This article lays out the case that the OOP path which Java led the industry down is a terrible idea, leading to great difficulties without apparent payoff. Polarizing an idea as this is, it's one which that I've recently given considerable thought. Original article: https://medium.com/better-programming/object-oriented-programming-the-trillion-dollar-disaster-%EF%…
Thanks to Igor Ostaptchenko for sharing this neat article. It explains the difference between concurrency and parallelism with respect to the BEAM. This is surely one of the really unique and compelling aspects of the core technology, leading to fault-tolerance features as much as scalability ones. https://medium.com/flatiron-labs/…
https://www.elviovicosa.com/2019/03/29/5-reasons-elixir-competitive-advantage.html…
For our QL Hack Week, we began connecting the new and exciting Phoenix LiveView (github) library into our Lucidboard project. LiveView is allowing us to very rapidly wire up interactive user experiences by simply writing a bit of event handling code which updates the client's state. The technique employs websockets…
For Hack Week, we're going to attempt to bring Phoenix LiveView into Lucidboard to create a snappy, interactive experience for our users. This post is just some notes to help us in the room. phoenix_live_view_examplephoenix_live_view_example has many great hints as to how LiveView works.…
Chris McCord has announced that he's made his Phoenix LiveView project public. (Good are in this article.) While a proper "release" is still yet to come, this represents an exciting moment many of us have been waiting for because we can now dig in, experiment with the technology, and even…
Here are a few notes about some of the talks that I really enjoyed at this Austin conference. Keynote about NervesJustin Schneck spoke about his Nerves project, and they have been building some exciting things! Nerves is a toolchain which makes deploying Elixir applications (with linux) to embedded devices like…
This post is just a short collection of items that I think are valuable if you're just approaching Elixir for the first time and are trying to understand what it is and why it is a strong option. This podcast episode is a fantastic overview of the technology and how…
It's not technically the Elixir core team, but 2 members of the Elixir core team are working on a new HTTP library! It sounds nice because it aims to be a low-level, extendible foundation from which we can build more powerful components using BEAM processes etc. I'll be keeping the…
For our upcoming QL Hack Week, we'll be making a project out of part of Lucidboard. We're really hoping to see LiveView drop before then so we can dive into building out the frontend SPA interaction, but if not, we'll instead focus on authentication & authorization, hopefully integrating with the…