Erlang Factory - Jack Moffitt, XMPP expert and author

Jack Moffitt

XMPP expert and author

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Jack Moffitt is a hacker and entrepreneur based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has founded several start-ups built on XMPP technology including Chesspark, a real-time, multi-user gaming platform, and Collecta, a real-time search engine for the Web. Previously he founded the Xiph.org Foundation, an organization that works on building and standardizing royalty-free multimedia codecs for the Internet including Vorbis and Theora. He also created the Icecast streaming media server.

He is the author of Professional XMPP Programming with JavaScript and jQuery, a book about developing real-time web applications with XMPP technologies.

He is passionate about free software and open source, open standards, and Internet technology. His favourite programming languages include JavaScript, Erlang, and Python.

Jack's Blog

Twitter: @metajack

Jack Moffitt is Giving the Following Talks

Props: A DSL for Dealing with JSON-like Structures in Erlang

Dealing with JSON in Erlang is not nearly as seamless as in
JavaScript. Using existing tooling from the Erlang ecosystem, I've
created a new and, most importantly, easy to use data structure for working with JSON-like property structures. Learn how to use props for your own projects, and also you can leverage tools like Neotoma to make your own DSLs.