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Robert Virding teaches OTP Express Course on 10-12 June 2013

As a co-inventor of Erlang, Robert Virding is probably one of the best persons in the world to teach you all you need to know about Behaviours. It's a bit like getting piano lessons from Bach.

So we're extremly thrilled to announce that this year Robert Virding will be teaching this year's OTP Express course starting on 10 June. What will you learn?

• Use existing Design Patterns supported by Erlang and OTP.

• Apply Generic Behaviours, Finite State Machines and Event handler Patterns.

• Use the Supervisor and Application Behaviours Patterns.

• Write your own Design Patterns.

• Structure large Erlang based systems.

Hurry up and register here

As a co-inventor of Erlang, Robert Virding is probably one of the best persons in the world to teach you all you need to know about Behaviours. It's a bit like getting piano lessons from Bach.

So we're extremly thrilled to announce that this year Robert Virding will be teaching this year's OTP Express course starting on 10 June. What will you learn?

• Use existing Design Patterns supported by Erlang and OTP.

• Apply Generic Behaviours, Finite State Machines and Event handler Patterns.

• Use the Supervisor and Application Behaviours Patterns.

• Write your own Design Patterns.

• Structure large Erlang based systems.

To register for the course, go here

Erlang User of the Year 2013: Nominate your favourite until 17 May!

As every year, at EUC 2013 the Erlang community will reward one Erlang user whose contribution to the development of the Erlang language has been outstanding. You are invited to submit your proposed names with a short motivation until 17 May here.

Nominations will be analysed by a panel headed by Bjarne Däcker and composed of five members: Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding, Kenneth Lundin - head of the Ericsson Erlang/OTP team, Dave Smith - winner of the 2011 award and Fred Hebert - winner of the 2012 award.

Mike Williams, Robert Virding and Joe Armstrong will give a keynote talk at the Erlang User Conference

Having the inventors of Erlang Mike Williams, Robert Virding and Joe Armstrong all together on the same stage is a very rare occurrence. And when their talk is about their vast experience and how it influenced the developing of Erlang, you know 'Over a century of programming' is one keynote you do not want to miss.

The Early Bird admission will close on 15th of May at 24.00 Sweden Time (GMT+1), so hurry up and get your ticket!

Erlang User Conference 2013: 50 Very Early Bird tickets released on 19 March

On 19 March at 12.00 Sweden time we have released a promotional batch of 50 tickets at the Very Early bird rates. They are going fast, but hurry up and you might still get some here.

Erlang Co-Inventor Joe Armstrong replaces Claes Wikström as keynote speaker at the Erlang Factory SF Bay 2013

Co-inventor of Erlang Joe Armstrong will be replacing Claes Wikström as a keynote speaker on the 22nd of March at the Erlang Factory SF Bay conference. Joe Armstrong's talk is titled The How and Why of Fitting Things Together.