If you’ve been in the software industry long enough, you’ve heard the term portable bantered about as an ephemeral goal for all things constructed from zeroes and ones. Applications and services are primarily the focus of these discussions, but often one crucial component is overlooked.
Continue reading...Dipping my toes into Elixir
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…
Continue reading...Windows 10 Technical Preview – nice!
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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