Building Widgets for Kitto
The next post in my series on building Kitto dashboard is up. This time on building widgets to display data in your dashboards.
Elixir, Ruby, don’t fight. Talk.
Series of posts, how to talk from elixir to ruby, and vice versa.
Part one: Export / Erlport
https://blog.fazibear.me/elixir-ruby-dont-fight-talk-d83d5abc8898#.kuvsnpkeq
Real Responses from Mock Modules
Follow up to my last post, showing how to use the mock HTTP module in testing. https://medium.com/perplexinomicon-of-philosodad/real-responses-from-mock-modules-56709b536261#.3j0ssrpro
Morphix - A couple of useful utility methods for maps
Morphix 0.0.2 - now handles nested lists when doing a deep atomization of keys in maps.
Elixir Telegram Bot Boilerplate
A simple boilerplate that handles boring stuff when developing bots for telegram like pattern matching commands and pattern matching messages to find where it’s chat ID should be in the map so you can reply.
LodestonerEx: A Library for Parsing Lodestone Profiles (FFXIV)
Final Fantasy XIV is an MMORPG that allows you to look up information on characters and Free Companies via a website. They do not provide an API for this information, so I whipped up this library to parse relevant character and FC statistics for another in progress project. (Ab)uses Floki to rummage through the HTML pages.
Writing Jobs for Kitto
In this post, I talk about the first step to building your Kitto based dashboard: writing jobs to get data. Throughout the post we build a job to pull in information from JIRA and display it in a friendly format.
Repeating History...on Purpose...with Elixir
Presentation from Upstate Elixir on Nov 16th
http://www.slideshare.net/barrywjones3/repeating-historyon-purposewith-elixir
Sphinx - Phoenix Authorization library
Authorization library inspired by Cancan, Canary, and others: https://github.com/almassapargali/Sphinx
Sharing and Reusing Callback Functions
Sharing and Reusing Functions in Elixir is easy. Unless its a Callback.
How to deploy Phoenix on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, CodePipeline
A simple example of Phoenix application deployment on AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Docker and CodePipeline
[GitHub repository] https://github.com/zepplock/hello_phoenix_ebs_docker_codepipeline
A Look Through the Changelog.com Phoenix App Source Code
Changelog.com recently open sourced the Phoenix application that provides the backend for their website and podcast publishing platform. I took a look through it, and made some notes about the interesting parts.
Connecting elixir containers, with DNS-based discovery
Deploying containerized applications is easy enough nowadays. But connecting them to each other can be a pain point. I dive into how to connect elixir containers with the ‘Peerage’ library, using dns-based discovery that Kubernetes, Flynn and others already provide.
Basic Meteor Authentication in Phoenix
Check out this dive into Meteor-style authentication and how to do basic integration with Meteor Accounts in an Elixir application.
Testing Phoenix Views
Because functions like link and content_tag don’t return strings, but return tuples of :safe and an IO list I was confused about how to write tests for my code that uses them. I describe how I learned how to test view code using those functions in Testing Phoenix Views.
Proquint : An elixir package that converts ids to proquints, Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable
An elixir package that converts ids to proquints, Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable https://github.com/minhajuddin/proquint
Build Your Own Real-Time Web Service with Elixir/Phoenix: Assenty Show and Tell
I recently shared how to build your own real-time web service with Elixir/Phoenix at Manchester Lambda Lounge. Here come the slides.