Posted: June 8th, 2009 | Author: kevin | Filed under: Erlang, Meetup | Comments Off
Wow. Another month has gone by and it’s time for another erlounge. Things have gotten a bit stale of late and I’ve no-one to blame but myself. It’s time I fixed that.
So.
This month, and subsequent months, we’re going to start splitting the meetings into two parts. The first, lasting 30-45 minutes will be a directed learning session focusing on some aspect of Erlang. This month we’ll focus on the basics of Erlang, getting it installed and getting acquainted with the syntax. In subsequent months we’ll move onto writing concurrent programs and finally exploring the power of distributed Erlang.
The second half of the meeting, lasting for at least 30 minutes, will be an informal session where people can continue working on programming exercises, socialize, or give a 5-10 minute lightning talk about something cool they’re doing with Erlang. We’ve got a small but growing Erlang community who’s doing some pretty cool stuff like Mark Imbriaco who put Erlang to work at 37 Signals and Sean Cribbs who’s written a Twitter bot in Erlang.
Click here to get more info about the meetup and RSVP.
Posted: November 14th, 2008 | Author: kevin | Filed under: Erlang, Meetup | Comments Off
We had another successful erlounge RDU Hack Night last night. Not quite as big a turn out as the inaugural Hack Night but still quite healthy with 7 brave souls in attendance.
I think everyone had a good time. There were lots of discussions and Erlang hackery going on. I’m really excited to see the level of interest and enthusiasm for Erlang in the group.
Our next meeting will be on 12/11 at Carrboro Creative Coworking.
Posted: November 12th, 2008 | Author: kevin | Filed under: Erlang, Meetup | View Comments
A reminder that erlounge RDU’s monthly hack night is tomorrow night at Carrboro Creative Coworking starting around 7:00 PM.
A bunch of us are meeting at the Starbuck’s on Creedmoor Road at 5:30 to carpool to Carrboro so if you want to go but don’t want to drive all the way by yourself this might be an option for you.
I’m planning to grab a bite at Carrburritos around 6:00-ish. Anyone who’d like to join is welcome to hang out, enjoy a tasty burrito, and shoot the geekish breeze.
Posted: October 30th, 2008 | Author: kevin | Filed under: Erlang, Meetup | Comments Off
Given the success of the last Erlang Hack Night and the generous donation of space by Brian Russell at CCC, I’ve decided to revive the erlounge RDU group. Instead of structured meetings with presenters and an agenda, the meetings will continue to be an informal way to bring developers interested in Erlang together to work on exercises, ask questions, hack on their own Erlang projects or just shoot the breeze. Of course, if you have a topic you’d like to talk about we’re up for that, too :)
If you’re at all interested in Erlang, please consider signing up and coming out to a Hack Night.
Posted: October 23rd, 2008 | Author: kevin | Filed under: Erlang, Meetup | Comments Off
Last night’s Erlang Hack Night was awesome! I was completely blown away by the turnout. I started out the evening with pretty low expectations. I told my friend Mark I’d be happy to get 4 people to turn up. Well, we got four people pretty quickly and more just kept on coming. My final count was eleven people!
Since everyone, with a few exceptions, was new to Erlang, I did a quick re-hash of the presentation I gave to raleigh.rb last month.
Everyone seemed interested and asked tons of good questions. The presentation and Q&A session took up most of the evening but we did manage to squeeze in getting Erlang installed on a couple of laptops and work through a few of the programming exercises I brought.
We had so much fun we’re going to do it again! I’m considering holding regular hack nights at CCC. I’m leaning towards the 2nd Thursday of each month since it looks to conflict with the fewest popular meetups. If you’re interested in attending the hack nights, please drop me an email at kevin at hypotheticalabs dot com with your preferred times and we’ll see what the group can work out.
Finally, a great big “THANK YOU” to Brian Russell for the use of CCC’s excellent meeting space. Being able to meet in a real office space and not a restaurant with free wifi was wonderful.
Update: I forgot to mention we now have a registered IRC channel, #erloungeRDU, on Freenode, too! Thanks to Sean Cribbs for setting it up. I’m planning on hanging out there most days, so drop on by if you feel like chatting about Erlang.
