2007 Archive

Monday, December 17, 2007

Hi all. In case you're wondering why BeerRiot has been down most of today - it's a hardware problem. Something about faulty drives on the machine hosting my VPS, which keeps throwing things into read-only mode.

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Sunday, December 16, 2007

I've just committed a couple of minor updates to the erlang2facebook library that I'm sure some of you are interested in.

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Fun news this morning. BeerRiot's Facebook App is no long the only Facebook App based on Erlang! The word is that these four are also using the erlang2facebook library:

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Sunday, November 11, 2007

As I sit here enjoying a home-brewed wine (!) that my parents made last fall (great, guys, by the way!), I'm reminded of a thought I had a few days ago, reinforced at yesterday's NERAX North event. I was reading a piece in the New York Times about cask-conditioned ale, when I noticed that the piece was written by their wine reviewer.

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Saturday, November 3, 2007

In case you're using this blog's feed to get updates about new features on BeerRiot, here's a notice that BeerRiot now has its own feeds. :)

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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Yes, the update I promised earlier in the week is now live. BeerRiot's Forums are now open for discussion.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

...I'm still alive and plugging away at BeerRiot code. I thought you all might just like to hear that despite the fact that I haven't made a post here in a while, or updated the news section on the site, development is far from dead. There are things in the works, and I hope they will be ready soon.

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Monday, October 15, 2007

Wait! Before you skip this post thinking that I'm just another "tree hugger" ranting about saving the planet, I want to tell you that I'm going to divide this post into two parts. The first part will be reasons you should drink green that only affect your enjoyment of the beer. Only the second part will be about why drinking in this manner also saves the planet. I'll let you know before the switch.

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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Just a quick note this evening: BeerRiot was down from about 3:30am to 8am this morning. The MySQL server shut down. I restarted it as soon as I found it down.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

If you hang around here for the tech instead of the beer, you may be interested to know that Yariv, the creator of ErlyWeb has released his own site, built with his creation.

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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Just got back from DevHouse Boston. Thought I'd spill a few thoughts here for reference later.

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Saturday, September 8, 2007

If you're in the Boston area, and interested in Erlang/ErlyWeb, and free next Sunday ... I'll probably be hanging around Dev House Boston.

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Saturday, September 1, 2007

I've finally prevented distraction long enough to finish an example use of the Erlang Facebook library I posted earlier.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Hi all. I've been meaning to do this for a while now, and the requests are only becoming more frequent, so - my Erlang-Facebook bridge code is now open for use. You can get it from the erlang2facebook Google Code project.

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Monday, August 20, 2007

Great news this evening! The BeerRiot Facebook app has been approved for listing in the app directory. Pudding (sensitive stuff blocked out, of course):

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Sunday, August 19, 2007

I bet there are a lot of people still questioning the utility of hot code loading. Especially in the web app field, it can seem a little gratuitous. PHP apps don't need any special hot load facility - the script just gets reread from disk every once in a while.

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Monday, July 30, 2007

Hi All. Just a quick post - I forgot to mention that I'm in Northern Nowhere this week. So, like two weeks ago, if administration is slow, it's because I can't get to the internet. :P

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

As promised, here's the post about the development process of the BeerRiot Facebook app.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Yes, I promised new things well over a week ago. My excuse is that I picked up a cold during my trip to the Middle of Nowhere that took me out of commission for a solid week. :P But, now that that is over...

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Thursday, July 5, 2007

I just wanted to warn all those interested that admining will likely be slower than usual this weekend. I have to make a trip to the middle of nowhere. The only internet connection I'm likely to have will be in my hotel room. Even there, I'm rather worried that the connection will be so awful that I won't be able to handle anything but the simplest tasks.

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Sunday, June 24, 2007

I'm not a fan of "settings" pages. They give a terrible interaction experience.

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Don't Throw Out Maybe Yet!

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Saturday, June 16, 2007

Night of the Lagers was awesome. There were quite a few beers there that really did break from the stereotype of Fizzy Yellow Water (tm). In particular, I'd call attention to The Tap's Pilsnaah - really a great example of what I think a pilsner-style beer should be.

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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Alas, BeerAdvocate's American Beer Fest is upon us. If you haven't bought your ticket yet, get out there and find one. I know a lot of people like to joke about the quality of American beer, but these fests really prove that the joke is only funny to those that don't know anything about beer. We really produce some wicked good beer here.

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Saturday, June 9, 2007

To those who are considering Erlang and Erlyweb as a framework for their website: just go for it.

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007

As some of you may have noticed, BeerRiot - Local is live. Thanks to Corey for planting the seed - it's a mashup of Brewery locations and Google Maps. It's not exactly what I had planned at the outset, but I think it may be even better. :)

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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Maybe sometimes it's better you don't know...

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Friday, June 1, 2007

Fear not! I have not forgotten about BeerRiot. No new features have come online yet because this week has been rather busy for me.

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Saturday, May 26, 2007

BeerAdvocate Magazine's Defending Beer article in the May 2007 issue, titled "Judging Beer", speaks directly to the problem that we at BeerRiot are trying to solve.

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Monday, May 21, 2007

It was one of my first decisions, and it resulted in one of the first feature requests submitted. BeerRiot does not acknowledge "style" as an intrinsic property of beer. Beers are not classified by any of the terms people toss about in relation to beer today.

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Monday, May 21, 2007

Hello Rioters! I realized there was a lot more I wanted to say about developing BeerRiot, enjoying beer, and other things, none of which quite fit under the category "news." So, I've set up this blog as an outlet for those things.

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