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Erlang User Conference Registration Open with a Very-Early Bird Rate!
Registration for the Sixteenth International Erlang User Conference and Erlang University courses are now open. The first 100 people to register will receive a Very-Early Bird Discount and pay only SEK 750 including VAT! DON’T MISS OUT as last year's conference sold out.
Erlang User Conference 2010 Talk Submission Open!
The 2010 Erlang User Conference in Stockholm will be held on Tuesday 16th November 2010. The venue will again be the Old Astoria Cinema in Nybrogatan.
On Monday November 15th there will be a day of tutorials. This will allow delegates to again optimise their visit to Stockholm to take in both these events.
We have opened the submissions page. To submit a proposal for a talk or tutorial, visit the Talk Submission page.
More details will be forthcoming in the near future. Keep a look out or join the Erlang Factory Mailing list!
Erlang User Conference Date Announced
The 2010 Erlang User Conference in Stockholm will be held on Tuesday 16th November 2010. The venue will again be the Old Astoria Cinema in Nybrogatan.
On Monday 15th November there will be a ProTest (Property-based Testing) seminar series held at the Ericsson conference faciilities. This will allow delegates to again optimise their visit to Stockholm to take in both these events.
More details will be forthcoming in the near future. Keep a look out!
Only 1 week left!
There is only 1 week left to the Erlang Factory London. The Erlang University courses will start on 7th June and will be followed by the two-day Conference which starts on Thursday 10th.
There are still a few remaining places left on the Erlang University training courses: Erlang Express, Erlang OTP Express and Web Programming with Erlang.
If you haven't registered yet, you can still get a last minute seat - Book Now!
There are still a few remaining places left on the Erlang University training courses: Erlang Express, Erlang OTP Express and Web Programming with Erlang.
If you haven't registered yet, you can still get a last minute seat - Book Now!
Early-Bird Registration Ends in Just ONE WEEK!
Early-Bird Registration for the Erlang Factory London 2010 ends on 31st May, so you have only one week to save up to £200 (incl. VAT)!
There are only 2 weeks left to the biggest Erlang gathering in London. List of the speakers, the tracks and talks as well as the programme of the conference are now available on www.erlang-factory.com/conference/London2010
Don't miss out and register today.
There are only 2 weeks left to the biggest Erlang gathering in London. List of the speakers, the tracks and talks as well as the programme of the conference are now available on www.erlang-factory.com/conference/London2010
Don't miss out and register today.
Countdown to the Erlang Factory London
There are only 4 weeks left to the Erlang Factory London. If you haven't registered yet, you can still do this by clicking here.
We have new confirmed speakers: Peter Andersson
(Developer at Erlang/OTP),Mariano Guerra (creator of the Efene programming language), Erik Stenman (CTO of Klarna) and Daniel Widgren and Michael Nordström (Erlang hackers at Klarna).
'I'm attending', 'I'm speaking' and 'See you there' banners are now available here. You can add them to your blog, Twitter page or any website. You are also welcome to follow @erlangfactory on Twitter.
We have new confirmed speakers: Peter Andersson
(Developer at Erlang/OTP),Mariano Guerra (creator of the Efene programming language), Erik Stenman (CTO of Klarna) and Daniel Widgren and Michael Nordström (Erlang hackers at Klarna).
'I'm attending', 'I'm speaking' and 'See you there' banners are now available here. You can add them to your blog, Twitter page or any website. You are also welcome to follow @erlangfactory on Twitter.
New Speakers and the Very Early-Bird discount!
We have new amazing speakers for the Erlang Factory: Mariano Guerra (Creator of Efene and Emesene IM), Laura M. Castro from University of A Coruña, Michael Nordström and Daniel Widgren from Klarna, Ulf Norell and John Hughes from QuviQ AB.
To see all Speakers please click here.
Hurry! The Very Early Bird offer for the Erlang Factory London 2010 has been extended to Friday 7th May. Take advantage of this and book soon to save up to £400 off the standard price!
To see all Speakers please click here.
Hurry! The Very Early Bird offer for the Erlang Factory London 2010 has been extended to Friday 7th May. Take advantage of this and book soon to save up to £400 off the standard price!
New Speakers for the Erlang Factory London 2010
We would like to announce new Speakers for the Erlang Factory London: the designer and co-implementer of F# - Don Syme, Jan Lehnardt - CouchDB committer and evangelist, system engineer and back-end systems architect - Lahav Savir, Alvaro Videla - the lead developer for TheNetCircle.com.
To see all Speakers please click here.
Reminder: The Very Early-Bird Discount for the Erlang Factory London 2010 Expires This Friday! Register now and save up to £400!
To see all Speakers please click here.
Reminder: The Very Early-Bird Discount for the Erlang Factory London 2010 Expires This Friday! Register now and save up to £400!
First confirmed speakers for the Erlang Factory London 2010
We are proud to announce the first confirmed speakers for the Erlang Factory London 2010: the inventor of Scala -Martin Odersky, Robert Virding – the inventor of Erlang and Bluetail co-founder, the Father of Erlang - Joe Armstrong, Justin Sheehy and Rusty Klophaus from Basho Technologies, Github co-founder - Tom Preston-Werner, the creator of Erjang - Kresten Krab Thorup, Scott Lystig Fritchie from Gemini Mobile Technologies and Mark Zweifel and William Larson from Yahoo!
Be aware! Each day there are more and more people registering for the Erlang Factory London 2010. Register before it sells out!
Be aware! Each day there are more and more people registering for the Erlang Factory London 2010. Register before it sells out!
Registration for the Erlang Factory London is open!
The Erlang Factory London 2010 will be held on 10th and 11th June in the Old Session
House. On 7th, 8th and 9th June there will be also Erlang University courses taking place: Erlang Express, Erlang OTP Express,
QuickCheck for Erlang developers and Web Programming with Erlang.
Don't miss out Very Early-Bird discount - register by Friday, 30th April 2010 and save £200!
Don't miss out Very Early-Bird discount - register by Friday, 30th April 2010 and save £200!
Slides and photos from the Erlang Factory SF Bay 2010
Presentation slides and photos from the Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2010 are now available on our website:
- The presentation slides are available here
(please click on the icon underneath the individual talk description)
- The photos are available on Flickr and also on Facebook
The videos of the talks will be made available over the next few weeks. As they become available, you will find the icon for them adjacent to the slides icon as above.
- The presentation slides are available here
(please click on the icon underneath the individual talk description)
- The photos are available on Flickr and also on Facebook
The videos of the talks will be made available over the next few weeks. As they become available, you will find the icon for them adjacent to the slides icon as above.
Erlounge open to non-conference delegates
The Erlounge at the Erlang Factory will be open, not only to delegates
from the Erlang Factory, but also to others who are interested in
Erlang.
Attending is free, but to allow us to plan, non-conference attendees
must register here by the end of Tuesday, 23rd March.
From 18:00-19:30 on Thursday 25th, in an environment of beer, cool drinks and snacks, there will be a series of 10-minute talks as the first part of the Erlounge. User-groups and other Erlang interested parties will be given the opportunity to introduce themselves , their interests, their projects etc. If you wish to give a 10-minute talk, please submit your talk here.
Details of the location of the Erlounge you can find here.
From 18:00-19:30 on Thursday 25th, in an environment of beer, cool drinks and snacks, there will be a series of 10-minute talks as the first part of the Erlounge. User-groups and other Erlang interested parties will be given the opportunity to introduce themselves , their interests, their projects etc. If you wish to give a 10-minute talk, please submit your talk here.
Details of the location of the Erlounge you can find here.
New Speaker for the Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2010
We would like to announce Geoff Cant as a Speaker for the Erlang Factory SF Bay Area. Geoff will give a talk on "Enet: TCP/IP in Pure(ish) Erlang".
To see all Speakers please click here. The programme of the conference is available here.
Reminder: The Erlang Factory in SF Bay Area is just over a week away! Do not miss out on what will be the biggest gathering of Erlang expertise in the USA, register today!
To see all Speakers please click here. The programme of the conference is available here.
Reminder: The Erlang Factory in SF Bay Area is just over a week away! Do not miss out on what will be the biggest gathering of Erlang expertise in the USA, register today!
Countdown to the Erlang Factory SF Bay Area
There are only 3 weeks left to the biggest Erlang gathering in the USA. We have 43 speakers giving 35 talks in 6 tracks! The programme of the conference can be viewed here. If you haven't registered yet, you can still do this by clicking here.
'I'm attending', 'I'm speaking' and 'See you there' banners are now available here. You can add them to your blog, Twitter page or any website. You are also welcome to follow @erlangfactory on Twitter.
'I'm attending', 'I'm speaking' and 'See you there' banners are now available here. You can add them to your blog, Twitter page or any website. You are also welcome to follow @erlangfactory on Twitter.
Early Bird Saver - only two weeks left!
You only have two weeks left to take advantage of our Early Bird special offers. Sign-up for the Erlang Factory before 28th February 2010 and SAVE $200 off the standard price!
When registering, you can also sign up for the Erlang University courses and choose from: Erlang Express, Erlang OTP Express, QuickCheck for Erlang developers and Web Programming with Erlang. The discount applies to the courses as well.
Don't miss out - book your place today!
When registering, you can also sign up for the Erlang University courses and choose from: Erlang Express, Erlang OTP Express, QuickCheck for Erlang developers and Web Programming with Erlang. The discount applies to the courses as well.
Don't miss out - book your place today!
Book your hotel room for the Erlang Factory!
The 2010 Erlang Factory will be held at the Hilton San Francisco Airport. You can now book your hotel room there for the GREAT CONFERENCE RATE! For rooms with a Kingsize bed, delegates will pay only $109.00 per night – room only, with FREE PARKING and FREE WI-FI in the rooms for delegates.
To book for the special Erlang Factory rate click HERE.
To book for the special Erlang Factory rate click HERE.
New confirmed speakers for the Erlang Factory SF Bay Area
We have new confirmed speakers: Bjarne Däcker (Manager of the CSLab at Ericsson - the birthplace of Erlang), Sean Cribbs (Neotoma creator and web developer), Chad DePue (Entrepreneur and creator of ErlangInside.com), Sadek Drobi (Consultant and programming languages Evangelist at Valtech), Rob King (Erlang Enthusiast in DVLabs), Todd Lipcon (Software Engineer in Cloudera), Martin Logan (Erlang author and Faxien and Sinan committer), Eric Merritt (Erlang author and Erlware Committer), Dean Wampler (Scala fanboi and co-author of "Programming Scala"), Kenny Stone(Trading Systems Expert), Jack Moffit (XMPP expert and co-founder of Collecta), Thomas Arts (Professor and co-founder of QuviQ AB) and John Hughes (Inventor of QuickCheck and Erlanger of the year).
Very Early-Bird discount ends this weekend!
Don't miss out Very Early-Bird discount for the Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2010. Register by midnight this Sunday, 31st January 2010 and save $400!
The discount applies to the conference and to the Erlang University courses: Erlang Express, Erlang OTP Express, QuickCheck for Erlang developers and Web Programming with Erlang.
The discount applies to the conference and to the Erlang University courses: Erlang Express, Erlang OTP Express, QuickCheck for Erlang developers and Web Programming with Erlang.
Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2010 update
We have new confirmed speakers: Nick Gerakines (Author of "Facebook Application Development" and "Erlang Web Application Development"), Kresten Krab Thorup (CTO of Trifork and Creator of Erjang), Cliff Moon (Dynomite creator and committer), Kenji Rikitake (Expert researcher in network security), Kevin Smith (Pragmatic Programmer author), Dave Smith (software engineer at Basho) and Joe Williams (Developer at Cloudant and creator of Erlang Memcached client).
If you want to be among them and give a presentation at the Erlang Factory, you have time until 31st January to submit your talk for review by the Conference committee.
Last but not least, registration for the Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2010 is now open. Sign-up before 30th January 2010 and SAVE $400 with the Early-Bird offer!
Keep a look out and follow us on Twitter @erlangfactory
If you want to be among them and give a presentation at the Erlang Factory, you have time until 31st January to submit your talk for review by the Conference committee.
Last but not least, registration for the Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2010 is now open. Sign-up before 30th January 2010 and SAVE $400 with the Early-Bird offer!
Keep a look out and follow us on Twitter @erlangfactory
First confirmed speakers for the Erlang Factory SF Bay Area
We are very excited to announce that Joe Armstrong – the “father of Erlang” has agreed to be the Keynote Speaker at the SF Bay Area Factory this year! We are also pleased that the following have confirmed their inclusion in the speakers line-up: Steve Vinoski (Yaws committer, REST advocate, and distributed systems expert), Tony Garnock-Jones (RabbitMQ developer), Alexis Richardson (AMQP Expert and CEO at RabbitMQ), Justin Sheehy (CTO of Basho Technologies and creator of the Erlang Webmachine), Simon Thompson (Creator of Wrangler and co-author of Erlang Programming) and Michael Truog (Creator of Cloudi). There are more talks currently being reviewed by the Conference committee, so keep a look out regularly for new Speakers and Talks!
If you want to give a presentation at the Erlang Factory, please submit your talk for review by the Conference committee by 31st January. If your talk is accepted, you get free entry to the conference.
Keep a look out and follow us on Twitter @erlangfactory
If you want to give a presentation at the Erlang Factory, please submit your talk for review by the Conference committee by 31st January. If your talk is accepted, you get free entry to the conference.
Keep a look out and follow us on Twitter @erlangfactory
Erlang Factory 2010 Dates Announced!!
The dates of the Erlang Factory in the SF Bay Area and London have been announced.
* SF Bay Area:
25-26 March 2010
* London:
10-11 June 2010
Registration will be opening soon and we are currently accepting talk proposals. If you want to give a presentation at the Erlang Factory, you can find more information how to do that, here. Keep a look out and follow us on Twitter @erlangfactory
* SF Bay Area:
25-26 March 2010
* London:
10-11 June 2010
Registration will be opening soon and we are currently accepting talk proposals. If you want to give a presentation at the Erlang Factory, you can find more information how to do that, here. Keep a look out and follow us on Twitter @erlangfactory
Erlang User Conference 2009 Materials
Materials from the Erlang User Conference 2009 and Tutorials Workshop at the EUC2009 are now available on our website:
- The presentation slides from the EUC2009 are available here
- The tutorial slides can be found here
- The photos taken at the EUC2009 are here
- The photos taken at the Tutorials Workshop are here
If you want to see more photos from the EUC2009 and previous Erlang User Conferences, they are all available on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/erlang-consulting/ Please feel free to comment and tag the photos if you have Flickr account.
The videos of the talks will be available soon on our website.
- The presentation slides from the EUC2009 are available here
- The tutorial slides can be found here
- The photos taken at the EUC2009 are here
- The photos taken at the Tutorials Workshop are here
If you want to see more photos from the EUC2009 and previous Erlang User Conferences, they are all available on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/erlang-consulting/ Please feel free to comment and tag the photos if you have Flickr account.
The videos of the talks will be available soon on our website.
15th International Erlang User Conference a Tremendous Success!
This year's Erlang User Conference is a remarkable success with 250 delegates attending from as far as the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zeland. The day is packed with 14 interesting talks, which are recorded and will be soon available on our website.
Follow us on Twitter: @erlangfactory to be up-to-date with the conference and to read other interesting comments type #EUC into search.twitter.com
Follow us on Twitter: @erlangfactory to be up-to-date with the conference and to read other interesting comments type #EUC into search.twitter.com
Common Test tutorial added to Friday's line-up
We are very excited to announce that Peter Andersson of Ericsson will be giving a tutorial on the Common Test application.
We will taking names of people interested in attending this tutorial during the Erlang User Conference tomorrow and will arrange the timing o fthe tutorial on Friday later in the day based on demand.
Come and see Joanna at the Registration desk tomorrow and book your place.
We will taking names of people interested in attending this tutorial during the Erlang User Conference tomorrow and will arrange the timing o fthe tutorial on Friday later in the day based on demand.
Come and see Joanna at the Registration desk tomorrow and book your place.
Countdown to the Erlang User Conference
There are only 3 days left to the 15th International Erlang User Conference!
Don’t forget:
Registration
The registration starts at 08:00 and the conference itself at 09:00 on Thursday, 12th November.
Directions
For those wanting to travel by tube in Stockholm (Tunnelabana) we have prepared a printable map. It is available here.
Erlounge
Erlounge starts at 18:30 and the Conference Dinner at 19:00.
See you in three days!
Don’t forget:
Registration
The registration starts at 08:00 and the conference itself at 09:00 on Thursday, 12th November.
Directions
For those wanting to travel by tube in Stockholm (Tunnelabana) we have prepared a printable map. It is available here.
Erlounge
Erlounge starts at 18:30 and the Conference Dinner at 19:00.
See you in three days!
Erlang User Conference Programme and Erlounge Details Announced!
Erlang User Conference Programme now Available!
The programme for the 15th International Erlang User Conference has been finalised and can be found here. As always it is a long day packed with great speakers and topical talks.
Erlounge Details announced!
After the very intensive day of the Erlang User Conference delegates and speakers are invited to an Erlounge and Dinner that will be held also at the Astoria. Due to the move to this great venue it is now possible for the whole event to be held in the same location. There will be drinks and a buffet dinner provided courtesy of the sponsors. The Erlounge will start at 18:30 and end around 22:00. See you there!
The programme for the 15th International Erlang User Conference has been finalised and can be found here. As always it is a long day packed with great speakers and topical talks.
Erlounge Details announced!
After the very intensive day of the Erlang User Conference delegates and speakers are invited to an Erlounge and Dinner that will be held also at the Astoria. Due to the move to this great venue it is now possible for the whole event to be held in the same location. There will be drinks and a buffet dinner provided courtesy of the sponsors. The Erlounge will start at 18:30 and end around 22:00. See you there!
More places for the Erlang User Conference!
220 delegates have already registered for the 15th International Erlang User Conference, but we are not closing the registration yet! We have been able to add another 30 places and now we can accept a maximum of 250 delegates.
So hurry up and sign up before these places sell out!
So hurry up and sign up before these places sell out!
Update on the Erlang User Conference
Attendance at the 15th International Erlang User Conference is almost 50% over last year, with 220 attendees registered. So if you know you want to attend, register ASAP before the places sell out. Early bird registration also ends this week (October 15th), and prices will go up.
There was an overwhelming number of talk submissions, and the programme is now almost complete. You can see more about the programme here.
'I'm attending', 'I'm speaking' and 'See you there' banners are now available on our website. You can add them to your blog, Twitter page or any website. There is also an event on Facebook and LinkedIn you can register for and you can follow @erlangfactory on Twitter.
There was an overwhelming number of talk submissions, and the programme is now almost complete. You can see more about the programme here.
'I'm attending', 'I'm speaking' and 'See you there' banners are now available on our website. You can add them to your blog, Twitter page or any website. There is also an event on Facebook and LinkedIn you can register for and you can follow @erlangfactory on Twitter.
Early Bird Registration Ends in Just ONE WEEK!
Early Bird Registration for the 15th International Erlang User Conference ends on 15th October, so you have only one week to save SEK 450 (excl VAT)!
With 20 speakers and 14 talks, you will walk away from the conference knowing much more about Erlang and its applications. If you would like to prepare for the conference we recommend the three-day Erlang training courses (Erlang Express, ErlangOTP) or QuickCheck for Erlang Developers, which will be just before the Conference. What's more, the day after the conference you are welcome to participate in the Erlang and Test-Driven Development Tutorials. These tutorials are part of the EU-funded ProTest project.
So much for so little! So don't miss out and register today.
With 20 speakers and 14 talks, you will walk away from the conference knowing much more about Erlang and its applications. If you would like to prepare for the conference we recommend the three-day Erlang training courses (Erlang Express, ErlangOTP) or QuickCheck for Erlang Developers, which will be just before the Conference. What's more, the day after the conference you are welcome to participate in the Erlang and Test-Driven Development Tutorials. These tutorials are part of the EU-funded ProTest project.
So much for so little! So don't miss out and register today.
16 speakers + 12 talks = Erlang User Conference
We are proud to have 16 speakers at the Erlang User Conference in Stockholm. Just to mention a few: Github co-founders Scott Chacon and Tom Preston-Werner, Eric Merritt co-author of ‘Erlang and OTP in Action’, Joseph Wayne Norton and Scott Lystig Fritchie from Gemini Mobile Technologies, Jared Flatow and Ville Tuulos from Nokia Research Center. To learn more about our speakers and their talks please go here.
Be aware! Each day there are more and more people registering for the Erlang User Conference and since there are a limited number of places we recommend that you register before it sells out!
Be aware! Each day there are more and more people registering for the Erlang User Conference and since there are a limited number of places we recommend that you register before it sells out!
Registration for the Erlang User Conference is open
The Erlang User Conference is the best place to exchange knowledge, experience and the vision for the future of Erlang.
We have great speakers who will share all that with YOU. This conference has become one of the best Erlang networking events in Europe.
The Erlang User Conference 2009 will be held on 12th November at the Astoria on Nybrogatan in Stockholm.
In addition to the conference itself, there will be three-day Erlang training courses from 9th to 11th November
and a day of Erlang and Test-Driven Development Tutorials on the 13th.
So far each Erlang User Conference has been met with great interest so don't waste time and register before it sells out!
We have great speakers who will share all that with YOU. This conference has become one of the best Erlang networking events in Europe.
The Erlang User Conference 2009 will be held on 12th November at the Astoria on Nybrogatan in Stockholm.
In addition to the conference itself, there will be three-day Erlang training courses from 9th to 11th November
and a day of Erlang and Test-Driven Development Tutorials on the 13th.
So far each Erlang User Conference has been met with great interest so don't waste time and register before it sells out!
Erlang User Conference
The Erlang User Conference will be held on 12th November 2009 at a venue in central Stockholm.
The venue will be announced soon. The EUC has outgrown the premises at Ericsson in Älvsjö and will be moving to a venue where the larger numbers of delegates can be accommodated. A small registration fee will be charged to cover these costs.
Further information will be available soon together with the ability to register on-line. Watch this space!
The venue will be announced soon. The EUC has outgrown the premises at Ericsson in Älvsjö and will be moving to a venue where the larger numbers of delegates can be accommodated. A small registration fee will be charged to cover these costs.
Further information will be available soon together with the ability to register on-line. Watch this space!
Erlounge open to non-conference delegates
The Erlounge at the Erlang Factory will be open, not only to delegates from the Erlang Factory, but also to others who are interested in Erlang. Members of the London Erlang-User group are especially welcome. Attending is free, but to allow us to plan, non-conference attendees must register here.
From 18:00-19:30 on Thursday 25th, in an environment of beer, cool drinks and snacks, there will be a series of 10-minute talks as the first part of the Erlounge. User-groups and other Erlang interested parties will be given the opportunity to introduce themselves , their interests, their projects etc. If you wish to give a 10-minute talk, please submit your talk here.
Details of the location of the Erlounge you can find here.
From 18:00-19:30 on Thursday 25th, in an environment of beer, cool drinks and snacks, there will be a series of 10-minute talks as the first part of the Erlounge. User-groups and other Erlang interested parties will be given the opportunity to introduce themselves , their interests, their projects etc. If you wish to give a 10-minute talk, please submit your talk here.
Details of the location of the Erlounge you can find here.
SF Bay - A Great Success
The SF Bay Erlang Factory is now over, bar the Tweeting and blogging!
There was consensus amongst the almost 120 attendees that it was a brilliant forum of Erlang expertise. Many thanks from the organisers to the Speakers and the Delegates for making it such a success!
Some examples of the comments posted on the web are:
"..I’d like to mention how impressed I was with the whole experience, I talked to a lot of interesting people about their interesting uses of Erlang.." - Andrew on 'OpenCSM Blog'.
"Erlang Factory rocked and you should’ve been there" - Kevin Smith on 'Hypothetical Labs Blog'.
"Every single talk that I went to was of very high quality." - Ted Leung on 'Ted Leung on the Air'
"I attended the Bay Area Erlang Factory last week. It was a great event. I met many Erlang hackers, attended interesting talks, learned about cool projects (CouchDB, QuickCheck, Nitrogen, Facebook Chat), gave a talk about ErlyWeb, and drank beer (without beer, it wouldn’t be a true Erlang meetup) - Yariv Sadan on 'Yariv's Blog'.
There was consensus amongst the almost 120 attendees that it was a brilliant forum of Erlang expertise. Many thanks from the organisers to the Speakers and the Delegates for making it such a success!
Some examples of the comments posted on the web are:
"..I’d like to mention how impressed I was with the whole experience, I talked to a lot of interesting people about their interesting uses of Erlang.." - Andrew on 'OpenCSM Blog'.
"Erlang Factory rocked and you should’ve been there" - Kevin Smith on 'Hypothetical Labs Blog'.
"Every single talk that I went to was of very high quality." - Ted Leung on 'Ted Leung on the Air'
"I attended the Bay Area Erlang Factory last week. It was a great event. I met many Erlang hackers, attended interesting talks, learned about cool projects (CouchDB, QuickCheck, Nitrogen, Facebook Chat), gave a talk about ErlyWeb, and drank beer (without beer, it wouldn’t be a true Erlang meetup) - Yariv Sadan on 'Yariv's Blog'.
London Speakers update
Palo Alto
The SF Bay Area Factory is on the launch Pad and ready to go. Over 110 speakers and delegates will be speaking, hearing and probably even sleeping Erlang for two days next week. There is a great Erlounge planned and a rumour of some good beer too! See you there!
London
We are honoured to have the manager of the Ericsson Erlang/OTP development team agree to speak. Kenneth Lundin will talk about the latest features of the Erlang/OTP R13B release and its performance with multi-core processors. Other recent accepted talks are from Bhaskar Kode - co-founder of hover.in - who will be discussing the reasons for the choice of Erlang for their platform back-end and Hunter Morris who will show how Erlang was used in the development of the SMarkets sports betting engine. Stay tuned, we are now adding talks on a daily basis.
The SF Bay Area Factory is on the launch Pad and ready to go. Over 110 speakers and delegates will be speaking, hearing and probably even sleeping Erlang for two days next week. There is a great Erlounge planned and a rumour of some good beer too! See you there!
London
We are honoured to have the manager of the Ericsson Erlang/OTP development team agree to speak. Kenneth Lundin will talk about the latest features of the Erlang/OTP R13B release and its performance with multi-core processors. Other recent accepted talks are from Bhaskar Kode - co-founder of hover.in - who will be discussing the reasons for the choice of Erlang for their platform back-end and Hunter Morris who will show how Erlang was used in the development of the SMarkets sports betting engine. Stay tuned, we are now adding talks on a daily basis.
15th March 2009
SF Bay (Palo Alto)
Lennart Öhman - the inventor of the OTP Design Patterns, Rusty Klophaus - the inventor of the Nitrogen Web Framework and Yariv Sadan, - the creator of ErlyWeb have all confirmed for the Palo Alto Factory. There are now over 30 international speakers and this promises to be the largest collection of Erlang talent ever assembled in one place.
London
Bjarne Dacker and Joe Armstrong have been confirmed for the London Factory! Bjarne was the man who managed the CSLab at Ericsson where Erlang was born. Joe was the chief software architect. Hear about the conception and gestation of Erlang! Keep watching the Speakers for London as they are confirmed. If you enjoyed (or missed!) last year's Erlang eXchange, do not miss this year's Erlang Factory in London!
Lennart Öhman - the inventor of the OTP Design Patterns, Rusty Klophaus - the inventor of the Nitrogen Web Framework and Yariv Sadan, - the creator of ErlyWeb have all confirmed for the Palo Alto Factory. There are now over 30 international speakers and this promises to be the largest collection of Erlang talent ever assembled in one place.
London
Bjarne Dacker and Joe Armstrong have been confirmed for the London Factory! Bjarne was the man who managed the CSLab at Ericsson where Erlang was born. Joe was the chief software architect. Hear about the conception and gestation of Erlang! Keep watching the Speakers for London as they are confirmed. If you enjoyed (or missed!) last year's Erlang eXchange, do not miss this year's Erlang Factory in London!
Early bird discount extended
Due to the delay in getting the on-line registration and
payment engine in place, we are extending the time for the Very
Early Bird admission discounts. These will now be extended to 15th March.
Register and pay before 15th March to get $200 off the normal price!
SAP
Come and hear about Erlang at SAP.
Sumeet Bajaj, a Research Scientist at SAP Research Americas, will be talking about their experiences with applying Erlang to the challenge of building a high performance rules engine.
Multicore talks
We have now confirmed two talks on Erlang and Multicore. Firstly, Ulf Wiger will be speaking on "Multicore Programming in Erlang" and John Hughes, the inventor of QuickCheck, will be speaking on "Testing Erlang Programmes for Multicore". Come and hear how to use Erlang to utilise multicore processors effectively.
Ruby
We have updated a number of speakers and talks. See our Day 2 Keynote Speaker - Ezra Zygmuntowicz's talk on "You got your Erlang in my Ruby" and Tom Preston-Werner's talk on "Mixing Erlang and Ruby with Erlectricity". Both deal with the pro's and con's of the two languages and how to get the best from both.
We have added new speakers and abstracts. Read Cliff Moon's biography and abstract for his talk on Everything you've wanted to know about Dynomite but were afraid to ask and get an update on Richard Carlsson's talk on Eunit HowTo: tips, tricks and news.
We have added new speakers and abstracts. Read Cliff Moon's biography and abstract for his talk on Everything you've wanted to know about Dynomite but were afraid to ask and get an update on Richard Carlsson's talk on Eunit HowTo: tips, tricks and news.
Launch
We have launched the beta version our Erlang Factory website. Come back often as we are still working on it and will be adding content and features daily.