Lately I have been working in Erlang (forgive me, Tom), and in particular on a distributed web-based system that exposes much of its functionality over a RESTful interface. The web server has been Yaws and the database Mnesia, both of which are also implemented in Erlang, and are quite complex and interesting...

Why write blog posts every day when instead you can create entirely new blogs whenever the fancy strikes you? That seems to be the thought that has carried me away lately. Nevertheless, it is appropriate that this topic--building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)--have its own blog, so I'm doing...

I began work this weekend on my Concurrent Programming in Erlang book for Manning, even before the ink is completely dry on the contract. I have two respected co-authors aboard--Richard Carlsson from Eriksson, who is one of the compiler guys that maintains Erlang, and Eric Merritt from Erlware.org. I'm...

Welcome to my third blog on SOAPitStop! I have found it useful to separate my blogs by theme, though I readily admit if I keep this up I'll probably sacrifice my sanity for a little conceptual clarity. Irony noted. :) So what gives with this blog? My new fascination with programming languages of...

The purpose of this blog is to catalog my adventures in Erlang, F#, and other concurrent programming languages, libraries and platforms, like the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime or CCR on .NET. Of particular interest to me are techniques involving asynchronous message-passing and the design of large...

I have now officially two compiler projects underway based on Erlang concepts. I catalog them here because compilers are code generators and this blog is about generative programming. :) The first is project, to be written in F# and its compiler tools, is to create a functional variant of the BASIC language...