Have had too much to write about lately, and not enough time to write it.

In less than a month I'll be heading out to London to speak about Nitrogen at the Erlang Factory. I've booked a little extra time before and after the trip to go sip some tea, see Big Ben, high five the Queen, and ride in a London cab.

In the meantime, Nitrogen is undergoing some big changes. The improvements were inspired by conversations and presentations at Erlang Factory San Francisco as well as Growing a Language by Guy Steele.

The main goals are to:

• Allow Nitrogen to cooperate with--rather than compete against--some of the other great work out there, including Webmachine, Erlang Web, ErlyWeb, etc.
• Make it easier for the Nitrogen community to customize caching, sessions, state management, and many of the other things that get more complicated as a site grows.

Early prototypes are looking good. Hopefully I'll have some great stuff to show off by the time the 'Factory starts.

Very excited to be presenting at the Erlang Factory in Palo Alto, CA at the end of April. I will be giving an hour long talk about Nitrogen, a cutting-edge web framework that I created that is quickly building momentum in the Erlang community.

Some sample pages written in Nitrogen:

• Ajax and Comet page updates
• Form Validation
• Streaming Http File Uploads
• Dragging and Dropping
• Sorting

It's very rare that I laugh out loud while sitting alone. 

This clip did the trick - http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/02/so_amazing_but.php

(By comedian Louis C.K.)

This is great: http://www.greatdepressioncooking.com

Great article by Rod Hilton on pair programming: http://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2009/02/21/i-love-pair-programming

When coding, the bottleneck is rarely typing speed. It's usually thinking speed. Pair programming tries to solve this by unleashing twice the brainpower on a problem. But it usually fails because most people (including me) take a very primitive view and think that the magic comes from simply putting two developers next to each other.

The magic requires more subtlety and structure, and Rod does a great job in describing it. This seems to be a common theme in XP Methodologies. They all sound simple, but practicing them well requires more thought than you would first expect.

Side note: On a scale of 1 to 10 for "names that sound like a pornstar", Rod Hilton gets an 8 or 9.