Erlang: Socket experiments preliminary to writing a web server from scratch

A relative newcomer to networking in Erlang, Dr. Ajay Kumar, has started a self-educational project to create a web server from scratch in Erlang to give himself some first-hand insight into how TCP sockets work in Erlang and how web servers work in general. Web servers are a thing almost everyone has written against or […]

Erlang: Building a Telnet Chat Server from Scratch Using ZX

A few weeks ago I made a two-part video discussion about building a telnet chat server from scratch using ZX and forgot to post any prose reference to it. (Most people are following my blog RSS, not my (extremely tiny) video channels.) The resulting project is called “Trash Talk” and it has a repo on […]

tl;dr Instructions for Drupal7 on rpm-based Systems

I threw a few sites up for folks in need the other day, one of them being myself (lots of folks’ businesses were wrecked during the tsunami two months ago). From doing that I realized the Drupal 7 documentation on rpm-based systems is a bit lacking (especially in Japanese). There are a few reasons for […]