https://speakerdeck.com/mindreframer/elixir-is-a-game-changer-lets-spread-the-love

While the scalesmall group manager progresses nicely I also added more background information about it in this post:

http://dbeck.github.io/Scalesmall-W14-More-Group-Manager-Information/

The major improvements are:

• security support, messages are now encrypted
• drastic reduction in message sizes

If you’re using dokku to deploy a phoenix application you can use LetsEncrypt to switch it to HTTPS in less than 5 minutes. https://blog.praveenperera.com/using-letsencrypt-to-switch-a-phoenix-app-deployed-with-dokku-to-https/

This blog post announces the release of Ecto 2.0 beta. That new version brings lots of goodies, like the possibility of running database tests concurrently.

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/02/ecto-2-0-0-beta-0-is-out

I publish model changes on a Phoenix Channel for near realtime updates in the front end.

http://learningelixir.joekain.com/pushing-model-changes-to-a-phoenix-channel/

A really straightforward binding around ETS for use in Elixir by those familiar with a typical get/set pattern for in-memory key/value lookups.

https://github.com/zackehh/stash

My first stab at an Elixir project.

Tells you the most likely gender of a person based on their first name.

https://github.com/dre1080/gendex

http://elixirforum.com

If you’ve been thinking about learning Elixir, now’s the perfect time - because so many of us are going to be in the same boat. Why not drop by, say hi …and start your journey with us :-)

How to create materialized views in Postgres and integrate them in Ecto.

https://medium.com/@kaisersly/materialized-views-in-ecto-8887bc89efa5#.9sgioy8sa

Slides of my talk “Job scheduling in Elixir” at @ElixirRuhr are online:

https://c-rack.github.io/job-scheduling-in-elixir

I just published “RethinkDB adapter for Ecto”. https://almightycouch.org/blog/rethinkdb-adapter-ecto/

#elixirlang #myelixirstatus

Finally got this down in a post! Our experience with building i18n using Gettext and #phoenixframework. http://code.parent.co/practical-i18n-with-phoenix-and-elixir/

Redux walkthrough on integrating a Phoenix project with CircleCI. Additionally helps keep a single source of truth for Heroku buildpack users.

http://code.parent.co/phoenix-circleci-heroku/

I just published a new tutorial on how to use auto-incrementing integer primary keys that are not just the id column with Ecto, based on a tricky scenario that myself and a co-worker tried to solve!

https://medium.com/@diamondgfx/alternate-integer-primary-keys-with-ecto-783ddb19cfba

Launched my first elixir/phoenix project. A simple web app which allows users to read/write reviews for doctors in Sri Lanka. Elixir/Phoenix on the backend, react for the live search and materializecss for css, deployed using Dokku. https://doctorsofsrilanka.com

Using EEx for configuration templating.

https://bordeltabernacle.github.io/2016/02/12/notes-on-elixir-templating-with-eex.html

How to configure a CI server with Ansible to run a Phoenix test suite.

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/02/how-to-setup-ci-to-run-phoenix-projects

Somebody pointed out that counter cache should be done directly in the database. Here’s how you achieve this.

https://medium.com/@kaisersly/callbacks-in-the-database-postgres-5bb4ae3f4fd9#.h25abfwju

Announcing Bamboo. Composable, testable, adapter based mail. Works out of the box with Phoenix views and layouts. The newest version will be released to hex soon!

https://github.com/paulcsmith/bamboo

I’ve been deploying a few small projects, and finding there is still lots of pieces of knowledge spread around the place, much like rails was once upon a time. I want to write up some best practises and turn it in to a book, and I’m looking for your help on what you would like to learn

http://deployingelixir.com