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Making Sense of Erlang’s Event Tracer

By Jayson Vantuyl on April 18, 20095 commentsPosts

Let’s face it people, while Erlang is wonderful in a number of ways documentation is not one of them. I mean, it’s there, and it’s better than some other projects. However, there are incredibly useful things staring you in the face that are just impenetrably difficult. The et module is one of those. Fear not, gentle reader. After more time than I’d care to admit, I’ve managed to figure out roughly how the pieces fit together. As usual, they exhibit the combination of weirdness and inspiration that have driven us to embrace Erlang. Without futher ado, let me take aRead more →

Erlang Error: {open_error, -12}

By Jayson Vantuyl on October 14, 20082 commentsPosts

This error happens when you have old or missing .so libraries for your Erlang app. It is rarely mentioned on the Internet and can consume hours of wasted debugging time. Now you know. 🙁

Random Erlang Article

By Jayson Vantuyl on June 2, 2008Leave a commentPosts

We really should have tried harder to hire Yariv. He’s an awesome guy. I recently found this on his blog. It’s an excellent comparison of Erlang and Scala. However, it’s even better as a very concise, succinct explanation of how the pieces of Erlang fit together to make it so useful.