The ups and downs of Erlang

I just finished reading the paper A History of Erlang by its inventor Joe Armstrong. It’s really a fascinating story and I can really recommend reading Joe’s own words regarding the invention and development of the language. Back in the late 80′s and beginning of the 90s I spent some time with Joe and the other guys around Erlang. I wasn’t an Erlang advocate myself, rather the oppsite and we…
Read more...Introscope extensions

Back in January 2005 I joined an existing San Francisco based company named Wily Technology. This was the beginning of a few years of hectic traveling, hacking and trouble-shooting. Meaning I traveled around in Europe, mostly UK and Germany, working at customer sites (some very large banks) helping them with performance and problem analysis of large Java EE systems. The tool Wily provided was named Introscope and was the first…
Read more...New organization of RiboUtils

When re-launched Ribomation in April this year I hastely re-organized the web site as well, moving this blog into blog.ribomation.com and setting up the new ‘corporate’ site using Drupal. Something I (intentionally) left for a later time was making a new home for RiboUtils, my over the years collection of small helper classes and tools. Now have I started to take care of its new home. From now on you…
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