For a while, I’ve had the nagging feeling that there’s something missing with the way that many junior developers learn to write software these days. In a way that I suppose makes me a bit of a curmudgeon, I somewhat long for the days before the prevalence of the IDE and the automated unit test […]

There’s an excellent write-up on authenticating users against an LDAP database with Phoenix which was created by Richard Nyström.  For some reason even though it’s barely a year old, there seem to be a few points that are either out of date or simply incorrect. I worked through his example and I wanted to share a […]

I am very excited to be helping with the inaugural Detroit.Code conference here in July 2017.  In fact all of us that work on the DetroitDevDay conference are very excited about this new conference.  We all support growing the metro Detroit software development community and this is another great step in growing that community. (Full […]

I’ve updated the Chocolatey NuGet (CNG) packages for Elixir, Erlang and Rebar.  If you’re unfamiliar with CNG it’s analogous to apt-get on Ubuntu or yum/dnf on Fedora except it’s for Windows. The Elixir (v1.4.4) and Erlang (v19.3) are already visible and ready for download.  The Rebar (v3.4.1) is still in the approval process but should […]

. . . consider yourself invited to join me for some coffee, some shop talk, and likely some coding . . .