Episode 259: 253 RR Phoenix and Rails with Chris McCord

Ruby Rogues

• Episode: Episode 259: 253 RR Phoenix and Rails with Chris McCord
• Website: Ruby Rogues
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• Duration: 01:09:56
• Published: 2016-03-30 15:00

01:57 - Chris McCord Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• DockYard
• Programming Phoenix: Productive |> Reliable |> Fast by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and Jose Valim
• Metaprogramming Elixir: Write Less Code, Get More Done (and Have Fun!) by Chris McCord

02:09 - The Phoenix Framework

• The Elixir Programming Language
• The Erlang Programming Language

02:46 - Ruby vs Elixir

• José Valim
• “Programming should be enjoyable.”
• sync
• WhatsApp
• Metaprogramming

12:12 - Phoenix as a Framework; Similarity to Rails

15:38 - ecto

16:45 - Performance

18:06 - Generating a Phoenix Project

• Mix

20:44 - Getting Started with Phoenix; Creating and Maintaining

25:29 - Guidance and Decision Making

• Development and Documentation

30:22 - Phoenix and JavaScript; Build Tools

• Brunch

37:22 - Phoenix and Elm

• Chris McCord and Evan Czaplicki: Phoenix and Elm: Making the Web Functional @ Erlang Factory SF 2016

38:45 - Maintainability

• OTP Framework

41:52 - Hosting Phoenix

• Heroku

42:48 - Object-Oriented vs Functional

• The Actor Model
• Smalltalk

50:29 - Debugging; Tooling

• UberAuth

01:01:08 - Phoenix Presence

Picks

Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss | First Round Review (Jessica)
Flex ('Mancer) by Ferrett Steinmetz (Jessica)
The Teaching Company: How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (Jessica)
Programming Phoenix: Productive |> Reliable |> Fast by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and José Valim (Chris)
Jose Valim: Phoenix a web framework for the new web @ Lambda Days 2016 (Chris)
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss (Avdi)
Efficient State-based CRDTs by Delta-Mutation (Chris)

Special Guest: Chris McCord.