Just released hackney version 1.4.2 an HTTP client library for Erlang and Elixir.

Github: https://github.com/benoitc/hackney

Enjoy!

Elixir is getting more attention, yet many people seem to see it as another Ruby. Let’s get past syntax and talk about what makes the environments so different.

http://zeroclarkthirty.com/2015-11-01-elixir-is-not-ruby.html

Just wrote my first version of ping-pong in elixir. This might not be perfect, but to the best of my skills as of now. Kindly have a look and add your suggestions & comments

https://gist.github.com/bansalakhil/e63a4aa389eee5109a6c

Just released Toniq v1.0. https://hex.pm/packages/toniq : Simple and reliable background job library for Elixir.

Github: https://github.com/joakimk/toniq

Recent presentation: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/136929/elixir_oct2015_toniq/index.html

I have ported my blog to Elixir/Phoenix and open-sourced the code.

http://theerlangelist.com/article/opensourcing_erlangelist

I wrote a package called Envy for loading env files in your applications. It allows you to be explicit about the env files you load or can automatically load .env and an environment specific env file if present. eg: .env.test

https://github.com/BlakeWilliams/envy

As a part of learning about neural networks and machine learning I started by building neurons and connections between them. Next month we’ll go even further. Feel free to follow along.

Neuron code here: https://github.com/kblake/neural-networks

Meet-up information here: http://www.meetup.com/dev-coop/events/226149239/

Some insights (with code examples) that helped me understand Elixir macros.

http://thepugautomatic.com/2015/10/understanding-elixir-macros/

I’ve tilted at yet another windmill and attempt to answer the unanswerable question.

http://www.cursingthedarkness.com/2015/10/the-definitive-all-dancing-all-complete.html

A short discussion around one of the major value propositions for Rails devs interested in migrating to Phoenix.

https://dockyard.com/blog/2015/10/29/how-long-it-took-our-team-to-move-from-rails-to-phoenix

I just published “Deploying Phoenix Applications with Exrm”. This time, we publish the blog we’ve been working on to a server and make it run in production!

https://medium.com/@diamondgfx/deploying-phoenix-applications-with-exrm-97a3867ebd04

I continuing putting an application together by composing multiple OTP applications. - http://bit.ly/1O92h7p

Now with graph visualization using http://d3js.org/. Fun project :)

Update available on Github:

• https://github.com/florinpatrascu/movies_elixir_phoenix

In this post I try to estimate how much it takes from the sender process to call another in the local BEAM VM. This is pretty non-scientific and may only have a meaning for my OS and my use-case. No generic conclusion to be made.

http://dbeck.github.io/Non-Scientific-Measurement-of-Elixir-Remote-Calls/

• Try it on http://stubonweb.herokuapp.com/
• Source Code: https://github.com/endeepak/stub_on_web

Examples

• Access: http://stubonweb.herokuapp.com/xml
• Edit : http://stubonweb.herokuapp.com/edit/xml

Kicking off a blog post series on building a Texas Hold ‘Em web application using Elixir and Phoenix. In this post, I walk through a way of ranking poker hands with pattern matching.

http://blog.tokafish.com/playing-poker-with-elixir-part-1/

Elixirscript 0.13 has been released. This is the first release with protocols.

https://github.com/bryanjos/elixirscript/releases

https://hex.pm/packages/elixir_script

How to test that a process sends a message:

http://joshnuss.blogspot.ca/2015/10/testing-messages-with-elixir.html

5 minute read

A quick tip with an example of making many Instagram API calls concurrently to greatly improve speed of a Phoenix application.

https://zen.id.au/parallelise-external-api-calls-with-elixir-to-make-them-super-fast

Posted part 4 of my ongoing Blog Engine tutorial series in Elixir/Phoenix! This time, we cover writing a small helper for checking roles, integrating into the controller, and more tests to keep everything green!

https://medium.com/@diamondgfx/writing-a-blog-engine-in-phoenix-and-elixir-part-4-adding-roles-to-our-controllers-9f4678b48468