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The OP has another project called parrot

https://github.com/GetParrot/Parrot

so I think he just likes parrots and the name is coincidence.

I am looking to build a lifestyle business. Even if my startup fails to generate any revenue I hope that it will prove to be a good advertisement of my technical skills and I will succeed in getting some well paid freelance jobs so that I can remain independent.

Yes great work by the author. Makes me want to try out lua for web development.

Very nice. Merry Christmas hacker news.

I have always believed that best way to learn a new language is to spend time with it. Read as much as you can. Watch subtitled movies and you will instinctively pick up on pronounciation.

Above all speak and write it. As you spend more time with it you will gain confidence.

Erlang has few books but they are a good read.I started reading learn you some erlang just because I found it unusual for a programming book to have bearded octopus and before I know it I was totally hooked!

Yes. I will launch with private messaging. The reason for this is that websockets are supported in all the web browsers where as web rtc is only supported in two.

I am also planning to build chrome and Firefox apps to support native like experience on desktop and hopefully (when it works) on mobile.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will put up an email collection form today.

Great read. Thanks for sharing.

MDN has a good explanation

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...

Thank you. Here it is

http://www.wrinq.com/

It is not much at all just a description of what wrinq is going to be. But I am making progress every day.

As far as I understand exlir compiles into erlang code. So there should be no performance difference.

2013 is not over :) . I am still aiming to release my V1 before 31 dec.

Looks like erlang frameworks are not represented...

Count of monte cristo. I know it's fictional but reading about a fellow put wrongly in prison at a young age, who manages to escape and achieve great fame never fails to pump me up.

> It reads like English

My sentiments exactly. Atoms and pattern matching make my programs highly readable.

When I was starting out in erlang I read a lot of complaints on erlang's syntax. But after a day or two I got comfortable around it.

What? This news made my day. Thanks :)

I picked up on erlang during august this year after reading an article by Joe Armstrong on it. I was new to functional programming and there were two things that I found really interesting.

First was the use of atoms. I am not too proud to say it, but when I as a beginner I used lots of "magic strings" in my code. I found them a lot more easier to understand.Stuff like

if(a="run") //some piece of code here

was common in my code. Of course the best practice was to use a bool run, but I had to train myself to stop using magic strings when I found out that it was bad practice.

In erlang however it is very common to use literal values which are known as atoms. So for instance an atom "blue" is blue. It does not have anything associated with it(well internally it is represented as an integer). You can't perform any operations on it, you can't change it etc. And it immediately clicked with me

The second thing was pattern matching

You have got to use pattern matching to see how awesome it is. It allows you to make your programes much more readable by dividing your function into a group of clauses. A clause will be executed only if a corresponding pattern matches to it. If you use it well you can grasp the flow of your program in a single reading.

There was other really cool stuff about erlang like otp, concurrency etc but when I started with it the only things that I cared for were atoms and pattern matching.They got me started with erlang. Now that I have used erlang a bit more I find things like gen_events and gen_fsm behaviors invaluable for the stuff that I am trying to do.

sorry for the self promotion. I am working on a messagin service that values privacy. Check out wrinq

http://www.wrinq.com/

sorry for the self promotion.I am working on wrinq a meesaging service that values privacy. You can check it out here http://www.wrinq.com/

Yeah I agree with you about deprecation. While couchDB may not be a good fit building large html applications for small applications show and list are invaluable.

Consider a diqus like platform. How cool it will be if formatted comments can be served directly from the database.

But she said that they will be available through plugins. So we will have to wait and see...

The node js addition is to leverage the speed of v8 engine that impacts only the view building time and not much else(I could be wrong though)

Actually couchDb has been doing a plenty of conferences for a long time. They are a regular feature in erlang talks. And they are pretty active on github as well. It's just that they don't come in the news much.

Thanks for the link.10 common misconceptions about couchDB and couchDB inside microsoft look really interesting.

I think couchDB team should add link to the videos directly inside the wiki. They could be a great resource for a new comer.

I need help with my project

https://github.com/brickcap/wrinqle

The goal of wrinqle is to provide an easy way to facilitate communication between web sockets connected to the same server.

I am new to erlang development.I need someone to review my code and help me in writing unit tests for gen_events.

Side note: I wish 24pullrequests allowed more than 200 characters :(

Any way very nice website. Thanks.

Chrome apps do work on android

http://gigaom.com/2013/10/03/newest-chrome-beta-integrates-w...

Just one suggestion.I think it would improve the usability if you put the run button below the program source.

Otherwise wonderful work. I think it would be difficult to top this.

Nice. What technologies are you using to build Frontend?

Ha ha nice. It would be great if we could somehow get the complete uncut photo.

True but with source control there is a maxim

"Commit early and commit often"

I was talking about this one

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245844/?ref_=nv_sr_2

not entirely faithful to the book but it is well done. I have not watched the oldies. Any suggestions?

Yeah that is on my radar. I have wanted to read it ever since I read more about Hugh. Really like the guy.