Category Archives: Erlang

Death of goroutines under control

Posted on 2011-10-09 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Certainly one of the reasons why many people are attracted to the Go language is its first-class concurrency aspects. Features like communication channels, lightweight processes (goroutines), and proper scheduling of these are not only native to the language but are … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Design, Erlang, Go, Project, Snippet, Test | 5 Comments

Efficient algorithm for expanding circular buffers

Posted on 2010-12-23 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Circular buffers are based on an algorithm well known by any developer who’s got past the “Hello world!” days. They offer a number of key characteristics with wide applicability such as constant and efficient memory use, efficient FIFO semantics, etc. … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Article, C/C++, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, Lua, Perl, Python, Ruby, Snippet | 3 Comments

Introducing The Hacking Sandbox

Posted on 2010-09-25 by Gustavo Niemeyer

When I started programming in Python long ago, one of the features which really hooked me up was the quality interactive interpreter offered with the language implementation. It was (and still is) a fantastic way to experiment with syntax, semantics, … Continue reading →

Posted in C/C++, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, Lua, Perl, Ruby | 10 Comments

Python has a GIL, and lots of complainers

Posted on 2010-07-09 by Gustavo Niemeyer

I’ve just read a post by Brett Cannon where, basically, he complains about complainers. If you don’t know who Brett is, you’re probably not a heavy Python user. Brett is a very important Python core developer which has been around … Continue reading →

Posted in Erlang, Go, Python | 31 Comments

Integrating IRC with LDAP and two-way SMSing

Posted on 2010-06-19 by Gustavo Niemeyer

A bit of history I don’t know exactly why, but I’ve always enjoyed IRC bots. Perhaps it’s the fact that it emulates a person in an easy-to-program way, or maybe it’s about having a flexible and shared “command line” tool, … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Cloud, Erlang, Mobile, Project, Python | 1 Comment