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This guide to getting started with Phoenix covers getting up and running with Elixir and Phoenix. This is a direct conversion of the Getting started with Rails Guide so it especially suited for you that already knows Ruby on Rails. The goal of the guide is to teach you: - How to install Phoenix, create a new application, and connect your application to a database. - The general layout of a Phoenix application. - How to quickly generate the starting pieces of a Phoenix application.

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I wrote an educational retro computer called the Toy CPU so that my students could learn about machine language.

This week I finished my contract for Seamly1, where I spent 7 months developing a SaaS messaging platform for customer service in Elixir. The project was incredibly interesting, so in our last conversation I asked if they would mind me sharing a “war story” with the world. They gladly agreed, so here goes an account of my dealings with unicode, performance tuning and Rust-based NIFs. Enjoy! 1 - The problem From a pure technical point of view, we needed a way to split strings in chunks up to a maximum length in a user-friendly way.

Developer Michal Strehovský has released bflat 7.0.1, with support for C# applications that run on bare metal – taking native ahead of time (AOT) compilation further than is possible with Microsoft’s official Native AOT in .NET 7. Strehovský is a software engineer at Microsoft working full-time on the .NET runtime, but open source bflat is […]

Isomorphic libraries make server-side and client-side code execution more efficient if you can get past the hassle of building them.

A complete example of a Phoenix application using LiveView and the Ash framework

I’m often invited on to the Japan Baseball Weekly Podcast prediction show at the end of March. Show host John Gibson does a great job…

Things we don’t know about Elixir application

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Working with the file system in Elixir does not really differ from doing so using other popular programming languages. There are three modules to solve this task: IO, File, and Path. They provide...

Website for Elixir

The strength of a language is not purely reliant on its special features, but the foundation for what it’s build on. In the case of Elixir…

This post explains the motivation behind the new ExDoc Cheatsheet feature. It also highlights other ExDoc features that show how ExDoc has been evolving to make the documentation experience in Elixir better and better.

Pythonic is a synonym for elegant

The IPTC Photo Metadata Standard is the most widely used standard to describe photos. It consists of two schemas – IPTC Core and IPTC Extension.