Archive 13. October 2009

Spiders that don't like meat - the spiders, the vegetarians. Or so.

Let it crash (the right way…) - about "happy case programming" and why it is often nonsense to try to catch every error in the code (because the programmer often cannot know how to handle the error).

Dutch DSB-Bank bankrupt - the outrage of the bank owner is almost cute, as he gets upset about the cheeky savers who actually wanted their money back! And then the financial supervision, which dares to keep an eye on him!

Tom Waits - Free Glitter and Doom Live Album Preview - ok, you have to enter a valid email address to download the songs, but hey, it's Tom Waits!

Using Erlang to Build Reliable, Fault Tolerant, Scalable Systems | October 12, 2009 - interesting case study on using Erlang for fault-tolerant systems.