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Ecto vs ActiveRecord

Ecto is a database library that is used by default in Phoenix, but it can be used in any other Elixir project. It's important to mention Ecto is not an ORM. We can think of Ecto as a tool for mapping any type of data.

Ecto is different from...

Code Spelunking in a Neural Network Library

A read-through of Karmen Blake's `neural_network_elixir` library.

NeuralNetworks Elixir

How a Neural Network is Trained

Reading the code that trains an Elixir-based neural network.

NeuralNetworks Elixir

Elixir and the Internet of Things

With the Internet of Things being projected to grow at a massive pace, developers are creating all kinds of new frameworks and services that are meant to help teams build successful connected devices. Many of the tools, languages, and frameworks...

Elixir Users Survey 2017

Each year since 2014 I have surveyed the Elixir community about its use of the language and the makeup of the community. You can see the results for 2016 here .

If you use Elixir, are thinking about using Elixir, hate Elixir, or have never heard of...

TCP Servers

Building network servers in Elixir using Erlang's `:gen_tcp` module.

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TDDing an E-Commerce Site With Phoenix, Part 6 - Completing an Order

Introducing an Order model, and a Register module that encapsulates the logic around turning a Cart into an Order. Also, a brief introduction to Ecto transactions.

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TDDing an E-Commerce Site With Phoenix, Part 7 - Stripe

Adding the ability for the Register to charge a credit card for the Order via the Stripe API.

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Unit Testing

ExUnit; Building an example module via TDD; Exercism.io; DocTests

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Wx Extris Part 5

Defining the bottom game board boundary and providing the next shape when needed.

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ExActor

Simplified generation of generic servers.

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Internationalizing a Phoenix Application with Gettext

An overview of Phoenix's new Gettext support for allowing easy string translation in your app for various locales.

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Continuous Integration

Using Semaphore CI to automatically test a Phoenix application each time we push new code.

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Dynamo, Part 2

Note: Dynamo itself is deprecated. Persistence; Ecto; Amnesia

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Dynamo, Part 3

Note: Dynamo itself is deprecated. Integrating Dynamo and Amnesia

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Pipe Operator

Used for building pipelines of functions; Similar to Unix pipes

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Fractals, Part 2

Combining our L Systems and our Logo Interpreter to explore drunk sierpinski triangles.

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Functions

Defining Anonymous Functions; Calling Anonymous Functions; Functions as First Class Types

Elixir elixirsips

Implementing Logo, Part 1

Implementing the Logo graphical programming language in Elixir with wxWidgets. In this episode we just implement the underlying GenServer.

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Implementing Logo, Part 2

Building a renderer for our Logo interpreter.

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