First of all, sorry for missing last week’s updates, I was out of town and did not have access to Internet. This update will try to include two weeks of work!
Articles and Blog posts
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The talks from Erlang&Elixir Factory Buenos Aires have all been uploaded to YouTube. Check them out here.
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Juan Facorro (@jfacorro) has created a new port of Clojure that runs on the Erlang VM, called
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CodeFights now supports Erlang as a language to code with: http://blog.codefights.com/new-supported-languages/
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Mariano Guerra (@warianoguerra) is preparing a yearly survey template for the Erlang community. This is great work as it unites all of us towards what’s best for the community. He is asking for comments/feedback before doing the proper survey, please have a look and send comments to him directly: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OrZMScZNHpFUJv5D5UWs2Abkh-dcvsPzsSqO3xVkqdU/viewform?edit_requested=true
Library updates
OTP Updates
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OTP 20.0.2 was released 9 days ago, and it includes some bug fixes. Read about the release here. You can dowload it from here: https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-20.0.2
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OTP 19.3.6.2 was also released recently, again with a few bug fixes in ERTS. Find the announcement here. And download the patch here: https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-19.3.6.2
Meetups and Courses
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I liked this last time as well, but it doesn’t hurt to over promote. There is still time to signup for University of Kent’s MOOC on Erlang. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/concurrent-programming-erlang/
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Erlang Solutions is running a webinar with @csierra no how Twnel uses MongooseIM. You have until August 31st to signup: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/resources/webinars.html
Library of the week
This week I want to introduce you to one of Fred Hebert’s libraries vmstats that I had completely forgotten about. I had to submit a PR this week and got reminded of how well this library is written. vmstats is a good example of how a really small library can have a huge impact. If we can have more of these helpful but small well written libraries we can make everyone’s life easier. Have a look at it here:
https://github.com/ferd/vmstats
Announcements
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Everything is now on github as a Jekyll blog. If you do find mistakes or think something needs to change head on here and submit a PR! You can also suggest stuff for next week there.
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You can either visit
https://gootik.github.io/this-week-in-erlang/or read the updates on my Mediumhttps://medium.com/@gootik