Topics for Future Episodes

I vote for an episode or set of episodes covering a refactor to OTP of the chat system :)

+1 from me for OTP. Something about EUnit would be good too…

Refactoring to OTP, then EUnit ;-)

After listening to comments on this forum, on my blog, and in my email here are the ordering for the next few topics:

1) Unit Testing & EUnit – That episode is “in the can” and should be released soon

2) Getting Some REST w/Mochiweb – I’ve had a lot of requests to demonstrate how to interface the chat system with non-Erlang applications. This episode should help address those requests. I’m currently working on this episode and hope to have it done soon-ish.

3) Refactoring to OTP – I’m still in the early planning stages on this topic. OTP is a large topic so finding a balance between breadth and depth is key. This topic will most likely span several episodes.

I think EDoc would be a good topic to cover. Documentation is a hugely important and often forgotten part of collaborative development efforts.

Use of make would be cool too. I copy the standard Makefile and support scripts from mochiweb every time I create a new Erlang project now. This could almost be an aside since it is so easy to keep working once it is in place.

I have made TextMate run make when I save and display a dialog of errors or warnings linked to the corresponding lines in source files. If there are no errors/warnings the dialog is not shown.

I’d like to see an episode that discusses the nuts and bolts of inets as well as episodes that delve into gen_server and gen_fsm in detail.

I’d very much like to see:

1) Detailed overview of Mochiweb (Episode 6 just wets the appitite).
1) Erlang interface with PostgresSQL
2) Erlang graphics