Rusty Klophaus
Creator of the Nitrogen Web Framework
Rusty Klophaus is the creator and lead maintainer of the Nitrogen Web
Framework, and is a new arrival to the Erlang community. Rusty typed
his first line of Erlang code in early 2008 after trying (and quickly
discarding) a number of other functional languages. He
now ferociously evangelizes the merits of Erlang to anyone who will
listen. Rusty grew up on a farm, earned a degree in Computer Science
from Princeton University, spent a summer in Philadelphia as a
professional musician, co-founded a .NET software consulting company,
and has managed multi-million dollar technology projects. He recently
started a new job at Blackboard where he focuses on cultivating the
Blackboard developer community and shaping the Blackboard API.
- Rusty's Blog
- Follow @rklophaus on Twitter
- Nitrogen Website
- Nitrogen Code
Rusty Klophaus is Giving the Following Talks
The Nitrogen Web Framework
Nitrogen is an exciting framework not just for what it brings to the
table, but also for what it leaves behind. By leveraging Erlang records
as a surprisingly elegant markup language, discarding MVC in favor of
an event-driven architecture, and only supporting Javascript-based
forms, Nitrogen challenges many existing notions about what an Erlang
application/web framework should do, and has invigorated others in the
Erlang community to think unorthodox thoughts while building their own
projects. Rusty will present a high level overview of Nitrogen, dive
down to walk through a sample Nitrogen application, and then discuss
the future of this rapidly maturing framework.
