Map/reduce and Rekon
Rekon is a light-weight data browser for Riak provided by Basho. It’s a great tool and illustrates some seriously slick …
Category Archives: erlang
Riak death and error messages
Probably the weakest area of erlang is in it’s displaying of error messages. The most dreaded message of all (at …
Configurable server properties now available in bunny_farm
The bunny_farm library now uses application environment variables for setting the server connection properties. This has been on the todo …
bunny_farm updated with queue-based gen_server and gen_fsm
The bunny_farm library now includes two queue-based implementations of generic server behaviours. They are named gen_qserver and gen_qfsm, which should …
Comparing ?assertMatch versus a match expression in eunit
There are a lot of examples of how to use eunit. Some use a match expression, which is a concise …
Nitrogen app template added
I added a template for creating Nitrogen applications running on Mochiweb to rebar_templates. This repackages some existing code as a …
Riak and Protocol Buffers
It looks like the instructions for the riak protocol buffers client has a typo. Running the start_link in the shell …
Rebar and reltool
The rebar build tool can generate self-contained erlang applications using reltool under the hood. There is a good tutorial here, …
A library template for rebar
Added a new project to github for rebar templates. After creating a half dozen libraries without using templates, it was …
Sparse matrices in Erlang
While I’m not an advocate of using Erlang for heavy duty analytics, it is useful to have some of the …
Cartesian Faith 