May Contest Winners

After going through the contest entrants for May, we’ve come to a decision.
Joe, Dave, and I couldn’t decide between an entry on socket programming (which appears to be broken now) and one on ErlUnit.

The writers of these posts should drop me a line to get set up for their free copies of Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World.

If you’re interested in a copy, never fear. The Erlang Blogging contest is still running. Go ahead and write a blog post about Erlang, and add a link to it in the comments below. If you’re post is selected as our June Winner, you’ll win a copy of Joe’s book as soon as it’s in print. Great topics to write about include tools for Erlang programming, tutorials about Erlang modules or software, and tutorials about Erlang itself.

Thanks for the support in May, and good luck to everyone who enters in June.

May Blogging Contest

Updated! See below for a clarification.

Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World seems to be bringing a lot of attention to Erlang right now. In hopes of helping some of us newbies stick, I’ve worked out a deal with Dave Thomas, the Pragmatic Programmers are sponsoring a blogging contest over the next three months (May, June, and July). I can almost hear you asking yourselves, “What’s a blogging contest and what does this have to do with me?” Well here’s the deal:

I’d like to invite you to write a tutorial or explanatory post that supports or supplements ‘Programming Erlang’. At the end of each month, I’ll collect the entries and working with another judge (the prags and I are still working out who) will determine the winning entry. The author of the winning entry will receive a copy of Programming Erlang.

For the rest of May, ending at midnight on the 31st (MDT), I’ll be collecting entries in the comments section of this post. In June and July, I’ll put up new blog posts to collect links. I’m looking forward to reading a lot of great blog posts, good luck everyone!

Update:

You should be able to write any introductory to intermediate tutorial about erlang or tools around erlang for your entry. If you want to take a look at the Table of Contents for the book, you could always look here

Alternatively, you could buy the beta (pdf only) and look forward to getting a hard copy once you've written your prize winning entry.