So I recently (finally) decided to take the plunge and take a serious look at Ruby and Rails, so started pinging a colleague of mine who spends most of his day pounding around on a custom Rails app. After a couple weeks or so of setting up environments, digging through books, and plowing through the Ruby Koans, he asked me if I’d heard of a new language called Elixir and the Phoenix framework that has been creating quite a stir in Ruby circles…
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So folks who have known me for a while know I’ve been working with Microsoft operating systems since DOS 3.1, and Windows since Windows/386. Things have come a looooong way since then. I wasn’t a fan of Windows 8, and stuck with Windows 7 until I very recently converted to using a Mac due to that becoming the prevalent machine for web devs.
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