Tag Archives: OpenSource

Debian celebrates its 17th birthday

Posted on 24/08/2010 by matteo

Debian celebrates its 17th birthay! Read the official news..

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Calling soap web services with curl from a unix shell

Posted on 18/06/2010 by matteo

How to call soap web services from a unix shell? it is easy with curl and, optionally, xsltproc ! Read the tutorial soap requests with curl !

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Ebot: an erlang web crawler

Posted on 21/05/2010 by matteo

Ebot is a opensource and scalable web crawler written on top of Erlang, a NOSQL database (Apache CouchDB or Riak), RabbitMQ, Mochiweb, Webmachine, .. See my Erlang info page for more details The project is hosted at http://github.com/matteoredaelli/ebot Thanks to … Continue reading →

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RabbitMQ acquired by SpringSource/VMWare

Posted on 13/04/2010 by matteo

“Erlang-based RabbitMQ was acquired today by SpringSource, which is owned by VMWare” “RabbitMQ is a complete and highly reliable enterprise messaging system based on the emerging AMQP standard. It is licensed under the open source Mozilla Public License and has … Continue reading →

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The Interactive Internet is quite near… the new facebook chat with XMPP…

Posted on 13/02/2010 by matteo

After Google with GTalk (~ 180 million users) , now also Facebook (> 400 million users ) has switched its chat protocol to Jabber/XMPP ( pdf introduction). Now you need simply a generic xmpp client (like Adium, iChat, Miranda, Pidgin) … Continue reading →

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Do NOT BUY any DVB USB devices with TRIDENT chipsets

Posted on 01/01/2010 by matteo

Please do NOT buy any DVB USB devices with TRIDENT chipsets like Freecom DVB-T & Analog TV USB STICK (USB Id 14aa:0620), Moka Hybrid TV receiver MK-DVBT-DUAL (USB Id 14aa:0620), LifeView LR535 … a PCIe Mini Card (USB Id 10fd:0535), … Continue reading →

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Learning Erlang

Posted on 31/10/2009 by matteo
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Apache CouchDB ~ Ubuntu

Posted on 31/10/2009 by matteo

“Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala has just been released. This is big news as this version includes Apache CouchDB, used as a replicable database by desktop apps. This means CouchDB will be on over 10 million desktops” [from Damien Katz] Erlang … Continue reading →

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Ewg: Erlang Wordlist Generator

Posted on 04/08/2009 by matteo

Ewg is a Wordlist generator written in Erlang. Thanks to this simple project I have been improving my knowledge in Erlang/OTP and Git. I love functional programming and learning more and more…

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Erlang at Facebook, SAP, …

Posted on 26/06/2009 by matteo

Erlang At? Please add a comment if you use it in your company! Erlang at BBC http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/147/EndaFarrell-ErlangFactoryLondon2009-ErlangattheBBC.pdf Erlang at Facebook Functional Programming at Facebook by Chris Piro and Eugene Letuchy. http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/31/EugeneLetuchy-ErlangatFacebook.pdf http://www.process-one.net/en/blogs/article/facebook_chat_supports_xmpp_with_ejabberd/ Erlang at Github http://github.com/blog/112-supercharged-git-daemon Erlang at SAP http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/57/SumeetBajaj_ErlangatSAP.pdf … Continue reading →

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