Hi All,

Hunter Morris has kindly volunteered to speak at the next user group meeting. It
will be on Erlang and web applications, a very hot topic these days. The talk
will be on Wednesday the 21st of May in Skills Matter's training facilities on 1
Sekforde Street, Clerkenwell, London, EC1R 0BE. This is a free event, but you
have to register to attend. We will send out the registration email soon.

You might also want to mark the 11th of June, at 18.30pm at Erlang Training and
Consulting in your diaries, when two Master's Thesis students at the University
of Kent will present how they integrated Wrangler, the Erlang refactoring tool
into the Eclipse Plugin.

SUMMARY
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As Erlang adoption grows, tools for building web applications and
services are becoming increasingly important. Erlang's approach to
concurrency make it a natural solution for application deployment on the
web. Hunter will talk briefly about the current landscape for Erlang web
applications and the tools available. He will also present the framework
used at Smarkets, based on MochiWeb, ewgi, and sgte.

BIO
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Hunter Morris is CTO and co-founder of Smarkets, a London-based betting
exchange startup with a primarily Erlang codebase. Previously, he worked
in London and Chicago for Wolverine Trading, a global derivatives market
making firm. His main focus on software has been high-volume
transactional systems and automated trading technology. He holds a
bachelor's degree in computer science from Northwestern University in
Evanston, Illinois.


See you there!

Francesco Cesarini
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http://www.erlang-consulting.com