond @khstandrews Conferences Elixir Conf EU April 23-24, Krakow http://www.elixirconf.eu/ PolyConf Krakow July 2-4 http://polyconf.com/ Erlang User Conference in Stockholm June 11-12 […]

Zach interviews Bruce Tate at Erlang Factory San Francisco. Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/bruce-tate-done.mp3

Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/063_adroll-done.mp3 Sponsored by Adroll Sorry to have been missing last week!  This week we have an interview with Adroll, and a brief tangent into astronomy. Panel Jesse Lauro (@jesse_lauro) Brian Troutwine (@bltroutwine) Miriam Pena (@miriampena) Jose Manuel Rodriguez Blanco Conferences Elixir Conf EU April 23-24, Krakow http://www.elixirconf.eu/ PolyConf Krakow July 2-4 http://polyconf.com/ Erlang User Conference in […]

We are back from Erlang Factory San Francisco!  Every Thursday for the next several weeks, Mostly Erlang will be posting short interviews that Zach conducted at the conference. Here, Zach Kessin interviews Alexis Costanza, production coordinator at Hackers/Founders. Apologies for the poor quality–there were lots of people at this conference, creating lots of background noise!

Guest speaker Edwin Brady talks about Idris in an extremely advanced podcast full of PhDs! Panel Edwin Brady Heinz Gies @heinz_gies Kevin Hammond @khstandrews Simon Thompson @thompson_si Zach Kessin @zkessin Conferences Elixir Conf EU April 23-24, Krakow http://www.elixirconf.eu/ PolyConf Krakow July 2-4 http://polyconf.com/ Erlang User Conference in Stockholm June 11-12 www.erlang-factory.com/euc2015 Code Mesh, London, November 2-4 http://lanyrd.com/2015/codemeshio/

Guest speaker Chris McCord discusses his book with Zach and Bruce Panel Chris McCord @chris_mccord Bruce Tate @redrapids Zachary Kessin @zkessin Conferences Erlang Factory San Francisco 26-27 March–some of our regulars are there now! http://www.erlang-factory.com/sfbay2015/ Elixir Conf EU 23-24 April in Krakow http://www.elixirconf.eu/ Stockholm Erlang User Conference 9-10 June in Stockholm http://www.erlang-factory.com/euc2015 Links Metaprogramming Elixir by Chris McCord […]

Sorry everyone for the lack of podcast last week!  We are back on schedule now! Panel Bryan Hunter @bryan_hunter Simon Thompson @thompson_si Zachary Kessin @zkessin Picks http://www.release-project.eu Click to access chechina-sd-erlang-efl14.pdf https://www.erlang-solutions.com/resources/webinars/megaload-age-load-testing http://tomatoi.st/

Hi Everyone I just wanted to let everyone who may be following the blog know that I have published a new book on using QuickCheck with Erlang. If you have heard about QuickCheck, or PropEr or property based testing in general, and didn’t know where to get started then this is the book for you. […]

Zach asks Rachel and Andrea about F#. Panel Andrea Magnorsky @silverspoon Rachel Reese @rachelreese Zach Kessin @zkessin Links http://www.roundcrisis.com/2015/02/22/Type-providers http://www.oreilly.com/webcasts/index.html http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/ http://fsharp.github.io/FSharp.Data/ https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh156509.aspx EDIT: Sorry, everyone!  I edited and then accidentally uploaded the unedited version.  It?s fixed now.

Panel Francesco Cesarini @FrancescoC Kevin Hammond @khstandrews Zachary Kessin @zkessin Conferences Erlang Factory San Francisco March 26-27 Elixir Conf EU 23-24 April Krakow Erlang User Coference Stockholm 11-12 June Links http://www.get-finch.com

Today’s podcast features guest speaker Heinz Gies, creator of project FIFO Panel Heinz Gies @heinz_gies Bryan Hunter @bryan_hunter Kevin Hammond @khstandrews Zach Kessin @zkessin Conferences Lambda Days in Krakow, Poland: February 26-27 Elixir Comp Europe in Krakow Poland: April 23-24 Erlang Factory San Francisco in San Francisco, March 26-27 Erlang User Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, […]

Zach, Bruce, and Kevin discuss Kevin’s new book. Panel Bruce Tate (@redrapids) Kevin Hammond (@khstandrews) Zachary Kessin (@zkessin)

Zach, Fred, and Jose answer questions live!  You’ll hear at the start that we erroneously welcomed you to Podcast #53, but rest assured this is in fact #54.  Here’s the link to the video.  http://mostlyerlang.com/2015/01/05/package-mangement-live/ Panel Zachary Kessin (@zkessin) Fred Hebert (@mononcqc) Jose Valim (@josevalim) Bruce Yinge (@brucify)

Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/053_tools.mp3 The meta programming of Elixir makes for some very powerful testing tools for testing systems, Bruce Tate joins us to talk about what they are doing and how we can learn from it. Note this episode was recorded in Dec of last year Panel Bruce Tate (@redrapids) Eric Meadows-Jonsson (@emjii) Kevin Hammond […]

On Tuesday 6 January at 18:00GMT we will be doing a live podcast on a G+ hangout about package management systems. We invite everyone to come join us and submit questions via text chat.

Ever have a system go strange on you, or fall down under load? Erlang has some amazing tools to try and debug these cases. Regular panelist Fred joins us to talk about his new book “Erlang in Anger” and his recon library. With these you will be in good shape to debug a system in […]

  Erlang comes with its own datastores ETS and Mnesia. These store Erlang terms directly so you don?t have to map your data into SQL types. They can also be used to create databases in Memory or on disk or both, this can lead to blindingly fast distrubted systems We speak to Claus about how […]

We apologize, this episode got messed up, so here is a fixed version Download Link: audio mp3=”https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/050_minikanran.mp3″%5D%5B/audio%5D Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/050_minikanran.mp3 A programming language that doesn?t change the way you think about programming isn?t worth learning???Alan Kay MiniKanren is a relational programming language that has been used for both research and in industry. Find out how […]

Supervisors are all about creating solid guarantees of how the system will recover after a fault and how it will be setup. If Erlang supervisors have ever confused you, or if you want to understand how this feature makes erlang one of the most powerful tools for building distributed systems this is the episode for […]

“?when 100 people are listening to you for an hour, that?s 100 hours of people?s time devoted to what you have to say. If you can?t spend 5 or 10 hours preparing for them, thinking about them, and refining your points to best suit their needs, what does that say about your respect for your […]

Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/047_nitrogen.mp3 Nitrogen Nitrogen is a framework for creating rich web applications from erlang, for all of us who hate doing front end dev we can now do most of it within Erlang. Project maintainer Jesse Gumm joins us to talk about it and how to use it. Panel Zachary Kessin (@zkessin) Jesse Gumm […]

Mostly Erlang is looking for sponsors. We have brought on someone to do editing for the show and will be moving back to an episode a week! In 2014 we were at Erlang User Conference in Stockholm and at Chicago Erlang, in 2015 we hope to be able to be back at EUC as well […]

Joseph Joins us to talk about his efforts to build a scheme on the Erlang Beam VM. And the challenges that he has run into trying to build scheme. We talk about how erlang can be influenced by the scheme echo system and how implementing things is often a great way to learn how something […]

Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/045_robots.mp3 You can build Robots with Erlang! The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as “Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun to Be With.” Ok, maybe not that kind of robots, but […]

The podcast has been on a bit of a Hiatus, we will be starting up again with a fall season including more of the Wider Erlang Ecosystem, getting the most out of conferences and more. If you have ideas for good shows please leave them in the comments here!

Show notes coming soon

We are joined by Bruce Tate and Jose Valim to talk about the tools that have been developing around Elixir and how they can help the rest of the Erlang eco system. This is the first of a series of episodes that will explore that wider Erlang eco system including Elixir, LFE, Erlog, LING, LuvieScript, […]

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