I am currently developing a distributed system for my Bachelor Thesis which utilizes a node controller application to distribute calculations from a client application towards node applications. For testing I wanted to use EUnit, mostly because that’s what I already knew and writing Unit Tests for my data module …

Some weeks ago I wrote a application in Erlang which reads data from the youtube API. I wanted to parse its content efficiently via a sax parser and xmerl was the first search result that popped up. At first I had trouble reading its documentation it is actually easy enough …

A short introduction to Erlang OTP and how to program a File Poller which implements gen_server