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Minor corrections of the guide

Matthias Endler 12 years ago
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guide/erlang_web.md

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ designed to work in a distributed setting, so it is a
 perfect match.
 
 Or is it? Surely you can find solutions to handle that many
-concurrent connections with my favorite language... But all
+concurrent connections with your favorite language... But all
 these solutions will break down in the next few years. Why?
 Firstly because servers don't get any more powerful, they
 instead get a lot more cores and memory. This is only useful
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ The Web is asynchronous
 
 Long ago, the Web was synchronous because HTTP was synchronous.
 You fired a request, and then waited for a response. Not anymore.
-It all started when XmlHttpRequest started being used. It allowed
+It all began when XmlHttpRequest started being used. It allowed
 the client to perform asynchronous calls to the server.
 
 Then Websocket appeared and allowed both the server and the client

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guide/getting_started.md

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ we will just use the plain HTTP handler, which has three callback
 functions: init/3, handle/2 and terminate/3. You can find more information
 about the arguments and possible return values of these callbacks in the
 [cowboy_http_handler function reference](http://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/HEAD/manual/cowboy_http_handler).
-Following is an example of a simple HTTP handler module.
+Here is an example of a simple HTTP handler module.
 
 ``` erlang
 -module(my_handler).

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guide/modern_web.md

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ of concerns between the client and the server. They communicate
 by referencing resources. Resources can be identified, but
 also manipulated. A resource representation has a media type
 and information about whether it can be cached and how. Hypermedia
-determines how resources are related and they can be used.
+determines how resources are related and how they can be used.
 REST is also stateless. All requests contain the complete
 information necessary to perform the action.