Ivan Bodunov's Blog

Excellent! New book on Erlang will be coming: Mastering Erlang: Writing Real World Applications by Apress.

Looks like an interesting book is upcoming called “SOA with REST” by Thomas Erl (SOA guy) and Benjamin Carlyle (REST guy). Scheduled for release in Q4/2009.

Subbu Allamaraju and Mike Amundsen, two well known bloggers on REST, announced that they are writing a book titled “RESTful Web Services Cookbook”. It should be available by the end of 2009. Follow the book’s blog for more details. Really looking forward to read this book!

In the beginning of his book “Clean Code” Robert C. Martin asks this question from six very well known people in the software world (Bjarne Stroustrup, Grady Booch, Dave Thomas, Michael Feathers, Ron Jeffries and Ward Cunningham). Some have short answer, others more lengthy comments. Most of the people provided a list of different properties of a code which would qualify it as a clean code (and that is perfectly fine definition), but I really like the most and consider it the best definition a comment given by Michael Feathers, that is “clean code always looks like it was written by someone who cares“. It feels so damn right!

Basically there is only one widely known and still available book on Erlang, which is Joe Armstrong’s Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World. I don’t count the out of print Concurrent Programming in Erlang and book in French Erlang programmation.

This is a bit comic to me. Such a powerful language with a long history (20 years old) and only one book. That’s why I am waiting with very big interest for new books on Erlang and luckily two or three should be coming soon:

• Concurrent Programming with Erlang/OTP, estimate May 2009
• Erlang Programming, estimate June 2009
• and maybe book on Erlang Web Services but there are no any exact details..

Any other Erlang related books coming soon? (I know about CouchDB book