@phoenix_podcast is now live! Awesome to see a podcast dedicated to the phoenix framework. http://phoenixpodcast.org/

I just published Part 10 in my Blog Engine tutorial series for Elixir/Phoenix: https://medium.com/@diamondgfx/writing-a-blog-engine-in-phoenix-and-elixir-part-10-testing-channels-e6371ce4cfbe

This time, we cover writing some basic tests for our channels that we added in the last post!

A quick read on using with and the benefits it yields.

http://blog.trenpixster.info/a-saner-way-to-deal-with-complex-flows/

Small refactoring I did on the Phoenix Trello clone project for keeping track of connected board members using multiple supervised processes.

http://codeloveandboards.com/blog/2016/03/20/supervising-multiple-genserver-processes/

Yet another Swift client for Phoenix web sockets.

https://github.com/almassapargali/PhoenixWebSocket

Yet another tool to make sure you are on top of your tests

https://hex.pm/packages/ex_guard

Because TDD is awesome!

A couple of days ago I released a tiny library to generate 128-bit, k-ordered flake ids. It can be used on its own, as well as with Ecto (examples in the README).

The code is up here: https://github.com/stevedomin/bigflake

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/03/using-gettext-to-internationalize-a-phoenix-application/

Yesterday we released this simple wrapper for Toggl v8 and Reports API.

https://github.com/diacode/togglex

I just published a pagination library for Ecto and phoenix inspired by Kaminari. https://github.com/elixirdrops/kerosene

I just published the latest in my blog engine tutorial series, this time covering adding a live comments section using Phoenix channels and adding authentication with Phoenix.Token!

https://medium.com/p/9269669a6941

Learn Elixir through examples at https://elixirschool.com/

Hedwig HipChat builds on the substantial work by Sonny Scroggin in Hedwig XMPP but adds handling of HipChat idiosyncrasies – replying with @mentions and keeping the connection alive using XMPP Ping, for now.

Find it on GitHub: https://github.com/jwarlander/hedwig_hipchat

Let me know if you try it, and find things that don’t seem to work as expected!

When to not let it crash and handle errors decently http://elid.me/28to

I just released Credo v0.3.6 which contains several internal refactorings, bugfixes for false positives on some checks and a new CLI switch to read data from STDIN (thx @smeevil!).

Check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/rrrene/credo

This blog post walks through how to create a custom ecto type through an example of parsing timecodes to and from seconds.

https://medium.com/@rcdilorenzo/creating-a-custom-ecto-duration-type-994e32ad4613

Part 8 of my ongoing blog engine tutorial is now up at https://medium.com/@diamondgfx/writing-a-blog-engine-in-phoenix-and-elixir-part-8-finishing-comments-30ff95d44cea !

I build a simple project to reproduce a problem in Ecto 2.0 beta.

http://learningelixir.joekain.com/building-a-simple-reproduction-case-for-ecto-2.0-beta/

Episode 6 of ExCasts is now available: EXRM Release for a Simple Phoenix Project - https://excasts.com/episodes/exrm-release-for-a-simple-phoenix-project

Here’s the complete table of contents for the tutorial I did about my Trello tribute/clone with Phoenix and React:

1. Intro and selected stack
2. Phoenix Framework project setup
3. The User model and JWT auth
4. Front-end for sign up with React and Redux
5. Database seeding and sign in controller
6. Front-end authentication with React and Redux
7. Sockets and channels
8. Listing and creating boards
9. Adding new board members
10. Tracking connected board members
11. Adding lists and cards
12. Deploying our application on Heroku

Live demo | Source code

Happy coding :)