Saturday, August 11, 2007

SF Bay Area ErlLounge, Aug 15

In case you haven't seen the announcement on the mailing list (http://www.erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2007-August/028324.html), the 2nd SF Bay Area ErlLounge will take place on Aug 15. Anyone who's interested is welcome to attend.

Saturday, August 04, 2007

BeerRiot - The First ErlyWeb App

Many people may not know this, but ErlyWeb has an app.

It's called BeerRiot (http://beerriot.com), and its creator is Bryan Fink, whose been brewing it for a few months now (pun intended). He blogs about it at http://blog.beerriot.com/. (My favorite quote: "To those who are considering Erlang and ErlyWeb as a framework for their website: just go for it.")

BeerRiot is the quintessential web destination for beer aficionados. It has a beer database, user-comments, votes, and tags. It even comes in black and white background flavors. The only feature it lacks is letting you taste the beers somehow -- I guess I'll have to add this capability to the ErlyWeb todo list :)

According to my highly unscientific and subjective performance tests, BeerRiot feels very fast. I measured page load time with YSlow, which reported just 0.2 seconds for the homepage.

Kudos to Bryan for making such a nice app, and for being the first person to create a production ErlyWeb app.