Whenever I bump into erlang (which seems to be becoming increasingly frequent) I seem to follow the same mental journey. First I look at the advantages, then admire the quality of the applications, then I get mired in trying to get my head around the syntax. Eventually I back off and decide to just run whatever app has caught my fancy, but then I spend several hours stumbling around the installation and configuration process. The end result is often that I just shelve the project and move on to something else.
The only real use I currently make of erlang is a Windows installation of ejabberd which forms the reliable heart of my XMPP experimentation.
Anyway, it’s nice to see more take-up of erlang. Here are some examples from InfoQ:
InfoQ: Erlang and Ruby Roundup: Vertebra, Scaling with Fuzed, Github
I guess this a bit old by now, but I hope they continue with this at least for the moment: a roundup of some of the interesting things going on in the Git world.
InfoQ: Git/Github Roundup: Ruby Books, Gems, Gitjour
This has all the attributes of an interesting article - distributed version control, “web 2.0″ application, and so on. However, I can’t quite make it out without more exploration than I can afford right now. They seem to assume that readers know without explanation!
Here’s the Gist of it — GitHub
Can you get the gist of it?
I’m intrigued by this. A hosted subversion service, which seems to be positioning itself alongside similar services for other protocols (e.g. GitHub). Right now I’m having trouble working out whether there are any significant extra features beyond what I get already with my account at Dreamhost .
Beanstalk — Version Control with a Human Face
I’m getting more and more interested in distributed version control, as exemplified by Git, Mercurial and Bazaar. I’m still intrigued by how well such approaches might fit with the other development tools that I use, but there’s certainly a lot of buzz around their advantages.
Recently I listened to a podcast from some American folks about GitHub, a new site offering a git-based hosting service for source code. Worth a listen if you can get past the massive overuse of the word “awesome”.
The Web 2.0 Show - A podcast about the new web - Episode - Episode 45 - GitHub - Created by Josh Owens and Adam Stacoviak