It's time to dive right into the deep end and consider how we're going to use OTP. The learning curve is deceptively steep, but if we can do this correctly we'll have a rather bullet-proof system.
Red:4 needs an online store. We could continue to use Shopify but that's not our style. As CTO, I've decided to build an eCommerce store with Elixir and to do it publicly. You're going to help me.
About 3 years ago I had an idea for creating a different kind of tutorial. Something that would combine the problem-solving of a video game, the immersion of a sci-fi story and the joy of learning...
One of the things I’ve had to adjust to is how I want to structure function calls in Elixir. This is forced upon you by Pattern Matching and is a Very Good Thing. Deciding on these patterns...
I don’t typically write “lifehack” posts, but this question has come up repeatedly over the last few weeks: How did you find time to learn Elixir? Must be nice to not work or...
Had a great comment from my last post (about using Recursion): I had to Google what “acyclic call graph” meant because I just couldn’t remember :). I do remember what a call graph...
I have to start out each post this way: I have no idea what I’m doing, but dammit am I having fun. In the fist few posts I ham-handedly threw some code against the wall to see what would...
I don’t really know what I’m doing. I’m trying to learn Elixir and I’m having so much fun doing it that I thought I would share what I’m learning. So … here goes...
I don’t know anything about elixir but I very much want to learn it. I like learning new things – I feel it’s required for our industry. It’s easy to feel a twinge of snark...
Storing documents in PostgreSQL is a little easier, now that we have some solid save routines, a way to run Full Text searches, and some basic Find and Filter routines. This is only half the story...