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Nitrogen build is looking at the wrong place for tsung file and causes build dependency errors.

Riak is written in Erlang, so you would think that it should have the best Erlang client, right? Right? Wrong, not only the Erlang client has incomplete features, compared to its clients in other languages, it has one of the most annoying feature of all: the client would disconnect for any and all reasons. Any [...]

As nice as the Erlang platform is, there is always something that makes you pull your hair. My most hated feature in Erlang is record. It provides a feature like struct in C, but it sucks really hard. Working on a very data-intensive application, you always have some complex data structures to deal with. Modelling [...]

Someone told me that Riak is a good K/V store to work with, it’s very scalable, and it’s written in Erlang. Since my application is also written in Erlang, that sounds like a good thing to try out. I have been working with MongoDB, and it’s actually quite nice, although the Erlang driver is not [...]

Since upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10, my laptop’s touchpad has been giving me problems. The left button does not work anymore. Actually, it works occasionally, but it always stops working especially when I need it the most, so it might as well be considered not working at all. Only the left button is not working though, [...]

I have been quite annoyed recently by the sluggishness of Ubuntu Gnome desktop, even on a laptop with AMD duo-core CPU and 2GB RAM, and after trying to cut down to the bare minimum of applications for my daily works. That’s certainly not a top of the line machine, but surely not an antique either. [...]