Proposal for next meeting

Garrett Smith

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Jan 25, 2010, 12:37:48 PM1/25/10

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On Sat we were batting around some ideas for content for the next CEUG meeting.

I can still present on Landshark, a web framework that will be hitting
the open source market in a few months.

Here's another option though, which is based on some side
conversations from the Sat meeting...

I think it'd be valuable to have a show-and-tell on work flows that we
use in day-to-day Erlang development.

I'm not thinking of anything advanced like continuous integration,
etc. Just how individuals are most productive in writing Erlang.

As a format, we could have two - three people demo a scenario of how
they write Erlang. This would include stuff like:

- Create a new project (including any VCS setup, which I think would
also be interesting and informative)
- Write, compile, and tinker with (e.g. using on shell, unit test,
etc.) Erlang code
- Package/deploy code (release, application, home brewed, whatever)

Naturally, Sinan/Faxien would be duly represented. I can demo the
makefile approach that I use (and am modifying based on Saturday's
sprint). If anyone else uses another tool chain (Eclipse/ErlIDE comes
to mind as something that folks might be very interested in), it'd be
great to have more points of view. One thing I've never bothered to
setup in my Emacs env is any type of code checker or auto complete.
I'd love to see a kick ass Emacs setup that had some of the goodness
of Eclipse.

Assuming technical issues are preemptively addressed (we need a bad of
VGA dongles at each meeting :) and presenters have run through their
demo before the meeting, I think a limit of 15 - 20 minutes per
presenter should be enough to convey the gist of the work flow. This
would give us plenty of time for ad hoc back-and-forth, beer drinking,
etc.

Thoughts?

Garrett

P.S. Many, many thanks to Peak6 for hosting Saturday's sprint! Beer,
pizza, original art -- not to mention kick ass presentations on OTP
packaging and distribution -- ni

Tristan Sloughter

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Jan 25, 2010, 12:46:27 PM1/25/10

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This sounds cool. I'd be interesting to see how others work and hopefully learn something.

I can show my work flow, sinan/faxien, git, emacs. I have emacs setup with ECB that gives it some nice features (function lists, file lists, history, etc), though I don't always bother with them -- an old screenshot of mine can be seen here: http://www.chicagolug.org/wiki/images/6/68/Emacs_screenshot_2.png. And some autocomplete stuff.

Tristan

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Chris Duesing

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Jan 25, 2010, 12:46:37 PM1/25/10

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a big hearty +1 on this.

I especially would love to have someone explain Emacs + Erlang in detail. As I mentioned to Martin, I essentially use it as a glorified Notepad with Erlang syntax highlighting.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Garrett Smith <g...@rre.tt> wrote:

selizondo

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Jan 26, 2010, 12:57:59 PM1/26/10

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+1,
since I'm starting out, a demo a of a vim or emacs dev env would be
extremely helpful.

Salomon

Martin Logan

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Jan 26, 2010, 4:01:46 PM1/26/10

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looks like you have a winning idea here Garrett. I would be happy to
detail my "git + emacs + vim + faxien + sinan + portius" workflow

Adam Walters

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Jan 27, 2010, 1:06:33 PM1/27/10

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+1 to this as well. Just starting out myself w/ Erlang and would love
to see what others are using to get an idea of my options for editor/
ide.

Look forward to hearing more.

-Adam