LFE Friday - queue:peek/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 14, 2015 | Tags :
LFE Friday - queue:tail/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 5, 2015 | Tags :
LFE Friday - queue:head/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 | May 29, 2015 | Tags :
Creating LFE Servers with OTP, Part II
Taking the LFE gen_server to the next level
In the last post, we went on a whirlwind tour of gen_server's basic
functionality: we created a callback module which embodied our logic; we
created a server module that was responsible for setting up the loop;, and we
added an API to wrap gen_server:cast and gen_server:call functions that
passed messages to our callback logic. In this post we're going to follow up on
that work:
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Duncan McGreggor | May 28, 2015 | Tags :
Creating LFE Servers with OTP, Part I
Creating a generic OTP server in LFE
As mentioned in the previous
post, one of the most common patterns that was identified in Erlang was the
need to create a generic, long running process. This pattern has been codified
in the gen_server behaviour, and it is now time that we got our hands dirty by
creating a few :-)
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Duncan McGreggor | May 26, 2015 | Tags :
Prelude to OTP
A look at some examples which motivate the use of OTP
In this post we take a look at some non-OTP code examples discussed in Casting SPELs in Lisp (LFE Edition), examine their differences and similarities, and then briefly describe what they are missing which OTP might be able to provide.
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Duncan McGreggor | May 25, 2015 | Tags :
What is OTP?
A quick examination of OTP
This post is a prelude to the LFE OTP tutorial series which attempts to clarify the role of OTP as something above and beyond a programming language, a set of libraries, or a framework.
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Duncan McGreggor | May 24, 2015 | Tags :
New Series: LFE OTP Tutorials
Kicking off a series of OTP tutorials for LFE hackers
This post introduces an new series of tutorials on the LFE blog which will step LFE users through OTP in the style of Lisp Flavoured Erlang.
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Duncan McGreggor | May 23, 2015 | Tags :
LFE T-shirts: The Great Unboxing
The LFE community's latest T-shirt bonanza is drawing to a close, the conclusion of which will result in the perfect summer-wear for the discerning hacker. This is a fun little post that shares a bit of the T-shirt's unboxing :-)
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Duncan McGreggor | May 23, 2015 | Tags :
LFE Friday - queue:cons/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 | May 22, 2015 | Tags :
