Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
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Page ix 1st paragraph |
using the c(Moudule). command |
Mohamed Chenini | Feb 28, 2012 | |
Page ix 7th paragraph |
"HTTP's request-response model, you should explore web sockets Chapter 6" should be "HTTP's request-response model, you should explore websockets in Chapter 6". Websocket is being mentioned as 'web socket' in some other places also. |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page x 3rd paragraph |
"...an Erlang application, beyod" to ""...an Erlang application, beyond" |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page x 4th paragraph |
extra '>' after Chapter8 |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page x 6th paragraph |
"Automated Testing Erlang has a test framework "EUnit" that is documented in "Erlang |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page x 6th paragraph |
"These are beyond the scope of this book, but can be quite useful in a for development." should be "These are beyond the scope of this book, but can be quite useful for development." |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page xi under diagnosing the error 1st paragraph |
"show a screen link Figure P-1" should be "show a screen like Figure P-1". |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page xii 4th paragraph |
"One nice thing about Erlang is that if the system is setup in a reasonable you should" should be "One nice thing about Erlang is that if the system is setup in a reasonable way you should" |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page xii 7th paragraph |
"If you are having trouble with Mnesia tables you can you the table viewer" should be "If you are having trouble with Mnesia tables you can use the table viewer" |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 1 3rd paragraph |
"think about how to build a system and droping many of" - droping should be dropping |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 1 5th paragraph |
"and be able to upgraded in place without downtime." - upgraded should be upgrade |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 2 2nd paragraph |
"Clearly, most systems written in Erlang will not achive" - achive should be achieve |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 3 2nd paragraph |
"it must have been set at intial assignment." - intial should initial |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 3 6th paragraph (1st para under Lack of types) |
"Type systems give programmers is a way" - remove is |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 4 5th paragraph |
"This book builds an application using otp" - otp should be OTP |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 4 last paragraph last line and continued to next page |
"It is obvious in this case how in this case the URL relates onto the" - "It is obvious in this case how the URL relates onto the" |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 5 1 st paragraph |
As long as the server sets a ETag |
Mohamed Chenini | Feb 28, 2012 | |
Page 5 3rd paragraph |
"However SOAP does not make use very good use of HTTP" to "However SOAP does not make very good use of HTTP" |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 5 4th paragraph |
"but it offers a consistent and powrful" - powrful should be powerful |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 5 7th paragraph |
"Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) in this contnext" - contnext should be context |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 6 end paragraph |
to have the monitoring process use the REST API from AWS |
Mohamed Chenini | Feb 28, 2012 | |
Page 6 7th paragraph |
"REST API from AWS or an other" = an other should be another |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 7 last paragraph |
"much larger than than the" - remove extra thanr |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 8 4th paragraph |
CPUS should be CPUs |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 8 5th paragraph |
"today's cloud based paas platforms" - paas should be PAAS |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 9 end of page |
work in a sensible manor. |
Mohamed Chenini | Feb 28, 2012 | |
Page 9 7th paragraph |
"which is a loosely defined set of date storage" - date should be data |
Damodharan R | May 10, 2012 | |
Page 10 in CAP Theorem |
this can making handling failures |
Mohamed Chenini | Feb 28, 2012 | |
Page 11 last paragraph, 3rd line |
...it is also possible to setup Mnesia to server data.. -> "... it is also possible to setup Mnesia to serve data ..." |
David Ellefsen | May 09, 2012 | |
Page 11 1 |
"with partition tolerance and constancy" |
Anonymous | Jul 22, 2012 | |
Page 13 Riak paragraph |
all the nodes most agree to the transaction. |
Mohamed Chenini | Feb 28, 2012 | |
Page 15 United States |
The paragraph is written twice |
Anonymous | Apr 21, 2012 | |
Page 15 1st paragraph |
"...web development enviorments to Erlang..." -> "... web development environments to Erlang..." |
David Ellefsen | May 09, 2012 | |
Page 16 |
There are a number of comamnd line switches |
Mohamed Chenini | Feb 28, 2012 | |
Page 16 7th paragraph, line 7 |
"... Alternativly we can use a number ..." -> "Alternatively we can use a number..." |
David Ellefsen | May 09, 2012 | |
Page 17 1st paragraph |
(In the case where Yaws in embedded inside a larger Erlang application |
Mohamed Chenini | Feb 28, 2012 | |
Page 17 Using the CGI Interface |
http://yaws.hyber.org/ website should be mentioned here: |
Mohamed Chenini | Feb 28, 2012 | |
Page 17 7th paragraph, line 3 |
"...however many unix type systems will not allow...". "unix type" should be "UNIX-type","Unix-type", or "UNIX-like", however, The Open Group does not approve of this term. See: http://www.unix.org/questions_answers/faq.html#7a |
Anonymous | May 09, 2012 | |
Page 19 first line |
can you add an appendix on how to compile a yaws application using rebar |
Mohamed Chenini | Feb 28, 2012 | |
Printed | Page 21 1st paragraph |
net_admin:ping/1 should be net_adm:ping/1. |
CA Meijer | Jul 08, 2012 |
Page 22 1 |
parity |
Anonymous | Jul 23, 2012 | |
Page 27 Templates and Erlydtl |
The ErlyDTL project name should be capitalised correctly on this page. |
David Ellefsen | May 09, 2012 | |
Page 39 Lines 2 and 3 |
Wrong version -> |
Hamidreza Soleimani | Dec 07, 2013 | |
Page 87 Para 1 of "Cowboy" section |
"Cowboy https://github.com/extend/cowboy Is a new web server for Erlang that is designed to be small, fast and modular." |
Tim McNamara | Apr 09, 2012 | |
Printed | Page 105 Example 9-8 |
The multi_cast_sup supervisor has stub code in it instead of the actual code required to start the multi_cast_server gen_server. E.g. 'AModule' should be multi_cast_server. |
CA Meijer | Jul 08, 2012 |