Ok, lets be clear; this post is not about immortality, that will be for next time :). Instead its about transitioning to a combination of Emacs, Vim and Alchemist for an awesome development experience for Elixir. My setup for development in Elixir relied upon combination of Vim and Tmux, as for

I recently had to start a service in Ubuntu server but I wanted it to be reliable. By reliable I mean it should be restarted in case of any failure and on machine restart as well. I stumbled upon UpStart which comes by default with Ubuntu and does exaclty what

This post is not about what monads are, I expect that you already know about them. The post is to see how you can use monads in Elixir using already created libraries. Monads are a great way of handling side effect in functional language. It makes the code much more

Phoenix [http://www.phoenixframework.org/] is a great framework and I think it will do for soft-realtime applications what Rubby on Rails did for typical CRUD applications i.e. make it really easy to create such kind of applications. With all the different devices we interact with, Phoenix is also

In the April Seattle Erlang/Elixir Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Erlang-User-Group/] the awesome guys at Rose Point Navigation [http://rosepointnav.com/default.htm] gave a demo of burning Elixir/Erlang application as part of a custom built image and then running it on Raspberry Pi. This was very interesting

Disclaimer: I dont claim to completely understand what monads are as I am still learning more about them but this is my attempt to explain it how I understand it. Please correct me (in comments) if I got something wrong Story time In my last post [https://zohaib.me/railway-programming-pattern-in-elixir/

It would be a great world if everything ran without errors. Validating inputs from users and handling various other kinds of error ranging from databases access, file access, network issues or any other is a reality of the software. We all have written programs where the cases of handling erros

HttpPlatformHandler: Microsoft recently release the HttpPlatformHandler [http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/04/announcing-the-release-of-the-httpplatformhandler-module-for-iis-8/] module for IIS 8+. This module will allow any process that can receive request on some port to be used in IIS. What this means is that you can now host server of any language

What is location transparency "In computer networks, location transparency is the use of logical names to identify network resources, independent of both the user's location and the resource location." - Wikipedia [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location_transparency] In distirbuted systems its is very beneficial