Today we will learn how to build forms in Phoenix that use our schema information to dynamically show the proper input fields with validations, errors and so on. We aim to support the following API in our templates: <%= input f, :name %> <%= input f, :address %> <%= input f, :date_of_birth %> <%= input … »

Yeah! I’m excited to tell you we’re expanding Elixir Radar from a weekly newsletter to a channel you visit to find Elixir related stuff that matters — or when you don’t have time (or patience) to look around the web. In January 2015, Hugo Baraúna (co-founder at Plataformatec) created Elixir Radar as a weekly newsletter … »

When you are learning about Kanban, one of the first things you hear is “always limit WIP, you should”, or a less Yoda-ish version of it. But when you decide that you will indeed use WIP limits and google “WIP Limits for dummies”, you won’t discover any walkthroughs or easy-to-implement equations to discover what limit … »

Nowadays we are using a more probabilistic approach to manage our processes than deterministic. That means that we use different statistical methods to predict the future instead of blind estimations. But wait… wasn’t unpredictability one of the main reasons that made us change from Waterfall to Agile? Yes, uncertainty is inherent to software development. For … »

It is difficult to come up with a plan when you find yourself in a dysfunctional environment. Everything is on fire and there is no time available. Tight deadlines, pressure, working overtime, unsatisfied customers, waste, and a whole lot of other chaotic stuff that piles up and makes it difficult to pick the most critical … »

The third post of Low Internal Software Quality series. As well as a big software refactor, a rewrite is not a simple thing either. After many years, we have gotten experience enough to point what you had better consider when planning and executing a rewrite process. Will the two platforms live together for some time … »