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The Best Resources and Blog Posts for Learning Elixir (for Rubyists) Last updated: 5/13/17 While trying to learn Elixir, I came across some great resources. So this is a collection of curated [...]

Basic Linux Commands – Part 1 One of the things that I think helps new developers become more efficient is learning all the basic linux commands available to them. Being self-taught, I came [...]

The Ultimate Strategy For Creating a Portfolio That Says “Hire Me” A Guide for New Web Developers Bruce Park Contents Preface 1 Learning in layers… Chapter 1 How To Make a Portfolio [...]

The Elixir Pipe and Capture Operators When I first came across the use of the elixir pipe (“|”) and capture (“&”) operators in Elixir, I experienced confusion at first. I think part of the [...]

Common Questions By New Web Developers Last updated 4/29/17 So lately, I’ve been answering questions from folks new to the web development field. So I decided to jot down these questions and [...]

Pattern Matching in Elixir Pattern matching is a phrase you hear thrown around a lot as you get started in Elixir. But what is it exactly and how do you use it to write elegant code? If you start [...]

Vim Tutorial – Day 3 In the last Vim tutorial post (see Day 2), I covered how to use Vim’s built-in help menu to get more mileage out of Vim. In this post, I’m going to introduce some more [...]

How To Query JSON Data With Rails and Postgresql Recently, I had to build a simple search to allow users to search for text in specific fields in a JSON data store. Since the JSON data was [...]

Elixir Hex Package Tutorial When I first started learning Elixir a few months ago, I had an itch to make my own hex package of some kind. So I started making yt_potion. Making my own open source [...]

Vim Tutorial – Day 2 In my last Vim tutorial post, I covered 4 basic moves to help you navigate around in Vim. In this post, I’m going to focus more on how you can use the :help command to [...]