We were discussing agile today and I came up with something that I thought might be worth sharing with others. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan And I was saying to some of the folks on my […]

I’m sure most developers reading this post will be familiar with the term “premature optimization”. For those who may not be familiar, this refers to the tendency that some developers have to worrying about the performance of their code, usually but not always in terms of execution time, before their code is proven to work correctly in terms […]

The Chocolatey NuGet Package For Elixir has been updated to v1.2.3.  Changelog for 1.2.3 is here.

HT: Dmitri Skliarov for sharing this tip with me. You can quickly see the call stack being invoked when you call a given Elixir function via a quick and simple call out to the Erlang DBG module. The following tip is a very simple example of how to use this; there’s quite a bit more […]

I use Samuel Tonini’s Alchemist (and Elixir mode) to make myself much more productive with Elixir and Emacs.  But one thing that I’ve found to be a minor annoyance is that whenever I start up Emacs I have to set the scratch buffer to be in Elixir mode and I then need to change the […]