I’ve never really liked the way that Erlang’s existing tools generally force one to accept “releases” as the One True Way to structure, build, test, launch and deploy Erlang programs. We have escript, of course, which is fantastic, but it does come with a few handicaps such as making it a somewhat cubmersome and magical […]
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Your tests don’t tell you what you think they do
Yesterday I wrote a tiny JSON encoder/decoder in Erlang. While the Erlang community wasn’t in dire need of yet another JSON parser, the ones I saw around do things just a tiny bit differently than I want them to and writing a module against RFC-8259 isn’t particularly hard or time consuming. Someone commented on (gasp!) […]
Erlang: Eventually Things Will Change
I finally got a few days to really dedicate to the whole Zomp/ZX thing and wrote some docs. If you actually click this link soon you’ll see an incomplete pile of poo, but it is a firm enough batch of poo that I can show it now, and you can get a very basic idea […]
Source or Satire?
From time to time I encounter openly discoverable code that is so wild in nature that I can’t help but wonder if the author was writing a machine function or a satirical statement. Groovy source: ArrayUtil.java After spending a few days plowing through Java code at the outset of a new Android project I found […]