Thanks to everyone who came out to kick off 2018 with Elixir! If you couldn’t make it, you can find recordings of past meetups on our Youtube channel, youtube.com/indyelixirorg.
A big thank-you to our sponsors who made tonight possible. And congrats to Jake and Josh, winners of Manning Publications’ excellent Elixir books Elixir In Action and The Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook. Check out Manning’s new Elixir book in development, Phoenix in Action.
Steve Grossi gave the evening’s talk about “context” modules, a code organization pattern recently introduced in Phoenix 1.3. Contexts are simple to use and bring a number of benefits, but require thinking about your code in a slightly different way.
Thanks to everyone both familiar and new who joined us for Tuesday’s meetup! If you couldn’t make it, look for recordings soon on our Youtube channel, youtube.com/indyelixirorg.
Thanks as always to our sponsors who made tonight possible. And congrats to Mitch and Alex, winners of Manning Publications’ excellent Elixir books Elixir In Action and The Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook.
We tried something new for this event: an open-mic night where members could ask questions and share things they’ve been working on or thinking about in Elixir. It went well, and interestingly, everyone seemed to be thinking about games in Elixir.
Eric Oestrich gave an update on ex_venture, an Elixir framework he’s building for running multi-user dungeons (MUDs), a kind of online multiplayer role-playing game, with zones and characters modeled as BEAM processes.
Ryder Timberlake kicked off a discussion of approaches and tradeoffs to handling user “commands” when building games in Elixir, centered around his “Give Me Your Lunch Money” text-based adventure game.
Thanks to all who came out for Tuesday’s meetup! If you couldn’t make it, look for recordings soon on our Youtube channel, youtube.com/indyelixirorg.
Thanks as always to our sponsors who made tonight possible. And congrats to Eric and Mack, winners of Manning Publications’ excellent Elixir books Elixir In Action and The Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook.
The Talks
Eric Oestrich gave an introduction to GenServer, a common building-block of OTP applications. He also delved into Elixir releases with distillery and showed an impressive demo of hot code swapping.
This was our largest meetup yet! Over 20 of you came out to hear about using Elixir in production. If you couldn’t make it, look for recordings soon on our Youtube channel, youtube.com/indyelixirorg.
A big thanks to our sponsors who made tonight possible. And Congrats to Christopher and Miguel, winners of Manning Publications’ excellent books Elixir In Action and The Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook.
The Talks
Brian Howenstein talked about how Clustertruck uses Elixir to cook, track, and deliver fresh food as quickly as possible. Brian delved into how Clustertruck introduced Elixir into their primarily-Rails stack.
Kitto, a small framework for creating dashboards in Elixir and React
Jeff Browning shared how his team uses Elixir to power Yala, an intelligent chatbot that helps you manage, schedule, and optimize your team’s social posts. Jeff talked about some important pitfalls when running Elixir in production, as well as the benefits.
Our next event will be on Tuesday, September 5, 2017 We’re looking for speakers—please let me know if you’re interested!
Thanks to all who joined us on Tuesday to learn about using Elixir on embedded hardware with Nerves! If you missed it, you can find recordings of past talks on our Youtube channel, youtube.com/indyelixirorg.
A big thanks to our awesome sponsors who made tonight possible. Congrats to Amber and Lucas, winners of Manning Publications’ excellent books Elixir In Action and The Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook. And if you’re interested in reading more about IoT (Internet of Things) topics, check out Manning’s book Building the Web of Things, or their free intro Using the Web to Build the IoT.
The Talk
Steve Grossi gave this evening’s talk, demoing two simple Nerves projects on a Raspberry Pi: a blinking LED whose state you can view and update over the network, and a button circuit that tweets when you push it.
Our next event will be on July 11, 2017! It’s a week later than our usual first-Tuesday since that would be July 4. And we’re looking for speakers—please let me know if you’re interested!
