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Phoenix LiveView & GenServer Talks Elixir Phoenix

My Goal is to talk about how GenServer defines Web Development for LiveView

Phoenix LiveView Talks Elixir Phoenix

Phoenix LiveView will turn 2 years soon and is still one of the best ways to develop a very interactive and modern Web App. Let’s navigate and discuss some topics about LiveView.

The Pattern Matching Approach Talks Elixir Ruby

How pattern matching affects coding in Elixir? Let’s talk about Elixir pattern matching and how this would change the way we solve problems.

Testing in Elixir Talks Elixir Testing

Testing help developers to speed up, so let’s talk testing in Elixir.

Elegant SQL Queries PostgreSQL

This is a short blog post for sharing some sql examples to solve some daily problems in an elegant way. There are some simple business requests that could easily be solved with N+1 queries, but watch out this is a trap. If you want to scale your app you’ll need to leverage queries processing to the DB. Let’s see how though these examples.

Generating fake data using SQL PostgreSQL

Fake data are very useful in development environment for testing your application or some query performances for example. In this Blog Post I’ll share how I created a simple SQL script for PostgreSQL 🐘 to generate some fake data. Enjoy!

Setup Twitter Bootstrap on Phoenix projects JavaScript Elixir Phoenix

This is a short post, more like a straightforward recipe for new Elixir on Phoenix projects to use twitter bootstrap. Kind of sharing some frontend management tips to backend developers like me.

Docker for all environments Docker Rails

Should we use Docker 🐳 for local development ❓? It seems easy to argue to not use it, just use local and that’s it. But it’s also easy to find cases where the convenience of Docker play a big role on a daily basis job. In case you want to consider it for any reason you have it read this post and have fun.

Wait for Docker Container Docker

You may have some docker 🐳 containers 📦 to start your app but there are some startup order to be followed. You are probably using a solution such as docker-compose and wonder why they don’t have this implemented yet? On this blog post I’ll present my solution for this problem, a very simple shell script for waiting a container.

Github commits dis-order Git

Have you ever noticed that sometimes Github lists your commits in a weird order? I’d say disordered. Was that a bug? Or was that a feature? Was that the developer fault? Should we blame git rebase? All these questions and a hacky trick as an alternative solution.

Struct Factory for Elixir Elixir

How easy is to build a Factory solution for Elixir applications? In this post I share a simple 20ish lines-of-code solution and its testing ✅. Check this out and start using factories for building data for tests and seed.

Ruby OptionParser Ruby

In order to parse user inputs passed to CLI Scripts we can use the Ruby class OptionParser. With that it’s possible to define an argument specification like required/optional, or restrict values or even convert into a specified class. Find out how to configure OptionParser and use it.

Ruby CLI Script Ruby

To create CLI script that runs Ruby code is super fast and straightforward. With that you can run any Ruby code directly from terminal, including your own gem. Let’s take a look what’s need to be done in order to get a nice maintainable CLI script written in Ruby.

Ruby Struct and OpenStruct classes Ruby

Ruby Struct and OpenStruct are two different classes that handle to keep some data into a class instance. Although they have similar name and features they are actually very different in usage. Let’s highlight the differences between these two classes and find out the best scenarios for using each one.

Ruby Case Statement and the `threequals` Ruby

Ruby case/when/else statement uses the Ruby operator ===, also known as threequals. There are some nice implementations of === that we have to know. So let’s see some of them.

Chrome Extensions - Part 3 - Application JavaScript

That’s the final part of a series regarding Chrome Extension Development. In this post I’m using a simple version of NetFlex for showing how to configure the injection of your js/css files into an existing thrid part website. Also how to receive a message from your popup and then interact with the main application.

Chrome Extensions - Part 2 - Popup JavaScript

This is the 2nd/3 post about Chrome Extension Development, and in this post I’m going to talk about Popup. Using NetFlex as an example let’s see how to configure a Popup, what you can do with it and how to send messages from your Popup and the main page.

Chrome Extensions - Part 1 - Setup JavaScript

Here’s a 1st/3 post regarding Chrome Extension Development, and for illustrating I’ll use my own NetFlex plugin as example. This is a powerful way to add features to the user for existing pages that you don’t even have access to the code. It’s crazy how many possible solutions you can come up with.

ES2015 Functions JavaScript

ES2015 has some improvements for functions including the lexical this, implicit return and more. All in a short syntax, so let’s use new ES2015 syntax for functions.

ES2015 Classes JavaScript

ES2015 has classes in its specification. So let’s see how we could apply the new ES2015 class syntax for wrapping out our JavaScript code.

Why Ember JS JavaScript Ember

Ember is a light, flexible, efficient and very powerful javascript framework for very Ambitious web applications. In this post I write about the greatness of Ember, why I like it, some myths and also its problems. This is an opinionated post.

First Ember JS Application JavaScript Ember

Ember JS is a Javascript framework for ambitious Web Applications. This means that you can build great applications, with tons of user interactions in a very efficient way. In this post I’ll tell how to create a simple EmberJS Web Application.

DSL for Rails API calls Ruby Rails

My goal is to encapsulate a API with service classes using a DSL similar to ActiveRecord. This way we can use methods like where, find_by, etc. In order to achieve that I created a class to abstract a json API using the gem faraday and the result is very cool.

Configuring a Rails Application Ruby Rails

There are a lot to consider when configuring a Rails application, such as variables organization, environments, security credentials, etc. Among so many different ways to do that I’m going to show my preferred way using what Rails has to offer with config_for.