This year The Pragmatic Bookshelf and I released the Learn Functional Programming With Elixir book, and its first chapter is available here. It took me one year and a half to finish the book. Yeah, it took a long time! Why did it take that long? I think the main reason is: all my researching, … »

Priorização é sempre algo complicado, não é mesmo? O tempo está sempre contra a gente, e as vezes precisamos fazer escolhas difíceis sobre onde devemos focar a nossa atenção e o nosso esforço. Com code reviews não é diferente. Por isso é muito importante traçar uma estratégia para investir seu tempo de revisão de maneira … »

SPOILER ALERT – Para você que bateu o olho neste textão e achou TLTR (ou Too Long To Read), incluí uma tabela comparativa ao final, como resumo do blog post.   Divide et impera – Dividir para conquistar. César, Napoleão e outros grandes gestores provavelmente não construíam EAPs (Estrutura analítica do projeto) e nem montavam … »

Erlang/OTP 21.0 was just released and work on the upcoming Elixir v1.7 release is ongoing. In this post, we highlight some of the features that have already landed in the Elixir master branch. Elixir will now provide hints of where a mistake may have happened when you forget a do or an end (commit). Erlang/OTP … »

Writing code is the activity that turns our ideas into great products and tools. Fingers over a keyboard and a text editor. This is how most people see our daily routine. Suddenly, no words emerge over the screen. The eyes gaze at the monitor and everything looks static: we’re reading code. (And we read lots … »

Adopting Elixir is a new book from PragProg, written by Ben Marx, José Valim and Bruce Tate, with the goal of exploring the Elixir adoption life-cycle from concept, to development and into production. After all, adopting a new technology is more than programming. Although a relatively young language, Elixir has plenty of learning resources available. … »