Tampa.rb: December 08: What every Rubyist should know about Erlang

Our own Barry Ezell will be presenting his BarCamp Tampa talk on the Erlang language. While not specifically a Ruby talk, Erlang has been receiving quite a bit of "press" in the Ruby community for its highly distributed, parallel and high-availability aspects. For instance, Erlang is the core of the forthcoming "Vertebra" project from the folks at Engine Yard (who use it to manage their server farm)

In this talk Bary presents his version of "Hello World" in Erlang, a parallel MD5 cracking application.

Come find out why a language developed by a phone company in the late 80s is attracting the attention of the Web 2.0/Cloud-Computing world.

Driving Directions:
Take I-275 to the Fowler Avenue exit (#51) and head east, or take I-75 south to the Fowler Avenue exit (#265) and head west. The main entrance to the university is at 4202 East Fowler Avenue.

More directions: http://www.usf.edu/di...
Campus Map: http://usfweb2.usf.ed...

- Once you pull in the USF main entrance, go straight past the first light.
- Go past the library (large building on your right) and take a right into the parking lot north of the library. [NOTE: Parking services doesn't seem to patrol the lot in the evenings, but you might want to read this as "No Lifeguard on Duty" or "YMMV"]
- The education building is north-east of the Library. You may need to park in the guest area in the parking garage. (Guest permit costs $4)

The Laptop Lounge is located in room EDU-252 in the Education Building at USF. Get to the second floor and walk around the perimeter hallway to the back side of the building where you should be able to find room EDU-252. If you need help finding it, call the room at (813) 974-6816.