Archive for the ‘Distributed computing’ Category

Is IronErlang (or Erlang.NET) a Good Idea?

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

I am kind of between projects right now so I am wondering what I should do next. I really like functional programming, and in particular languages like Erlang, Haskell and F#. So I started to wonder if I should make an Erlang compiler for the .NET runtime. I like Erlang for ...

Webcast about Erlang by Joe Armstrong

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

I recently discovered this webcast called "Erlang - software for a concurrent world" by Joe Armstrong. It is recorded at a JAOO conference. Yes, I wrote "a"... I can't find any info on which one it is but i strongly suspect it is from either London, Sydney or Brisbane in ...

Distributed MPAPI v. 1.0 final and RemotingLite v.1.2.3 released

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

After weeks of writing, rewriting and testing the code for the Message Passing API (MPAPI) it is finally finished. MPAPI is a framework that enables programmers to write concurrent, parallel and/or distributed software systems - in essence building cluster computers. I started writing it for a couple of reasons: My research into ...