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Jun 18, 2016

Use Wit.ai Natural Language Processing in Elixir for bots

When creating bots you have to converse with the users and maintain context of the conversation so you can understand the intent of the users, do the necessary actions and

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May 10, 2016

Create messenger bots using Elixir and Microsoft bot framework

Microsoft recently released the bot framework [https://dev.botframework.com/] to create bots for various messaging platforms such as Slack, Facebook, Telegram etc. It provides a unified interface for all

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Nov 6, 2015

Guts of Phoenix websocket channels

> Final results from Phoenix channel benchmarks on 40core/128gb box. 2 million clients, limited by ulimit#elixirlang [https://twitter.com/hashtag/elixirlang?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/6wRUIfFyKZ [https:

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Sep 7, 2015

What's 'use' statement in Elixir?

> use just calls the __using__ macro on the specified module. You might have run into that explanation of use but that does not explain much even though that'

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Jul 23, 2015

Binary pattern matching in Elixir with PNG parsing example

Dealing with binary data has always been a pickle in OOP language. Pattern matching is very fundamental to Elixir making the functions much more descriptive. I was very pleased to

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Jun 30, 2015

Spacemacs and Alchemist to make Elixir of immortality

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

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May 30, 2015

Monads in Elixir

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

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May 19, 2015

Elixir Phoenix framework embedded image for Raspberry Pi 2

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

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Apr 28, 2015

Blinking LED using Elixir embedded image on Raspberry Pi

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/

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Mar 26, 2015

Railway Oriented Programming 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

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Feb 21, 2015

Elixir Cowboy with IIS 8

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

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Feb 9, 2015

Connecting Elixir nodes in Azure

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

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Jan 16, 2015

Using ElasticSearch in Elixir

ElasticSearch [http://www.elasticsearch.com/products/elasticsearch/] is a document database, not in the typical sense, topped up with a Lucene [http://lucene.apache.org/] for doing free form text

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Jan 16, 2015

Docker file for Phoenix

How many time have you started some project, setup your machine with the correct version of softwares and then after a while have to move to another PC or something

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