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If i’m going to write a server-authoritative multiplayer game, it would be nice to have a decent way to deploy it. Especially to deploy servers around the world in response to player demand, to autoscale and keep latency down.
How hard it is to build a realtime multiplayer browser game? Like asteroids, but multiplayer. Retro vibes with modern netcode 🚀.
I have dragged my blog, kicking and screaming, into the era of media-queries and responsive CSS. So now it’s readable on a variety of screen sizes. My first post was roughly the same year the iPhone 3G came out I think, and the mobile web wasn’t really a big deal back then.
This weekend, Steve, Hunter, Paul and I took part in Spawnfest, a 48-hour Erlang programming event.
During my experiments with rebar, I made a simple example app for testing upgrades and releases. This article will walk you through using rebar to create an application, lay it out properly, package and deploy it, and create and install new versions without downtime.
I’ve been building something in Erlang recently, provisionally called IRCCloud.com (mention this post if you request an invite!) - it’s an in-browser IRC client that stays connected for you all the time, so you never miss the conversation. You can reopen your browser later and still have all the backlog. IRC is damn useful, and James and I are building IRCCloud to give you the advantages of IRC…
I've heard many anecdotes and claims about how many lines of code are saved when you write in Erlang instead of [C++/other language]. I'm happy to report that I now have first-hand experience and some data to share.
Last night I gave an “Intro to Erlang” talk at a London Hackspace meetup. I did a quick audience survey first: About 75% did “web programming” (ruby,python,php,etc). Around 30% admitted to regularly using C/C++/Java or desktop/mobile app development. Less than 10% had much experience with functional programming.
Please Note: this was written January 2009 - see the comments for updates and additional information. A lot has changed since I wrote this.
Everyone that works at Last.fm is typically connected to our IRC server. We have different channels per team, as well as a company-wide channel, and a few channels dedicated to automated monitoring.