[ANN] DC ALT.NET 9/10/2009 – Webmachine with Kevin Smith

This month, DC ALT.NET is moving the meeting a little forward this month and teaming with NOVALANG and the Erlang Users of Arlington/DC to talk about the Webmachine REST Toolkit.  We at DC ALT.NET continue to strive to push developers to look outside their normal surroundings and comfort zones and this month is no different.  Details are below:

Getting Some REST with Erlang and Webmachine

Kevin Smith of Hypothetical Labs will be speaking about WebMachine: an erlang REST toolkit which makes it easy to develop HTTP interfaces using Erlang.  Providing RESTful interfaces is quickly becoming the norm for modern websites. There's more to REST than handling GETs and POSTs, though. This talk will illustrate how the combination of Erlang and webmachine simplifies and speeds the development of REST resources.

About Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith has, at various times, been a network administrator, DBA, developer, team lead and trainer over his 14 year career. He first learned about Erlang in 2006 via Joe Armstrong's excellent “Programming Erlang” and has never looked back. He attended the first (and only?) Erlang Studio where he was asked to produce what became the popular PragProg screencast series "Erlang In Practice". Until recently, Kevin was a developer at Engine Yard where he worked on a distributed systems management application using Erlang. Kevin founded Hypothetical Labs in April of this year to focus on Erlang full time. He is also the co-author of the upcoming book "Erlang Web Application Development".

Date/Time: 9/10/2009 – 7-9PM

Location:
The Motley Fool
2000 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314