I recently released Android and iOS applications for streaming audio from CKDU 88.1 FM radio station in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Find the iOS version in the App Store

Find the Android version in the Google Play Store

I am available for...

I released a Chrome extension for streaming audio from CKDU 88.1 FM radio station in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Find it at the Chrome Web Store under CKDU

The source is available and open-sourced with an MIT license at my Github repo locohost

I’ve been working on a few iOS/Android applications using Ember and Cordova. Both are essentially guidebooks/indexes of static content. To keep things simple, and because I did not anticipate frequent content updates, both apps were designed to contain...

I released a Chrome extension called LocoHost that allows you to set up a series of quick links to localhost on various ports. It scratches an itch I had related to the frustration of typing in localhost:3000 for Rails, then localhost:4200 for Ember...

I recently came across a scenario where I had log events, some of which I needed to guarantee got sorted into a specific order based on an event type field. In my case, I always wanted an event with a “completed_session” event type to appear last in...

I’m just getting started with Nerves – which allows you to easily build stripped down firmware images for your microcomputer that boot directly into Elixir very quickly – Raspberry Pi and the world of embedded computing.

Garth Hitchens gave an incendiary...

Update – Sept 19, 2016

There’s now an Ember addon – ember-phoenix – that aims to provide integration between Ember and Phoenix. In my most recent project I used it, found it helpful, and would encourage you to take a look.

Phoenix Channels

Phoenix

This is how I recently implemented a bootstrap alert helper for flash messages in a Phoenix app. It’s a pretty basic first solution that uses Elixir’s pattern matching to display the appropriate flash message type based on what’s currently set.

web...

I built a public content-oriented website as an Ember application recently. I used the ember-social gem to incorporate Twitter Tweet buttons and Facebook Share buttons.

This made building the buttons a fairly painless process:

{{facebook-share 

Update April 6 2018 –– edeliver is great, but for a new application I would also suggest looking at Nanobox –- I have not personally used Nanobox for Elixir yet, but for Rails applicatioins it is brilliant and I imagine the Elixir support is equally...