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LFE Friday - ordsets:subtract/2

This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the Erlang Thursday series by Steven Proctor. This week's translator: Robert Virding.


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Robert Virding | July 17, 2015 | Tags : lfe friday lfe erlang


LFE Friday Bonus - Performance of erlang:length/1 on a list

This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the Erlang Thursday series by Steven Proctor. This week's translator: Robert Virding.


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Robert Virding | July 12, 2015 | Tags : lfe friday lfe erlang


LFE Friday - ordsets:intersection/2

This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the Erlang Thursday series by Steven Proctor. This week's translator: Robert Virding.


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Robert Virding | July 12, 2015 | Tags : lfe friday lfe erlang


Towards multi-methods in LFE

Exploring the shape of multi-methods in the LFE library LOS

Clojure has a really nice set of features for selectively using parts of an object system. It's nice not to have to buy into full OOP, and use only what's needed. The Clojure Cookbook, by Luke VanderHart and Ryan Neufeld covers some of these very nicely, and we'll explore some of those in this post with an eye towards an implementation in LFE.


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Duncan McGreggor | July 11, 2015 | Tags : language macros libraries los clojure objects generic functions


FreeBSD & LFE Images: Docker-like functionality with ezjail

Following on the heels of the previous BSD post, we now turn to virtualization in *BSDs, in particular, jails, ezjail, and FreeBSD, a combination that is not too dissimilar from a Docker experience (minus, of course, Docker Hub. Oh, if only there was a *BSD jail hub …).


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Duncan McGreggor | July 8, 2015 | Tags : freebsd docker jails installs containers bsd


DragonFly BSD & LFE

Yesterday there was a tweet playfully ribbing Golang. It referenced an old WhatsApp blog post which briefly went over the WhatsApp engineering team's use of tuned FreeBSD machines running Erlang … machines that were capable of handling 2 million TCP connections on a single machine. As such, it seemed like a good time to talk about BSD and LFE :-)


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Duncan McGreggor | July 8, 2015 | Tags : dragonflybsd installs bsd


LFE Friday - ordsets:union/2

This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the Erlang Thursday series by Steven Proctor. This week's translator: Robert Virding.


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Robert Virding | July 4, 2015 | Tags : lfe friday lfe erlang


LFE Friday - queue:out/1

This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the Erlang Thursday series by Steven Proctor. This week's translator: Robert Virding.


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Robert Virding | June 26, 2015 | Tags : lfe friday lfe erlang


spell1 - LL(1) parser generator update

Work has been proceeding with spell1 and we now have something useable. There are now two front-ends for the language of the grammar files and output files, one for handling Erlang, and the other for handling LFE.


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Robert Virding | June 23, 2015 | Tags : spell1 lfe erlang tools


LFE Friday - queue:split/2

This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the Erlang Thursday series by Steven Proctor. This week's translator: Robert Virding.


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Robert Virding | June 20, 2015 | Tags : lfe friday lfe erlang