Learn how the Pin Operator works in 1 minute!

https://youtu.be/bkNCsbD4y5Q

New blog post, step by step tutorial on how to decompile erlang code out of BEAMs in your Elixir project. It could be useful both for learning/understanding how Elixir processes language ad-hocs, like comprehensions etc, and for mental debug investigations.

http://rocket-science.ru/hacking/2017/09/01/unveil_erlang_code_of_your_elixir_project

I wrote a blog post about adding metadata to the log statements in your Elixir application! Metadata helps you quickly pull information out of your logs into a key-value view and make your logs more valuable when you need them. I also included some tips on how to select useful data points for metadata to get you started.

Check it out: https://timber.io/blog/elixir-logger-and-the-power-of-metadata

Finally, after a month of hard work (with the occasional “oops it’s 5AM already?!”), I’m happy to announce that Crawler has reached v1.0. It has not been put in production use yet though, so please help test and use it, and report issues and feedback. :)

Check it out here: https://github.com/fredwu/crawler

In the latest episode of ElixirCasts we use the ex_debug_toolbar in an existing Phoenix app https://elixircasts.io/phoenix-debug-toolbar-ex_debug_tool

This tutorial will help you test-drive an Elixir library and refactor it to leverage streams, and go through Umbrella apps and handy testing techniques.

10 Killer Elixir Tips #6

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Execution with demos

https://medium.com/@blackode/10-killer-elixir-tips-6-99dcbd0df8b1

Let’s generate test data using the ExMachina library!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XanBJ4LDf4

Working with HTTP/2 in Elixir; slides and video

http://crowdhailer.me/talks/2017-08-17/working-with-http2-in-elixir/

Deploying a new version of an application can be a scary. Automated tests and Continuous Integration can give you peace of mind. This post shows how to set up free CI for Elixir apps with Bitbucket with and without an Ecto database.

https://medium.com/@pentacent/automating-elixir-tests-continuous-integration-with-bitbucket-pipelines-8b432017237a

What if your database could notify you when your data changes? Turns out that PostgreSQL actually can. See how it plays with Phoenix channels and Elm frontend: https://medium.com/@ruslanbredikhin/publish-subscribe-with-postgresql-and-phoenix-framework-ea80242745e4

Hi everyone, we just released a tiny library for sending telemetry data to Azure Application Insights (pretty basic at this point)

https://github.com/StoiximanServices/ex_insights

Elixir’s powerful yet simple built-in tools to help developers write documentation and tests.

https://ericdouglas.github.io/2017/08/27/elixir-built-in-documentation-and-testing-tools/

I’ve had a productive coding weekend, and so I decided to share my experience. In the past month or so I built two more open source libraries, and contributed to a couple too…

http://fredwu.me/post/164668682508/coding-and-learning-should-never-stop-open

https://github.com/miguelcoba/olmeca

This is a starter repo for Phoenix with Elm support

Based on Daniel Neighman’s phoenix_guardian

Phoenix 1.3, Elm 0.18, Ueberauth, Guardian, Comeonin

The simple project template for User Registration and User Authentication This is helpful for the beginners to implement the Guardian Authentication With ecto and postgresql as database.

Check https://github.com/blackode/guardian_auth

Tips to learn/practice a new programming language.

https://ericdouglas.github.io/2017/08/24/practicing-the-elixir-language/

An update for focus is available on Hex. v0.3.4 contains a fix for accessing null values in data structures.

focus is also on GitHub

This post shows you how to deploy an Elixir Phoenix app to Heroku and set up Semaphore to continuously deploy each time tests pass on the master branch.

Changes include:

• Checks for additional vulnerable dependencies
• Checks for an additional XSS vector
• –compact and –quiet flags for people who want less output
• Bug fixes and improvements!

Install the latest update with mix archive.install hex sobelow

https://github.com/nccgroup/sobelow