tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209492272011-12-14T21:45:35.854-05:00Erlang and other development topics here.Ernie Makrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13524179204005781067noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949227.post-1154193009130037392006-07-29T13:09:00.000-04:002006-08-26T13:31:46.916-04:00

There are two pieces of free software that I really love. Erlang and Postgresql. So, a while back I decided to marry the two to allow me to issue queries from Erlang via a pure erlang library for Postgresql. At the time, there were no postgresql libraries in jungerl.There is now, but I had created my own and I think it would be worthwhile posting anyway.Originally, I had opted for a port program.

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The other day I wanted to create a counter that is shared amongst many clients that were connecting to a server. I wanted to assign a unique id to each, so I quickly listed how I would do this in erlang.These are:Create a gen_server process that has private state that contains the counter variableUse ETSMake the accepting gen_server keep track of and assign incremental ids....There are probably

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As I was trekking through yaws country, I realized the value that the recent(sort of) feature of list comprehensions are. I'm still getting used to them all the time. I find myself writing a recursive function to iterate over data using some of the functions in the lists module, or even forgetting about map, fold(l|r) etc...I was writing a page that contacts an erlang node in order to display

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The first post!Well, I'll start with my obsession with erlang. It is my favorite language for server side apps. It is simply the best, in my opinion, concurrent programming language for server applications.Alot of other people have written the advantages, my hope of this blog is to demonstrate how to use erlang for practical problems.Enough praising, lets get down to the code.I started playing

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