Erlang SMP Benchmarks
Joe Armstrong has started a weblog and on it he has posted results of some testing of the Erlang SMP snapshot. more →
Erlang SMP support
Snapshots of the upcoming Erlang release with SMP support are available from the Erlang site. As mentioned by this post on the Erlang mailing list, any of the P11B snapshots have SMP support and should be built with the following flags to enable it: ./configure --enable-smp-support --disable-lock-checking more →
DabbleDB Under the Radar
Ajaxian reports that Dabble DB gets a good review at Under the Radar: more →
Rodney King's Crazy Monkey - Non Attribute Based Boxing
With a group of fellow martial artists I've been working on training Rodney King's Crazy Monkey standup fighting method and have been finding it very useful. Rodney King is the creator of a fighting method known as as 'Crazy Monkey' or non attribute based boxing. The approach CM takes is to teach a primarily defence based system so that a... more →
Alan Kay on Lisp
Alan Kay, inventor of Smalltalk, apparently gave some interesting talks at the University of Utah recently. Bill Clementson has a post about the talks and some of the comments Alan has made about Lisp in the past. more →