Presenter: Joel Byler
- Works at CoverMyMeds
- Helping patients get medication they need to live
- Work mostly in Ruby, some Elixir
- And they’re hiring
- Why learn a new language?
- The Pragmatic Programmer – Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
- Invest regularly in your knowledge portfolio
- They make an analogy to your financial portfolio
- Diversify, and have tools so can sell those skills when they are expensive
- They make an analogy to your financial portfolio
- Invest regularly in your knowledge portfolio
- Practice learning
- The more you practice learning, the better you are at it
- Look at problems from a different perspective
- Maybe opens up new doors, work in different field if have the chops
- The Pragmatic Programmer – Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
- Elixir
- The basics
- pipe operator
- |>
- takes the results of a function and lets you pass that as the argument to another function
- Elixir is functional language so passes functions around a lot
- function() |> function2 |> function3
- same as function3(function2(function()))
- Pattern matching is big
- in case statements and control statements, pattern matching is used
- Configuration friendly to dependency injection
- = operator is the ‘match’ operator in elixir, not assignment
- pipe operator
- The basics
- Example applications he built to learn Elixir
- Elixir script to automate opening tabs in chrome
- Call ‘open’ system command on mac.
- Elixir script to screen scrape
- A lot of built in support in Elixir
- System libraries
- Help structuring
- Elixir script to search codemash topics
- Command line
- escript makes CLI app
- Command line
- Elixir app to track attendance at church
- Custom web app to track attendance
- built app in Phoenix
- mvc framework for rails, elixir
- built app in Phoenix
- Deployed to heroku, a cloud platform
- Custom web app to track attendance
- Elixir app for point voting in an Agile process
- Elixir app for a time-lapse camera on rasberry pi controller with a camera
- Built on a platform called ‘nerves’
- Elixir script to automate opening tabs in chrome