Ecto and Binary IDs Generated By PostgreSQL
Version Info: Elixir 1.7 / OTP 21, Ecto 3.0 and Postgres 10
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From Evernote to Notes
Introduction I have been using Evernote for several years and I pay for a Premium plan because I need to use more than two devices and some of my attachments are over 25MB in size. The system is very capable and includes some really nice features including OCR’ing text in... [Read More] -
Five Great Things About Elixir
Introduction My career as a developer has evolved through various languages and platforms during the last 20-something years and for the last decade I’ve mainly focused on Apple’s macOS and iOS platforms using Objective-C and Swift whilst occasionally using other languages such as Python and JavaScript. Occasionally I hear about... [Read More] -
Grokking Elixir
Introduction Late last September I started being interested in Elixir. As the website says, “Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications.” Elixir uses the Erlang Virtual Machine and Erlang is a battle-tested language which was originally developed by Ericsson for telephony applications which needed... [Read More] -
Traveling Light
I’m off to China for a week-long business trip soon and, because I didn’t want to take my MacBook Pro with me (amongst other things, for privacy and security reasons I’d have to clear off a lot of data belonging to other clients) I decided to look into a couple... [Read More] -
Working With Multiple GitHub (and Alternatives) Accounts
Introduction I have multiple GitHub accounts courtesy of having several clients and a couple of my own businesses. Accessing and managing them can be a bit of a juggling act and I frequently forget how to do things so I decided that it was time to document various aspects of... [Read More] -
Python Resources
Introduction Whenever I start learning a new programming language I like to find good book and blog authors, good conference videos (and ideally find conferences I might be able to attend), find some podcasts to listen to, and find new people to follow on Twitter. [Read More] -
Pip and Virtual Environments
Introduction The contents of this post are based on a blog post written by Jamie Matthews which is called, ‘A non-magical introduction to Pip and Virtualenv for Python beginners’. After reading this post it is probably worth going and reading his because it does explain things in more detail and... [Read More] -
Visual Studio Code for Python Development
Introduction This blog post gives a brief overview about how I’ve settled on using Visual Studio Code for Python development and describes the basic configurations I’m using. [Read More] -
New To Python
I recently started teaching myself Python and decided that documenting some of my experiences and discoveries would be a good way to revitalise my blog. [Read More]